For the second time this week, the West Alabama football program has tapped into the Crimson Tide pipeline as they have named former TE O.J. Howard as the program’s Director of Player Development. Howard joins fellow former Alabama standout Blake Sims in Livingston, AL who agreed to be the team’s wide receiver coach over the weekend. Scott Cochran, the former …

Auburn football is in the mix to land one of the nation’s top running backs from the 2026 recruiting cycle. Jae Lamar, a four-star running back from Colquitt County High School in Moultrie, Georgia, recently included Auburn in his top ten college choices. Hugh Freeze and his coaching staff are in a race with several SEC programs including Alabama, Georgia, …

UNLV athletic director Erick Harper admitted that the school can only afford to pay the first two years of new football coach Dan Mullen’s five-year, $17.5 million contract. Harper made the admission at a Board of Regents meeting last week, telling the group that the athletic department is in at least $26 million worth of debt and could only afford …

Mar. 13—*** Good-guy Adam Rittenberg (that should be his full name) at came up with an interesting idea: Who might be this year’s Indiana when it comes to the College Football Playoff? As Rittenberg pointed out in his well-written article, the Hoosiers shocked college football in 2024 with a 10-0 start and a spot in the CFP. It was an …

It has been an interesting offseason for USC football. After a somewhat disappointing 2025 recruiting class and winter transfer portal window, the Trojans significantly beefed up their recruiting operation, hiring general manager Chad Bowden away from archrival Notre Dame. The results thus far have ben highly encouraging, as USC currently holds the No. 1 ranked recruiting class in the country …

Things are starting to circulate for this year’s EA Sports College Football 26 video game and Florida Gators football fans have extra reasons to be excited. The upcoming Deluxe Edition of the game is set to feature a lineup of college football’s brightest stars, including Gators football quarterback DJ Lagway, on the cover. This doesn’t come as a surprise after …

Another day, another pair of Alabama football champions added to Scott Cochran’s staff at West Alabama. West Alabama announced that former Alabama running back Bo Scarbrough would join the staff as the team’s director of high school relations, and former Alabama defensive tackle Damion Square, who spent nine seasons in the NFL, as defensive line coach. Scarbrough won two national …

One of the first lessons they teach in journalism school is the KISS Method: Keep It Simple, Stupid. It means one should be concise and to the point. Don’t use 12 words when you can use three. It applies to everything from writing obituaries to covering inaugurals. Having lasted 27 years at CBS Sports and almost 45 years in this …

USATSI EA Sports held a photoshoot for “College Football 26,” and a leaked photograph showing a potential version of the Deluxe Edition cover is real, CBS Sports’ Brandon Marcello confirms. Several coaches are involved in the promotional material this time around, including Georgia’s Kirby Smart and Ohio State’s Ryan Day.  Smart, Day and Penn State’s James Franklin are identifiable on the leaked …

From speedy, slippery running backs and gunslinging quarterbacks to strong, stout linemen and hard-hitting, bruising linebackers, the Big Country’s 2024 Texas high school football season was defined by elite playmakers who delivered when it mattered most. Several Big Country squads launched deep playoff runs, while many of the area’s top high school football players stood out on the gridiron and …

Spring ball is getting underway across college football, and hope springs eternal for teams across the Big 12. The conference is the most upwardly mobile of the power leagues, and everyone will have Arizona State’s magical run from worst-to-first in mind as they prepare for the season.  After a hyper-competitive race for the Big 12 title game in 2024, even …

Bryce Underwood has grown close with Los Angeles Clippers guard James Harden because they share some of the same representation so when the five-star quarterback was in town recently – and the Clippers were playing the Lakers – Underwood told Harden he needed to meet LeBron James. The meeting went well enough, Underwood admitted he was a little star-struck and …

Following the 2024 season, it was obvious to many that Auburn’s offense needed a spark. Hugh Freeze and his staff may have found just that in Georgia Tech transfer Eric Singleton. Singleton led the Yellow Jackets in receiving yards over the last two seasons, totaling 1,468 yards and nine touchdowns on 104 catches. He joins a talented receiver room with …

Army and Navy’s request to add a 13th regular-season game has been tabled by the Division I Football Oversight Committee, sources confirmed to CBS Sports.  Because their annual meeting in December is played the week after the College Football Playoff field is selected, an additional game would have helped with not only their CFP resumes but also standing in the …

Coy Eakin, when healthy, has started nearly every game the past two seasons for the Texas Tech football team, catching 85 passes for more than 1,000 yards. He did all that during his redshirt freshman and sophomore seasons, so spring practice should be a matter of sharpening his skills and trying to take his game up a notch. Oh, one …