A weekend that began with former University of Cincinnati players and NFL greats Jason and Travis Kelce bringing their live podcast to Fifth Third Arena Thursday, culminated Saturday afternoon with the annual spring game for Coach Scott Satterfield’s Bearcats. “Every position is up for grabs,” Satterfield said. “Everyone’s competing for that spot on this field. It’s going to be that …

Mississippi State football coach Jeff Lebby may have just found his starting running back. Rashad Amos, who had 1,075 rushing yards last season at Miami (Ohio), announced via social media Saturday that he has committed to MSU. He has been in the portal since December after completing his lone season with the Redhawks. Amos’ collegiate career started at South Carolina, …

Nobody ever saw their Heisman Trophy chances go up in flames with a performance in an April spring game. So Carson Beck, the quarterback who led Georgia football to an unbeaten regular season last year and gave fans reason to celebrate when he announced his return, shouldn’t sweat throwing a couple of interceptions in the first half of Saturday’s G-Day …

OXFORD — Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin explained more than once this spring that he didn’t find much value in a traditional spring game. The schemes are basic. The value in evaluating the tape is minimal. So why play one? The football was decidedly a secondary menu item during Saturday’s Grove Bowl Games at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, with hot dogs, …

SDSU Jackrabbit logo What looked like hundreds of South Dakota State fans dressed in Jackrabbits blue eagerly filled the Sanford-Jackrabbit Athletic Complex Saturday morning for SDSU’s Spring Game. The Spring Game was the public’s first look at the 2024 South Dakota State team that is tasked with replacing a talented group of super seniors including Isaiah Davis, the Janke brothers, …

Defensive lineman Isaiah Raikes celebrates after making a tackle for a loss while playing for Texas A&M before he transferred to USC. Raikes is entering the transfer portal again. (Sam Craft / Associated Press) Isaiah Raikes’ nameplate over his locker barely had settled in, but USC’s latest great hope at defensive line already is looking for a new home. Raikes …

STATE COLLEGE — The Penn State football Blue-White Game, once again, was mostly a glorified practice only trickling into something much more hopeful and definitive to come. This version, Saturday in Beaver Stadium, was quarterbacks trying to throw passes in 40 mph wind gusts. It was high-profile pieces of the team not taking the field (like running backs Nick Singleton, …

When quarterback Will Howard crouched under center to take the snap on the first play from scrimmage in Ohio State’s spring game on Saturday, three others lined up behind him in the backfield. Patrick Gurd, a walk-on tight end, was directly at his back, getting into a three-point stance as a fullback, while running backs TreVeyon Henderson and Quinshon Judkins …

Perhaps no Florida football offensive player will see his role increase as much as Eugene Wilson III in 2024. The sophomore from Gaither High School in Tampa served as WR2 last season, but he mostly played second fiddle to Ricky Pearsall. With Pearsall heading to the NFL Draft, Wilson will now step into the WR1 role for the Gators. What …

Tennessee State football coach Eddie George said Saturday after the Tigers’ Blue and White spring game, he is pleased with the 15 pounds of “baby fat” his son and starting defensive end Eriq George recently lost. Eddie George will be even happier when Eriq puts 15 pounds back on. Fifteen pounds of muscle that is. The 6-foot-2 Eriq, a former …

OXFORD ― The spring transfer portal carnage Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin has been predicting for weeks is almost here. A 15-day window where football players can register their names in the portal opens Tuesday. Unlike previous cycles, players can now transfer as many times as they wish. Some might transfer twice in one offseason without ever playing for …

Jam Miller laughed once he finished answering. The question: Would the Alabama football running back rather juke a defender or run through him? “I’d rather run through a guy,” he said without hesitation. Cue the laugh. It was a chuckle wrapped not in humor but in eagerness. Miller laughed like a man who has fun pummeling defenders and couldn’t wait …

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – He’s the world’s most overqualified hype man now, and Nick Saban fulfilled his role by warming up the crowd. As Saban told Alabama faithful assembled Saturday before A-Day, he’s “one of the fans now.” “I’m one of you,” Saban said during a pregame captain’s ceremony. Really, though, he’s not. Saban no longer coaches Alabama, but that doesn’t …

The Texas Tech football team wraps up the March and April portion of the off-season this coming week with the annual spring game in Midland. Then the Red Raiders will monitor the progress of players who missed all or most of spring practice. Quarterback Behren Morton, wide receiver Micah Hudson and tight end Jalin Conyers are expected to be cleared …

OXFORD — Jaxson Dart stewed. He and his team had been cheated, in his view, out of a healthy lead they’d spent the first half of Ole Miss football’s spring game building. Maybe a questionable penalty call during seven-on-seven action was the source of the Rebels quarterback’s irritation. Perhaps pass interference went uncalled. Or maybe an errant whistle negated a …