Not only did Harris set an SEC championship game record with five touchdowns, he established a conference record for career touchdowns by a running back with 53. Closer to home, Harris broke Alabama’s career record for rushing touchdowns and rushing yards. Harris, who called it “an honor” to set all those new standards, finished the […]
Continue readingKyle Trask received a FaceTime call in the locker room last weekend from Danny Wuerffel, offering congratulations for breaking his single-season school touchdown record. Under a different circumstance, the call would have generated more attention, an unofficial welcome to the elite Florida quarterback club, if you will. But the Gators had just lost in stunning […]
Continue readingWeek 15 of the college football season has already been a busy one, and we’re just now to Saturday. We lost one of the great rivalry games when Michigan and No. 4 Ohio State had to cancel. No. 5 Texas A&M lost its game against Ole Miss, too. Everyone wanted them to play, even a […]
Continue readingThe wild moments came fast and furious in Week 11 before we even got to Saturday. There was a game-winning, fake-spike touchdown for Western Michigan on Wednesday. There was late-game pettiness and controversy from Iowa and Cincinnati on Friday. Then came Saturday, when we saw QB heroics from Florida’s Kyle Trask and UNC’s Sam Howell. […]
Continue readingWeek 10 of the college football season is in a giving mood. We’ve already had a robust #MACtion slate on Wednesday. Now the Pac-12 is back, albeit with a couple of cancellations. With no on-site tailgating allowed for Florida-Georgia, expect some cocktails but not much in the way of a party. And this is easily […]
Continue readingThe LSU-Auburn game that kicks off on Saturday afternoon (3:30 p.m. ET, CBS) will not be the most consequential in the history of the series. The teams are a combined 5-4 this season, and after beginning the season ranked sixth and 11th, respectively, in the AP poll, they are both currently unranked. There are certainly […]
Continue readingEvery college football team begins a given season with questions to answer. Some just have far more than others. This time last year, we were wondering if Justin Fields was ready to dominate at Ohio State or if Joe Burrow’s late-2018 surge at LSU meant something significant. He was, and it did. This year the […]
Continue readingWith spring practice on the horizon, national signing day (both of them) in the rear view, and the FBS coaching carousel finally winding down (apologies to Colorado), it’s a great time to update the 2020 Way-Too-Early Top 25 rankings. The four College Football Playoff teams — Clemson, LSU, Ohio State and Oklahoma — continued to […]
Continue readingThe college football season ended with LSU celebrating a 15-0 season and a College Football Playoff national championship, at home, in New Orleans. And while Clemson was denied back-to-back national titles, it is still No. 1 in the first edition of the 2020 Way-Too-Early Top 25. With quarterback Trevor Lawrence coming back, the Tigers will […]
Continue readingEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants interviewed former Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett on Wednesday to be their offensive coordinator, a source told ESPN, confirming an NFL Network report. His contract with the Cowboys expired Tuesday, and the Giants brought him in to talk about being one of Judge’s top assistants. The […]
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