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By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer TCU is looking to pull another upset. Georgia is trying to win a second straight national title. The third-ranked Horned Frogs and top-ranked Bulldogs face off in the College Football Playoff championship game on Monday night at Sofi Stadium. Georgia is a 12½-point favorite, according to FanDuel…

TCU is looking to pull another upset. Georgia is trying to win a second straight national title. The third-ranked Horned Frogs and top-ranked Bulldogs face off in the College Football Playoff championship game Monday night at Sofi Stadium in Inglewood, California. Georgia is a 12 1/2-point favorite, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. That's down a…

The NCAA Tournament has Cinderellas and buzzer-beaters. Madness belongs to bowl season. A record 43 bowl games will be played over the next few weeks - more than double the number of bowl games held in 1997 - and 17 of them will feature at least one team without a winning record. A dizzying number of coaches and coordinators have already ditched…

When the news came down last week that a 12-team College Football Playoff would be implemented starting with the 2024 season, coaches like Billy Napier (Florida), Mike Norvell (Florida State) and Mario Cristobal (Miami) were no doubt rejoicing. By tripling the access to the prestigious CFP, it means coaches at high-resourced Power 5 programs across…

COLUMBIA, Mo. - It's Thanksgiving week, which means it's also Rivalry Week across college football. In the SEC, we've got the Egg Bowl, the Iron Bowl, the Palmetto Bowl, two Governor's Cups, the Florida Cup and the Battle Line Rivalry. We'll get to that last one in another story this week, but for now, let's make some picks on the rest of the SEC…

Florida Gators (6-4) will take on Vanderbilt Commodores (4-6) in Nashville on Saturday. Florida have won two straight games, most recently smoking the South Carolina Gamecocks 38-6. Quarterback Anthony Richardson, who may opt out of his redshirt junior season in favor of the NFL draft, dominated in potentially the last start of his career at the…

It was anything but fun for the LSU Tigers (4-2, 2-1) last weekend when they hosted the Tennessee Volunteers. However, this week against the Florida Gators (4-2, 1-2), the team and Brian Kelly can get back on the right track. A win for either team this weekend puts them just one win away from being bowl eligible. Neither head coach was involved in…

Perhaps it's the hectic nature of the holidays - the festivities, tending to the Christmas lists, the Egg Nog(!) - or all the emphasis on NFL playoff scenarios. But in comparison to March Madness, which draws an estimated 40 million Americans to bet upward of $9 billion, the college bowl pool gets undeservedly lost in the shuffle. It isn't right.…

The Florida Gators host the South Carolina Gamecocks in SEC football 2022 action Saturday, November 12, at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla. The game will be live streamed via fubo TV. Florida is 5-4 overall, 2-4 in the SEC this season, while South Carolina is 6-3, 3-3. The Gamecocks won the last meeting between the two teams, beating…

Georgia ascended to the top spot in the latest edition of the College Football Playoff Rankings, and it will put that position on the line in a tricky road spot against Mississippi State in Starkville, Mississippi, on Saturday. The No. 1-ranked Bulldogs, currently sitting at 6-3 overall, are looking to play spoiler against an SEC East foe they…

The First (Annual?) Gary Patterson Bowl goes down in Austin. Two questions will define No. 4 TCU at No. 18 Texas, one far more important than the other. First, who will be more satisfied in victory: TCU, moving to 10-0 with a team comprised of largely the same pieces of the 2021 Patterson-led team that went 5-7 with a win over Gary Patterson, or…

It should be an exciting atmosphere Thursday evening when the Florida Gators (6-6) take on the UCF Knights (8-4) in the 2021 Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa, Fla. With both schools located nearby, the game is a sellout and could have one of the best crowds of the 2021-22 college football bowl season. Gus Malzahn got off to a bit of a slow start at UCF,…

Following its open week, Virginia Tech football will head south to play at No. 24 NC State on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN at Carter-Finley Stadium. How to Follow TV: Thursday's game will be televised on ESPN, with Matt Barrie (play-by-play), Dan Mullen (analyst) and Harry Lyles (sideline) on the call. Streaming: Catch the game online…

