Fresh off a tremendous defensive line haul in the 2024 recruiting cycle, Todd Bates and Miguel Chavis are back on the recruiting trail to follow that up with another blue-chip defensive line class in 2025. Oklahoma received some good news on that front, landing inside the top eight for Upper Marlboro, Md. four-star defensive line prospect Trent Wilson. Wilson also …

On Tuesday, Rutgers football quality control coach Charlie Noonan visited Saint John Vianney High School (Holmdel, New Jersey) to meet new head coach Bobby Acosta for future recruiting opportunities. Acosta was hired as Saint John Vianney’s head coach last week after spending last season as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Arkansas Pine Bluff. The Queens, New York native …

The end of the recruiting cycle for the Class of 2024 is still a couple of weeks away, but the final touches on the player ratings have been calculated by 247Sports. With those rankings finalized, and with the majority of the Class of 2024 essentially locked down for most schools, 247Sports updated the team rankings for the year one more …

Michael Penix Jr. didn’t even hesitate to provide his answer. The former Washington quarterback knew his response right away. The question — which position, outside of quarterback, should be licking their chops most to play in a Kalen DeBoer/Ryan Grubb offense with Alabama football? “Obviously receivers,” Penix told The Tuscaloosa News via phone. “They’re going to throw the ball, so …

The Ravens are blowing out good opponents, like no other team in NFL history. Baltimore’s 34-10 win over Houston in the divisional round of the playoffs was their ninth win by at least 14 points over a team that finished the season with a winning record. No other team in NFL history has that many two-touchdown wins over winning teams. …

A rough year for Georgia football fans just got a lot worse. The team’s former mascot, Uga X, who was at the helm wearing the lovely red sweater when the team won two national championships, died. He was 10. Known by his friends as Que, the popular mascot died Tuesday morning in his sleep. Uga X made his debut Nov. …

The 2025 recruiting cycle is in full swing and the Florida Gators are currently in the thick of things as the program looks ahead to the future. One of the many prep prospects to stop in town recently is cornerback Major Preston out of Bradenton (Florida) IMG Academy, who paid a visit last weekend for junior day. The 6-foot-1-inch, 170-pound …

Photograph: Doug Mills/AP My assignment on that unseasonably warm January afternoon was to write about the losing team, which is why I found myself in a windowless room in the bowels at RFK Stadium in Washington DC, watching a portly football coach clamber atop a platform for a news conference. Writing about losing teams is never much fun, let alone …

Jalon Walker closed out his sophomore Georgia football season with a flourish. He rang up two sacks and five quarterback pressures in the SEC championship game against Alabama and then tied his career-high with four tackles against Florida State in the Orange Bowl rout. What’s next for a player listed as an inside linebacker who showed he’s a playmaker on …

According to 247Sports’ Matt Zenitz, LSU head coach Brian Kelly knows who will be calling the plays in 2024. LSU is promoting Joe Sloan and Cortez Hankton to co-offensive coordinators, removing the interim tag the two had during the bowl game. After Mike Denbrock left for Notre Dame, Sloan and Hankton were seen as the favorites for this job. A …

Ohio State’s athletic department had a record-breaking year in operating revenue in the 2023 fiscal year by generating almost $280 million. The only athletic program ever to generate more was Oregon four years ago, but that was driven mostly by a $270 million contribution to renovate its track and field stadium. Jan 17, 2024; Columbus, OH, USA; Ohio State athletic …

Victor’s Adam Ruffalo hurdles over teammate Jameson Ricigliano as he is pushed out of bounds along the sideline by Rush-Henrietta’s Zachary Erne. While some high school football players and coaches already think about next season, let’s take another look at the best players last season in Section V. Both Democrat and Chronicle All-Greater Football teams are out. And now, so …

Jan. 23—I was driving around Selinsgrove on Sunday, and I was struck by the silence around Harold L. Bolig Memorial Field. I spent a lot of the fall watching the Seals state semifinal team, and there was something about silence, and thinking about last season that made me realize how different high school football is going to look — at …

The Chicago Bears will have another coaching representative at the Senior Bowl this year. Bears assistant defensive line coach Justin Hinds will serve as the defensive line coach for the American Team at the Senior Bowl. He joins tight ends coach Jim Dray, who will coach the offensive line for the National Team. Chicago needs to shore up the defensive …

BYU linebacker Ben Bywater (2) gets ready to run a play against Arkansas on Sept. 16, 2023, in Fayetteville, Ark. Bywater was injured in the Big 12 opener against Kansas last season but vows to be good to go when the Cougars open their 2024 campaign. | Michael Woods, Associated Press Midway through the third quarter during BYU’s Big 12 …