Saturday’s matchup, prediction: Nevada at Notre Dame
TV/radio: 2:30 p.m. Saturday, NBC-5, WLS-AM 890. Line: Notre Dame by 28. Records: Nevada 1-0; Notre Dame 0-1. Last meeting: Notre Dame won the only previous meeting 35-0 on Sept....
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Big Ten football picks: Reality check coming for Illinois
College football's first weekend produced stunners such as Houston over Oklahoma — and some silly oversimplifications. ESPN deemed the Big Ten to have had "the best opening weekend" based on...
NBC’s Mike Tirico has favorite school, but — hey, Irish fans — it’s not Michigan
Spectators at the Hawaii-Michigan game might have done a double take as they wondered: Hey, is that Mike Tirico? Wait, is he wearing a Syracuse cap? Yes and yes. Tirico...
‘A fun fall’ might be in store for Tiger Woods — and all of golf
We tell ourselves that golf is fine without Tiger Woods. And mostly, it is. This season has given us Jordan Spieth's head-scratching deposits into Rae's Creek, Dustin Johnson overcoming the...
A Notre Dame foe now, Nevada’s James Butler ‘made a name for himself’
James Butler emerges from his bedroom with a frame containing four photos. "I gotta show you this," he says. "It's funny." Two of the pics are standard-issue stuff, shots of...
Better communication one key to Northwestern flipping its fortunes
In case his players needed a reminder that a season-opening loss at Ryan Field should not torpedo a season, Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald did it Monday in one word: Stanford....
What we learned from Week 1 of Big Ten football
Five things we learned from a Big Ten weekend that featured 10 blowout victories and almost as many ejections for targeting. 1. People can be terrific Nebraska devised the perfect...
‘Electric’ vibe at Lambeau Field for Wisconsin’s sensational upset of LSU
The result was hard to envision. And a better postgame celebration would have been impossible to imagine. This was a Saturday afternoon that unfolded in dreamlike fashion for Wisconsin, whose...
Big Ten football picks: Take the leap and LSU at Lambeau Field
What if college football threw an epic kegger and the Big Ten was not invited? Actually the league of Bo and Woody did get the Evite but mainly hit decline....
Saturday’s matchup, prediction: LSU vs. Wisconsin
TV: 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, ABC-7. Line: LSU by 10. 2015 records: LSU 9-3; Wisconsin 10-3. Last meeting: The Tigers scored the final 21 points...