Duke lost Brandon Ingram to the NBA draft and is coming off a shaky season by its standards. But after landing the nation's best recruiting class, per Scout.com, and returning a strong group of veterans, the Blue Devils are right back where they want to be: atop the college basketball landscape.  Duke opened the 2016-17 season as the No. 1 team in the preseason Associated Press poll, receiving 58 of a possible 65 first-place votes. Following ...

Lamar Jackson and Deshaun Watson led game-winning drives late in the fourth quarter. Jabrill Peppers scored his fourth touchdown of the season. And while Jake Browning didn't play his best game, his team passed its toughest test yet. All four players were impressive Saturday and subsequently praised by their supporters as having built on their Heisman Trophy resumes. Florida State running back Dalvin Cook and Texas running back D'Onta Foreman also created a lot of buzz ...

The month of October includes several dramatic shifts in college football rankings, significantly altering the chase for playoff spots. Competition will continue to increase during the weeks to come, but developments on the recruiting trail are also paramount.  Suddenly just three months away from national signing day, coaching staffs are putting in extra hours beyond on-field duties to ensure top targets are inclined to land with their programs. These efforts are going well on some campuses, ...

While Jabrill Peppers and J.T. Barrett dominate the headlines, neither player earned a spot on the Big Ten's All-October team. Northwestern's resurgent stretch highlighted a month where Penn State rose, Ohio State fell, Michigan kept winning and Wisconsin was as annoying as ever on defense. Each of those programs are well-represented on the list. Overall, 13 of the conference's 14 teams had at least one player included on the All-October team. The main factors used to determine the ...

The recruitment of 4-star wide receiver Donovan Peoples-Jones is nearing its conclusion, as the standout from Cass Tech High School in Detroit has narrowed his list of suitors to five.  The 6'2 ½", 190-pounder announced that Florida, Florida State, Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State are the programs he will consider moving forward. Peoples-Jones, who rates as the nation’s No. 4 receiver and the No. 34 player overall in the 2017 cycle, is scheduled to be an ...

The home stretch of college football is officially upon us. We're through two months of the 2016 regular season, and the College Football Playoff's initial Top 25 rankings will be released Tuesday evening. We've had plenty of time to watch and examine which teams and players are excelling and which ones aren't. Coaches like to say that by this time in the season, freshmen aren't freshmen anymore. They've had seven to eight games of experience, and ...

Tennessee running back Jalen Hurd has informed head coach Butch Jones that he plans to transfer and will change positions at his next school. Jones confirmed to reporters that Hurd will leave the program, adding that he believes team chemistry could improve in the running back's absence. Jimmy Hyams of The Sports Animal originally reported the news. NBCSports.com's Kevin McGuire noted that Hyams reported the transfer would take place following the 2016 season. A post on a Volunteers message board, ...

With roughly three months left until national signing day, college football recruiting is starting to see more and more storylines develop. Targets are becoming commits, and elite athletes who were silent about their processes are starting to make tracks. For two athletes in particular, recruiting news was a major buzz over the weekend. Devon Hunter, the nation's top-ranked safety in the 2017 class, and Donovan Peoples-Jones, a top-five wide receiver nationally in the class, both announced their ...

The College Football Playoff selection committee will release its first rankings Tuesday night, which will bring a little more clarity as to how the four semifinal spots are shaking out. The CFP rankings are bound to undergo various changes over the next few weeks. This time last year, the Clemson Tigers, LSU Tigers, Ohio State Buckeyes and Alabama Crimson Tide made up the Top Four. When all was said and done, the Michigan State Spartans and ...

After a slew of upsets and tight games within the Top 25, the Week 10 Associated Press and Amway Coaches polls were certainly shaken up as several undefeated teams finally fell last weekend. Baylor, Boise State, Nebraska and West Virginia each experienced its first loss of the season, with all three other than the Cornhuskers falling to teams that were unranked at the time. Meanwhile, the four schools at the top of each poll are now ...