Tag: Coastal Carolina

Grayson McCall expected to commit with Vols’ 2024 opponent

Coastal Carolina quarterback Grayson McCall is expected to commit with a Tennessee 2024 opponent.

Coastal Carolina redshirt senior quarterback Grayson McCall is expected to commit to North Carolina State.

“Coastal Carolina transfer quarterback Grayson McCall is expected to commit to NC State, a source tells On3 Sports,” Pete Nakos announced on Wednesday.

Tennessee will play North Carolina State on Sept. 7, 2024 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The 6-foot-3, 220-pound McCall appeared in 42 games at Coastal Carolina from 2019-23. He recorded 10,005 passing yards, 88 passing touchdowns, 14 interceptions, 1,113 rushing yards and 18 rushing touchdowns.

Student-athletes can enter the NCAA transfer portal from Dec. 2 until Jan. 2, 2024. Players can also enter the NCAA transfer portal from April 15-30, 2024.

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Former Michigan State football QB Noah Kim commits to Coastal Carolina

Former Michigan State QB Noah Kim commits to Coastal Carolina

Michigan State football had three players try their hand at quarterback this past season. One of them, Sam Leavitt, is now heading to Arizona State. On Tuesday, we also learned where Noah Kim, the first starter of the 2023 season, will be headed.

Kim revealed on his social media pages that he will be heading to Coastal Carolina.

Coastal Carolina was second in the Sun Belt last year, going 7-5 on the season.

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10 Sleeper prospects for the Eagles to watch at 2023 NFL Combine

With the workouts set to begin, we’re looking at 10 sleeper prospects for the Philadelphia Eagles to watch at the 2023 NFL Scouting Combine

The Eagles contingent is at the NFL scouting combine and with two first-round picks for the second year in a row, they’ll look to retool with 18 pending free agents set to hit the open market.

The Eagles have 9 critical contributors on defense set for free agency, and GM Howie Roseman has acknowledged that he won’t be able to retain his core of free agents with Jalen Hurts set to land a massive contract extension.

With the onfield portion of the combine set to heat up, we’re looking at 10 sleeper prospects for the Eagles to watch.

Notre Dame tight end announces transfer destination

All the best in this next phase!

After battling through injuries in his two years at Notre Dame, tight end [autotag]Cane Berrong[/autotag] entered the transfer portal this off-season.  After getting offers from all over the country, Berrong has announced that he will continue his college football career at Coastal Carolina University.

Coastal Carolina is coming off a season where they started 9-1 before dropping three-straight to end it, including a 53-29 loss in the Birmingham Bowl against East Carolina.  The Chanticleers are a combined 31-7 over the last three seasons.

Berrrong played in three games in 2021 and one game in 2022 for Notre Dame. He’ll have three years of eligibility remaining as the Hartwell, Georgia native will be a bit closer to home.

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East Carolina vs Coastal Carolina TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl Prediction Game Preview

East Carolina vs Coastal Carolina game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl on Tuesday, December 27

East Carolina vs Coastal Carolina prediction, game preview, odds, how to watch. TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl, Tuesday, December 27

East Carolina vs Coastal Carolina TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl Prediction Game Preview

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East Carolina vs Coastal Carolina How To Watch

Date: Tuesday, December 27
Game Time: 6:45 ET
Venue: Protective Stadium, Birmingham, AL
How To Watch: ESPN
Record: East Carolina (7-5), Coastal Carolina (9-3)
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East Carolina vs Coastal Carolina TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl 5 Things To Know

TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl Prediction, What’s Going To Happen, History

– Coastal Carolina came close to having a special season, and it could still be a ten-win campaign. It started 6-0 and then 9-1, got rocked by James Madison, and rolled in the Sun Belt Championship by Troy.

Head coach Jamey Chadwell decided he’d rather be working at Liberty, Grayson McCall entered the transfer portal, and now the program is in a holding pattern for the Tim Beck era to begin. On the plus side, McCall is still playing in this before leaving.

– East Carolina had an interesting year. It was wildly inconsistent – good enough to blowout UCF and win at BYU, and flaky enough to get destroyed by Houston and lose to Navy – but it’s still going to be a winning season. The balanced offense knows how to crank up the yards. But …

– East Carolina has been a bowl game nightmare. Since getting by Boise State in the 2007 Hawaii it lost four of the last five and went 4-9 since 1992. It was supposed to play Boston College in last year’s Military, but it got canceled thanks to COVID.

