Few coaches around the nation — let alone in the SEC — face as much pressure as Auburn’s Hugh Freeze entering the 2025 season. Freeze was brought in to revive a stagnant program by injecting it with new talent and bringing back its winning ways.  Entering year three, he’s achieved half of those crucial objectives. Auburn has recruited well under …

I know it. You know it. Your twice-removed cousin from your long-lost brother (not sure that’s a thing) knows it. Ohio State receiver Jeremiah Smith is the best player in college football entering 2025. Pro Football Focus also agrees when it ranked the rising sophomore atop its list of top 50 college football players this offseason. And while these things …

Getty Images This week, the leaders of the top conference in college football descended upon Atlanta for SEC Media Days. A total of four head coaches are scheduled to take the podium each day to address reporters, and all will do so with their school’s fight song playing in the background. Unless you’re Steve Sarkisian, that is. When it was …

Georgia made a key update to their football support staffers list on the media guide. Now, former Georgia safety and former South Carolina/Florida head coach Will Muschamp is no longer listed on it. He was the co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach from 2022-23, but decided to take a step back to defensive analyst in 2024 to spend more time with …

Is Auburn a playoff-caliber team in 2025? Tigers coach Hugh Freeze certainly thinks so. Freeze said Tuesday at SEC media day that he believed his team would be in the playoff conversation at the end of the season. Auburn went 5-7 in 2024, but Freeze said that he felt his team was better than it was a season ago. Advertisement …

Whoever was in charge of the introductory music at SEC media days had quite the mixup on Tuesday. Coaches head to the podium for their main press conferences to their school’s fight songs. But right after SEC commissioner Greg Sankey introduced Texas coach Steve Sarkisian, a fight song that distinctly was not the University of Texas’ played over the loudspeakers. …

Getty Images In a week dominated by talk of the upcoming college football season, Texas safety Michael Taaffe brought something different to SEC Media Days in Atlanta: perspective. Wearing a burnt orange tie stitched with the initials of the 27 victims at Camp Mystic, one of several communities impacted by the recent devastating floods in Texas, Taaffe used the national …

LSU football is set to meet Clemson when it opens the 2025 college football season next month. The game features two big-name coaches with Brian Kelly leading LSU and Dabo Swinney at the helm of Clemson. But before things get serious on the field, Swinney had a funny story involving Brian Kelly. Or so he thought. Swinney took a trip …

The state of Oklahoma is still riding a wave of euphoria after the Oklahoma City Thunder captured the state’s first major professional sports championship. The NBA title sparked an unprecedented surge of pride and celebration, uniting fans from the panhandle to Green Country in a statewide moment of joy. But as the confetti settles, attention shifts to college football — …

The Oregon Ducks were unable to land one of the top linebackers on their board on Tuesday when 5-star Tyler Atkinson announced his commitment to the Texas Longhorns, choosing Steve Sarkisian’s team over both Dan Lanning’s Ducks and Kirby Smart’s Georgia Bulldogs. While there are still highly-rated prospects at the position available, it doesn’t appear that they will be one …

Imagn Images Tulsa football co-offensive coordinator Ty Darlington was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to police reports obtained by KOTV. Authorities say Darlington was speeding on Kimberly Park Place in Jenks, a Tulsa suburb, when he nearly collided with a patrol car responding to an earlier accident. Officers at the scene noted Darlington …

At Monday’s SEC media day, LSU wide receiver Chris Hilton talked about the growth he’s observed from quarterback Garrett Nussmeier in the offseason. “I would say the biggest thing I’ve seen from (Nussmeier) is he took a big step being a leader. Like more of a vocal leader, not just leading the offense, but leading the whole team. The sky’s …

Jackson Arnold was supposed to be the next great quarterback at Oklahoma — a five-star prospect who lit up Texas high school football. But things unraveled fast. He was benched just four games into his first season as the Sooners’ starter in 2024. Though later reinstated, Arnold entered the transfer portal after the season and landed at new SEC rival Auburn. …

The Auburn EDGE rusher says that the team needs to show positive results on the field this season. Tuesday is Auburn’s day at SEC football media days in Atlanta, where the likes of EDGE rusher Keldric Faulk, quarterback Jackson Arnold, and center Connor Lew will join head coach Hugh Freeze in fielding questions from the media ahead of the 2025 …

If it was up to Kirby Smart, college football would be centered around “fire, passion and energy” and none of these landscape-altering changes the sport has endured over the last few seasons. The Georgia coach is a football-first guy, after all, forced to concern himself with new norms of personality changes and player entitlement because he’s seen it inside his …