Alex Ward only needed one hand to secure an Alabama football offer. The 2027 Marietta, Georgia, defensive back had a torn tendon in his middle finger when he first camped in front of Alabama defensive backs coach Maurice Linguist in June. With a cast on one hand, and at times with that hand behind his back, Ward was still able …

This week, New Orleans will be the home of five Florida A&M football players looking to help their chances to go pro. On Monday, four Rattlers, Daniel Richardson (quarterback), Jamari Gassett (wide receiver), Jeremiah Pruitte (tight end), and Kendall Bohler (cornerback), will perform at the HBCU NFL Combine at the New Orleans Saints’ Ochsner Sports Performance Center. Offensive prospects will …

BLOOMINGTON — Curt Cignetti’s Indiana football defense got some big boosts for 2025 in the last month of 2024, when impact players like Aiden Fisher and Mikail Kamara decided to run it back for one last year in college. That didn’t plug every hole, though. Cignetti and his staff did important work along the defensive line, in the secondary and …

WEST LAFAYTETTE — Purdue football coach Barry Odom’s offensive and defensive coordinators will both make more than $1 million annually for the first time, per details of their first Boilermakers contracts. Offensive coordinator Josh Henson agreed to a three-year contract which pays $1.1 million this season, $1.2 million for 2026 and $1.3 million for 2027. Defensive coordinator Mike Scherer will …

You could see the disappointment in the face of Penn State quarterback Drew Allar after he threw a critical interception in the stages of the College Football Playoff semifinal against Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl, which ultimately led to a game-winning field goal by the Irish with just a few seconds remaining on the game clock. Allar clearly took …

The Oklahoma Sooners are bringing back a familiar face in former offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson. According to a report from OUInsider, the Sooners added Wilson to the staff in an analyst role. Josh Callaway and Sooners Illustrated also confirmed the report. Wilson spent 2002 to 2010 with the Sooners, serving as a co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach from 2002 …

Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger and SI’s Pat Forde look ahead to this week’s meeting between the SEC & Big Ten conferences which may change college football as we know it. After only one season of the 12-team College Football Playoff, the SEC & Big Ten conferences have already determined it’s time for a change. The conferences are likely to propose …

NORMAN — Four months ago, amid an offensive coordinator search that eventually led to Ben Arbuckle, OU football’s Brent Venables made it clear hiring coaches with Sooner ties wasn’t a necessity. However, relationships are important to Venables and he’s never shied away from hiring former colleagues and friends. “I could care less about OU ties,” Venables said then. “That doesn’t …

Last spring, during intense and, at times, heated negotiations over the future of the College Football Playoff, leaders of the Big Ten and SEC threatened to create their own postseason system if they were not granted a majority of CFP revenue and full authority over the playoff format. In the end, executives of the 10 FBS leagues and Notre Dame …