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The semifinals of the College Football Playoff could look very familiar on New Year’s Eve. Four of the teams currently in the top five of the AP Top 25 made a playoff appearance in either 2020 or 2021. And while any of those five teams could easily make the playoff, we’re picking those teams with playoff experience to make the playoff field at the end of 2022 in our first set of bowl projections. Georgia is our provisional No. 1 seed as the Bulldogs can solidify their status as the top… Source link

We could have saved Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper $62 million and 38 games of misery by showing him one list. When Tepper couldn’t wait to get on a plane to give Matt Rhule a seven-year, $62 million contract to leave Baylor for the NFL, he was ignoring that college coaches don’t work in the NFL. It was proven again Monday when Tepper fired Rhule after he put together an 11-27 record as Panthers head coach. He was owed more than $40 million when he was fired. Miles Garrett from Fox 5 in… Source link

Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers has launched an NFT campaign with Metabillia that will pay him a total of $1 million, Yahoo Finance has learned. As a result, the 19-year-old’s total compensation through name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals is now approaching the $4 million mark. The average NIL quarterback sponsorship pays the athlete $2,466 per deal, according to Opendorse. Ewers’s $1 million sponsorship is broken into 12 payments of various amounts well above the average on top of 50% revenue… Source link

College enrollments continue to drop in the U.S. as students seek alternatives to the traditional university experience. For the spring 2022 term, enrollment across public and private colleges in the U.S. fell to 16.2 million, down 4.1% year over year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. That decline continues the trend of weakening enrollment that has been in place since before the coronavirus pandemic. “We have seen certain headwinds from the general softness in… Source link

We’re a little more than a month into the college football season and some teams with massive preseason expectations have already been major disappointments. Here are 10 teams in particular who have fallen well short of what their fan bases were hoping to this point in the season. Oklahoma Brent Venables hasn’t been able to make much of an impact on Oklahoma’s leaky defense. The Sooners were torched for 668 yards in an embarrassing 55-24 loss to TCU on Saturday. It marked the second… Source link

The 2022 college football season is a month old. Yep, Week 4 was the final weekend of September as most teams are now a third of the way through their regular seasons. With October approaching, there’s no better time to see how the 10 conferences at the top level of college football stack up to one another. And, spoiler alert, the SEC is at No. 1. 10. MAC The biggest two wins for the MAC so far are Bowling Green’s upset of Marshall after the Thundering Herd beat Notre Dame and Eastern… Source link

Deion Sanders is the only person to play in both the Super Bowl and the World Series, not to mention the only player to ever hit a MLB home run and record an NFL interception in the same week. On Oct. 11, 1992, he played in an NFL game and suited up for a MLB game … on the same day … in two different cities. That probably beats the time at Florida State when he won the 100 and 200 meters in a morning track meet and then started as a center fielder for the Seminoles’ baseball team that… Source link

Coming off a week full of upsets, Saturday’s lineup provides several more opportunities for highly ranked teams to run into trouble. Will we see more chaos in Week 3? Here’s what we’ll have a close eye on today. Time: 12 p.m. | TV: Fox | Line: Oklahoma -10.5 | Total: 65.5 Oklahoma opened the week as a 14.5-point favorite on the road in Lincoln against Nebraska. After Nebraska fired Scott Frost over the weekend, the betting market started taking off. What’s interesting is that as of Saturday… Source link

Digital ticketing systems aren’t working all over the country at multiple college football stadiums this weekend. The schools have called it a “nationwide outage” that is preventing fans from accessing their tickets on mobile devices. Currently, the schools which have admitted their systems aren’t working include: Michigan, Georgia Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Nebraska, Arizona, Purdue, UCLA, James Madison, Bowling Green, Washington, William & Mary and Miami (OH). The company at the heart… Source link

Georgia picked up where it left off at the end of the 2021 college football season on Saturday. Yeah, the Bulldogs had 15 players taken in the NFL draft and five in the first round after beating Alabama for the national title in January. But it was clear in Georgia’s 49-3 win over Oregon that there are plenty of capable replacements on the roster and that the offense could be even better in 2022. Jalen Carter commanded double teams on the defensive line and looks poised to make headlines… Source link