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Fox’s RJ Young ranks the 134 FBS teams ahead of the 2024 season

See where Michigan State lands in RJ Young’s rankings, ranking the FBS teams from 1-134:

The start of the 2024 college football season is right around the corner and fans are gearing up for another exciting fall of football. Today, the AP released it’s first top 25 poll of the season, and alongside that, there have been a ton of rankings being released by various media outlets.

One ranking system that just dropped, RJ Young of Fox college football ranked all 134 teams in the FBS. Michigan State checked in at No. 82.

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TV Ratings for Colorado vs. Nebraska set records

Nebraska’s loss at Colorado was seen by quite a few people last Saturday.

Nebraska’s loss at Colorado was seen by quite a few people last Saturday. The Fox network has announced that 8.73 million viewers turned in to see the Huskers fall to the Buffaloes by a score of 36-14.

The game was the most-watched Pac-12 regular season game ever and the 10th most-watched regular season college football game ever on Fox.

It also holds the distinction of being the second most-streamed college football in Fox Sports history. The numbers show that Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes are the must-watch story in college football.

The buzz will only grow with every win in 2023. Nebraska prepares for Northern Illinois this Saturday, while Colorado will host Colorado State.

Find photos of Nebraska loss to Colorado below.

Nebraska set for national TV appearance against Michigan

Game time has been set for one of Nebraska’s biggest conference games of the 2023 schedule.

Game time has been set for one of Nebraska’s biggest conference games of the 2023 schedule. When Nebraska and Michigan play on Sept. 30, the game will be broadcast on Fox as the “Big Noon Kickoff.”

“Big Noon Kickoff” been the Fox network’s flagship college football show since its inception in 2019. The show is hosted by Rob Stone along with analysts Mark Ingram, Matt Leinart, Brady Quinn and Urban Meyer.

Nebraska is scheduled to appear on the program twice this season. It is also scheduled to appear on Sept. 9 when it travels to Boulder, Colorado, to take on the Buffaloes.

The Cornhuskers have appeared on the show three times and are 0-3. Nebraska hosted the show once, during the 2022 season, when Oklahoma came to Lincoln.

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Texas football to face blue bloods in five straight seasons

Texas faces road battles with Alabama, Michigan and Ohio State in consecutive seasons.

The Texas Longhorns updated their future nonconference football schedules on Tuesday. They’ll face a gauntlet of blue bloods for five straight seasons.

As part of exit negotiations with Fox, there was talk that Texas conceded its 2024 home game with Michigan to allow Fox to host rights to the game for its Big Noon Kickoff. It appears the Longhorns will face Alabama, Michigan and Ohio State each on the road in consecutive seasons.

Admittedly, trips to Ann Arbor and Columbus to face Michigan and Ohio State are unlikely wins. In its last few major out-of-conference battles, the Longhorns split with Notre Dame and USC, lost thrillers to LSU and Alabama and got clobbered by Arkansas. That’s good for a 2-5 record in premier non-conference bouts in recent seasons.

Even so, Texas brass don’t seem afraid of big time competition. The games should provide high quality intrigue and increase the strength of the brand.

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Here’s a look at expectations for each game.

Texas LB Anthony Hill mentioned as Big 12 newcomer to watch

Anthony Hill is set to make a splash in 2023.

Texas freshman linebacker Anthony Hill is getting national attention this offseason. Fox Sports college football analyst RJ Young deemed Hill one of his five Big 12 newcomers to watch.

Young said the following about the former Denton Ryan player.

At 6-foot-2, 225 pounds, a five-star in the 2023 class and No. 18 overall recruit, he could develop into the kind of destructive force Kenneth Murray Jr. was at Oklahoma in 2018 when he had 155 tackles, 12.5 tackles for loss and four sacks.

Recently, the Fox analyst ranked Texas at No. 24 in his spring football Top 25. Ahead of Texas were No. 21 Oklahoma and No. 23 Kansas, both of which Texas defeated by more than 40 points away from Austin last year. Those predictions were somewhat bold. What’s not so bold is the assumption that Texas will need Anthony Hill to produce at the linebacker position.

Leading Hill’s position group is All-American linebacker Jaylon Ford. After Ford, there are a few question marks from the unit. David Gbenda is likely to be called upon to step up, but the Longhorns could need Hill to be a difference maker. If he plays up to potential, Texas could bring back a conference title trophy to Austin.

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Where Notre Dame landed on Fox College Football’s top brands

Too high? Too low? Just right?

Being a brand is important in college football, especially with the advent of Name, Image, Likeness. The reach of a team is vastly important and many of the top schools will be at the top of a brand list. Recently FOX College Football released their Top 25 college brands as viewed by high school football players. Find out below where Notre Dame landed according to the next stars of the game.

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WATCH: Urban Meyer smitten by crystal national title football on Big Noon Kickoff

Former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer likes him some football-shaped crystal. Watch as he is drawn to the Coaches Trophy on the FOX set.

If you’ve followed former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer’s career, you know he has an affinity for crystal. But not the kind you likely think of that goes with dinnerware and fancy home furnishings, but of the national title variety.

While the College Football Playoff trophy was a shiny, new gold design, the Coaches’ Trophy for all three titles won at Florida and Ohio State were the famed crystal-shaped footballs we’ve grown accustomed to.

