As the country was celebrating moving onto 2025 from 2024 last night, tragedy struck. At around 3:00 A.M. EST on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, a man drove an F-150 into a crowd, got into a firefight with police, and incited panic in the French Quarter. As a result, the Sugar Bowl, the College Football Playoff quarterfinal between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the second-ranked, SEC Champion Georgia Bulldogs has been pushed back at least 24 hours. According to local sources, and then corroborated by national outlets, the game is set to kick off on January 2. BREAKING: College…
Author: Onyx Gallade
Onyx Gallade
Onyx is an accomplished sports writer for Gridiron Heroics. He covers a wide variety of topics but mostly focuses on the NFL and Group of 5.
Each and every year, we see superstars from what some call the Group of 5, Mid-Majors, or “little sisters of the poor.” Each year, those superstars either transfer to “Power 4” programs or get drafted and make an immediate impact. And yet, they never earn any recognition. The Group of 5 disrespect is widespread, baffling, and inexcusable. Will The Blatant Group of 5 Disrespect Ever End? Short answer? No. It won’t ever end. Long answer? Nooooooooooooooope. “Power” Conferences Run the Show Last year, SMU went 11-3 and won the American Athletic Conference. This year, SMU is 11-2 and was a…
The Ohio State-Michigan rivalry is the greatest in all of sports. Each year, the battle on the Saturday following Thanksgiving is a hard-fought matchup that often dictates who represented the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl. Now, it has College Football Playoff implications. Ohio State had an unprecedented stretch of success during the Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer years. After Beating Michigan in 2019, Ryan Day has since dropped four straight. Cheating allegations aside, losing in 2024 felt like the nail in the coffin for plenty of fans. Ohio State Representative Suggests Asinine Response to Attempted Michigan Flag Planting This…
The college football landscape is ever-changing. Anyone who follows recruiting can attest to that fact considering following 16-18-year-olds’ daily lives and football careers gets to be fickle. This week, there were rumors floated by Michigan insiders that the 5-5 defending national champions are prepared to offer top-rated 2025 recruit Bryce Underwood an NIL deal upwards of $10.5 million. Despite seemingly falling behind in the NIL world, Michigan is still Michigan. $10.5 million should be chump change for what is considered to be one of the premier institutions of higher learning and, for the time being, the winningest college football program…
In the battle of “can’t win the big one” coaches, Ryan Day moved to 3-7 against top-five teams while James Franklin fell to 1-9 against top-five teams and 1-10 against Ohio State. Even that one win was such a fluke but it bought Franklin a decade of leeway with the Penn State administration. James Franklin Fell Once Again to Ohio State and Fans Let Him Have It Penn State is a great football team this year and will likely end up as an at-large in the College Football Playoff. However, Penn State just cannot get over the Ohio State hump.…
“I win. Google me.” Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti has more than backed up his bold claims that he made just before Christmas, 2023. He’s not wrong, considering he had great success at James Madison, Elon (FCS), and Indiana University of Pennsylvania (D-II). Heading into 2024, Cignetti had a 119-35 with two Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (D-II) west division titles, one PSAC title, three Colonial Athletic Association (FCS) titles, and two Sun Belt East titles. Plus, the only reason Cignetti did not win the Sun Belt in those two years was because James Madison was ineligible for postseason play. Now,…
The Carolina Panthers have been struggling thus far this season, posting a meager 1-6 record through seven weeks. After two weeks, the team elected to move on from 2023 first-overall pick Bryce Young for 14th-year vet, Andy Dalton. On Tuesday, Dalton, his wife, three children, and his dog were traveling through Charlotte and his vehicle was struck, causing an accident. Thankfully, the current Panthers quarterback and his family were evaluated and nobody was transported to the hospital. At the time of writing, that is the extent of the news the Panthers have released to the public. https://twitter.com/DNewtonespn/status/1848842688545579248 Andy Dalton, Family…
The Ohio State Buckeyes have been one of the elites in college football for decades. The program is at the top or near in just about every statistical category in the history of the game and the recent teams are no different. One area where the Buckeyes were revolutionized with the hiring of Urban Meyer before the 2012 season was in recruiting. Now, 12 yards later and 10 years removed from its last national title, Ohio State recruiting has been the best or one of the best throughout the Ryan Day era. Day has been able to lock down commitments…
Mountain West expansion? Conference realignment will not allow a single program or conference to go untouched by its greedy, greasy fingers. The look of conferences in 2026 will be light years away from what college football looked like even 10 years ago. Look back 15 years and it’s even crazier. There has been a back-and-forth dance with the remnants of the Pac-12 and the Mountain West in a battle for who is going to poach who. Instead of doing the logical thing and merging, the Pac-12 has poached five from the Mountain West. Now, with both conferences sitting at seven…
On to Week 5! Another week, another 3-2 performance! While USC wasn’t able to beat the one-dimensional Wolverines and Oklahoma State fell to Utah, Bowling Green, Rutgers, and Miami (FL) did not let us down. [tgdcta items=”1″ id=”177239″] Overall, we are sitting at 15-10. Let’s get a little more separation, shall we? College Football Week 5 Game Spread Best Bets (15)Louisville (+6.5) at (16)Notre Dame This week, we have chosen three ranked matchups to pick from, and 15th-ranked Louisville’s trip to 16th-ranked Notre Dame gets us started. These two have only ever played four times in history and it’s currently…