Newly-signed New Orleans Saints safety Justin Reid didn’t play football at all until the choice was taken out of his hands. Football runs in the family, but the former Kansas City Chiefs safety didn’t take the sport seriously until the Dutchtown High School head coach persuaded Reid to choose football over soccer. Reid had no plans on being a dual-athlete …

When the Oklahoma Sooners and the Texas Longhorns joined the SEC, there was a wave of excitement that spread throughout both programs, fanbases, the league itself and college football as a whole. One season into life in the SEC, the Sooners and Longhorns have had very different experiences. Oklahoma went 6-7 in 2024 and barely made a bowl game. Texas …

STILLWATER — When Parker Robertson saw some of the changes coming to college football as part of the pending NCAA antitrust settlement, he felt sad. Not for himself, but for players like him. The ones who are on the same track, but a few years behind. Robertson came to Oklahoma State as a walk-on in 2021, and if the NCAA …

Spring practice is in full swing at LSU as the 2025 squad hits the practice field in helmets and pads. LSU football head coach Brian Kelly met with the media on Wednesday and offered updates on several topics, including LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier. Kelly said at this point in the year, LSU is looking at Nussmeier building relationships with his …

AUBURN — This season, Auburn basketball is one of the priciest jobs in the country, with Bruce Pearl being a front-runner for coaching salary in the SEC and all of college basketball. Pearl was the sixth-highest-paid coach in the nation during the 2024-25 season, and the second-highest-paid in the SEC, according to the USA TODAY Sports college basketball head coach …

LSU football head coach Brian Kelly gave injury updates on Whit Weeks and Harold Perkins following Wednesday’s practice. Both linebackers suffered injuries during the 2024 season. Perkins tore his ACL playing against UCLA in week four while Weeks went down with a broken fibula and dislocated ankle in the second quarter of LSU’s bowl game against Baylor. According to Kelly, …

Texas A&M’s 2025 season is still five months away, but it’s never too early to discuss what the Aggies will look like roster-wise under second-year head coach Mike Elko, who carries plenty of pressure after A&M finished 1-4 after starting 7-1 and 5-0 in SEC play. Star power in college football is everything, and after losing defensive linemen Nic Scourton, …

LSU football’s new defensive line coach Kyle Williams hit the field with the Tigers for the first time as Tigers began spring practice. Williams, a former LSU star and NFL All-Pro, joined Brian Kelly’s staff after Bo Davis departed for the New Orleans Saints. Williams is Kelly’s fourth defensive line coach in four years at LSU. Kelly met with the …

The Georgia Bulldogs only have three healthy scholarship quarterbacks this spring. Georgia four-star quarterback signee Ryan Montgomery is not expected to be available after tearing his ACL and undergoing surgery during the 2024 high school football season. Georgia football head coach Kirby Smart clarified Montgomery’s status ahead of spring practice. “Then we’ve got Ryan Montgomery, who has the ACL repair,” …

Georgia football raised the bar so high for itself with back-to-back national titles in 2021 and 2022 that going 11-3 last season didn’t quite measure up — even after winning an SEC championship and making an appearance in the College Football Playoff. The Bulldogs open spring practices Tuesday in hopes of making another run in 2025, still considered among the …

A Nebraska class of 2026 commit has planned a series of visits to other schools, including a Big Ten rival. CJ Bronaugh is a four-star defensive back out of Winter Garden, Florida. Bronaugh has told On3 that he will visit with the Florida State Seminoles on March 19, the North Carolina Tar Heels on March 21, the Clemson Tigers on …

Walking off the field after Alabama football’s first practice of the spring, Kalen DeBoer instantly turned the conversation to what he feels is most important heading into 2025: the players who decided to return, the voices he expects to be strongest in the locker room even without those clear, commanding, “over-the-top” voices that defined his first Crimson Tide season a …

If Lyndi Rae Davis had another year of eligibility, she might leave campus with a PhD. By the end of her junior season at UGA, she had completed undergraduate degree requirements in sports management and is on her way towards earning a Masters degree in her final year of eligibility as the Lady Dog softball team’s regular catcher. Graduation this …

Shortly after Chandler Reid walked through the doors of Beach High School as a freshman, head football coach Michael Thompson realized the versatile athlete was something special. Reid was a four-year starter at point guard for the Bulldogs and became a standout cornerback earning All-Region honors for the last two seasons in that sport as well. On Wednesday, he set …

The Texas Tech football program has drifted away from the days of torturing defenses with a short, slick slot receiver. Oh, the Red Raiders have continued to deploy inside receivers in three- and four-wide formations. Not ones, however, who confounded defenses to the degree of Wes Welker, Eric Morris, Danny Amendola, Jakeem Grant, Keke Coutee, all sub-6-foot playmakers who put …