So it should be no surprise then that Myer was drawn to the crystal football on the set of FOX’s Big Noon Kickoff set Saturday. As the show came back from a break, Meyer was not seated in his usual spot on the right end of the studio desk. But no worries, the camera soon found him cradling that crystal football as he carefully walked it back up to the set.

“Like a magnet.” tweeted Meyer afterward. Watch the scene below.

Yes, some habits die hard is seems — especially those that involve high-end crystal and high-end performance on the football field.

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FOX’s Joel Klatt ranks the top five helmets in college football

FOX’s Joel Klatt ranked his top-five helmets in all of college football. Did he include the Ohio State lid?

Debating the best-looking college football helmet in the game can get awfully heated, but that hasn’t stopped endless writers, media members, and fans from weighing in on the topic almost monthly it seems.

FOX’s Joel Klatt is the latest, and you won’t like where this is going. He ranked his top five helmets in college football and had some interesting takes, none of which included the iconic silver helmet with buckeye leaves affixed that Ohio State dons every year.

Instead, Klatt’s top five consisted of, in order — Colorado, Texas, Notre Dame, Michigan, and Alabama.

We have some serious beef with all of this (yeah we’re biased). First of all Joel, we know you played for the Buffaloes, but c’mon, their helmet is nowhere near aesthetically pleasing nor an iconic brand. That’s just blatant homerism at its best. All that design consists of is taking the standard college logo and slapping the initials in the middle of it. Bland.

The others Klatt singles out would make the team picture of almost anyone that has a sense of tradition and reverence for the sport. But if you’re going to put in the plain lids of Notre Dame and Alabama, you could at least give Ohio State’s helmet a nod, especially when those buckeye leaves begin to set it apart.

To be fair, Klatt did identify the Buckeye helmet as an honorable mention, but we have an issue with that too.

Penn State? Really? That salad ensemble looks like someone was up against the gun and had to come up with a helmet design as the players were running out on the field.

 

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Urban Meyer ranks SEC as best conference in college football, says this one thing separates it from the Big Ten.

Former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer thinks the SEC is a better football conference, and one thing has everything to do with it.

If there’s anyone that can speak to the differences between the SEC and the Big Ten, it’s former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer. Before he spent seven seasons in Columbus, he was the head coach of the Florida Gators for six seasons. He won two national titles in Gainesville and added another on the banks of the Olentangy.

So yeah, Meyer has inside knowledge on both conferences, and what separates the two. He weighed in on that very topic during a segment on FOX’ Big Noon Kickoff, The Offseason and he ranked the SEC as a better conference than the Big Ten that he helped elevate. He says there’s one thing that’s the main separator.

“The word is attitude,” said Meyer. “When I was in the SEC, the attitude was how to dominate. When you talk about college football, it’s about recruiting and that’s all they talked about in the SEC. It’s about players, it’s about national championships, it’s about getting to the show. They didn’t care about anything else other than themselves. You kind of admire that. When I went to the Big Ten, I was kind of shocked. Everyone kind of recruited in their footprint. They didn’t step out and say national recruit and let’s talk about national championships. I was shocked by that. I think by 2014-15, the Big Ten — if not the best conference, they’re right there with the SEC. I think the Big Ten at the top can play with any team in the SEC. But top to bottom, the SEC is best, why? Attitude. They don’t apologize for being great and I have a lot of respect for that.”

The numbers and titles also prove it out. The SEC has won three of the six College Football national championships, with two teams getting it done. Clemson has two for the ACC, and Ohio State has just one for the Big Ten.

We could go on and on with all the success in big-time games for the SEC but it kind of speaks for itself. Yes, the gap has closed, and while the Buckeye program plays second fiddle to nobody, the rest of the league needs to close the gap even further.

It also wouldn’t hurt for all the monster Ohio State teams to take better advantage of some of the opportunities it has had.

 

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Urban Meyer thinks Trevor Lawrence is a better QB right now than Justin Fields

Believe it or not, Urban Meyer picked Trevor Lawrence as the best quarterback heading into 2020 over Ohio State’s Justin Fields.

If you thought Urban Meyer was a homer, think again. Well, sort of. He’s been pretty brash about Ohio State since signing on to do analyst work for FOX and the Big Ten Network. This, immediately after he retired from head coaching at OSU after the 2018 Rose Bowl because of health concerns.

But still, there are times when you see the objectivity of Meyer come out, and we may have just seen another one. FOX College Football shared a graphic on its Twitter profile Thursday with some of the picks for the best college quarterbacks entering the 2020 season. There are votes from the fans, and also selections from the rest of the FOX College Football crew.

One would immediately guess that Meyer would bleed scarlet and gray all over the pick, but instead, he chose Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence instead of Fields.

That fell in line with most of all the other picks. In fact, Lawrence was selected as the best quarterback by five of the seven. Fields was at least No. 2 in all the other votes, and finished No. 1 according to votes by the fans and Reggie Bush only.

I’m sure Meyer will hear some backlash about this, but you have to give him credit for being objective here. Most analysts and experts agree that Lawrence is just a hair more complete than Fields right now. We’ll see how that all plays out in the upcoming season though.

 

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