Getty Images AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — The College Football Playoff’s power players are nearing consensus to change the seeding process next season to eliminate first-round byes for conference champions, sources tell CBS Sports. The “straight seeding” proposal has gained support from the ACC and Big 12 in recent weeks, sources said. On Wednesday, ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said for the …

Tennessee football will hold its Checker Neyland game against Georgia on Sept. 13 at Neyland Stadium in its SEC opener, UT announced. Former UT star defensive lineman John Henderson also will be honored at the Georgia game as a College Football Hall of Fame inductee. Checker Neyland showcases UT’s checkerboard pattern across the stadium by utilizing the sections in a strategic …

HOOVER, Ala. — A day after losing five-star offensive lineman Jackson Cantwell in the last hour to Miami, Georgia head coach Kirby Smart decried the current uncertainty surrounding college football recruiting. Smart was deep in the heart of Alabama on Wednesday for the annual Regions Tradition Pro-Am less than 24 hours after Cantwell, a top-10 player in 247Sports’ 2026 rankings, picked …

2025 will mark the fifth football season for Tennessee under head coach Josh Heupel. He has compiled a 37-15 (20-12 SEC) record since 2021. The Vols will kick off their 2025 campaign against Syracuse on Aug. 30. Kick off between the Vols and Orange is slated for noon EDT at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. ABC will televise the season …

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — When Bill Belichick turned the corner inside a ritzy hotel along the Atlantic Coast, conversations hushed and eyes diverted for a quick peek at possibly the greatest football coach of all time. The attention is not new for the eight-time Super Bowl champion, who shocked the sports world when he was hired as North Carolina’s head …

Georgia football added some experience to its running back room with the addition of Illinois transfer Josh McCray. Coach Kirby Smart called the 6-foot-1, 235-pound McCray “a talented kid from a great high school program,” and said he sees him helping out the running game particularly when the Bulldogs need to move the chains. Smart was speaking on Wednesday morning …

The 2025 college football season is nearly three months away, and after the culmination of the Oregon Ducks’ spring season, we’ve learned some key information about the new-look Ducks while some questions are left unanswered. Major roster turnover, especially at key skill positions, is the cause for much of the uncertainty surrounding the 2025 Ducks. A year after Oregon spent …

The final week in Southeastern Conference regular-season play will be contested Thursday-Saturday. Final SEC baseball series scheduled this week include the following: Texas A&M at Georgia, Alabama at Florida, Kentucky at Vanderbilt, LSU at South Carolina, Mississippi State at Missouri, Texas at Oklahoma, Auburn at Ole Miss and Tennessee at Arkansas. Tennessee (40-13, 15-12 SEC) ranks No. 15 nationally for …

One of Texas A&M’s priority prospects in the 2026 recruiting class, five-star cornerback Brandon Arrington, is down to four potential destinations, as USC, Oregon, Penn State, Alabama, and the Aggies are the final programs vying for his commitment, and will all host him for an official visit in the coming weeks. Since the start of his relationship with coach Mike …

Just under a month after entering the college transfer portal and leaving Bowling Green State University before his first season, Lakota East graduate J.T. Kitna announced his new school. Kitna, the son of Lakota East head coach and former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Jon Kitna, announced on May 13 that he would be joining the program at Stephen F. Austin State …

The commitments of five-stars Jackson Cantwell and Jared Curtis in the last 10 days kicked off a “commitment season” that will surely be full of fireworks. Before the tidal wave of commitment announcements hits its peak, take a look at which teams have the best recruiting classes at each position. MORE CANTWELL: Miami pulls off a stunner | How badly …

LSU football watched its recruiting class take a hit with four-star wide receiver Jakai Anderson flipping to SMU, but the Tigers’ 2026 class is still one of the best in the country. According to the On3 Industry Rankings, LSU sits No. 2, only trailing USC. USC’s placement at No. 1 is largely due to volume. The Trojans already have 28 …

The Oklahoma Sooners earned their first defensive commitment of the 2026 recruiting class on Tuesday night, earning a pledge from safety Niko Jandreau out of Chandler, Arizona. But that might not be the only Hamilton High product to wear the crimson and cream in the future. The Sooners are also pursuing Niko’s twin brother, three-star linebacker Beau Jandreau. On Tuesday …

For the first time since the Tigers won the National Championship in 2023, LSU is the unanimous No. 1 team in the country. The Tigers took two out of three games from the Arkansas Razorbacks last weekend in Baton Rouge to climb back to the top of the polls. Florida, which has a knack for getting hot at the right …

Tennessee is already making efforts to recruit toward its 2028 football signing class. The Vols offered a scholarship to linebacker Skylar Alston on Tuesday. “Extremely blessed to have received an offer from Vol football,” Alston said. The 6-foot-2, 210-pound prospect is from Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has not accumulated any recruiting rankings from Rivals, 247Sports …