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Game notes Setting the scene Old Conference USA foes reunite in Dallas for a post-Christmas showdown. The FIU Panthers (7-5, 5-3 CUSA) concluded their regular season in scorching fashion, rattling off four-straight wins including one over Jacksonville State to secure their first winning season in seven years. Year one of the Willie Simmons era was […]
From Underdog Dynasty | about 2 months ago | 2 reads
Week 16 of the NFL regular season came to a close with 17 Maryland football alumni seeing the field. Veteran wide receivers D.J. Moore and Stefon Diggs both had significant performances to push their respective teams closer to the playoff stage. Moore made the game-winning catch to seal a marquee win over the Green Bay […]
From Testudo Times | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
The latest episode of Land-Grant Holy Land’s flagship podcast is here! Join hosts Justin Golba and Alex Frank as they discuss Ohio State football, basketball, recruiting, and much more! Come for the hot takes. Stay for the warm ones. Subscribe: RSS | Apple | Spotify | Google Podcasts | iHeart Radio On episode 49 of Hangout in the Holy Land, Justin and Alex are back to […]
From Land-Grant Holy Land | about 2 months ago | 2 reads
Welcome to the Morning Commute Today we are talking about Mizzou Football! In case you missed it, Mizzou defensive end Damon Wilson II got sued by Georgia in regards to breached agreement by transferring and owes $390,000, the unpaid portion of the deal, under a liquidated damages clause. The Missouri defensive end challenges whether or […]
From Rock M Nation | about 2 months ago | 1 read
As 2025 comes to end, we look back on the year and remember some of the best moments for Arizona Athletics. Here are the top ten moments for from UA sports this past year: 1. Triathlon wins second straight National Championship In just its third year of existence, the Arizona triathlon team won its second […]
From Arizona Desert Swarm | about 2 months ago | 1 read
The tradition continues! Today we take on the yuletide cinema classic from 1991, “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.” It’s a film set in Chicagoland over the course of about two weeks in December. At previous Christmas times we vivisected the Christmas Eve bowl game being played by USC and Notre Dame in “Die Hard.” and looked […] The post 50 Egregious National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Plot Holes appeared first on The Sports Bank .
From The Bank | about 2 months ago | 3 reads
The Open Thread/Daily Merengue is a place where you can discuss anything and everything related to football. Feel free to discuss the topics presented here, or start your very own discussions! The Open thread will be posted every day by one of the mods you’d totally do a movies night with: Valyrian Steel, Felipejack, Kung_Fu_Zizou […]
From Managing Madrid | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
Don’t you miss the good ol’ days? You know, when a player committed to your school and you could count on seeing them in that uniform for 3-5 years, depending on redshirt, professional dreams, etc? Much like many other things about college sports today, those days are long gone. These days, it’s common for players […]
From Gobbler Country | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
Hey Testudo Times community! This is your open space to discuss all things Maryland football. Keep things respectful as always. Be sure to keep up with all of our football coverage here. All open threads will be restarted periodically as needed. Please direct any questions/comments/concerns to managing editor Matt Germack([email protected]). Enjoy!
