College Football with Sam

On Friday night at 7:00 PM ET, the Central Michigan Chippewas will travel to East Lansing to play the Michigan State Spartans. Both programs are coming off of a down year, with Central Michigan Football earning a 4-8 record last year and Michigan State Football clawing its way to 5-7 in 2022. Entering 2023, this game could change the course of the coaching staff and roster of both of these teams....

Yesterday Kyle McCord was named Ohio State Football's starting quarterback. After a long battle with 4-star Devin Brown in spring, summer, and football camp, Ryan Day named Kyle McCord the Buckeyes' starting quarterback because of his consistency. Ohio State has an elite supporting cast to help McCord grow into his role as one of the more highly anticipated quarterbacks in the country, wit...

The Michigan Wolverines will open up the 2023 College Football season against the East Carolina Pirates. Michigan Football is a 36-point favorite, despite Michigan's head coach Jim Harbaugh, and offensive coordinator, Sherrone Moore, being suspended. Instead of Jim Harbaugh coaching on the sidelines, defensive coordinator Jesse Minter will serve as the acting head coach for this game. Michigan...

Nebraska Football and Minnesota Football have been the tale of two different programs for the past decade. Nebraska was an above-average program in the Big Ten back in 2013 and 2014 under Bo Pelini, while Jerry Kill was barely keeping it together in Minnesota at the same time. Ever since those seasons, the stories could not have been different. Minnesota hired PJ Fleck to coach the Golden Gophers...

Not many programs could collect over 20 wins and a New Year's Six Bowl win over the past two seasons and say it was a disappointment, but Ohio State is not the typical College Football program. Going 0-2 vs Michigan Football is unacceptable, as well as missing out on the Big Ten Championship Game for two years in a row. Luckily for Ryan Day and his staff, All-American caliber players Marvin Ha...

Iowa Football has been through hell and back on offense and has excelled on defense and special teams. With much of the defense and the entire special teams unit returning, and the offense using the transfer portal to upgrade their roster, I expect Iowa to improve this year. The Big Ten is going to have a fantastic 2023 football season, and Iowa will be one of the numerous teams to improve. Quarte...

The Michigan Wolverines are riding a 25-3 record over the past two years, having won two Big Ten Titles and also beating Ohio State two times in a row for the first time since the 1999-2000 Big Ten Football seasons. The Wolverines have an elite staff and a roster full of NFL players. I think quarterback JJ McCarthy will have a breakout season while running backs Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards con...

Week 0 came and went, with Saturday, August 26th only producing seven College Football matchups. Today, we are going to be talking about two of those matchups featuring USC Football and Notre Dame Football. The USC Trojans faced off against the San Jose State Spartans, and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish kicked off against the Navy Midshipmen in Dublin, Ireland. While both dominated the scoreboard,...

The Michigan State Spartans are coming off of a disappointing 5-7 season and are looking to improve this year. Mel Tucker has his deepest roster ever, especially at offensive line, tight end, defensive line, and linebacker. Jay Johnson's offense should have a balanced attack with runningback Nathan Carter, wide receiver Montorie Foster Jr, and tight end Maliq Carr having breakout seasons. The...

cott Frost had five years to bring Nebraska Football to the promised land, and I believe Matt Rhule will do more in year one than Frost ever did in his five years with the Cornhusker program. With many talented transfers entering their first year at Nebraska and a great cast of returning players, I think Nebraska will have its best record since 2016. Quarterback Jeff Sims will be the best player o...

Minnesota Football is set to have a good campaign in 2023. While quarterback Tanner Morgan, running back Mohamed Ibrahim, center John Michael-Schmitz, and safety Jordan Howden left the program for the NFL, the Golden Gophers' depth cannot be understated. Not only do I believe Minnesota will earn an extra regular season win than they did last year, but I also think PJ Fleck will notch his first...

Notre Dame versus Navy is just around the corner, and I cannot wait! The 2023 College Football season is about to kick off this weekend, but the real tsunami of games will only come starting on August 31st. Until then, preseason content will still be flowing out of the hose, and I plan on making preview and prediction content for multiple teams until the end of next week. ESPN released one of thei...

Michigan Football has suspended Jim Harbaugh for the first three games of the 2023 College Football Season. I believe this decision was made to avoid future penalties from the NCAA, or at the very least, to minimize potential penalties. The first three games of the 2023 season are against East Carolina, UNLV, and Bowling Green, all of whom Michigan should beat by 35-42 points. Sherrone Moore will...

