#Alex Grinch

After not a bad start to bowl season, things really went off the rails over the last few days. Arkansas blew a big lead, Syracuse scored a late touchdown, and a number of other teams I picked had terrible performances. While we can't even up our season record, hopefully we can still have some fun with these last games of bowl season. Who knows,…

His teammates called him a gamer, a winner, Superman. After a nationally televised, primetime rivalry win over UCLA in which Caleb Williams threw for a career-high 470 yards and clinched USC's spot in the Pac-12 championship game, the Trojans hope to add another title: Heisman. USC officially launched the quarterback's Heisman platform this week,…

Sporting News' 2022 All-American team features four players from the reigning national champions. Georgia leads all schools with three first-team selections - led by defensive tackle Jalen Carter - and four total selections across our two teams. USC also had four total selections - with Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams leading two first-team…

ATHENS - Georgia offensive coordinator Todd Monken is the highest-paid assistant coach in college football with a $2.01 million salary, per the latest USA Today data. Beyond reporting facts, there's not much "newsy" about that because Monken's value is understandably higher than any other assistant in college football at this time. One could make…

Ohio State's season took a drastic turn for the worse on Saturday, dropping its rivalry game against Michigan for its first loss of the year. The Buckeyes now no longer control their own destiny for the College Football Playoff, as they will need other teams ahead of them to lose in order to make the final field of four. As far as Ryan Day's team…

No. 7 USC takes on No. 16 UCLA in a prime-time Pac-12 matchup at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday. Game time is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET, and it will be televised on Fox. USC (9-1) remains in the mix for a College Football Playoff berth under first-year coach Lincoln Riley, and this is the first of what could be three straight games…

Spring football is in full swing, with Alabama's annual A-Day game scheduled this Saturday. And across the country, FCS teams are in their truncated midseason and other conferences are gearing up for Spring football as well. So, of course it makes perfect sense, before Fall enrollees even step foot on campuses, to speculate about who shall hoist…

Last year's Big 12 Champion and the top ranked team in the conference coming in are both 5-3 and outside of the top 25. Brent Venables' first year as the head man at Oklahoma is not going well, but a strong close to the season could turn things around heading into year 2. In Week 9, the Sooners got a 27-13 win on the road over Iowa State. Baylor…

Georgia took over at No. 1 in last week's USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll and will be very difficult to unseat, given the way the Bulldogs bulldozed through September. As the first month comes to a close, a clear top five has emerged: Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan and Clemson. It will get interesting from there in this week's poll,…

college football odds series for our Kansas State Oklahoma prediction and pick. This game is personal for Brent Venables. The Oklahoma Sooners' head coach was an understudy of Kansas State program icon Bill Snyder, who led Kansas State from complete ineptitude and irrelevance to top-tier college football prominence in the 1990s. Kansas State was a…

It has been five years since Alex Grinch last set out to stop a Jonathan Smith-led offense. But USC's defensive coordinator hasn't forgotten how his three years squaring off with Oregon State's now-head coach went while the two were on opposite sides of the Apple Cup rivalry. "I remember not being able to stop them," said Grinch, who spent three…

USC is an 8-point favorite in its 2022 Pac-12 opener against in-state rival Stanford on The Farm in Palo Alto, California on Saturday (September 10th) at 7:30 pm ET on ABC. The Cardinal are 4-1 over their last five home games against the Trojans. Meantime, USC is only 2-6 ATS in the last eight series meetings, while the over has hit four of the…