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Thursday Night NFL Preview: Chasing Eagles, Dallas Takes Aim at Seahawks

— THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL PREVIEW —   Seattle (6-5) at Dallas (8-3), 8:15 p.m. ET, Amazon Prime   Unlike the rapturous NFL Sundays of 2023, the Thursday Night Football menu this season has been devoid of quality matchups, thrilling finishes, and games with ...

Prep Scoreboad on Top nationally-ranked teams

Top 25 National Scoreboard Here is a look back at Thanksgiving holiday weekend games involving the top prep football teams in the nation, per High School Football America rankings, and the next playoff or championship matchups during the next week:   Ratings ...

Prep Classic: Mater Dei defense dominates St. John Bosco

See prep Scoreboard on Nation's Top-ranked teams The latest chapter of a southern California prep football rivalry with national consecquences featured Mater Dei shutting down a prolific St. John Bosco offense, 35-7, in a Friday night lights classic D1 CIF Southern ...

Lott IMPACT POW: UCLA DE Laiatu Latu

NEWPORT BEACH, CA. – UCLA defensive end Laiatu Latu is the Lott IMPACT® Trophy Player of the Week for week 12 of the 2023 college football season. Latu had two sacks, among 7 tackles (5 solo) in the Bruins 38-20 win at USC.  Latu is a senior who began his collegiate ...

NFL Thanksgiving and Black Friday Recap: 49ers, Dallas and Dolphins Dominate

While some may want to scrub the Dolphins-Jets "Add to Cart" game — AKA the league's original Black Friday game — from their memory, others may need to rescue the details of key NFL Turducken Day matchups from the alcohol-and-tryptophan-induced fog of our collective ...

NFL Extends Holiday in Search of Prime Target — You!

While you feasted Thursday... The second annual John Madden Thanksgiving Special featured the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers reconfirming their dominance, while the new Detroit Lions disappointed expectant fans by reverting to old losing ways as millions ...

Serving up NFL's Turducken Day with a Side of Black Friday

A Turducken Day tradition resumes in Detroit and Dallas, and is topped off by a key divisional tilt in Seattle. Meanwhile, what the NFL hopes becomes a new tradition starts the day after in the league’s first-ever Black Friday game.    "Turducken" — a combination ...

Oh Canada: Steelers' First in-season firing of OC in 82 years

Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin was waiting for Matt Canada’s offense to show a strong pulse. But it stayed too close to flat-lining. So Tomlin did something almost unheard of in Steelers’ history – he pulled the plug in mid-season, firing Canada Tuesday. Canada ...

CFP Ratings: Georgia, Ohio State, MIchigan and Washington leapfrogs FSU

With Rivalry and Championship weeks on the horizon, the fourth College Football Playoff Rankings kept Georgia at No. 1, Ohio State No. 2 and Michigan No. 3, but Washington leapfrogged into No. 4 over now No. 5 Florida State, which lost star quarterback Jordan Travis ...

CFB Rivalry Week: Feel Free to Hate Thy Neighbor

Editor's note: Versions of this story are published here and there every year and we love every one of them. This is our take this year, and we are sticking to it. This is the time of the college football season to be even more irrational and one-sided than ...

Tenth Anniversary of Kick Six: Inside Video, "Official" Look at Historic Iron Bowl Shocker

Background: The Kick Six was the final play of the 78th Iron Bowl college football game played on November 30, 2013, at Jordan–Hare Stadium in Auburn, Alabama. The game featured the No. 1-ranked and two-time defending national champion Alabama Crimson Tide (11–0, ...

NFL Week 11: Scores, Stats, Facts & Stuff

NFL WEEK 11 Scores, stats, highlights  Thursday’s result Baltimore 34, Cincinnati 20 Sunday’s results Rams 17, Seattle 16 Green Bay 23, Chargers 20 Cleveland 13, Pittsburgh 10 Dallas 33, Carolina 10 Detroit 31, Chicago 26 Houston 21,Arizona 16 Jacksonville ...

NFL Week 11 Recap: Eagles Hold off Chiefs to Cap Flurry of Close Finishes

We noted in our Week 11 preview that some of pro football’s best teams needed to be weary of trap games.   But with seven games decided by a single possession, it was NFL fans who ended up ensnared in yet another Sunday of dramatically unpredictable action.   Make ...

AP Top 25: Georgia No. 1, Ohio State displaces Michigan at No. 2

Ohio State passed Michigan and moved up to No. 2 in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll Sunday, a week before the Big Ten rivals play another top-five matchup, and No. 4 Washington flip-flopped with No. 5 Florida State. Georgia remained No. 1 and ...

CFB Week 12: Unbeatens win again; FSU loses QB Jordan Travis

College football's major unbeatens remained so after Week 12, but while Georgia, Ohio State and Florida State won handily, Michigan and Washington battled to contested victories. And with The Game between Michigan and Ohio State on tap next week, something has ...