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Report: Wisconsin football schedules future home-and-home with new ACC school

Report: Wisconsin football schedules home-and-home with new ACC school

Wisconsin football is scheduling a future home-and-home series with California in 2029 and 2030, according to a release from the program.

The games are the first on Wisconsin’s schedules in those two years, along with whatever Big Ten Conference play looks like in six years. The games remain more than a half-decade away, and a lot with the sport is sure to change before those dates.

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The two days, as reported, are September 1, 2029 in Berkeley, California and August 31, 2030 in Madison, Wisconsin.

California will be an ACC school in 2024 with the Pac-12 having disbanded. The Bears hold a 5-1 advantage over the Badgers in the all-time series, with Wisconsin’s only win coming in 1946. The two schools have not met since 1990.

Looking ahead to the 2024 season, we’ve already ranked all 18 programs in the Big Ten, ranked the 18 starting quarterbacks, ranked all 18 head coaches, predicted each Big Ten team’s 2024 record, looked at the early College Football Playoff tiers, made bold predictions for the season and checked in on the Las Vegas win totals for each team in the conference.

It’s hard to know exactly what the sport’s landscape will look like when these games are scheduled to played.

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Girls flag football approved as official HS sport in California southern section

The CIF-SS, one of the premier high school football sections in the country, has voted to approve girls flag football as an official HS sport.

In a move that comes on the heels of growing traction in recent years and could prelude growth in other states, the California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section has voted to approve girls flag football as an official sport.

The governing body voted 61-26 with two abstentions to make it an official sports with the goal of launching it for the 2023-24 school year, according to ABC7.

At both high school and college, girls flag football participation has increased in recent years. It is sanctioned at the high school level seven states — Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and New York, per CBS — and is an NAIA collegiate sport. In 2021, the NFL and Nike launched a $5 million grant toward the sport, and the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers launched a pilot high school league that elicited response from more than 70 schools wanting in, according to the Associated Press.

At the start of the 2022 high school season, Nike and the NFL launched a kickoff event with boys and girls football players taking part at an event at the Nike headquarters in Oregon.

Former NFL player Bobby Taylor said in an interview with USA TODAY High School Sports during the event said that the challenge to growing girls flag football hasn’t been willingness from athletes, but instead garnering enough support and resources.

“When you have entities like the NFL, Nike, supporting all of the efforts … the states that bring on girls flag as a sanctioned high school sport, and you also have the opportunity for girls to get scholarships … When you have this type of energy, it’s kind of hard for you to fail,” he said.

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California vs. Notre Dame, live stream, preview, TV channel, time, how to watch college football

The Cal Golden Bears will meet the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in Week 3 of the college football season on Saturday afternoon from Notre Dame Stadium.

The Cal Golden Bears will meet the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in Week 3 of the college football season on Saturday afternoon from Notre Dame Stadium.

Cal is coming off a 20-14 win over UNLV as they look for a 3-0 start with a win this afternoon, while Notre Dame has struggled to start the season going 0-2 while they look to turn things around today.

This will be another great day of college football, here is everything you need to know to watch and stream the action on Saturday.

California vs. Notre Dame

  • When: Saturday, September 17
  • Time: 2:30 p.m. ET
  • TV Channel: NBC
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Locker room incident at California HS leads to protest, game cancellation

Vista High School has cancelled its football game after a protest over a locker room incident under investigation by the school.

A California high school football team under investigation for a locker room incident has canceled its game this weekend following a protest outside the school, according to ABC 10News.

On Aug. 31, a student reported activity in the varsity football locker room of Vista High School (San Diego, Calif.), leading to an investigation that included video of the incident. The head coach was placed on leave while the investigation and underway, Vista Unified School District Superintendent Matt Doyle said in a statement to 10News.

Doyle also said that there was no sexual assault involved.

Vista High School principal, Principal David Jaffe, told the San Diego Tribune that three players had been disciplined.

