College football, NFL news, baseball playoffs, the start of the NHL season and more in our Thursday Sports Update…
** Central Florida and BYU play in college football tonight. On Friday, Stanford and Washington State hook up in a Pac 12 match up.
** The NFL Thursday game tonight has Indianapolis playing the Houston Texans.
** The NHL regular season started last night with the defending Stanley Cup champion LA Kings raising their banner at home, but the game didn’t turn out well as they were blanked 4-0 by San Jose.
** The American League and National League Championship Series are about to start. In the AL, Kansas City faces Baltimore and in the NL San Francisco challenges St. Louis.
** Both the Gator soccer and volleyball teams will be at home this weekend. Gator soccer has one game Friday while volleyball will play in the O’Connell Center on Friday and Sunday.