– This is just the third bowl game for Coastal Carolina, with all coming in the last three seasons under Chadwell. The Chanticleers lost a thriller of a 2020 Cure Bowl to Liberty, and last year hung on for dear life to beat Northern Illinois in the 2021 Cure.

– The 2020 Birmingham Bowl – coming at the end of the 2019 season – was a rough 36-6 Cincinnati blowout over Boston College, and the 2020 season version was canceled. Other than that, this has been one of the consistently best bowls of the season. Four of the last five were thrillers including Houston’s win over Auburn last season in the final moments.

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Why East Carolina Will Win The TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl

Coastal Carolina’s missing parts are more of a problem than East Carolina’s. But even at full strength, the Pirates have the style to give the Chanticleers problems.

ECU is usually dominates the turnover battle, it’s great offensively on third downs, and it’s going against a team that’s struggles on defense at getting off the field.

The Pirates haven’t turned the ball over since October 8th, going six straight games without a mistake and with eight games on the year with no turnovers. Coastal Carolina struggled over the last three games – two losses and a close call against Southern Miss – partly because it gave it up seven times.

Combined the lack of turnovers with almost no issues with penalties, and East Carolina isn’t going to beat itself.

Combine all of that with what East Carolina is about to do against a Coastal Carolina pass defense that was the worst in the Sun Belt, and it’s a nice mix. However …

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Why Coastal Carolina Will Win The TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl

Grayson McCall, have a day.

Assuming he’s really and truly going to still play in this – and not be off being a Florida Gator or something – he going to crank up huge numbers against a Pirate secondary that allowed a nation-worst 299 passing yards per game.

From Houston and Clayton Tune pushing for 435 yards, to Temple rolling up 527 yards and five scores in a loss, to everyone by Navy and BYU coming up with at least 200 yards, everyone got fat on the East Carolina secondary.

Even with McCall out for a few games with a foot injury, the offense still worked. One of the most efficient passing games in America should be able to fire at will, but …

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Transfer portal update: Top edge rusher Josaiah Stewart visits USC this weekend

This is an important target for #USC, given the acute need to find a pass-rushing monster.

According to a report from 247Sports’ Chris Hummer, Coastal Carolina edge rusher Josaiah Stewart is visiting USC in Los Angeles, LSU in Baton Rouge, and Michigan in Ann Arbor in the coming days as he looks for a place to call home after entering the transfer portal last week.

The 6-foot-2, 230 pounder signed in the Chanticleers’ 2021 class, and after back-to-back dominant seasons, Stewart entered the transfer portal after a coaching change at CCU. Jamey Chadwell left to take the open head coaching job at Liberty after Hugh Freeze left for Auburn.

Stewart finished his Coastal Carolina career with 79 tackles, 25.5 tackles for loss, 16 sacks and four forced fumbles.

His dominant freshman season in 2021 enabled him to get named to the 2022 Freshman All-America Team.

USC has been hitting the transfer portal hard this cycle, especially on defense. Let’s see if Shaun Nua, Lincoln Riley, and the USC staff can add a possible centerpiece to help them win the Pac-12 next season.

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1 sentence in Grayson McCall’s transfer announcement sent oddsmakers into a panic over Coastal Carolina’s bowl game

Always read the fine print

It was right there in big, bold, italicized letters at the bottom of Grayson McCall’s transfer announcement:

“I WILL PLAY IN THE BOWL GAME AND FINISH WHAT I STARTED.”

Somehow, the message still wasn’t received by all. And by ‘all’ we mean bettors and oddsmakers.

With McCall’s Coastal Carolina program set to face East Carolina in the TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl on Dec. 27, many saw the junior quarterback’s decision to transfer and immediately went to bet on the exhibition, probably thinking McCall wouldn’t play.

Half of the fun in the sports betting world is trying to get a jump on new information before the sportsbooks have a chance to react to it or take the game off the board.

Except there was no new edge here. Nothing changed except McCall’s status as a Chanticleer after the game. The line for the bowl game opened at Coastal Carolina as 7.5-point underdogs, but went for a pretty quick and strange joyride immediately after McCall’s announcement.

Well, you don’t see that often! McCall tweeted his intention to enter the transfer portal at 2:49 p.m. ET when the line was CCU +10.5.

Not even three minutes later, Action Network tracked the line shifting to CCU +13.5 where it stayed for about 10 minutes before falling back down to CCU +10.5—and then down another point to CCU +9.5.

After all that, oddsmaker apparently believe transferring will give McCall and the Chanticleers more of an edge against ECU than if he were coming back for his senior year.

