The Big Ten's marquee nonconference week is finally here. After a relatively quiet two-week stretch that featured Wisconsin's big upset over LSU and little else, the Big Ten is set to take center stage with a host of nationally televised prime-time games this Saturday. The conference has started out hot, following its impressive 12-2 opening week with a 10-4 showing last weekend. But Ohio State, Michigan State and Nebraska have the opportunity to dramatically boost the Big ...

Each week, Bleacher Report National Recruiting Analyst Tyler Donohue analyzes a different prospect based on in-person evaluation and intensive film study. Here's our latest scouting report of a promising young athlete and how he projects as a college player.         A shutdown safety can serve as the stalwart linchpin of any defensive unit, providing an authoritative presence across the field. Georgia recruit Richard LeCounte III fills that role, attacking opponents with a well-balanced skill set that stifles offensive efforts through the ...

Texas hasn't exactly been a great bet over recent seasons, but it is 4-1 against the spread in its last five times out as road chalk. Conversely, California has struggled as a home dog, going just 3-11 ATS in its last 14 times in that spot. A hot Longhorns team heads west to take on the Golden Bears on Saturday night in Berkeley, California. Point spread: The Longhorns opened as six-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored ...

Most of the top active men's college basketball head coaches have national championships to their names, but where do the greats such as Bob Huggins, Sean Miller and Thad Matta rank in comparison to the others who have yet to win a title? The following coaches were ranked based on a variety of factors, including career winning percentage, consistency of success, recruiting prowess, conference titles and NCAA tournament success. There's no magic formula that was used ...

The Oregon Ducks are known for their great home-field advantage up in Eugene, but they haven't been too bad on the road lately, either, going 8-1 both straight up and against the spread over their last nine road trips. Oregon hits the road again this week, heading off to Lincoln to take on former Oregon State head coach Mike Riley and his Nebraska Cornhuskers on Saturday afternoon.   Point spread: The Cornhuskers opened as three-point favorites, according ...

Welcome, Ole Miss. Step right up, Oklahoma. Embrace the moment, Notre Dame. For teams that have already lost a game, "win-or-walk weekend" has officially arrived in college football. And September isn't even in the rearview mirror. "You can't start looking at what other [teams] are doing," said Ole Miss head coach Hugh Freeze. "The only thing you can control is what you do." That's not entirely true—which is what makes this perfectly imperfect sport so tantalizingly traumatic week ...

Now that last week's cupcake course of the SEC season is out of the way, it's time to get back out there and get back to the main course of football action. The only marquee games from a week ago saw the conference regain a bit of its lost luster from the opening session with Tennessee throttling a mistake-prone Virginia Tech team in the Battle at Bristol and Arkansas getting a double-overtime victory over TCU. Neither of ...

Week 2 of the college football season didn't match any ranked teams for the first time since September 2012, but Week 3 is when the rubber meets the road. No. 2 Florida State will visit No. 10 Louisville, No. 1 Alabama will travel to No. 19 Ole Miss, No. 12 Michigan State will head to South Bend, Indiana, to take on No. 18 Notre Dame, third-ranked Ohio State visits No. 14 Oklahoma, and several other matchups ...

Their college football careers began eight days apart, back when life was still ordinary and long before the biggest games of their lives. Deondre Francois, then a 4-star pro-style quarterback out of IMG Academy in Florida, enrolled at Florida State on June 6, 2015. It was assumed that the product of such an overpowering high school team would wrestle the starting job away at some point. It was simply a matter of when. It was clear then ...

Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski will reportedly keep NBA teams from scouting his team's practices this upcoming season, The Vertical's Adrian Wojnarowski reported Tuesday. Instead, there will be two pro days on Oct. 19 and Oct. 25 where NBA executives will get a pair of chances to take a look at the Blue Devils' prospective professionals. The rest of Duke's practices will be closed. Wojnarowski noted the first pro day will contain "skills and drill work," ...