Wednesday brought news that seemingly no one in the college football world expected: legendary Alabama football coach Nick Saban is retiring and the Crimson Tide will be looking for a replacement head coach. While there was speculation that Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning would be Alabama’s next guy, it was announced Thursday morning that Lanning is staying in Oregon. …

The Detroit Lions are the only NFC team in the 2024 NFL playoff bracket never to have won the Super Bowl. The Lions will host the Los Angeles Rams at Ford Field during NFL Super Wild Card Weekend 2024. Sunday’s showdown will be the first-ever home playoff game at Ford Field after the Lions won their first NFC North title …

The NFL playoffs are finally here. And in our first prime-time game of the weekend, the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs will play host to the Miami Dolphins. Kansas City uncharacteristically struggled for large portions of this season and finished just 11-6, capturing the AFC’s No. 3 seed. The Dolphins seemed like they had the AFC East all …

Henry McKenna AFC East Reporter Bill Belichick is on to … Well, we don’t actually know where. Belichick is — in a surreal yet unsurprising twist — the former coach of the New England Patriots. He is without a job. It’s the end of an era in New England. No more Tom Brady. No more Rob Gronkowski. No more Julian …

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Photograph: Christian Petersen/Getty Images Jerod Mayo has been hired to replace Bill Belichick as the head coach of the New England Patriots, ESPN reported on Friday. Related: Like many great leaders, Bill Belichick was brought down by a failure to evolve | Oliver Connolly Mayo, 37, who has served as the Patriots’ inside linebackers coach under Belichick since 2019, will …

The 2023 NFL season flew by but the 2024 NFL offseason got off to a slow start, with the possibility of some big names holding up coaching movement. That didn’t last long though, with some big-time breaking news over the last 24-48 hours. Wednesday saw Pete Carroll retire as Seahawks coach, then Alabama announced Nick Saban was leaving the program. …

The Badgers offered three-star edge rusher Romando Johnson from West Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday. The 6-foot-4, 230-pound athlete is a junior at Palm Beach Central and he’s a member of the class of 2025. Johnson has now received 13 Division 1 offers, including offers from Penn State and Purdue in the Big Ten, while home-state teams like Florida, FAU …

Jerod Mayo has played and been an assistant coach for the New England Patriots. He’ll now embark on a new journey: succeeding Bill Belichick as New England’s new head coach. Mayo has become the 15th head coach in Patriots history, with ESPN reporting Friday that the two sides have agreed to a deal. [McKenna: Why Patriots players say Jerod Mayo …

We get a Week 9 rematch in Super Wild Card Weekend, as Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs play host to Tyreek Hill and the Miami Dolphins. These two teams last met in Germany, with Kansas City earning a 21-14 victory. The Chiefs scored all 21 points in the first half, while the Dolphins scored zero. Kansas City held its former …

The coaching staff for Lincoln Riley and the USC Trojans football program keeps on changing. On Thursday, edge rushing coach Roy Manning essentially said goodbye to USC after two years with the program. He posted a lengthy post on X: “I’d like to thank Coach Riley and the entire coaching & support staff that I’ve had the opportunity to work …

The Detroit Lions ended a 30-year divisional drought by winning the NFC North this season and now they’ll try to end a 32-year drought without a playoff victory during NFL Super Wild Card Weekend 2024. The Lions will host the Rams on Sunday in the first round of the 2024 NFL playoff bracket and are favored by three points in …

Eagles’ aim on defense this week? Simplify and play fast originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Earlier this week, Eagles de facto defensive coordinator Matt Patricia talked about wanting to give his players a chance to play fast and aggressive. You know how you do that? You simplify things on defense. And, according to some players, there has been a …

Nick Saban is college football’s all-time leader in national championships with seven, giving him a strong trump card as the greatest college football coach of all time. Six of them came during his legendary 17-year run as Alabama’s coach, which came to an end Tuesday when he announced his retirement. From his first coaching stint at Toledo in 1990 through …

Ralph Vacchiano NFC East Reporter Jerry Jones was always convinced CeeDee Lamb could become one of the Dallas Cowboys’ greatest receivers. He believed it so much he convinced him to wear No. 88, just like Drew Pearson, Michael Irvin and Dez Bryant. And Lamb is certainly putting up the numbers to belong in their company. But there’s one more thing …