Jake Elliott snuck a 31-yard field goal just inside the left upright as time expired to allow Memphis to escape with a 16-13 victory over Temple at Lincoln Financial Field. The Owls (5-4, 3-3) held the American Athletic Conference’s top scoring and third ranked total offense in check all night until a 12 play, 66-yard […]

There were 18 one-loss teams before this weekend, now there are 13. That’s five teams that have taken a big hit in the race to get one of the four slots in the College Football Playoffs. 1 – Mississippi State (8-0, 5-0 SEC) 2 – Florida State (8-0, 5-0 ACC) 3 – Auburn (7-1, 4-1 […]

While some people are not impressed because the BCS has been replaced by a playoff system that “only has four teams,” it’s still a playoff system and the four teams will be determined by humans and not computers. Is it perfect? No. Will it be better? It should be but only time will tell. In […]

Jerome Brown, Miami (Fla.)-Defensive Tackle-1986 Unanimous First Team All-American and finalist for both the Outland and Lombardi trophies as senior…Helped Canes to four consecutive New Year’s Day bowl games…Ranks 10th in school history with 21 career sacks. Keith Byars, Ohio State-Running Back-Unanimous First Team All-American and Heisman Trophy runner-up who led nation in rushing (1,764), […]

The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame announced today the names on the 2015 ballot for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame, including 75 players and six coaches from the Football Bowl Subdivision and 87 players and 25 coaches from the divisional ranks.   The announcement of the 2015 class, […]

1 – Mississippi State (6-0, 3-0 SEC) 2 – Florida State (7-0, 4-0 ACC) 3 – Ole Miss (7-0, 4-0 SEC) 4 – Auburn (5-1, 2-1 SEC) 5 – Michigan State (6-1, 3-0 Big 10) 6 – Alabama (6-1, 3-1 SEC) 7 – Notre Dame (6-1) 8 – Georgia (6-1, 4-1 SEC) 9 – TCU […]

At Football Stories, we like to wait until the season gets into October and teams start to play conference games before introducing our Top 20 but a wild first weekend of October made this year’s first one even tougher than usual. With that said, we were all over Mississippi State from the start of the […]

Temple rallied with two fourth quarter touchdowns to post a 35-24 win over Tulsa on Saturday afternoon before a Homecoming crowd at Lincoln Financial Field. Tulsa (1-5, 1-1 American) took their only lead of the day on the first play of the fourth quarter when Carl Salazar kicked a 44-yard field goal but the Owls […]

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Temple is off to an impressive 3-1 start, its lone loss was to a good Navy squad. While P.J. Walker has been solid at quarterback, it is the Owls defense, with players like Matt Ioannidis, that have been the difference.