Congrats to former Broncos DL coach Bill Kollar and former quarterback Tim Tebow for being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame!
Former Denver Broncos coach Bill Kollar and former quarterback Tim Tebow were inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday. The two were first elected to the Hall of Fame in January.
Tebow was a college standout at the University of Florida, where he was a member of two national championship-winning teams, in 2007 and 2009. He was drafted 25th overall by the Denver Broncos in the 2010 NFL draft. In 2011, Tebow’s fourth-quarter heroics led the Broncos to a wild-card playoff berth. Denver made it to the AFC divisional game before losing to Tom Brady’s New England Patriots. After that season, Tebow was traded to the New York Jets when the Broncos signed Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning. Tebow is now an ESPN college football analyst.
Kollar was one of the masterminds behind the 2015 “No-Fly Zone” defense that helped Denver win Super Bowl 50. In college at Montana State, Kollar had a stellar 1973 season, when he recorded 17 tackles, one sack, three fumble recoveries and three pass breakups. Kollar is the first former Bobcat to be enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.
We’re talking about 1-seed Purdue, No. 4 Tennessee, No. 5 Duke, No. 6 Kentucky and a few more squads that could make deep tournament runs.
There aren’t many locks when it comes to a region like this, but I sorted through the mess to find the best bets of the best.
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UCLA has come a long way from those photos we saw of their home games in September.
Rivalry Week ahead of Rivalry Week is probably the best way to describe Week 12 of this college football season. It doesn’t feature the majority of the biggest rivalry games in college football but there are certainly more than just in-state bragging rights on the line in a few matchups.
Which college games are the hardest to get a ticket to this Saturday? When we go over this list weekly it usually involves almost entirely blue blood programs. Whether it’s because the SEC has a couple of their most prideful programs taking on much lesser out-of-conference competition or because of brutal weather across much of the midwest and northeast, the names on this list are quite a bit different this week.
Courtesy of the folks at Vivid Seats, here are the hottest college football tickets for Week 11.
(Notre Dame-Boston College checked in 12th overall)
Here’s what you missed in the women’s college golf world.
Western Carolina could do no wrong.
The Catamounts set numerous records en route to its victory at the Aggie Invitational, their second win of the season. Western Carolina obliterated the school’s 54-hole record of 872 set a year ago by 24 strokes, finishing with a program-best 848 over the three-round event at the Players Course at Bryan Park in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Senior Madison Isaacson claimed individual medalist honors with a school-record 54-hole score of 10-under 206. She was seven strokes better than the previous school record of 213 shot by Amy Wooten in spring 2019. Isaacson carded rounds of 69-70-67, each of which either matched or bested her previous low collegiate round.
Paced by Isaacson, the Catamounts held the top five positions in the final standings with four of its scoring five and one individual grouped at the top of the leaderboard. The next four in the standings for Western Carolina – runner-up Elizabeth Lohbauer, freshman Brie Mapanao in third, redshirt freshman Kayleigh Baker in fourth and individual competitor Kaitlyn Wingnean in fifth – each posted the best finish and 54-hole scores of their career.
In the second round, the Catamounts shot a school-record 10-under 278. They won by 53 strokes over second-place Appalachian State.
Mississippi State wins Mason Rudolph
Mississippi State trailed by six shots going into the final round at the Mason Rudolph Collegiate at Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin, Tennessee, but the Bulldogs had one of the best rounds in team history up their sleeve.
As a team, Mississippi State recorded the fourth lowest third round in school history (7 under) to capture the title, topping Arizona by four strokes and Vanderbilt by five. The 19-under total is the fifth-lowest tally after 54 holes by the team in school history.
“It’s a very special feeling to win the Mason Rudolph Championship and a week that certainly we will all cherish for a long time,” Mississippi State coach Charlie Ewing said.
Julia Lopez Ramirez and Izzy Pellot combined to play the last five holes at 6 under. Lopez Ramirez was just 1-under on the day through 13 holes but played the last five holes in 5 under to finish at 6-under 66 for the day. The reigning SEC Freshman of the Year eagled the par-5 14th hole and birdied the last three holes, finishing in fourth at 6-under 210.
Hannah Levi also had a big tournament, finishing at 6 under. Auburn’s Megan Schofill won the individual competition at 9 under. LSU’s Ingrid Lindblad finished T-7 at 5-under 211.
Montana State, Weidig Velazquez make history at Eagle Invitational
The Montana State University women’s golf team finished second at Eastern Washington’s Eagle Invitational with an 883 (294-291-298) at the par-72, 6,000-yard Indian Canyon Golf Course. The Bobcats’ three-round score is the best single-round tournament score in program history.
Weidig Velazquez, who won the individual title, is the first Bobcat to win back-to-back individual titles in this century. She joins Jen McGregor (1993-97), Kelly Gillum (2004-09) and Melanie Wasmann (1996-2000) as the only Bobcats to win multiple tournaments.
Weidig Velazquez won her second straight tournament at the 2022 Eagle Invitational. (Photo: Montana State Golf)
Velazquez shot 1-under 215 over the 54-hole tournament.
