How do you follow up your 17th playoff appearance in the last 21 seasons? You keep adding to the culture. UNH signed nine new recruits during National Signing Day on Wednesday, with Rick Santos and his staff continuing to add to the legacy that is the Wildcats’ football program. “Our staff did an incredible job identifying, evaluating, and building relationships with this year’s class,” Santos said in a statement released……
Image courtesy of UMass Football In another massively important offseason for UMASS, the Minutemen got things started with an interesting NSD on Wednesday. Joe Harasmyiak had 21 commits for the early signing period, with one more NSD set for February. University of Massachusetts football signed 21 student-athletes as part of Wednesday’s early signing period to comprise one of the highest ranked classes in program history. Since arriving on campus last December,…
Image courtesy of Boston College Football It’s been a busy few days for BC and that continued on Wednesday. NSD 2026 was a good one for the Eagles, adding 23 players from this year’s graduating class to the roster. BC did have a couple de-commits lately, but it’s all part of the business these days. Here’s the full list of new additions that the team has announced on social media…(All…
Image courtesy of David Butler II-Imagn Images When the ESPN Monday Night Football trucks rolled into Foxborough this week, that’s when the rookies knew it was real. The product they grew up watching was suddenly going to be starring them. Following a dominant 33-15 win over the Giants that moved the Pats to 11-2 heading into the bye week, I caught up with a few of the rookies in the…
It’s a new day for Boston College football. One that doesn’t leave the program stuck in 2008. On Monday, alum Kenyatta Watson – an elite recruiter at Georgia Tech, Florida State and Auburn – took over as the program’s new general manager. On Tuesday morning, athletic director Blake James announced huge financial commitments to the program and more resources as needed. It’s something the fan base has been clamoring for…
Image courtesy of the New England Patriots FOXBOROUGH – At this point, why can’t they make a Super Bowl run? New England throttled the Giants on Monday Night Football in an electric atmosphere, 33-15, winning a 10th straight game, reclaiming the best record in the NFL at 11-2 and showing they’re as good as – if not better – than anyone else in the league. As the No. 1 seed…
By Rob Gullo & Andy Close NEFJ Correspondents With Thanksgiving past us, the 2025 CIAC high school football regular season has concluded. With the first round of the playoffs slated to kick off on Wednesday, December 3rd after being pushed back due to weather, all first round matchups have been finalized. As we look at the Top 25 teams in the state before postseason play officially begins, one new team…
Image courtesy of Yahoo Sports They needed this. In the grand scheme of things, a 34-12 blowout win for BC over Syracuse to end the season on Saturday in front of a half empty JMA Dome (it should still be the Carrier Dome) doesn’t change much, but it certainly could mean something heading into 2026. The Eagles had lost 10 straight and were in danger of joining the discussion with…
Image courtesy of Yale Athletics Improbable. Impossible. Chaotic. Unbelievable. Incredible. Whatever word you want to use to describe what Yale did on the road against No 15 Youngstown State in the first round of the FCS playoffs on Saturday, it fits. The Bulldogs trailed 35-7 at the half, 42-14 with a little over seven minutes left in the third and 42-22 heading to the fourth quarter. Somehow, Yale ripped off…
Image courtesy of Harvard Athletics For the second week in a row – which just so happened to be the worst timing possible – Harvard saw things snowball and couldn’t recover. Playing in the first ever FCS playoff game in program history on the road against 12th-seeded Villanova, the Crimson had a tidal wave swarm over them, losing 52-7. Harvard saw the same thing happen against Yale a week ago…