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Picks, predictions for every college football bowl game, including the national championship
The College Football Playoff field is set, along with the rest of the bowl matchups, so let's not waste any time and get picky.

The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)
Independence Bowl: Louisiana Tech vs. Miami (Fla.)
Military Bowl: North Carolina vs. Temple
New Era Pinstripe Bowl: Michigan State vs. Wake Forest
College Football Playoff Semifinal at the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl: Clemson vs. Ohio State
Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl: Mississippi State vs. Louisville
Capital One Orange Bowl: Florida vs. Virginia
Belk Bowl: Virginia Tech vs. Kentucky
Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl: Florida State vs. Arizona State
TicketSmarter Birmingham Bowl: Boston College vs. Cincinnati
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QB Joe Burrow, QB Justin Fields, QB Jalen Hurts, DE Chase Young are finalists for Heisman Trophy
The 85th edition of the award for the most outstanding college football player will be announced Saturday in a ceremony televised on ESPN beginning at 8 p.m. ET.


Burrow, who spent the first three years of his career at Ohio State, is the heavy favorite to win after throwing for an SEC-record 48 touchdown passes and 4,715 yards, while leading the Tigers to the conference title.

Fields threw for 2,953 yards with 40 touchdown passes to just one interception and added 471 yards rushing and 10 touchdowns on the ground.

In 13 games, Hurts threw for 3,634 yards with 32 touchdowns and seven interceptions and rushed for 1,255 yards and 18 scores. No school has ever had three straight winners.

Young is the is just the fourth defensive lineman to be named a finalist in the award's history, Young led the nation with 16.5 sacks and in tackles for loss per game (1.9).
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Ohio State jumps to No. 3 behind Louisville, Kansas in AP Top 25 Basketball poll
Louisville and Kansas finally provided some consistency to what has been a volatile Top 25 poll this season, while perennial blue bloods Michigan State and North Carolina continued to tumble after another wave of defeats.

Top 10
No.1: Louisville (9-0)
No.2: Kansas (7-1)
No.3: Ohio State (9-0)
No.4: Maryland (10-0)
No.5: Michigan (8-1)
No.6: Gonzaga (10-1)
No.7: Duke (9-1)
No.8: Kentucky (7-1)
No.9: Virginia (8-1)
No.10: Oregon (7-2)
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College Football Awards
Heisman Memorial Trophy (Outstanding Player of the Year), Maxwell Award (Outstanding Player of the Year), Doak Walker Award (National Running Back Award), Davey O'Brien Award (National Quarterback Award), Fred Biletnikoff Award ( Outstanding Receiver), Chuck Bednarik Award ( Defensive Player of the Year) and more.....

Last 10 Heisman Trophy Awards Winners:
2018: Kyler Murray, Oklahoma (Arizona)
2017: Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma (Cleveland)
2016: Lamar Jackson, Louisville (Baltimore)
2015: Derrick Henry, Alabama (Tennessee)
2014: Marcus Mariota, Oregon (Tennessee)
2013: Jameis Winston, Florida State (Tampa Bay)
2012: Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M (Free Agent)
2011: Robert GriffIn III, Baylor (Baltimore)
2010: Cam Newton, Auburn (Carolina)
2009: Mark Ingram II, Alabama (Baltimore)
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Former heavyweight world champion Leon Spinks ill in Las Vegas hospital

Spinks, 66, who won an Olympic gold medal in 1976, made boxing history on Feb. 15, 1978, when he was 6-0-1 and got a surprising shot to challenge Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight world title. Spinks won a 15-round split decision at the Las Vegas Hilton to win the title in a massive upset. Soon Spinks and his gap-toothed grin were everywhere and he instantly became one of the most recognizable people in the world. Spinks and Ali met again in a rematch seven months later at the Superdome in New Orleans. Ali regained the title by a 15-round unanimous decision. Spinks (26-17-3, 14 KOs) never again approached the level of success he had in the first fight with Ali, but he continued to fight for many years before retiring in 1995. In 2017, he was inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame.

Spinks, the brother of Hall of Fame former heavyweight and light heavyweight champion Michael Spinks and the father of former undisputed welterweight world champion Cory Spinks, has had previous medical problems. In 2014, he suffered intestinal damage and was hospitalized after swallowing a piece of chicken bone. It led to multiple surgeries. "Leon is currently hospitalized and in the care of an exceptional team of doctors," Brenda Glur Spinks, the former fighter's wife, told ESPN in a statement on Thursday.
 
Bayou bliss: LSU QB Joe Burrow takes home Heisman​

There's only one major trophy remaining for Joe Burrow to lift up this college football season. The LSU quarterback on Saturday won the Heisman Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in college football. He beat out fellow quarterbacks Jalen Hurts (Oklahoma) and Justin Fields (Ohio State) and defensive end Chase Young (Ohio State) to hoist the 85th edition of the award at the PlayStation Theater in New York City. Burrow finished with the largest margin of victory in Heisman history as 1,846 points separated him from the second-place Hurts. Fields finished third and teammate Young came in fourth.

