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Only two programs ranked in the USA TODAY Sports Super 25 were off in Week 8, meaning nearly every program got the chance to make a statement. Arguably the biggest nationally ranked noise was made by ...

Welcome to the 77th edition of The Athletic’s Friday quiz question. At the end of every week, we’ll serve up a poser from our vault of football conundrums. It won’t be easy (unless you’re really good) ...

The 2025 Thursday Night Football schedule is full of intriguing games. The seventh TNF game of the season on Oct. 16 is no exception. From Week 2 through Week 17, Amazon Prime Video will stream ...

Napier is running out of chances at Florida, but also showing the difficulty of running college football programs in the modern age. Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin is going to have to face ...

Sixteen days ago, Penn State was the center of the college football universe. Now it’s a smoldering crater whose warlords have agreed to pay what could be (but probably won’t wind up being) a $50 ...

The Illinois High School Association this week released the 2025 playoff outlook ahead of Week 8, which now is led by automatic qualifiers separated by hypothetical class and ranked by won-lost record ...

Colorado high school football is hitting the heart of the season now, as Week 8 arrives and brings more key conference matchups. The top of the rankings largely stayed put, with only one new No. 1 ...

Mike Darnay is a digital producer and photojournalist at CBS Pittsburgh. Mike has also written and produced content for Vox Media and the Mon Valley Independent. He often covers overnight breaking ...

Week 7 in Northern Colorado high school football brought some more big conference matchups, especially in Class 2A and 5A. It's a busy weekend, too, with almost no teams on a bye week as we come down ...

Michigan entered Los Angeles as the No. 15 team in the country and a team that thought it could contend for not only a Big Ten title, but a spot in the College Football Playoff. However, the ...

BUFFALO-- Nathan MacKinnon scored twice for the Colorado Avalanche in a 3-1 win against the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center on Monday. “I think we got better as the game went on,” MacKinnon said.