D’Anton Lynn LOS ANGELES — Southern California has signed defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn to a contract extension after his strong debut season with the Trojans. USC didn’t disclose details of Lynn’s new deal in its announcement, but the extension should end talk of Lynn’s possible departure for other jobs. The Trojans’ defense improved sharply in its first season under the …

The No. 7 seed Notre Dame Fighting Irish and No. 8 seed Ohio State Buckeyes will square off in the College Football Playoff Championship game on Monday, Jan. 20. Notre Dame opened the playoff with wins over Indiana and Georgia before sneaking past Penn State in the Orange bowl last Thursday. Ohio State suffered a disastrous loss to Michigan in …

Texas football tight end Amari Niblack is expected to enter the transfer portal, according to multiple reports. Niblack arrived at Texas last offseason as a transfer from Alabama. He didn’t see the field much, playing just 90 snaps behind Gunnar Helm (who declared for the NFL) and Juan Davis, who got most of the workload. He’d played 358 snaps at …

By any estimation, Notre Dame is one of the standard bearers for the purely American enterprise that is college football. Perhaps it is only fitting that of any program, the first Black or Asian American coach to lead a team in a Division I national championship game will belong to this storied program led by Marcus Freeman. Freeman’s father is …

How QBs stack up | Players to watch | Keys to the game | Prediction The national championship game is nearly here. Ohio State is going for its first national title since the end of the 2014 season. The Buckeyes beat Alabama and Oregon with third-string QB Cardale Jones to win the first four-team College Football Playoff. A win on …

ATLANTA — The value of a conference championship has diminished before our eyes. Like it or not, they just don’t matter as much.  Monday’s Notre Dame-Ohio State College Football Playoff National Championship was long ago guaranteed to produce only the fourth ever national champion that did not win its conference in the championship game era.  That history goes back to …

How QBs stack up | Players to watch | Keys to the game | Prediction The national championship game is nearly here. Ohio State is going for its first national title since the end of the 2014 season. The Buckeyes beat Alabama and Oregon with third-string QB Cardale Jones to win the first four-team College Football Playoff. A win on …

Getty Images USC and defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn have agreed to a contract extension, locking in a key piece to Lincoln Riley’s coaching staff amid interest from other schools, the university announced via social media. Lynn, who just finished his first season with the Trojans, generated some buzz in the assistant coaching carousel with schools like Penn State keeping an eye …

After a program-record 11 Texas football players were selected in the NFL draft last year, several Longhorns are hoping to surpass that number. Some Texas players are going pro because that’s their only choice — they’ve exhausted all their eligibility. Others are going because they’re near-locks to be highly draft (Kelvin Bank Jr., for instance). And there’s another group who …

Special Teams Coach Bubba Ventrone at the 2023 Hall of Fame Game between Clevelannd Browns and New York Jets at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium. Friday, August 03, 2023. The Cleveland Browns announced that their special teams coordinator, Bubba Ventrone, will serve as a head coach at the 2024 Reese’s Senior Bowl. Ventrone will be joined by New York …

Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman studied in the Jim Tressel school of thought. No, I don’t mean the punt being the most important play in football. More like the way to win a game is to control it, by making your opponent earn every yard and minimizing your own mistakes. That recipe worked for Ohio State in 2002, when the …

Brent Venables is hard-wired for defense. Ask the OU football coach about the Sooners’ offense, the struggles on the line or the inconsistency at quarterback, and he is apt to take off on a tangent about the defense. Bless his heart, that’s just how he is. Defense, defense, defense. Which leads us to an interesting question: Would Jim Knowles leave …

Rivals national recruiting analyst Sam Spiegelman has three predictions on the final Rivals250 rankings for the 2025 class, a lofty ranking for Tennessee quarterback commit Faizon Brandon and Georgia’s big recruiting weekend. MORE PREDICTIONS: Kansas’ 2026 class, USC decommit, 2025 team rankings CLASS OF 2025 RANKINGS: Rivals250 | Team | Position | State CLASS OF 2026 RANKINGS: Rivals250 | Team …

Jan. 17—ATHENS — The Concord University Athletic Department has announced the hiring of Cody Edwards as the school’s next head football coach, Concord Co-Athletic Directors Luke Duffy and Tesla Southcott announced Thursday morning. Edwards comes to Concord as the program’s 22nd head coach after a stint as the linebackers’ coach and special teams’ coordinator at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, …

Sep 7, 2024; College Park, Maryland, USA; Maryland Terrapins head coach Mike Locksley smiles while on the field before the game against the Michigan State Spartans at SECU Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Tommy Gilligan-Imagn Images The New York Jets will be looking for a new head coach in 2025 after the Robert Saleh regime failed to produce a winning season, let …