The school has released very little information—beyond stating that no sexual assault occurred and mentioning that a boy was pushed to the ground but did not require medical attention. The statement used the phrase “highly inappropriate conduct.”

The Vista Sheriff’s Station told 10News and the Tribune that they are investigating a “physical altercation” and possible battery.

On Wednesday, a group of students, parents and alumni protested at the school, seeking accountability and action from the district and school leaders, with 10News reporting “dozens” of people and the Tribune reporting “more than 100.” A clearer view of the number of people is available on the NBC San Diego broadcast. A portion of the video clip is shown in the NBC video.

After a number of hours, police arrived at the protest. The sheriff’s department told 10News protesters were blocking cars from leaving the parking lot. The Tribune reported that some protesters hit or kicked a vehicle in which a football player sat.

NBC reported that the police were also at the school in response to a shooting threat over Snapchat on Tuesday night. In the picture, a student reportedly under investigation for the football incident is holding a gun. He posted threatening captions with the pictures.

The game on Friday has been canceled “as a result of the behavior at the protest last evening,” Jaffe said in a statement obtained by the outlets. The campus closed at 4 p.m. and all were asked to leave by that time.

He said that all after-school activities on Thursday and Friday were canceled “out of an abundance of caution.”

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California High School Football Hall of Fame to include 100 players, 13 coaches

100 players and 13 coaches will be included.

As one of the country’s biggest and most populous states, it only makes sense that California has one of the deepest pools of football talent and some of the most competitive programs. Good news: some of the greatest players in state history will soon be recognized for their outstanding achievements.

According to Eric Sondheimer at the LA Times, the new California High School Football Hall of Fame will be unveiled at the Rose Bowl game later this year in November. One hundred players and 13 coaches will be included.

Some of the most famous player names on the list will be Tom Brady, John Elway, Warren Moon, Jackie Robinson, Jim Plunkett, Carson Palmer, Ronnie Lott, Reggie Bush, Tony Gonzalez, Maurice Jones-Drew, DeSean Jackson and Richard Sherman.

Here is the full list of players, per Sondheimer:

Among the 13 coaches are Kevin Rooney and Lou Farrar.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place on Nov. 21.

Saints hold pre-draft meetings over FaceTime with several linebacker prospects

The New Orleans Saints had FaceTime meetings with linebacker draft prospects including California’s Evan Weaver and Colorado’s Davion Taylor

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Travel restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in NFL teams conducting interviews with draft prospects over video chat services such as FaceTime, and the New Orleans Saints are no exception. It’s nobody’s preference, of course; teams typically fly in 30 prospects for tours of their facilities, private workouts, and one-on-one meetings with position coaches and front office staff. But like other teams, the Saints are working to remain innovative, doing what they can to keep this hurdle from slowing them down.

Justin Melo over at Draft Wire reports that the Saints have spoken with two different linebackers recently, including Colorado prospect Davion Taylor and California’s Evan Weaver. Both players have also touched base with other teams, which isn’t unusual. By the end of this process, just about every draft-eligible prospect will have contacted each team in the NFL.

Weaver (6-foot-2, 237 pounds) was the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year in 2019, following a senior season in which he racked up 181 total tackles (103 solo, 11.5 for loss of yards), 2.5 sacks, and forced a pair of fumbles. He has been a big part of the Golden Bears defense throughout his college career but played his best football the last two seasons as a starter. He’s likely to be picked on the final day of the draft but could go late in the third round if a team like the Saints rates him highly.

Taylor (6-foot-0, 228 pounds) is a better athlete than Weaver, thanks to a background in track and field as well as football; it showed up at the combine when he clocked the 40-yard dash in just 4.49 seconds against Weaver’s 4.76 time. But he brings a smaller body of work against top competition, having played just two years at Colorado after transferring from the junior college ranks. He’s projected to be drafted in rounds four through seven on the third day, if at all, and his evaluation largely depends on how well teams think he can bulk up to NFL standards without sacrificing his movement skills.

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