USATSI The College Football Playoff Management Committee met Wednesday in the wake of the official move to the 5+7 model for the 2024 and 2025 seasons. The Management Committee, which is made up of the FBS commissioners and the Notre Dame athletic director, has now been tasked with negotiating a future for the CFP for 2026 and beyond. That includes …

Mayo: Search for LB coach was extensive, talked to Hightower ‘for a while’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The New England Patriots introduced their new staff on Wednesday afternoon, officially marking the end of the Bill Belichick era and the beginning of Jerod Mayo’s tenure. The media had a chance to catch up with New England’s new head coach …

Michigan football has a lot of questions to answer, not just this fall, but once spring ball kicks off just about a month from now. After nine years with the program, Jim Harbaugh departed for the NFL and the entire defensive staff left this offseason, as well. There’s been a ton of player turnover, with quarterback J.J. McCarthy, running back …

Report: Big Dom’s suspension impacted Sirianni’s sideline emotions originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The Eagles’ fall following their 10-1 start to the 2023 NFL season remains one of the most perplexing shifts in recent history. The decline started after Philadelphia stunningly lost 42-19 at home to the 49ers on Dec. 3, a result that seemingly had a ripple …

The offseason in college football is basically the Wild West these days. If there’s no news, fans from every team do as much as they can to create some. The latest came when Michigan football star cornerback Will Johnson, a legacy player in Ann Arbor whose father Deon was a star defensive back for the Wolverines, posted an eyeball emoji …

It can be difficult to form a Mount Rushmore for NFL quarterbacks, but one of the players who’s a candidate to be held in that esteem, Dan Marino, has a shortlist of players who stand out to him — including two signal-callers from the current generation. “I gotta go back to the guys I played against, I always loved Joe …

ESPN’s Graziano believes Aiyuk trade ‘most likely’ outcome for 49ers originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The 49ers are headed for a salary cap conundrum, but it’s nothing the reigning NFC champions haven’t figured out before. And while contract restructuring has worked in the past for San Francisco, ESPN’s Dan Graziano doesn’t see it playing out that way this …

Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman has often spoken the last couple of years about the challenges in staying on top of college football roster machinations in the modern era of transfers and name image and likeness, not to mention the lingering fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Enter Clint Brown, a veteran college football assistant and for the past two …

The Saints announced six new assistant coaches for Dennis Allen’s staff for 2024. They have hired John Benton as offensive line coach, Rick Dennison as senior offensive assistant, Derrick Foster as running backs coach, Andrew Janocko as quarterbacks coach, DeNarius McGhee as assistant wide receivers coach and Keith Williams as wide receivers coach. Benton has 33 years of coaching experience, …

USATSI Longtime Alabama football play-by-play announcer Eli Gold will not return to the booth in 2024, the university announced Wednesday. The 70-year-old Gold, who just finished his 35th year as an iconic voice of the Crimson Tide, will be replaced by Chris Stewart. Stewart handles play-by-play duties for Alabama’s men’s basketball games. He also called the Tide’s away and postseason …

Getty Images The Dallas Cowboys have hired former Boston College offensive coordinator Steve Shimko to be the team’s new offensive assistant, according to ESPN. Shimko will replace Will Harriger, who left to become the Carolina Panthers’ new quarterbacks coach.  Shimko will reunite in Dallas with Cowboys offensive coordinator Brian Schottheimer. The two were together on the Seattle Seahawks’ coaching staff …

Mike Tannenbaum suggests Bears trade Tyrique Stevenson for Stefon Diggs originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago A significant faction of the Bears’ offseason to-do list is finding a solid second option to catch footballs opposite of DJ Moore. On ESPN’s “Get Up!” former NFL general manager Mike Tannenbaum suggested the Bears trade one of their top rookies, Tyrique Stevenson, for …

If you thought that the Johnny Manziel saga was over after the documentary on him came out, then the former Texas A&M quarterback has a surprise for you. Manziel, who was a guest on former NFL tight end Shannon Sharpe’s podcast “Club Shay Shay,” revealed that there was a timeline where he would have returned to College Station instead of …

NFL legend Dan Marino recently offered his own list of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. Marino, a regular on any list that includes the best to ever play at his position, didn’t include himself though added a name that might come as a surprise.    Marino was specifically asked to name his Quarterback Mount Rushmore, but the former Miami Dolphins …

Arizona State football coach Kenny Dillingham is passionate about his job and he loves what he does. Want proof? Check out the comments he gave with Arizona Sports 98.7 FM’s Bickley & Marotta on Wednesday, where he addressed the “negative” aspects of the job in the NIL era and college football coaches who “complain” amid the hardships of the coaching …