Will Texas play in the SEC title game in its first season in the conference? The Longhorns were voted to finish second in the SEC behind Georgia in the conference’s annual preseason media poll released Friday. The Bulldogs received the vast majority of first-place votes; 165 voters picked Georgia to win. Texas was second with 27 first-place votes ahead of …

Every year, college football teams have strengths and weaknesses on paper before the season begins. During the season, we get to see what the actual problem areas are and if they get fixed during the season or doom that year’s squad. The Oklahoma Sooners have plenty of strengths on paper. They’re loaded at wide receiver. The linebacker room is filled …

DALLAS — The Florida Gators will be better in Billy Napier’s third season. It just won’t show up much, if at all, in the standings. That’s my official preseason stance, as reflected in the SEC predicted order of finish I submitted this week as part of the conference’s media days. I put the Gators 12th in the new-look 16-team SEC. …

2025 linebacker prospect Christian Gass received a crystal ball prediction from 247Sports’ Anna Adams. Gass will choose between Tennessee, Georgia and USC on Saturday. The 6-foot-2.5, 215-pound four-star linebacker is from Eastside High School in Covington, Georgia. Gass ranks as the No. 203 overall prospect in the class of 2025. He ranks as the No. 22 linebacker and No. 31 player …

Florida State football will be the first team to introduce the new members of the Atlantic Coast Conference over the next two weeks. In Week 3 of the 2024 season, FSU will play the California. The Golden Bears will travel over 2600 miles to Doak Campbell Stadium for its ACC debut. Cal, Stanford and SMU are the new members of …

Cowboys Chief Operating Officer Stephen Jones thinks an 18-game NFL regular season is coming. And he thinks the players will embrace it. Jones says that adding another game to the regular season looks like a foregone conclusion at this point. Contrary to the many claims that the players would oppose a longer season, Jones believes that when the players see …

The legal fallout of an employee stealing $22 million from the Jaguars is still ongoing. (Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images) Former Jacksonville Jaguars employee Amit Patel is currently serving a six-and-a-half-year sentence in federal prison. His former employer just added to his issues. The Jaguars are suing Patel, who pleaded guilty to stealing $22 million from them earlier this …

Jul 18, 2024; Dallas, TX, USA; Texas A&M defensive lineman Shemar Turner speaks to the media at Omni Dallas Hotel. Mandatory Credit: Brett Patzke-USA TODAY Sports SEC Media Days, which took place in Dallas, Texas, for the first time in its vast history, ended on Thursday night. Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko made his first national appearance since his …

Greg Sankey says the SEC is 16 strong today and will remain at 16 strong tomorrow. Sankey has less to say about what happens next week, or next month, or next year. Meanwhile, fissures linger in the ACC. Florida State wants out of the conference it’s competed in since 1992. The Seminoles and Clemson are both suing the ACC. That’s …

SOUTH BEND — Notre Dame football won’t be wearing its heart on its sleeve this season, but it still came up with an eye-catching addition. In revealing the 2024 home football jerseys on ESPN’s “First Take” on Friday morning, the Irish rolled out arm sleeve patches of the interlocking “ND” logo in gold. The metallic hue matches the iconic gold …

Mario Williams has a lot to prove. The 5-9, 175-pound Williams was the fourth-ranked wide receiver in the 2021 class out of Tampa. He signed with Oklahoma for one season. He then headed to USC along with quarterback Caleb Williams for their sophomore campaigns. Williams has recorded 104 catches for 1,316 yards and 11 touchdowns in his three-year college football …

The University of Alabama athletics department released these conceptual images Friday showing how Saban Field at Bryant-Denny Stadium may appear this fall at Alabama football games. Saban Field at Bryant-Denny Stadium was adopted before a UA System Board of Trustees committee meeting Friday. Nick and Terry Saban attended the virtual meeting, as did UA President Stuart Bell, along with trustees …

According to the media’s votes attending SEC Media Days this week, there is quite a divide about how South Carolina football’s 2024 season will go. The Gamecocks were one of seven teams to be picked as a preseason favorite to win the SEC. However, South Carolina finished with 923 total points and a 13th finish out of 16 teams in …

LAWRENCE — Kansas football’s offense in 2024 will feature a lot of players worth keeping track of. There’s redshirt junior quarterback Jalon Daniels, as well as a running back duo of senior Devin Neal and redshirt junior Daniel Hishaw Jr. There’s the wide receiver trio of seniors Luke Grimm, Lawrence Arnold and Quentin Skinner. There’s also the potential for stars to …

Florida quarterback Graham Mertz fell three spots to No. 10 in the most recent SEC quarterback rankings from 247Sports. Mertz’s drop is less about him and more about first-year quarterback DJ Lagway, a five-star recruit out of high school. On national signing day, head coach Billy Napier mentioned that Florida would find time to get Lagway into games early on, …