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A September loss and early struggles hurt his case, but Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud is gaining ground in the Heisman race with one dominating performance after another. Over the years determining the Heisman Trophy contenders has boiled down to a flowchart, a meandering process where challengers try to avoid dead end after dead end. […]

SEC football power rankings entering Week 9 when Florida and Georgia clash in Jacksonville and Ole Miss and Auburn meet in an SEC West battle. With a relatively easy and predictable week of college football behind us, it’s time to examine how the SEC looks right now. The SEC had a fairly straightforward slate of […]

The Whiteboard is The Step Back’s daily basketball newsletter, covering the NBA, WNBA and more. Subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. One week into the NBA season and 23 teams have already taken their first L (or three of them in the case of the Thunder and Pelicans). The best […]

After a brief hiatus from Top 25 teams squaring up, the college football schedule for Week 9 features three such games, all with huge conference implications. When you look at this week’s slate of games, it’s hard to single out which conference picture will be clearest when the dust settles in the wee hours of […]

The Cincinnati Bengals’ D/ST and Mac Jones are among the top fantasy football pickups to make ahead of Week 8. The bye week from hell is over as heavy hitters like the Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Chargers are back in action after sitting out Week 7. Relying on streamers like Tua Tagovailoa wasn’t ideal […]

Ohio State stars C.J. Stroud and TreVeyon Henderson are both making their case in the Heisman Trophy conversation. But Kenny Pickett isn’t going away either.  Even though we’re nearing the end of October and through eight weeks of the college football season, the 2021 Heisman Trophy conversation remains up in the air. It’s actually in […]

With Week 8 of the 2021 season on the horizon, what are the betting odds and lines for each game? With Week 8 approaching, we are almost halfway through the 2021 NFL campaign. As we go into the final week of October, we take a look at the NFL odds and betting lines for Week […]

After years of being irrelevant, the Cincinnati Bengals announced themselves on Sunday with a 41-17 humbling of the Baltimore Ravens. The Cincinnati Bengals are back. On Sunday, Joe Burrow and the Bengals crushed the Baltimore Ravens, moving into first place of the AFC North with a 41-17 drubbing in Charm City. Burrow threw for 416 […]