Morgantown, WV

ESPN's Football Power Index predicts each of West Virginia's games for the 2024 season. It's Monday and that means ESPN has updated their annual Football Power Index, ranking the top teams, and setting the odds for each matchup remaining in the 2023 season. How does ESPN's Football Power Index project this season to go? Right now, the model projects WVU to go 6.3-5.8 (same as last week)

WVU Football: ESPN FPI updates predictions for the 2024 season

Clemson, SC

247Sports

If Cade Klubnik lights up Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Saturday afternoon, it wouldn't be the first time a quarterback made a name for themself in a season-opener. It also wouldn't be the first time a young quarterback took the next steps in their progression while in the second or third year of an offensive scheme. Last year wasn't pretty for the first-year starter and his first-year offensive coordinator, Garrett Riley. But sometimes, things simply just take time, and that's how Clemson feels about its quarterback and its offense entering 2024.

Clemson QB Cade Klubnik ‘confident’ entering Week 1, says Dabo Swinney and Garrett Riley

Nebraska State

Baton Rouge, LA

FanSided

Under Brian Kelly, the position group that has gone from a weakness to a strength is the tight end position. Kelly has made the position a priority and heading into the season the trio of Mason Taylor, Ka'Morreun Pimpton, and Trey'Dez Green are expected to have a massive impact. Heading into camp however, a fourth tight end was expected to play a big role for the LSU Football team in 2024.

Former LSU Football Tight End transfers to Nebraska just days before the season

Manhattan, KS

Kansas State Wildcats On SI

Kansas State Wildcats coach Chris Klieman recently praised tight end Brayden Loftin for his play all over the field.

Kansas State TE Brayden Loftin Impressing As Unit Tries To Replace Ben Sinnott

Ames, IA

AMES – Iowa State football is kicking of its 2024 season vs. North Dakota on Saturday afternoon at Jack Trice Stadium – and the players leading Iowa State into battle are now known. On Monday evening, Iowa State football announced three team captains for the entirety of the...

Iowa State football names 2024 captains

Tampa, FL

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Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

Three men and a woman have been arrested on murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Charles Jones , a Jacksonville rapper known as Julio Foolio,” outside a hotel in Tampa.

4 arrested in slaying of Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio

Texas State

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Missouri State

CJ Coombs

When I learned the brown tarantula is also native to Missouri, I gasped, and when I say I'm not too fond of spiders of any genus is an understatement. It's psychological. They have too many legs.

It's mating season for the Texas brown tarantula also known as the Missouri tarantula

Tempe, AZ

The Wyoming Cowboys kick off their 2024 season against Arizona State this Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at Mountain American Stadium, marking the head coaching debut of Jay Sawvel. He aims to become the first UW coach since 1962 to win his first game on the road. With 16 returning starters, the Cowboys look to overcome last year's inconsistency, while the Sun Devils, who finished 3-9, have bolstered their roster through the transfer portal. Sawvel emphasizes the need for quarterback Evan Svoboda to remain poised as he leads the team against a more competitive ASU. The outcome could impact the Cowboys' strength of schedule and playoff prospects in the expanded College Football Playoff format.

Pokes Insider: Jay Sawvel Prepares for Season Opener vs ASU

Oklahoma State

Stillwater, OK

Oklahoma State Cowboys On SI

Dusty Dvoracek, a former Oklahoma defensive lineman who now works for ESPN, picked the Cowboys to win the Big 12 and earn a spot in the College Football Playoff.

Former Sooners DL and ESPN Analyst Picks Oklahoma State to Win Big 12 in 2024

From 2015-2019, Dabo Swinney led Clemson to the College Football Playoff four out of five seasons, winning the CFP National Championship in 2016 and 2018. In October 2018, the landscape of college football was forever altered with the introduction of the transfer portal. Programs have utilized the transfer portal to add talent like they recruit the high school talent pool. Swinney has shunned that approach, refusing to add scholarship players from the transfer portal. The Tigers have not made the CFP the last four seasons, and in 2023 Clemson failed to win 10 games, the first time since the 2010 6-7 season. Clemson was one of four programs not to add from the portal this offseason, with the other three being the service academies. Now, No. 14 Clemson prepares to take on No. 1 Georgia as 13.5-point underdogs in the 2024 season opener, with the Dawgs having added nine scholarship players via the portal.

Kirby Smart sees clear advantage in Dabo Swinney's refusal to use the transfer portal

North Carolina State

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Boone, NC

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Move-in day for college freshmen is an emotional experience, both for students and their parents. Lori Miggins, a mom from North Carolina, felt this deeply when she dropped off her daughter, Taylor, at Appalachian State University.

