UB football held its first scrimmage, 10 days into preseason practices.
Nineteen days before UB’s season opener, Bulls head coach Pete Lembo is feeling a sense of urgency when it comes to his team coming together, particularly UB’s offense.
Here’s a glance at each quarterback, and their chances of becoming UB’s starter.
Williamsburg, Va., is a long way from Buffalo, but the path from the William & Mary campus to Highmark Stadium is well traveled by former and current Buffalo Bills coaches and players.
The National College Football Awards Association is releasing its preseason watch lists, and The Buffalo News will keep track of UB's candidates for national awards.
The Buffalo News will keep track of the Big 4’s men’s and women’s nonconference opponents as they are announced, reported or confirmed.
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The Buffalo News will keep track of the Big 4’s men’s and women’s nonconference opponents as they are announced, reported or confirmed.
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ATLANTA — On Tuesday, Volley’s Word of the Day – it’s part of my Alexa-collated morning briefing – was “neophobia.” It means, as wordsmiths might guess, fear of the new. Having reached a certain age, I try not to put myself in a position to be labeled a neophobe, which seems a polite way of saying “old coot.” Honesty, alas, compels me to state the following: I’m having a hard time with college ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Former Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh has been punished by the NCAA with a four-year show-cause order and a one-year suspension for violating head-coach responsibility obligations, “unethical conduct” and a failure to promote “an atmosphere of compliance” for his role in an investigation into impermissible recruiting in 2021 during a COVID-19 dead period. The NCAA ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Missouri was SEC football’s 2023 surprise. Picked to finish fifth in the East Division, the Tigers finished 11-2. Their only losses were to LSU and Georgia. They defeated Kentucky 38-21, whipped Tennessee 36-7 and toppled Ohio State 14-3 in the Cotton Bowl. Eli Drinkwitz was voted SEC Coach of the Year. What would Kentucky have to do to be SEC football’s surprise team of 2024? ...
Aside from his speed, athleticism and that whole playing-professional-football-for-a-living thing, there’s another reason to be jealous of Calvin Austin III these days. “I’m not on Twitter,” the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver was telling me after practice on Tuesday at Saint Vincent College. “So, I haven’t seen it.” Austin might be the one person in our little corner of the world who has ...
RENTON, Wash. — Midway through Monday's practice, Geno Smith took a shotgun snap and assessed his options as left tackle Charles Cross swallowed blitzing Seahawks safety Rayshawn Jenkins. Smith cooly climbed the pocket and delivered a dart to crossing wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who bolted down the left sideline for a 50-yard gain. Unsurprisingly, the berm bordering the same sideline ...
FrontPageBets takes a look at the Heisman hopefuls heading into the start of the 2024 college football season.
The UB Bulls are a little more than three weeks away from the season opener Aug. 29 against Lafayette, and there’s an urgency to continue working on the team’s identity and, of course, to determine starters and depth.
The UB football team takes the team photo and poses for photos and social media videos.
The Bulls began the 2024 preseason with five quarterbacks: CJ Ogbonna, Jack Shields, Gunnar Gray, Mason Cumbie and Anthony Policare.
FrontPageBets takes a look at the Week 0 college football matchups to kick off the 2024 season on Aug. 24, including Florida State vs. Georgia Tech in Dublin, Ireland.
With hair sprouting from the top of his visor, gold glinting from his ears and Squidward socks on his feet, Joseph Brown is fairly recognizable from the discus ring. But for the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in June, the Mansfield, Texas, thrower wore an item he knew would make people remember him: a custom Pokémon-inspired singlet featuring the words, “Who’s that thrower?” Brown, one of ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — According to a draft of an NCAA Notice of Allegations, current Michigan football head coach Sherrone Moore is potentially facing punishment from the NCAA for a violation of rules stemming from an investigation into an illegal scouting/sign-stealing scheme, including allegedly deleting numerous text messages with former football staffer Connor Stalions, who is at the center ...
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