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Published Oct. 24, 2023, 12:35 p.m.By Nathan Baird, cleveland.comCOLUMBUS, Ohio — With Emeka Egbuka unavailable the past two weeks, Ohio State football’s Marvin Harrison Jr. stepped in with a career-best performance.The Buckeyes did not rip through Penn State’s highly ranked defense in their 20-12 victory. The running game plodded a times. Quarterback Kyle McCord’s accuracy wavered for stretches.However, ...

Yahoo Sports is reporting that Oregon State and Washington State, the last two remaining members of the Pac-12 Conference, have been in talks with Mountain West Conference officials about scheduling games.Oregon State and Washington State are expected to operate as a two-school Pac-12 Conference next year, the only remaining schools after several programs jumped ship.If they schedule games with the ...

The Wyoming Cowboy football team’s offensive line was named to the Joe Moore Award midseason honor roll this week.The Cowboys were named to the midseason honor roll alongside 23 other FBS programs, including prestigious football programs such as Georgia, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Oregon. Mountain West opponent Air Force was also named to the midseason honor roll as well.The Joe Moore Award ...

| Oct. 25, 2023, 12:07 p.m.The Pac-12 title picture is starting to come into focus as we head into the final week of October. Washington didn’t score an offensive touchdown against Arizona State yet still managed to walk away with a win. Utah kept its hopes for a third consecutive conference title alive with a walk-off win over USC, and Oregon kept pace with the top of the league in a two-score win ...

Oct. 24, 2023 11:41 a.m.This post was updated Oct. 24 at 10:50 p.m.The Buffaloes and Bruins’ upcoming clash is a tale of two vastly different situations at quarterback.Following coach Chip Kelly’s decision to bench freshman quarterback Dante Moore in favor of redshirt junior Ethan Garbers in Saturday’s win over Stanford, No. 23 UCLA football has a level of uncertainty at quarterback that Colorado has ...

Oregon State junior Taliese Fuaga is a mountain of a man, 6-foot-6 and 334 pounds.Fuaga ultimately could be at the top of a mountain metaphorically, as the school’s first offensive lineman chosen as an NFL first-round draft pick.Fuaga is beginning to emerge as a first-round pick in several NFL mock drafts.OSU’s best-ever is Andy Levitre, who in 2009 went in the second round, No. 51 overall, to the ...

Bo Nix is a finalist for the Campbell Trophy.Oregon’s quarterback is among 16 finalists for the award, known as the academic Heisman, which recognizes combined academic success, football performance and leadership. Each finalist will receive an $18,000 postgraduate scholarship as a member of the 2023 National Football Foundation national scholar-athlete class.Nix, who graduated magna cum laude from ...

Portal season has begun early for Nebraska as the Huskers made an offer to a Michigan State transfer Wednesday.Former Spartans offensive lineman Keyshawn Blackstock announced an NU tender on social media a day after officially leaving his previous team. The 6-foot-5, 315-pounder has seen four games and 74 offensive snaps this season as a backup left tackle but none since coach Mel Tucker was fired ...

In case you didn’t notice, University of Miami junior Brashard Smith leads the nation in kickoff returns.His mother notices.“I look it up every week,’’ Monica Hennigan, Smith’s mom, said of his No. 1 ranking. “If the game is Saturday, that means Sunday I check it out. I am so proud of him.’’This quiet, unassuming young man has been No. 1 nationally since mid September, averaging 33.9 yards on his 11 ...

Maryland quarterback Taulia Tagovailoa and Johns Hopkins defensive end Luke Schuermann were named Wednesday morning among 16 national finalists for the William V. Campbell Trophy, an award nicknamed the “Academic Heisman” for its recognition of a college football player who excels in academics, community service and the field.[ Johns Hopkins DL Luke Schuermann drawing NFL attention: ‘His statistics ...