McCall has been a star for CCU for three years now, passing for 7,994 yards, 77 touchdowns and eight interceptions to go with another 1,042 yards and 16 scores on the ground.

His presence against East Carolina can’t be understated.

Which is exactly why many went rushing to bet on the Pirates before realizing McCall still had one more game to play.

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Coastal Carolina vs Troy Sun Belt Championship Prediction Game Preview

Coastal Carolina vs Troy Sun Belt Championship game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Sun Belt Championship Week game on Saturday, December 3

Coastal Carolina vs Troy Sun Belt Championship prediction, game preview, odds, how to watch. Championship Week, Saturday, December 3

Coastal Carolina vs Troy Sun Belt Championship Prediction Game Preview

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Coastal Carolina vs Troy How To Watch

Date: Saturday, December 3
Game Time: 3:30 ET
Venue: Veterans Memorial Stadium, Troy, AL
How To Watch: ESPN
Record: Coastal Carolina (9-2), Troy (10-2)
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Why Coastal Carolina Will Win

It was a rocky road, but it’s here.

It only seems like Coastal Carolina is in its third straight Sun Belt Conference Championship Game.

It didn’t get a shot against Louisiana with the 2020 title game cancelled, and last year Louisiana and Appalachian State played for the third time in the four years of the Sun Belt Championship creation.

Coastal Carolina suffered a weird home loss to Old Dominion, got destroyed by James Madison – who should actually be in this representing the Sun Belt East, but wasn’t eligible in its first year up in the FBS world – and lost star QB Grayson McCall for the season.

Again, it’s here.

It managed to win close game after close game – five victories were by a touchdown or less – thanks to another year of high-powered passing efficiency and just enough takeaways to make up for the problems on defense.

The amazing Troy defense might be a rock, but it’ll give up passing yards. The offense will also turn it over just enough to matter.

Coastal Carolina has to be quick-hitting with the passing game, there have to be a few early scores to make Troy’s offense press a bit, and the takeaways have to be there to help the O.

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Why Troy Will Win

The loss of Grayson McCall really did hurt the Chanticleer offense.

James Madison might be No. 1 in the nation against the run, but Coastal Carolina wasn’t able to do anything through the air, either, in the 47-7 loss last week.

The Troy defense isn’t quite as strong, but it isn’t far off.

The pass rush will be coming from the start – the Coastal Carolina timing should be off from the start.

Troy has won nine straight partly because the competition has been mediocre, but it’s also because the D keeps on coming up with takeaways, it’s fantastic at generating a pass rush, and it always finds ways to keep the score low and stay in control.

Coastal Carolina’s passing game might be great, but it has a problem when the running game isn’t rocking. It has to average at least four years per carry to keep everything moving, but that’s a problem – Troy allows just 3.3 yards per pop.

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What’s Going To Happen

The Troy formula should continue to work. Run well, rely on the defense, repeat.

The Trojans are 8-0 when at least getting to 70 rushing yards – and 1-2 when it didn’t – and Coastal Carolina hasn’t allowed fewer than 90 against any FBS team.

This might not be scintillating, but it should be close throughout before Troy finally breaks through with the ground game. Coastal Carolina’s two losses came in the two worst days of the season against the run. This won’t be that bad, but Troy will come up with a time crunching drive to survive.

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Coastal Carolina vs Troy Sun Belt Championship Prediction, Line

Troy 27, Coastal Carolina 24
Line: Troy -8.5, o/u: 48.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 3
Coastal Carolina vs Troy Sun Belt Championship Must See Rating (out of 5):  4

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Notre Dame at USC now a Top-15 matchup according to USA TODAY AFCA Coaches Poll

Lots on the line next week for top teams

It wasn’t as easy for USC as it was for the Irish on Saturday but both teams prevailed and made moves north in the latest USA TODAY AFCA Coaches Poll. The matchup next weekend will have plenty of implications, Notre Dame has a chance to play spoiler to the Trojans hopes of making the College Football Playoff.

Around the rest of the college football world there was plenty of shakeups in the top 10 and beyond. Former top ten teams in Tennessee and Utah lost and plenty of more movement in the updated coaches poll. Find out below where each team is now ranked with last weeks ranking in parenthesis.

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The Irish are on the move

It wasn’t pretty but Notre Dame held off Navy and it was enough to impress as they moved up six spots in the latest USA TODAY AFCA Coaches Poll. There no movement inside the top five teams but plenty after that with upsets littered all over the country. Find out where each team is ranked in the coaches poll below, with last weeks ranking in parenthesis.