USATSI With the NFL regular season behind us, it is time for teams to begin preparing for next season. Several teams have already made the decision to change key positions within the organization, whether that be a general manager, head coach or coordinator.  Rather than scouring the scatter shot reports across social media, CBSSports.com has compiled all of those reports of interest …

The Dolphins and Bills have gone back and forth in the first half of Sunday’s final game of the regular season. But Miami has taken a 14-7 lead at halftime. Receiver Tyreek Hill caught a short 3-yard pass in the front-right corner of the end zone for the score, his 13th touchdown of the 2023 season. Miami faced just one …

Against the spread (ATS) bettors love the Lions. Detroit had the NFL’s best regular-season record ATS, going 12-5. Last season, the Lions went 12-5 ATS, third behind the New York Giants (13-4) and Cincinnati Bengals (12-4). RELATED: NFL Wild-Card Weekend lines, odds Detroit was third ATS in 2021 (11-6), meaning they’ve been 35-16 (68.6%) over the past three regular seasons. …

Jan. 7—You wouldn’t find a Coug cheering on the Huskies six weeks ago when Washington escaped Husky Stadium with a 3-point win over Washington State in the Apple Cup. Now, many Cougars fans say they will put the bitter rivalry aside and support the enemy on the West Side when the undefeated Huskies take the field in Monday’s national championship …

The Seahawks failed to qualify for the 2023 NFL playoffs, but that didn’t stop some players from lighting up victory cigars and blasting music in the locker room following a Week 18 win over the Cardinals. While Seattle has since claimed the celebration was in honor of safety Julian Love becoming a new father, veteran leaders Bobby Wagner and Quandre …

USATSI The NFL playoffs are finally upon us.  Even though the game between the Dolphins and Bills isn’t over yet, the NFL decided to release the playoff schedule. Super Wild Card Weekend will kick off on Saturday, Jan. 13 with the Texans hosting the Browns and then it will conclude on Monday with the Eagles traveling to Tampa Bay.  There …

After its come-from-behind victory over Kentucky in the Gator Bowl on December 29, Clemson figured to have some positive momentum going into the offseason. One college football analyst weighed in over the weekend on where he believes the Tigers should be ranked when the far-off 2024 season begins. In his “way too early” rankings for the 2024 season, The Action …

Ralph Vacchiano NFC East Reporter They have been trying to put a happy face on their problems for more than a month. They’ve insisted that everything isn’t nearly as bad as it seemed. They’ve clung to the hopes that they’d be able to fix everything before their inevitable march to the Super Bowl. Yet now, with the NFL playoffs finally …

Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff swapped teams in January 2021. On Sunday Night Football next week, the quarterbacks will meet in the postseason. Stafford’s Rams and Goff’s Lions will play in the wild-card round in Detroit with kickoff at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. Here is the complete NFL playoff schedule for wild-card weekend: Saturday, Jan. 13 Browns at Texans, …

The Iowa Hawkeyes are bringing back another star from their sensational defense into the 2024 college football season. Scott Dochterman of The Athletic was the first to report the news that Iowa linebacker Nick Jackson is returning to the Hawkeyes next season. David Eickholt of HawkeyeInsider later confirmed the report. Source: LB Nick Jackson has decided to return to Iowa for …

The 2023 NFL regular season is nearly in the books, which means it’s time for the real games to begin. All 14 playoff spots are finalized, and the race toward Super Bowl LVIII and the Lombardi Trophy is about to get underway. Upsets and surprises are all part of the experience, so it’d be foolish to count on just about …

Getty Images Steelers wide receiver George Pickens obviously took joy in the Jaguars’ loss to the Titans in Week 18. The loss knocked the Jaguars from playoff contention while also punching Pittsburgh’s ticket to the postseason.  After the Jaguars’ loss, Pickens shared the Steelers’ tweet that alluded to Jaguars safety Andrew Wingard’s disrespect of the Terrible Towel following Jacksonville’s Week 8 win …

Ralph Vacchiano NFC East Reporter The Dallas Cowboys celebrated this one, and they deserved to do it. Nobody thought they’d win the NFC East title as recently as two weeks ago. But this is the ninth time they’ve won their division in the last 28 seasons, and the fourth time they’ve done it in Dak Prescott’s nine-year career. They know …

Jan. 7—Another Ohio State football season is in the books. What did we just watch? I asked after the Buckeyes lost at Michigan, and the Cotton Bowl loss to Missouri offered only more questions. Ohio State’s 2023 football season is proving to be harder to evaluate than most because of the postscript that is still being written involving who will …

USATSI The Cowboys didn’t just secure the NFC’s No. 2 playoff seed by beating the Commanders on Sunday. They also ensured the continuation of a historic streak, giving the NFC East a different champion for the 19th straight season. The last time a team won back-to-back division titles in the NFC East came in 2001-2004, when the Eagles won four …