The Texas Longhorns will head into their final game of the season with a 9-3 record, and while for the first time in three years the Longhorns did not make the College Football Playoff, their bowl game allows the burnt orange the chance to secure three straight double-digit win seasons.

What does it mean to be a college football blue blood in a non-CFP bowl game? The Texas Longhorns are finding out.

McNeese visits the No. 2 Michigan Wolverines after Larry Johnson scored 22 points in the Cowboys' 78-68 victory over the Houston Christian Huskies.

Loganville (Ga.) Grayson three-star edge rusher T.K. Cunningham has narrowed his focus to 12 schools with the Ole Miss Rebels making the cut for one of the top defensive prospects in the Peach State.

The Wolverines flipped Marchese from Georgia on signing day Dec. 4, but Michigan’s program has been in turmoil since. Sherrone Moore was fired Dec. 10 for engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a female staff member and now faces three criminal charges.

"I feel like you could either go one of two ways," Michigan football LB Cole Sullivan said. "Stay together or break apart."

The Michigan Wolverines made Kyle Whittingham their next head coach this past Friday heading into December 31's Citrus Bowl against Texas, which will be coached by interim head coach Biff Poggi. The hiring of Whittingham gives the Wolverines a proven winner at the college level whom former Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer once called the best head coach in college football.

The deal is not done, but the Free Press has learned Michigan football is "very, very" close to adding BYU defensive coordinator Jay Hill.