Burrow is just the second player in LSU history to win the award, joining running back Billy Cannon, who won it in 1959. The senior threw for an SEC-record 48 touchdown passes and 4,715 yards in 2019, while leading the Tigers to the conference title. The Heisman capped a spectacular week in which Burrow added to his trophy haul after winning the Maxwell Award (best overall), Davey O'Brien Award (best quarterback) and Walter Camp Player of the Year Award, in addition to being named the Associated Press player of the year.

He is on pace to set a major college record, completing 77.9% of his passes this season. Only the College Football Playoff national championship trophy remains out there for Burrow to hoist. LSU, the top seed, will take on Hurts and No. 4 Oklahoma in a semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on Dec. 28 (TV: 4 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App), while No. 2 Ohio State plays No. 3 Clemson in the other semifinal at the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl that same day (TV: 8 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App).


Hurts, who transferred to Oklahoma after spending his first three seasons at Alabama, was vying to become the third consecutive Sooners quarterback -- and a record-breaking eighth OU player overall -- to capture the Heisman, following wins by Baker Mayfield (2017) and Kyler Murray (2018). In 13 games, Hurts threw for 3,634 yards with 32 touchdowns and 7 interceptions while rushing for 1,255 yards and 18 more TDs.

Fields, a sophomore who transferred to Ohio State after spending his freshman season at Georgia in 2018, threw for 2,953 yards with 40 touchdown passes to just one interception and added 471 yards rushing and 10 touchdowns on the ground.

Young, who led the nation with 16.5 sacks and in tackles for loss per game (1.9), became just the fourth defensive lineman to be named a finalist in the award's history, joining Washington's Steve Emtman (1991), Miami's Warren Sapp (1994) and Nebraska's Ndamukong Suh (2009). None of the defensive lineman finished higher than fourth in the voting.
 
Galen Alexander, Myron Gardner to transfer from Georgetown

Forwards Galen Alexander and Myron Gardner announced they are transferring, becoming the third and fourth players to leave the program in the past two weeks. The transfers leave coach Patrick Ewing and the Hoyas with just seven scholarship players. Alexander and Gardner were two of three Hoyas facing accusations of harassment and burglary, stemming from separate complaints filed by two Georgetown students. Alexander and Josh LeBlane, who entered the NCAA transfer portal last week, both received restraining orders in November. The restraining orders were granted on Nov. 20, after the two players did not appear at a Nov. 14 hearing.
Gardner sent a statement to the Washington Post through his attorney announcing his decision to transfer. Alexander, a 6-foot-6 junior who started his career at LSU, averaged 4.2 points and 2.7 rebounds in nine games this season. Gardner, a 6-6 freshman, averaged 3.1 points and 2.9 rebounds in eight games. James Akino, the reigning Big East Freshman of the Year, is taking an official visit to Arizona this weekend, sources told ESPN.
 
Tiger Woods leads U.S. to Presidents Cup win: 'We had to earn it'
Woods capped off a big year that began with his 15th major at the Masters by playing and leading his U.S. team to another victory in the Presidents Cup on Sunday at Royal Melbourne. Matt Kuchar delivered the clinching putt, a 5-footer for birdie that assured him a halve against Louis Oosthuizen and gave the Americans the 15½ points they needed to win.
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blackfoot NAP Sunday Pickem Thread

Week-15 Results:
blackfoot NAP (9-5)
steve samuari jack (9-5)
CeeJay (8-6)

Overall Results:
1. CeeJay: (81-56 .591)
2. BROWNFOOT: (7-5 .583)
3. steve samuari jack: (72-52 .580)
4. blackfoot NAP: (91-73 .554)
5. Charlemagne: (17-19 .472)
6. Brickvader: (6-7 .461)
....Ma Huang Sor: (6-7 .461)
8. DevilMan: (5-8 .384)
9. jack: (21-41 .338)
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Thursday and Monday Night NFL Football Picks

Week 15 Results:
steve samurai jack: (2-0)
blackfoot NAP: (2-0)
CeeJay: (1-1)

Overall Standings:
blackfoot NAP: (16-6)
steve samuari jack: (16-6)
CeeJay: (12-10)
jack: (2-4)
Charlemagne: (1-1)
 
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Georgia OT Andrew Thomas to skip bowl game, enter draft

Thomas, an All-SEC first-team selection who won the SEC's Jacobs Blocking Trophy this season, made the announcement on his Twitter account Tuesday afternoon. Thomas, who started all 13 games at left tackle, anchored a Georgia line that allowed 0.92 sacks per game and helped the Bulldogs rush for 189.5 yards per game this season. Georgia plays Baylor in the Allstate Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1 in New Orleans.
 
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