Offense, offense, and more offense should be prevalent in Monday’s College Football National Championship game, as both Alabama and Ohio State love to score. This contest between the Crimson Tide and the Buckeyes has all the makings of a shootout. That’s why, with this week’s One Bet, $100, I’m taking […]
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College Football Playoff Viewership Remains Strong Even with Pandemic
While the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL have suffered rating sags since the COVID-19 virus touched down in the U.S. last spring, ESPN’s New Year’s Day bowl broadcast numbers remained steady compared with the previous six years of the format, averaging close to 19 million viewers across its pair of […]
Make-Up Dates for College Football Playoffs Announced, Sparking New COVID-19 Concerns
The College Football Playoff committee announced Wednesday new January make-up dates for both its semifinal and national championship games. The announcement came with the notation that all of the participating programs report they have enough healthy scholarship athletes to play. Still, there’s a contingency plan just in case, raising questions […]
Texas Bowl Becomes 18th COVID-19 Casualty, Peach Bowl Could be Next
The Mercari Texas Bowl was canceled Tuesday afternoon due to a spike in COVID-19 cases within the Texas Christian University football program, school officials said. The 5-4 TCU Horned Frogs were set to take on the 3-7 Arkansas Razorbacks on New Year’s Eve at NRG Stadium in Houston. TCU was […]
Notre Dame, Clemson Coaches Criticize California’s Shelter-in-Place Laws as State Reaches Pandemic Breaking Point
Though the college football nation awaits the result of No. 2 Notre Dame’s match vs. No. 3 Clemson in Saturday’s ACC Championship Game, it was the two programs’ coaches who made headlines Friday with their comments about the Rose Bowl. Earlier this week, the College Football Playoff commissioners discussed whether […]
Old Oaken Bucket Game Canceled for First Time Since 1903, Frisco Bowl Latest To Scratch
The rescheduled rivalry game between No. 7 Indiana and Purdue was called off for good Tuesday as both programs remain shut down with COVID-19-related issues. The rivalry game started in 1891 and has taken place every season, except in 1903. That year, the game, scheduled on Oct. 31 at Washington […]
Oregon Replaces Washington in Pac-12 Championship Game, USC’s College Football Playoff Hopes Still Alive
The Pac-12 North winner Washington Huskies won’t have a chance to face USC in the Pac-12 Championship Game at LA Memorial Coliseum 5 p.m. PST Friday on FOX. The conference made the announcement via Twitter on Monday, saying division runner-up Oregon will go instead. UPDATE: Statement on 2020 #Pac12FCG â¤µï¸ […]
Vanderbilt’s Sarah Fuller Becomes First Woman to Score in a Power 5 Football Game
Vanderbilt women’s soccer goalie Sarah Fuller made history Saturday becoming the first woman to score in a Power 5 conference football game. Fuller’s extra point after a Vanderbilt touchdown at home vs. Tennessee etched her name in the record books. The Commodores’ women’s soccer goalie helped lead her team to […]
Oklahoma vs. West Virginia Canceled, Boston College First Program to Opt Out of Bowl Season
No. 12 Oklahoma’s rescheduled game at West Virginia has been canceled after the Mountaineers shut down their program due to COVID-19 issues on Thursday. The game was initially set for Nov. 27, but postponed due to OU’s issues with the virus. The teams will not meet this season. OU (6-2) […]
Pac-12 Sees Postseason Prospects Fade as Bowl Cancellations Pile Up Nationwide
In a year where every college football team still standing is bowl eligible, the number of games for them to play in is shrinking daily. Bowl cancellations started in earnest this week. The inflection point came on the West Coast, where COVID-19 cases are spiking to untenable highs and a […]
Can Indiana Remain the Lone College Football Program Perfect Against the Spread?
One of the few remaining bright spots in what is best described as a COVID-19-fractured college football season is Saturday’s marquee Top-25 matchup, No. 10 Indiana at No. 18 Wisconsin. The Big Ten, arguably the most affected conference when it comes to the pandemic, has a sleeper in the upstart […]
ESPN’s Herbstreit Walks Back Comments Saying Michigan Would Use COVID-19 Outbreak as Excuse To Bow Out of ‘The Game’
Since news broke Monday that the University of Michigan football team would pause “in-person activity†due to a rash of positive COVID-19 tests, social media has lit up with speculation that the Wolverines’ effort to ensure the safety of its players, coaches, and staff is just a way to get […]
Midwest Hit Hardest By COVID-19, and Mess That is Big Ten Football Reflects That
COVID-19 is killing more than 550 people a day in the Midwest — the most in the nation, per capita. And yet, as the population continues to get sick, college football is still happening there … sort of. Thus far this season, only opening week in the Big Ten went […]
Can Northwestern Remain the Only Undefeated Team Perfect Against the Spread?Â
As COVID-19 cancellations continue to disrupt this fractured college football season, one constant remains: a record number of teams are undefeated. But which program is also perfect against the spread? Northwestern, that’s who. In a Week 13 college football first, 11 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools remain undefeated. They are […]
Stanford vs. Washington State Canceled, 34 College Teams Won’t Take the Field in Week 12
As a result of COVID-19 cases leaving Washington State with a shortage of scholarship players, their Saturday game vs. Stanford has been canceled. The matchup is the 17th postponed or canceled game this week, which is the most this season, and a new benchmark for the sport. Cougars head coach […]
Betting Lines Favor Underdogs as COVID Challenges Elite College Football Programs
Health experts gave the NCAA about a zero-percent chance of running through a full college football season unscathed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and they were right. Even conservative predictions couldn’t have accounted for the coronavirus’s massive spread over the past couple of weeks, especially in the SEC, where the nation’s […]