Tag: Power Five

Badgers running back leads all Power 5 players in this stat

Braelon Allen leads all Power 5 RBs in this category

The Badgers football team improved to 3-1 on the season when they beat Purdue (1-3) 38-17 on Friday night and their running back Braelon Allen notched another 100-yard performance.

Allen has now produced 17 career 100-plus yard performances on the ground, which leads all of the Power 5 running backs in the country. He is in his third season with Wisconsin and he’s already compiled 371 yards and six scores over four games.

The running back reached at least 1,200 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns in each of his first two years in Madison and he seems to be on track to match those numbers at minimum in 2023.

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Notre Dame-Miami game scheduled for 2024 pushed to 2026

Apologies to those who love to recall Catholics vs. Convicts.

Those who followed Notre Dame in the late 1980s remember the games against Miami all too well, particularly Catholics vs. Convicts. However, the programs haven’t met since the Hurricanes crushed the Irish, 41-8, in 2017. The good news is the rivalry finally will be renewed later this decade. The bad news is it now will take a year later than originally scheduled as reported by the Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson:

This is perfectly understandable from the Hurricanes’ perspective. They aren’t going to drop any games against in-state rivals, and they sure won’t give up a home against Ball State just so they can go to South Bend. You don’t want to put yourself at any kind of scheduling disadvantage.

As for the Irish, they now need to find another home opponent for 2024. The remaining ones from the ACC are Louisville, Florida State and Virginia, and the Irish also play Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Pittsburgh and Wake Forest come to Notre Dame Stadium this upcoming season, so you can cross them off the list. 2025 will bring visits from NC State and Syracuse.

Maybe Boston College fills the spot since the Irish already are scheduled to travel to them in 2025? Or another Power Five school that has a 2024 opening? Perhaps a Group of Five school that’s never been to South Bend will get its chance? The speculation will run wild until a new opponent can be determined.

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PFF College ranks Badgers’ 2023 schedule in Top 10 easiest

The 2023 Badger FB season can’t get here fast enough (39 days) and PFF ranked the team’s schedule in the top 10 easiest in the Power Five.

The 2023 Badger football season can’t get here fast enough (39 days away) and PFF ranked the team’s upcoming schedule in the top 10 easiest across the Power Five conferences. In what is a highly-anticipated first year with Luke Fickell at the helm, Wisconsin should be able to produce a successful campaign.

Wisconsin’s schedule includes tough matchups against Ohio State, Minnesota and Iowa, but otherwise their opponents aren’t expected to be super challenging.

Ben Kenney broke down the team’s top five toughest matchups late last week, which can be seen here. Additionally, he took the time to outline each of the top 10 “easiest” schedules in the Power 5.

Regardless of perceived difficulty, the Badgers will have to handle their business to be at the top of the Big Ten West in 2023.

Notre Dame-Marshall named third-worst Group of Five loss in CFP era

Like you needed a reminder of how bad that loss was.

We all knew that when Notre Dame lost to Marshall in Week 2 of the 2022 season, any College Football Playoff hopes for the year were cooked. But just how bad was it in the big picture? Well, Twitter user Big Game Boomer has offered one opinion. The college football list aficionado lists the Irish’s 26-21 loss to the Thundering Herd as the third-worst loss by any Power Five program to a Group of Five program since the College Football Playoff began:

The good news for the Irish is that they appear only once on this list. But the fact that they appear in such a prominent spot on the list shows how much they should not have lost to the Herd. They probably weren’t going to the playoff anyway in 2022, but it was an awful feeling to have those hopes dashed so early into the season. It was both a reminder and a hard lesson not to take any opponent for granted.

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Big Game Boomer names Notre Dame nicest college campus

Irish fans are lucky to have so many wonderful things to look at.

If you’re reading this site, chances are you have been to the Notre Dame campus at least once. And you don’t need to be told how nice it looks.

Now, it’s at the top of the rankings in that area in at least one person’s opinion. Twitter user Big Game Boomer, who makes lists related to just about everything in college sports, released one that ranks the niceness of all Power Five campuses. Notre Dame topped the list:

Having made numerous trips to Notre Dame this past basketball season, I can attest to that niceness. A lovely autumn afternoon is the perfect time to check the campus out as the colored leaves really bring out the beauty. Of course, going at any time during the year is good. From the Golden Dome to Touchdown Jesus to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, there is no way anyone can leave campus feeling disappointed by what they just experienced.

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Mike Brey, Cormac Ryan, Marcus Hammond speak after Notre Dame loss

Read some final words summing up the season and a whole era of Irish basketball.