Florida State holds off late-charging TCU in Schooner Classic
TCU sat in seventh place heading into the final round of the Schooner Classic at Belmar Golf Club in Norman, Oklahoma, but the Horned Frogs got hot in the third round.
With a final-round 12-under 268, the third lowest round of the week, TCU vaulted into second place, but Florida State’s 4 under final round was enough to give the Seminoles the title.
Florida State led after every round, taking control with a 13-under 267 in the first round. Lottie Woad finished in eighth at 5 under while Charlotte Heath finished ninth a stroke behind.
TCU’s Caitlyn Macnab shot 6-under 64 in the final round to finish at 10 under and beat Iowa State’s Karisa Chul-Ak-Sorn by one shot. Chul-Ak-Sorn also shot 6 under in the final round.
Cameron Jourdan covers college and amateur golf for Golfweek. Got a college or amateur story? Email him at cjourdan@golfweek.com.
The No. 3 Texas Tech Red Raiders (25-9) are 15.5-point favorites to advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament when they play the No. 14 Montana State Bobcats (27-7) on Friday, starting at 1:45 PM. Here’s everything you need to know about …
The No. 3 Texas Tech Red Raiders (25-9) are 15.5-point favorites to advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament when they play the No. 14 Montana State Bobcats (27-7) on Friday, starting at 1:45 PM. Here’s everything you need to know about this 3-14 matchup before filling out your bracket.
Texas Tech is 22-13-0 against the spread this season compared to Montana State’s 17-14-1 ATS record. A total of 16 out of the Red Raiders’ 36 games this season have gone over the point total, and 17 of the Bobcats’ 32 games have gone over. The teams score 148.7 points per game, 19.2 more points than this matchup’s total. Texas Tech has a 4-5-0 record against the spread while going 5-5 overall over the past 10 contests. Montana State has gone 5-5-0 against the spread and 8-2 overall in its last 10 contests.
Prepare for this matchup with what you need to know before Friday’s college basketball action.
Montana State at Texas Tech odds, spread and lines
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The Red Raiders average only 3.2 more points per game (71.7) than the Bobcats give up (68.5).
Texas Tech has a 14-5 record against the spread and an 18-1 record overall when scoring more than 68.5 points.
Montana State has an 11-7 record against the spread and a 19-0 record overall when allowing fewer than 71.7 points.
The Bobcats score an average of 77 points per game, 16.7 more points than the 60.3 the Red Raiders give up to opponents.
Montana State has put together a 13-14-1 ATS record and a 23-7 overall record in games it scores more than 60.3 points.
Texas Tech is 19-11 against the spread and 23-7 overall when it allows fewer than 77 points.
The Red Raiders have totaled a total of 387 more points than their opponents this year (an average of 11.4 per game), and the Bobcats have out-scored opponents by 289 points on the season (8.5 more per game).
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Montana State had no answer for the stampeding Bison, as two-seeded North Dakota State surged to a 38-10 beatdown of the eight-seeded Bobcats at the Football Championship Subdivision title game in Frisco, Texas, on Saturday. NDSU ran for a blazing 380 yards in the game, led by running back Kobe Johnson, who had four carries for 106 yards and a touchdown, and fullback Hunter Luepke, who scored three touchdowns and was out for blood on Saturday afternoon.
The victory continued what has been an unprecedented run in college football, as the program has absolutely dominated the FCS level over the last decade and change.
While fans complain about the lack of parity at the highest level of the sport — where Alabama has spent the last 14 years reaping the rewards of hiring the greatest coach the sport has ever seen — the Bison have been casually hoarding hardware in the frozen frontier of Fargo.
North Dakota State has won nine of the last 11 national championships at the FCS level, a streak made even more impressive by the fact that it has included the tenures of three different head coaches.
Total dominance. @NDSUFootball has NINE titles since 2011 🤯
Craig Bohl, the architect of the modern program, took over at NDSU in 2003 and oversaw the team’s transition to Division I from Division II in 2004. It didn’t take long for Bohl to have the program competing with the best, and he won his first national title in 2011, kicking off a winning streak that saw five-straight national titles.
Bohl left for Wyoming after the third title, but new coach Chris Klieman kept that success going.
Of his five seasons in Fargo, Klieman won the national championship in four of them and still went to the FCS semifinal in the season where he didn’t. He segued that into a job at Kansas State replacing legendary coach Bill Snyder, and the Bison turned one of the most machine-like programs we’ve ever seen over to defensive coordinator Matt Entz.
Entz started out well, winning the national title in his first season in 2019 with the future third-overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft in quarterback Trey Lance. The Bison had some uncharacteristic “struggles” during the 2021 spring season, finishing 7-3 (their worst record since 2010) and being eliminated in the quarterfinals (their worst playoff finish since 2010).
But Entz and North Dakota State are back on top of the FCS world as the final chapter of the 2021 season comes to a close, and one of the most impressive stretches of success in the history of college sports remains alive and well.
