With college basketball's national signing week being less than one month away, we're getting down to the final stretch of commitments. Signing week doesn't hold as much significance as its football counterpart; however, there's a binding agreement between player and program, and commitments aren't as easily broken once the letter of intent is signed. There are still plenty of talented players on the board, and lots of blue-blood programs are trying to get them, so it should ...

For many college football programs, climbing into the Top 25 is an accomplishment. Staying there for the remainder of the season is an entirely different story. Some schools have earned a rare position in the poll, but many of them won't stick around. A few power-conference teams won't hang on much longer, either. Week 7's AP Top 25—not the Amway Coaches Poll—is the basis of this list, which focuses on five Football Bowl Subdivision programs that will eventually fall out of ...

The ESPN College GameDay crew hits Big Ten territory Saturday for a game with College Football Playoff implications when the No. 8 Wisconsin Badgers host the No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes. Ohio State has cruised through the first five games of the season, though the same doesn't apply to a Badgers team that is flirting with the idea of two losses and elimination from the CFP discussion by midseason. Wisconsin lost to then-No. 4 Michigan 14-7 last ...

Oh, he is small. Let’s make that clear. It’s been an hour since Donnel Pumphrey, the most productive running back in football, passed Marcus Allen and Thurman Thomas on the NCAA career rushing list. He is finally at rest, free of his helmet and protective outer shell. His tattooed arms aren't crazily muscled. His lean, compact upper body has a matching lower half. His shoulders are slender, especially for someone who has carried the ball more than ...

A key to success in college basketball is creating mismatches, moving players around in a manner that a superior athlete is paired up against a defender who can't guard him. The teams that do this most often tend to sit atop the rankings and go deepest in the postseason. It helps if a team has some individual players who manage to create their own matchup problems, regardless of who they're up against. Certain players have the ability ...

The LSU Tigers and Florida Gators will get a chance to play, after all. Saturday's scheduled battle between the two SEC football teams in Gainesville, Florida, was postponed because of Hurricane Matthew, but the teams will now play Nov. 19. Pete Yanity of WSPA7 reported the game will occur at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, toward the end of the season, replacing a pair of nonconference opponents that were on their respective schedules: This is the Gators' ...

HIGHTSTOWN, N.J. — Peddie School head coach Chris Malleo welcomed a new weapon to his offensive attack last offseason in the form a transfer student from Pennsylvania. The addition of this athlete, who already claimed All-State accolades and multiple Power Five scholarship offers through two prep campaigns, brought immense expectations that seemingly bordered on hyperbole in some corners of New Jersey. Slightly more than a month into his first fall with a fresh program, Jahan Dotson is justifying it all. "Every ...

Every elite college football target needs a diversion from the recruiting process. For Calabasas, California, 5-star cornerback Darnay Holmes, his diversion happens to be edible. To help keep his mind off the distractions of recruiting when he's not honing his craft on the field for the Calabasas High School football team, Holmes has gotten involved with pastry decorating. He's been frequenting a local decorating location with his girlfriend, her mother and her aunt to assist with ...

ATLANTA — The third installment of the College Football Playoff will take place on New Year's Eve, with the Fiesta Bowl and the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl acting as the national semifinals in 2016. The College Football Playoff National Championship will take place at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on Mon., Jan. 9, 2017. What lessons have been learned during the first two years of the playoff? How will tweaks to the semifinal dates change the way ...

A pair of matchups pitting Top 10 teams against one another highlights the Week 7 slate of college football action. SEC rivals Alabama and Tennessee will duel in Knoxville, while Wisconsin will host Ohio State in a Big Ten showdown. Aside from those two marquee clashes, a handful of other games will attract elite recruits into the stands this weekend. Which visits will fans around the nation be paying close attention to this weekend? Let's take a look at ...