We are less than one week away from the start of College Football's 2023 Season. It is time to showcase my final preseason Top 25 for the 2023 Season. Texas A&M, Michigan State, Kansas, Minnesota, and Texas will take steps forward this year, while Tennessee, Kansas State, TCU, and USC take a leap backward. The Pac-12 is loaded with several title contenders. USC, Oregon State, Oregon, Utah,...

Mel Tucker, Jay Johnson, Scottie Hazelton, Chris Kapilovic, Jim Salgado, Harlon Barnett, and the entire Michigan State Spartans staff are chest deep in fall camp, and there are plenty of cogs to remove and things to get right before the season kicks off. There is plenty of fall camp news, especially on the offensive and defensive lines, which should be some of the strengths of Michigan State Footb...

In April, the Michigan Wolverines had the nation's No.1 recruiting class in the 2024 cycle. Now, the Wolverines have the No.6 recruiting class, and as their recruits' rankings decrease, Michigan's recruiting class is also losing players. The quality and quantity of the 2024 class are shrinking, as Ohio State and Penn State now have a higher quality ranking per commit than Michigan does...

We are less than 3 weeks away from the beginning of Ohio State Football. The Buckeyes will take the road to play against the Indiana Hoosiers on Saturday, September 2nd. With more than a week of fall camp completed, Buckeye head coach Ryan Day answered questions from the media this past Monday, and there is plenty to unpack. Ohio State's Fall Camp news has been mostly pleasant or neutral so fa...

We are only two weeks away from the 2023 College Football season kicking off in Dublin, Ireland, which means I must release my final drafts of my preseason predictions. Today, we will be reviewing and discussing my updated Big Ten predictions, along with bowl projections, for the 2023 season. The Big Ten will be the nation's best conference this year, as I have Michigan and Ohio State as the T...

College Football is going through another phase of conference realignment, one that started back in 2021 when the SEC Conference expanded by adding Texas and Oklahoma. Big Ten and Big 12 Conference expansion soon followed and eventually resulted in the cannibalization of the Pac-12 Conference, which now only has 4 members in Stanford, California, Oregon State, and Washington State. On Tuesday, rum...

Jim Harbaugh is the head coach of the deepest team in the country, the Michigan Wolverines. Michigan Football is coming off a 25-3 run over the past two seasons, and in this 2023 season, I think Michigan Football will go 15-0 and win the National Championship. This roster already was the most stable in the country entering fall camp, and according to numerous reports, Michigan might also have one...

Ohio State Football has commanded the No.1 offense in College Football for the past two seasons, scoring 45.7 and 44.2 points per game in 2021 and 2022. Ryan Day has built the Buckeyes' offense into a well-oiled machine, and the only defense that has been able to contain Ohio State's offense has been Michigan's defense. I not only believe that Ohio State will have College Football'...

Last year Texas Football went 8-5 and finished No.25 in the final AP Poll rankings. However, all five of those losses were by a touchdown or less, and now Texas head coach, Steve Sarkisian, returns the majority of his 2022 production and his quarterback entering 2023. Texas Football is No.19 in returning production, leading the Big 12 Conference in this category and because of that, the Longhorns...

The Oregon Ducks and the Washington Huskies will be future Big Ten members tonight, per Pete Thamel of ESPN. Oregon and Washington informed the Big Ten earlier today that they will accept an offer to join the Big Ten Conference if presented, and the Big Ten is expected to unanimously vote tonight to extend formal invitations to Oregon and Washington. Two days ago I talked about how I believe the P...

Fall Camp just started for Matt Rhule and the Nebraska Cornhuskers, and there are many questions to be answered before Week 1's matchup at Minnesota. Today, we will be discussing Nebraska football's offense and what I think its strengths and weaknesses are entering 2023. I believe this offense can be explosive and dynamic in year one because of Jeff Sims and a deep running back and wide re...

The Michigan Wolverines will have College Football's best defense this year because they have elite assistant coaches, a masterful defensive coordinator, and hungry, experienced players who also have a high ceiling. Michigan's defense last year was Top 10 in several categories, most notably finishing 7th in points allowed per game (16.1 Opp Pts/G), 5th in yards allowed per game (292.1 Yard...