Penn State is 7-0 against the spread over its last seven games; Wisconsin is 7-1-1 ATS its last nine times out. So it's a meeting between two of the best bets in college football this season when the Badgers battle the Nittany Lions in an unlikely Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday night on neutral turf at Lucas Oil Stadium.      Point spread: The Badgers opened as one-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark. ...

D'Onta Foreman, one of the top running backs in college football this season, declared for the NFL draft on Wednesday. Per ESPN CollegeFootball, Foreman has signed with an agent. The running back described his decision to go to the NFL as an opportunity to "strike while the iron is hot," per Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman. Per Bohls, Foreman said he probably still would have declared for the NFL draft if Texas had brought Charlie Strong back ...

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish granted Malik Zaire his release Wednesday, enabling the senior to pursue a new opportunity as starting quarterback at another school thanks to his graduate transfer eligibility. Per ESPN.com's Jared Shanker, Zaire confirmed Notre Dame originally granted his release on the condition he can't transfer to any team on the Irish's schedule next season with the exception of North Carolina. However, on Thursday, the Fighting Irish granted him an unconditional release, per ...

The 2016 regular season is in the books, and all that's left to do in the Pac-12 is crown a champion. That will happen on Friday night in Santa Clara, California, when North Division winner Washington takes on South champion Colorado. Those were without question the top two teams in the Pac-12 in 2016, though an argument could be made that USC deserves some praise for beating both division champions. It all depends on how you ...

It's foolhardy to draw too many conclusions from the first few weeks of the college basketball season. Teams are still developing their identity and putting the pieces together so they will be ready for conference play and beyond. However, in some cases, discouraging early-season results can raise questions inside and outside a program. That is when it's time to sound the alarm, because those teams are approaching crisis status. The alarm bell can sound on teams that ...

Bowl officials around the country are reportedly concerned a Navy victory over Temple in the American Athletic Conference Championship Game combined with a win in its annual rivalry clash with Army on Dec. 10 could "paralyze" the selection process.  Brett McMurphy of ESPN.com reported Wednesday that Navy is still in contention for a New Year's Six bowl bid, with Western Michigan as its main Group of Five competition. If the Midshipmen are still in the running ...

Texas, Michigan State, Duke, North Carolina State, Stanford, Navy, Virginia Tech and Southern California. Those are the opponents that beat Notre Dame. Not this decade. This year. About the only good thing that could be said about Notre Dame’s fall was that a lot of the games were close. But when Fighting Irish fans are trying to hang their Leprechaun hats on something like only losing to a now-4-8 Duke team by three points—a program it had ...

Missouri Tigers sophomore wide receiver Keyon Dilosa was dismissed from the team Thursday following his arrest on suspicion of domestic violence.  Dave Matter of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch provided word of Dilosa's dismissal from the program one day after his arrest. According to Tod Palmer of the Kansas City Star, police arrested Dilosa outside a Columbia, Missouri, bar at 12:48 a.m. Wednesday. A witness allegedly saw him punch a woman in the face, and police said Dilosa is in a ...

San Diego State and Wyoming just played an absolute thriller on Nov. 19, a game that came down to a two-point conversion with no time left on the clock. The upstart Cowboys pulled off an upset that night, and they're underdogs again for a rematch with the Aztecs in the Mountain West championship Saturday back on Wyoming's home field in Laramie.           Point spread: The Aztecs opened as seven-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored ...

With most high school programs around the country having finished their 2016 season or in the middle of competing in the postseason, the focus is beginning to shift from the action on the field to the happenings on the recruiting trail.  For a handful of elite recruits who are choosing to enroll at their school of choice in January, December represents the climax of their recruiting process. However, the action in November was still hot and heavy ...