From Testudo Times | about 2 months ago | 1 read
Quick, which ACC Football program has won at least 9 games every season since 2023? Hint, it’s not Clemson, they won’t win more than 8 this year. It’s not Miami; they won 7 games in 2023. Florida State? NC State? SMU – well, they’ve only been in the ACC two years. Anybody else? Nope. We’re … Continue reading »
From All Sports Discussion | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
Quick, which ACC Football program has won at least 9 games every season since 2023? Hint, it’s not Clemson, they won’t win more than 8 this year. It’s not Miami; they won 7 games in 2023. Florida State? NC State? SMU – well, they’ve only been in the ACC two years. Anybody else? Nope. We’re … Continue reading »
From All Sports Discussion | about 2 months ago | 10 reads
Matt Campbell and Penn State added to their 2026 class earlier tonight, landing commitments from two former Iowa State signees: OT Mason Bandhauer and OT Pete Eglitis. Bandhauer is an Iowa State legacy — his father being former Iowa State QB Todd Bandhauer — who made the call for the Cyclones in October 2024, spurning […]
From Black Shoe Diaries | about 2 months ago | 1 read
Well, JMU made the final score look a lot closer than the game actually was, but the outcome was as predicted: Oregon to Miami to square off with Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl, a bowl in which Oregon has never actually played. There’s no bones about Oregon’s offense. With Dante Moore slinging the ball […]
From Addicted To Quack | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
The 25th edition of the New Orleans Bowl lived up to its history as Maverick McIvor and Matthew Henry led the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers to defeat Southern Miss, 27-16. Early in the contest, Western Kentucky earned great field position from a botched snap on a Southern Miss punt. However, the Hilltoppers were only able to […]
From Underdog Dynasty | about 2 months ago | 1 read
Former four-star linebacker and Rutgers freshman Talibi Kaba has announced his intentions to enter the transfer portal today. The portal itself is not open until January 2nd, but players are allowed to announce their intentions to join early. He will leave Rutgers with four full years of eligibility remaining. He joined the Knights as part […]
From On the Banks | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
Another day, another way that the Jacksonville Jaguars have been snubbed by the national football machine. On Tuesday, the NFL announced the full 2025 Pro Bowl Games roster, which included a lone starting Jacksonville Jaguars player, long snapper Ross Matiscik. Via the team release: “Matiscik has played 123 special teams snaps this season and made […]
From Big Cat Country | about 2 months ago | 2 reads
Two top 20 defenses colliding in Florida for the 2025 Boca Raton Bowl implied a low-scoring, defensive-driven slugfest. And the matchup between Toledo and Louisville unfolded in that manner… at least for three quarters. But the fourth quarter was a masterclass of unadulterated chaos. And Louisville (9-4, 4-4 ACC) thrived in that frantic environment, picking […]
From Hustle Belt | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
Spoon is in some elite company. Devon Witherspoon was named to his third Pro Bowl roster in as many seasons on Tuesday. According to Illinois, the Seahawks CB joins the legendary Dick Butkus as the only Illini alums to earn a Pro Bowl nod in each of their first three seasons in the NFL. Spoon, […]
From The Champaign Room | about 2 months ago | 2 reads
The Minnesota Vikings won an ugly 16-13 affair in the swamps of Jersey against the New York Giants to improve to 7-8 on the season. Another injury to J.J. McCarthy overshadowed the victory, this time to his throwing hand. The good news appears to be that there are no broken bones, but his availability for […]
From Daily Norseman | about 2 months ago | 3 reads
If ever there was an appropriate ending to a seriously disappointing season, and to a meaningless bowl game that was laughably inept for a half then a comedy caravan of absurdly disjointed fauxball in the second, the 2025 Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl of Beans had one. If ever there was a football game that should […]
From Card Chronicle | about 2 months ago | 2 reads
Rasheed Wallace joined the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in the same week that Brandon Roy was first nominated for induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. ‘Sheed Becomes a Great Lakes State Legend Wallace was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame on December 19 in recognition for his contributions to the […]
From Blazer's Edge | about 2 months ago | 1 read
Join us Tuesday night at 8pm CST to talk about everything going this tumultuous season in which drama seemed to pop in constantly like a flatulent unwelcome guest. As a final bow on a season which actually showed slight & continued progress, the 7-5 Huskers were gifted one of the three 10-2 programs who failed […]
From Corn Nation | about 2 months ago | 2 reads
I want to preface these observations with my amazement at how much was accomplished in the 12 months since I first visited the Jimmy Evert Tennis Center at Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale. On our way to the airport after the 2024 Orange Bowl, the final one at the Veltri Tennis Center 10 miles to the west, we stopped to scout out the JETC, which had not yet been publicly announced as the
From ZooTennis | about 2 months ago | 4 reads
Well, this is not exactly the coaching news we were hoping to read. According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, current Penn State defensive end coach Deion Barnes is headed to South Carolina, where he will coach the defensive ends and outside linebackers. Considering the fact that Matt Campbell did not bring in his own defensive end […]
From Black Shoe Diaries | about 2 months ago | 3 reads
Ohio State had the week off, but the college football world didn’t slow down. The opening round of the expanded College Football Playoff delivered a mix of chaos, confirmation, and warning signs, while the Buckeyes used the pause to regroup, absorb new information, and turn their attention to a New Year’s Eve showdown with Miami. […]
From Land-Grant Holy Land | about 2 months ago | 2 reads