Here are The Post’s college football rankings following Week 7: 1. Ohio State (6-0) (Last week: 1) Their remaining schedule doesn’t look nearly as challenging as it once did, due to the current plight of unranked Penn State and Michigan. 2. Miami (5-0) (3) The heaviest lifting of the regular season may be over for the Hurricanes, but that doesn’t mean …
Read More »Oklahoma quarterback and Heisman Trophy favorite John Mateer needs surgery on his throwing hand, and the expectation is he’ll return “this season,” head coach Brent Venables announced Tuesday. The news came as a surprise three days after Oklahoma’s 24-17 win over No. 22 Auburn, a victory that improved the Sooners to 4-0. Mateer emerged as the betting favorite to win …
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Oklahoma Sooners star quarterback and Heisman Trophy frontrunner John Mateer will undergo hand surgery on Wednesday, head coach Brent Venables announced on Tuesday. Mateer sustained an injury to his right throwing hand in the victory over Auburn last Saturday. It is unclear how much time Mateer will miss, but he is expected to return to the lineup at some point …
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Arch Manning‘s much-anticipated debut as Texas‘ starting quarterback didn’t exactly meet the moment as the former No. 1 overall recruit struggled throughout Saturday’s 14-7 loss at No. 3 Ohio State. But, while certainly disappointing to Longhorns fans, Manning’s difficult debut outing had far wider-reaching consequences, especially as it relates to BetMGM’s Heisman Trophy odds coming out of a wild Week …
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Last season, we learned that a team can lose to Northern Illinois and still (easily) make the College Football Playoff. It was one of the greatest lessons we could have learned in the very first year of the 12-team Playoff because it immediately forced us to recalibrate the way we view teams and the natural ups and downs of the …
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With just a few more days until the 2025 college football season gets fully underway, it’s time to take a look at some of the crazy-but-maybe-realistic outcomes we could see this season. No, I’m not going to predict that Bill Belichick takes UNC to the College Football Playoff or that the national championship game is decided by a walk-off 65-yard …
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Texas is atop the preseason college football polls, and it’s also The Athletic staff’s favorite to win its first national championship since 2005. And yet: Few of the 28 writers and editors we surveyed believe Arch Manning will win the Heisman Trophy. So how will the 2025 college football season play out? We compiled our staff’s best guesses for the …
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