Notre Dame’s 67-64 loss to Virginia Tech in the ACC Tournament signaled the end of an era. Yes, it means [autotag]Mike Brey[/autotag]’s days as Irish coach are over, but it also means the end for many players on the roster, especially rotational players. Two of them are [autotag]Marcus Hammond[/autotag] and [autotag]Cormac Ryan[/autotag], players who didn’t begin their collegiate careers with the Irish but were the most impactful in Brey’s final game for the program. That allowed them to come out with Brey for the season’s last postgame news conference.

Hammond and Ryan sat next to Brey as he, among other things, called out the officials for a late lengthy review that ultimately resulted in a dead-ball technical for [autotag]Matt Zona[/autotag] that might have affected the game’s outcome. This came as the Irish were about to shoot their own free throws in a close contest. Brey has called out ACC officials before, and he apparently decided to do it one more time on his way out.

Here is what the Irish trio said after the game:

Crimson Tide LB coach leaving for Florida Gators DC job

Crimson Tide LB coach on the move after one month in Tuscaloosa

After arriving in Tuscaloosa just a little over a month ago, Alabama Crimson Tide linebackers coach, Austin Armstrong, is back on the move. Armstrong will be joining the Florida Gators as their defensive coordinator after their former coordinator, Patrick Toney, left for the NFL and will be joining the Arizona Cardinals staff.

Armstrong will be the youngest defensive coordinator at the Power Five level and will have plenty of room to improve the Gators’ defense. In 2022, Toney’s lone year in Gainesville, the Gators finished No. 97 in total defense out of 130 eligible teams.

Alabama still has Kevin Steele to lead the defense, but a lot of people surrounding the Alabama program were excited about Armstrong’s future in Tuscaloosa. Armstrong had spent some time in Athens with Kirby Smart as a quality control coach and is one of the bright young minds in football.

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2022 college football: Power Five team’s preseason win-loss projections compared to actual record

2022 college football: A look at every Power Five team’s win-loss preseason projections compared to each team’s actual record

Tennessee (11-2, 6-2 SEC) defeated Clemson (11-3, 8-0 ACC), 31-14, in the Capital One Orange Bowl on Dec. 30.

The 2022 campaign is the Vols’ first 11-win season since 2001.

Tennessee’s 2022 regular-season schedule featured home games against Ball State (W, 59-10), Akron (W, 63-6), Florida (W, 38-33), Alabama (W, 52-49), UT Martin (W, 65-24), Kentucky (W, 44-6) and Missouri (W, 66-24).

The Vols’ 2022 schedule featured road contests at Pittsburgh (W, 34-27 OT) in the second edition of the Johnny Majors Classic, LSU (W, 40-13), Georgia (L, 27-13), South Carolina (L, 63-38) and Vanderbilt (W, 56-0).

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Following the conclusion of the 2022 campaign with Georgia defeating TCU, 65-7, in the College Football Playoff national championship game, Vols Wire looks at every Power Five team’s projected preseason win-loss records compared to each school’s actual record this season.

Preseason win-loss records are from ESPN’s Football Power Index in April.

Preseason win-loss record projections and actual records this season are listed below in order of most projected wins ahead of the 2022 campaign.

Five takeaways from Notre Dame’s blowout win over Michigan State

The Irish needed this one and got it.

Notre Dame was in search of its first quality win of the season. It needed one after a disappointing loss to St. Bonaventure that it never really was in. As it turned out, playing a shorthanded No. 20 Michigan State team in the final ACC-Big Ten Challenge was just what the doctor ordered as the Irish won, 70-52, to clinch the challenge for the ACC. In fact, they never trailed aside from the Spartans scoring the game’s first basket.

The Irish (6-1) jumped out to a big lead in the first half and never looked back. Although there wasn’t as much offense in the second half, there was just enough for the Irish to maintain their dominance over the Spartans (5-3), who were missing Jaden Akins and Malik Hall.

Here are five takeaways from this big victory:

A look at every Power Five school that has not hosted ESPN ‘College GameDay’

A look at every Power Five school that has not hosted ESPN’s “College GameDay.”

ESPN’s “College GameDay” is broadcasting live in Lawrence, Kansas ahead of the Kansas-TCU matchup in Week 6.

For the first time since 2016, ESPN “College GameDay” broadcasted from the University of Tennessee’s campus ahead of the Vols and Gators matchup Sept. 24.

The Tennessee-Florida game marked the 10th time the University of Tennessee hosted “College GameDay.” The Tennessee-Florida contest also marked the 22nd game the Vols have appeared on “College GameDay.”

During ESPN’s broadcast of “College GameDay” in Lawrence, Kansas, discussion was highlighted regarding every Power Five school who has not hosted the pregame show.

Below are Power Five schools who have not hosted ESPN’s “College GameDay.”