ATLANTA – One final box to check. Noie: Thoughts about Notre Dame football while counting down the hours until Monday’s kickoff One more game, one more box and the kid from the one flashing stoplight town of Royal Center, Indiana, can look back on his six seasons of college football and say that there’s absolutely nothing left to do. Or …

It’s very clear that football players’ ability to make money in college means fewer underclassmen are declaring early for the NFL Draft. That number will grow by Jan. 24. That’s the deadline for Notre Dame and Ohio State players to declare early for the draft. The declaration deadline for anyone not playing in the national title game was Jan. 15. …

Mizzou’s staff is reportedly whole again. Missouri football is expected to hire Miami’s Derek Nicholson as its next linebackers coach, per a report Thursday morning from ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Nicholson had been the linebackers coach for the Hurricanes since 2023 and added the title of co-defensive coordinator in 2024. Nicholson will fill the open position vacated by D.J. Smith, who …

Hutto athletic director and former Hippos football coach Brad LaPlante, who has worked at the school and in the school district since 2014, has left to become the athletic director for the Montgomery school district outside of Houston. Will Compton, who has been the Hippos’ football coach for the past three years, will leave that position to become Hutto ISD’s …

Ohio State and Notre Dame have reached the same destination with rosters built much the same way. The teams set to play in the College Football Playoff championship game in Atlanta sign elite high school recruiting classes year after year. That has been and continues to be their foundations. While many teams relentlessly mine the transfer portal in hopes of …

Georgia defensive lineman Mykel Williams (13) goes in for a sack on Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers (3) during the second half of the SEC championship game against Texas in Atlanta, on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. The NFL made an important announcement about the 2025 NFL draft on Thursday. It announced that 55 underclassmen were granted eligibility for the 2025 NFL …

The Brief Quarterback Riley Leonard transferred to Notre Dame from Duke for the 2024 season. The Irish, who lost to Ohio State in the 2022 and 2023 seasons, get a third crack at the Buckeyes during the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship game. Can Leonard, who wasn’t quarterbacking Notre Dame in ‘22 or ’23, be the difference in Round …

Naheem Ridore is finished dominating the South Shore’s high school football trenches. He’s headed to the next level. On Thursday, Ridore announced on X that he will continue his football career at the Division 1 FCS level at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The 6-foot-2, 230-pound lineman finished his All-Scholastic senior season as the Wildcats’ all-time sack leader. This …

Army senior left guard Bill Katsigiannis was named a second-team all-America as selected by sports giant ESPN. Last month he was named first-team by Sports Illustrated. A native of Katy, Texas, Katsigiannis played a major role with the Black Knights’ receiving the Joe Moore Award, presented to the most outstanding offensive line unit in college football. Oct 12, 2024; West …

The Texas Longhorns came close to reaching two lofty goals this past season, losing to Georgia in the SEC Championship Game and falling to Ohio State in the semifinals of the College Football Playoff. However, those two near-misses are likely to fuel even higher expectations in 2025 and Steve Sarkisian is already hard at work to address the Texas football …

Jan. 16—SOUTH BEND — For the third time in the College Football Playoff-era and eighth time since 1999, the betting favorite to win the national championship is at least an 8.5-point favorite. No. 8-seed Ohio State (13-2) opened up Friday, Jan. 10 as 9.5-point CFP title game favorites over No. 7-seed Notre Dame (14-1). That number has shrunk to 8.5 …

Penn State’s setbacks on the grand stage seem to be the only hole in an otherwise outstanding 11-year stretch under head coach James Franklin. The Nittany Lions lost to Notre Dame in heartbreaking fashion in the College Football Playoff semifinals, with Franklin falling to 1-15 against top-five teams at Penn State. The 2025 Penn State football roster is starting to …

LAKELAND — Looking ahead to the 2025 football season, Lake Wales knew it would have one of the deepest and most talented stable of skill position players at running back and wide receiver, but there was question about who would start at quarterback. Not anymore. Quarterback Chad Williams will wrap up his high school career at Lake Wales. Bob Williams, …

COLLEGE STATION — In December, Texas A&M football gained a commitment from former Texas Tech wide receiver Micah Hudson, as A&M has made it a point to add wide receiver talent in the transfer portal. However, just a little over a month later, the former Red Raider is currently away from the Aggies. According to reports, Hudson is temporarily stepping …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The athletic director at a mid-sized school that’s making a splash this season has a modest proposal for taming what many say is a transfer-portal system run amok in college sports. Sean Frazier, the AD at Northern Illinois — remember, the team that beat national finalist Notre Dame earlier this season — is talking about a “talent …