It has been roughly a week since we learned that Kalen DeBoer would be replacing the legendary Nick Saban as the head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. Since that time, Coach DeBoer has gone through the wringer in terms of roster management. Not only is Coach DeBoer dealing with recruiting high school prospects, but the transfer portal …

OXFORD — Life holds few certainties. Ole Miss football trolling its SEC peers at every possible opportunity is one of them. After landing Alabama transfer corner Trey Amos on Friday, the official Rebels football account on X, formerly Twitter, delivered by sharing a bizarre spoof video of the famous “Tip Six” from the 2015 victory over the Crimson Tide in …

Like many schools, Notre Dame has started to host junior days for the 2025 recruiting class. Multiple Irish commits and targets will be in South Bend this weekend and the festivities have already begun. In a picture shared by 247Sports Tom Loy, you can see commits safety Ethan Long, cornerback Cree Thomas, defensive tackle Davion Dixon, running back Justin Thurman …

Jan. 19—CLYDE — A Black Bear is returning to Canton. Ricky Brindley, a 2001 Pisgah grad and Smoky Mountain’s head football coach for the last six seasons, was named the new Pisgah head football coach during a Haywood County Board of Education meeting on Tuesday night. “It is a place that I love dearly, and I don’t know that I …

Clemson scored a recruiting victory over LSU when it landed WR recruit Parker Fulghum out of Shreveport, La. on Friday. Fulghum is considered a legacy recruit for the home-state Tigers. His father, John Booty, was a starting quarterback for LSU from 1999-2000. At 6’1″, 190 pounds, Fulghum finished his senior season at Evangel Christian Academy with 70 catches for 1,418 …

NFL play-offs Dates: 13-28 January 2024 BBC coverage: Live text coverage of every match on the BBC Sport website and app and live radio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra and BBC Sounds every Sunday evening, with Tampa Bay Buccaneers v Detroit Lions this Sunday (21:00 GMT) It was one of the best finishes to a play-off game in …

With the Texas Tech football team losing Jaylon Hutchings and Tony Bradford, longtime starters at defensive tackle, Red Raiders coach Joey McGuire remained on the lookout this winter for candidates to fortify that position. The Red Raiders picked up one option Friday night. Defensive tackle De’Braylon Carroll, who started all 13 games this past season for Rice, committed to Tech …

Safety Caleb Downs, the top-rated player in the NCAA transfer portal, has committed to Ohio State. His father, Gary Downs, told 247Sports.com that he would become a Buckeye. Downs picked Alabama over Ohio State, Georgia and Notre Dame as the No. 6 overall player in the 247Sports composite rankings as a high school senior last year. He was named the …

The NFL draft will be in a little more than three months away.  It will include as many as 58 underclassmen. The league announced that 54 players were granted special eligibility for the draft. They met the three-year rule (of being past high school) and have renounced their college football eligibility by submitting written notification to the league office on …

Ohio State has hired Bill O’Brien as its new offensive coordinator, the team announced Friday. The move marks a major shift for coach Ryan Day, who will give up play calling as he continues to acquire talent — both on his roster and coaching staff — in an effort to get the Buckeyes back to the top of the Big Ten.  “I …

Jan. 19—Godley Wildcat football standout Landon Thigpen played in the Blue-Grey All-American Bowl on Jan. 8 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Thigpen played as a running back for the West team, which won the game 35-28. The team was coached by Seneca Wallace, a National Football League veteran who played quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks from 2003-09, the Cleveland Browns …

Rutgers wrestling got on the board early to secure a vital 22-13 win at Michigan State. It was a much-needed win for Rutgers, especially with the grueling gauntlet of their Big Ten schedule that is upcoming. It will be a brutally tough schedule for the Scarlet Knights following Friday’s win. No. 13 Rutgers faces five straight ranked opponents, all from …

Safety Caleb Downs — the No. 8 player in the Class of 2023 and No. 1 player in the transfer portal — has decided to transfer to Ohio State, after a standout freshman season at Alabama, his father, Gary Downs, told 247Sports. Caleb Downs entered the transfer portal after the Crimson Tide hired former Washington coach Kalen DeBoer to replace Nick Saban, …

There was a question, apparently, as to whether the Cowboys would bring back coach Mike McCarthy. There’s no question that they’ll bring back quarterback Dak Prescott. It has nothing to do with his performance, which was great during the regular season but not good enough in the playoff loss to the Cowboys. It has everything to do with his contract. …

Five-star Alabama football decommit Ryan Williams is in Tuscaloosa for his official visit this weekend and he was spotted at the Hillcrest-Tuscaloosa vs. Paul W. Bryant boys basketball game on Friday night. Williams was with fellow five-star Jaylen Mbakwe, who signed with the Crimson Tide in December and enrolled early. Williams previously decommitted from Alabama last week in wake of …