PASADENA, Calif.—Dorian Thompson-Robinson accounted for 385 yards of total offense and four scores, Zach Charbonnet ran for 111 yards and a touchdown, and UCLA rallied for a 45–17 victory over Bowling Green Saturday in the season opener for both teams. The Bruins trailed 17–7 early in the second quarter before scoring 38 straight points to…
Bennett, Georgia D Lead No. 3 Dawgs to 49–3 Rout of Oregon
ATLANTA—Stetson Bennett threw for 368 yards and accounted for three touchdowns, a revamped defense didn’t miss a beat, and No. 3 Georgia looked very much like a team intent of defending its national championship with a 49–3 rout of No. 11 Oregon on Saturday. Bennett completed 25–of–31 passes with two touchdowns and ran for another…
Top 25 Roundup: No. 17 Pitt Tops WVU in Backyard Brawl
M.J. Devonshire returned an interception 56 yards for a tiebreaking touchdown with 2:58 to play as No. 17 Pitt pulled out a 38–31 victory over West Virginia on Thursday in Pittsburgh. In a back-and-forth battle, the Panthers (1–0) wound up outlasting the Mountaineers (0–1), snapping a three-game losing streak in the Backyard Brawl, which hadn’t…
Penn State Overtakes Purdue With Last-Minute TD
Sean Clifford, who passed for four touchdowns and rushed for another, found Keyvone Lee for the go-ahead score with 57 seconds left to lift Penn State to a season-opening, 35–31 win against Purdue on Thursday night in West Lafayette, Ind. The Nittany Lions (1–0, 1–0 Big Ten) prevailed in a game that had seven lead…
NIL Turning Star College Football Players Into Millionaires
Glance around the parking lot of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center at The Ohio State University this fall and you might come across a $200,000 palace on wheels, the kind of luxury ride more likely to be found in the garages of movie stars, music moguls and titans of business than on a college campus….
Lincoln Riley, Caleb Williams Make Debuts for No. 14 USC vs. Rice
No. 14 Southern California officially kicks off the Lincoln Riley era Saturday when it welcomes visiting Rice to Los Angeles for both teams’ 2022 season opener. The Trojans scored perhaps the most surprising coup of the offseason coaching carousel when it hired four-time Big 12 Conference champion Lincoln Riley to replace Clay Helton. Riley led…
Gary Gaines, Coach of ‘Friday Night Lights’ Fame, Dead at 73
LUBBOCK, Texas—Gary Gaines, coach of the Texas high school football team made famous in the book and movie “Friday Night Lights,” has died. He was 73. Gaines’ family said in a statement the former coach died Monday in Lubbock after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Gaines made many stops in West Texas during a…
Alabama Gives Saban New 8-year, $93.6 Million Deal
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.—Alabama coach Nick Saban is getting a new eight-year contract worth at least $93.6 million, eclipsing the recent mega-deal of Southeastern Conference rival Kirby Smart. The University of Alabama trustees compensation committee on Tuesday approved a one-year extension through February 28, 2030 for the 70-year old Saban, who has led the Crimson Tide to…
Urban Meyer Back on Fox’s ‘Big Noon Saturday’ Post-NFL
LOS ANGELES —Urban Meyer is returning to Fox’s “Big Noon Saturday” college football pregame show after his NFL coaching career lasted less than one full season. Fox announced Friday that Meyer would rejoin the show that he was part of in its first two seasons. After resigning as Ohio State’s coach after the 2018 season,…
Big Ten Conference Strikes Multi-Year TV Deals ‘Around $7.5 Billion’
College sports league The Big Ten Conference said on Wednesday it has struck multi-year television rights deals for its football, basketball and other intercollegiate games. The agreements with CBS, FOX, NBC and NBCUniversal’s Peacock give The Big Ten, which includes football powerhouses Ohio State and University of Michigan, a solid lead in the race to…
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