IOWA CITY — The 22nd ranked Iowa football team will open the season with a home contest against Northern Illinois. The game will kickoff at 3:15 p.m. inside Kinnick Stadium and will be televised on the Big Ten Network. Iowa returns eight starters (five on offense and three on defense) ...
AMES (AP) — Jaylen Raynor has done everything he can to be a good teammate since he arrived at Iowa State in January, right down to learning the name of everyone on the roster in just a few days. He was voted a team captain after he established himself as a leader in the weight room, on ...
For all the changes happening in college football nowadays, one thing remains the same: Week 1 blowouts. There should be a bunch of them when the season hits full stride with Labor Day weekend games scheduled Thursday through Monday. The average predicted point spread is 26 points for the 18 games involving Top 25 teams and fellow Bowl Subdivision members. Seven teams are favored to win by at least four touchdowns and only two by fewer than 10 points. There are 48 games matching Championship Subdivision teams against the FBS, with six involving Top 25 teams. The picks for the FBS ...
Game of the week Boise State (0-0) at No. 2 Oregon (0-0), Saturday, 3:30 p..m. EDT (CBS) Oregon, the only Bowl Subdivision team to win at least 13 games each of the last two seasons, carries an FBS-leading 38-game nonconference home winning streak into its season opener Saturday. The ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Colson Montgomery hit a two-run homer and Erick Fedde pitched five sparkling innings, helping the Chicago White Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 4-1 on Friday night. Miguel Vargas and Braden Montgomery also went deep for AL Central-leading Chicago, which had lost four of five. Kyle Teel went 0 for 3 in his return to the lineup after being sidelined by a sprained left ankle. Josh Bell homered in the ninth inning for Minnesota. Kody Clemens had three of the Twins' eight hits. Vargas connected in the first, and Braden Montgomery hit another solo shot in the second. Andrew ...
MIAMI (AP) — Shota Imanaga allowed three hits and one run in six innings and Pete Crow-Armstrong doubled and stole his 33rd base as the Chicago Cubs beat the Miami Marlins 6-1 on Friday. Imanaga (9-10) struck out four and improved to 4-2 in nine starts since the All-Star break. Aaron Civale pitched the final three innings for his second save. Armstrong continued to bolster his case for NL MVP, drawing a four-pitch walk, scoring twice and making a leaping grab at the center-field wall to rob Miami's Heriberto Hernández of a potential extra-base hit in the sixth. Alex Bregman ...
