What was built by Jim Harbaugh seemingly overnight is now crumbling almost as quickly. By all appearances, the San Francisco 49ers are falling apart, and Harbaugh is on the way out.
Betting
It’s not a banner year for quarterbacks in the Big Ten, but Michigan State is in good hands with junior Connor Cook.
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College football picks for the weekend.
It’s Ron Boyles against Frank Betti in this week’s Friday Football Showdown.
Alabama is ranked fifth in the latest College Football Playoff rankings. But Las Vegas oddsmakers say the Crimson Tide would be favored on a neutral site against Mississippi State, Oregon, Auburn and Florida State.
By now, Urban Meyer was supposed to be irrelevant, a forgotten coach left behind in the carnage of a crazy season. Ohio State was whipped on its home field, and that was that.
This is one of those weekends every college football fan dreams of, and that’s because 12 teams in the Top 25 are facing off Saturday. These games definitely will make a difference in the season.
The Breeders’ Cup is over, but thoroughbred horse racing in Southern California continues in a new but familiar setting.
Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Golden Nugget sports book director Tony Miller preview the college football and NFL weekend by offering 12 plays.
In a quarterback showdown that was debated and hyped all week, one guy walked away a blowout winner and the other was a no-show. The big winner, of course, was Carson Palmer of the red-hot Arizona Cardinals.
Around the NFL, the New York Jets are the butt of jokes, with a coach on the hot seat, a clueless general manager and a quarterback carousel fit for a circus. And Michael Vick is now the lead rider on the carousel.
The last of the unbeatens in college football has fallen.