North Carolina Mom Sparks Debate By Sleeping In Daughter’s Dorm Her 1st Night At College

Chapel Hill, NC

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina forward Zayden High will not play for the Tar Heels in 2024-25 as he is no longer enrolled in the school, the program announced on Tuesday. The 6-foot-9, 225-pound Texas native played sparingly in his first year with the Tar Heels, averaging 0.8 points and 1.1 rebounds in 4.5 minutes per game across 23 appearances.

Carolina Basketball's Zayden High Leaves School

Oregon State

Eugene, OR

EUGENE, Ore. — The final open practice before Oregon's season-opener included a surprise participant and the first 11-on-11 period of the fall for media. While Dan Lanning acknowledged earlier in the month that Matthew Bedford would "be down for a bit" with injury, the senior transfer made his return to practice on Wednesday. Bedford was in pads and cleats for the periods open to media. He did not take part in drill work, but was able to sprint from drill to drill without issue. He was last seen at a practice on Aug. 13.

Practice notes from Oregon football practice during Idaho week

Philadelphia, PA

Lincoln, NE

The Spun

Nebraska has landed a transfer tight end before its Week One game against UTEP this Saturday. Nebraska landed tight end Mac Markway, per On3's Steve Wiltfong. Markway left LSU earlier in August and has yet to practice with Nebraska but that's about to change.  Markway played one season at ...

Nebraska Lands Transfer From LSU Ahead Of The 2024 Season

Maryland State

College Park, MD

Not a single Terp jumped into the transfer portal, making Maryland the only power conference program in the country not to lose a single transfer. (One guy did leave after the portal closed, more on that in a bit). "The speed of the pack is determined by the speed of...

Two Maryland football transfers explain mystery departures, one viewed as a star and others are off the grid

Just a few days before boarding a plane for the opener against USC in Las Vegas, LSU coach Brian Kelly joined the first SEC teleconference of the new season and had some interesting thoughts on a few different topics. Here were a couple of takeaways from Kelly's Wednesday update with...

Brian Kelly offers update on Chris Hilton, thoughts of keeping NIL "off the field"

Gainesville, FL

Anez Cooper grew up in Pleasant Grove, Ala. so he is not very familiar with the Miami-Florida rivalry that began in 1938. However, the Hurricanes' right guard has been watching videos of former Hurricanes' games against the Gators and the infamous Gator Flop game in 1971 has stood out. "I...

Gator Flop has Miami RG Anez Cooper excited to play

Alabama State

Bowling Green, KY

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A few years ago, Bryan Ellis was Western Kentucky's co-offensive coordinator. With Bailey Zappe at quarterback, the Hilltoppers finished the 2021 season with the second-best offense nationally, at 536.2 yards per game. Ellis is now Alabama's tight ends coach, but a few years ain't a very...

Alabama's secret weapon in preparing for Western Kentucky might be its new TE coach

Norman, OK

The nation’s biggest stage isn’t on Broadway or anywhere in the borough of Manhattan. The extravagant glitz of the Las Vegas Sphere or the billion-dollar football palace in Arlington, Texas, don’t come close, either. America’s largest and most hallowed coliseums tower over college towns like Ann Arbor, Michigan; State College, Pennsylvania; and College Station, Texas. Games between students with homework and textbooks are elevated into grand sporting spectacles watched by millions coast to coast. Filling these bleachers are denizens of one of the most passionate fandoms there is: college football. They come clad in school colors, as young as infants, brought by their parents, who were brought to their first games by their parents before them. But the 2024 season is not your dad’s college football. In fact, no one has ever seen anything like this.

OU and Texas are in the SEC. OSU is in the Big 12 conference—with Utah. This college football season, the Sooners and Cowboys wave hello to new opponents, and goodbye (for now?) to each other.

Tallahassee, FL

Two of Florida State's key players this season have partnered with some of the world's top drink brands. FSU's starting quarterback, D.J. Uiagelelei posted a promotional video for the energy drink brand Celsius. This comes a week after he announced that he was a member of the "Beats Elite" 2024...

DJU and Pat Payton partner with popular drink brands

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CBS Sports expert picks KU vs. Lindenwood against the spread

When KU football takes the field against Lindenwood on Thursday night to begin the 2024 season, the Jayhawks...

CBS Sports expert picks KU vs. Lindenwood against the spread

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