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where fans were introduced to the varied animal life- green dogs and rats -in Tuscaloosa: A new, attractive FBS coaching option materialized Monday when the Carolina Panthers fired Matt Rhule. He was a bad fit in the NFL-or at least a bad fit with a franchise that never gave…

With there being only 12 regular season games, and most of those being conference games, almost every week in college football is a big week. But Week 7 of the season shapes up to be the most pivotal week of the season. Big game(s) in the SEC? Check. Big game(s) in the Big Ten? Check. Big game(s) in the Big 12? Check. Big game(s) in the Pac-12?…

The Florida Gators host the Missouri Tigers in SEC football 2022 action Saturday, October 8, at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla. The game will be live streamed via fubo TV. Florida is 3-2 overall, 0-2 in the SEC this season, while Missouri is 2-3, 0-2. The Tigers won the last meeting between the two teams, beating the Gators 24-23 in…

As running back Lorenzo Lingard bolted through a wide-open hole against Eastern Washington's defense, it marked the ending of two figurative droughts for Florida football's offense. Florida's 52-17 victory on Sunday marked the first time the Gators have scored more than 35 points in a game since the infamous 70-52 home victory against Samford,…

Florida will cap a successful first season under Dan Mullen Saturday when it takes on No. 7 Michigan in the Peach Bowl. Most of the intangibles favor Florida. The Gators figure to have an advantage in the stands, as Atlanta is home to the largest out-of-state alumni base for the University of Florida. While Michigan is still reeling as a program…

At long last, the first true week of the college football season has arrived. We're breaking down our favorite outright winners from the campaign's first full slate. Read on for our top moneyline picks for Week 1 in college football. It's finally here! College football is back and we've got three moneyline picks we're targeting for the opening…

The South Florida Bulls will travel to take on the in-state Florida Gators in a primetime college football matchup on Saturday night in Gainesville. With that said, it's a good time to check out our college football odds series, which includes a South Florida-Florida prediction and pick, laid out below. South Florida has gone 1-1 in the young…

Mississippi State quarterback Dak Prescott (15) carries the ball on his signature 56-yard touchdown run on Sept. 20, 2014, at LSU as right tackle Justin Senior blocks out LSU defensive end Deondre Clark. Senior and the Bulldogs' O-line were the unsung heroes of MSU's 34-29 win. Photo by: Gerald Herbert/Associated Press Ben Beckwith keeps a photo of…

In recent years, Mississippi State has caused all kinds of problems for LSU. From Dak Prescott running wild over the Tigers in 2015 to K.J. Costello throwing for a SEC record 634 passing yards in an upset victory in Baton Rouge in 2020, Mississippi State isn't the pushover like it used to be. Although the Bulldogs had major success under Dan…

Ames, Iowa is about 225 miles from Lincoln, Nebraska. Could that be the next move for Iowa State coach Matt Campbell? With the Huskers having fired Coach Scott Frost following a humiliating home loss to Georgia Southern on Saturday, Campbell is the early frontrunner to be his full-time replacement via SportsLine oddsmakers - although nothing surely…

It's one thing to develop a computerized power-ranking system that factors in rushing yards per game, strength of schedule and average margin of victory. But since the nation's oddsmakers haven't yet created a program that can read minds, setting point spreads for a slew of college bowl games is an exercise akin to palm reading. There's been…

college football odds series for our Central Michigan Oklahoma State prediction and pick. The Central Michigan Chippewas are overflowing with confidence and optimism after their 2021 season. Central Michigan coach Jim McElwain, whom many college football fans remember from his days coaching the Florida Gators several years ago (before being…

University of Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin was always planning to play a Pac-12 team this weekend. Just not Utah. When the Utes and Gators square off on Saturday night in Gainesville, it will represent the front end of a home-and-home agreement. An unorthodox scheduling marriage in that the Utes almost never travel that far east and…

If you're bad at your job, you get demoted, right? Unless you're Vanderbilt, in which case you get a media rights check for about $80 million. As the old American Express ad said, "Membership has its privileges." And being a member of the SEC has provided the Commodores with more privileges than they've earned. I don't mean to pick on Vandy, which…