Penn State has never been closer to the national championship during the modern era than it was in 2024. The Nittany Lions reached the College Football Playoff semifinals for the first time in the debut season of the 12-team field before falling to eventual national runner-up Notre Dame in the final moments of the Orange Bowl. Unlike several teams in …
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MADISON – A key piece of the Wisconsin football coaching staff is joining a Big Ten rival. Max Stienecker, the Badgers’ director of player personnel the past two seasons, is leaving to become USC’s executive director of personnel. The news was first reported by Football Scoop and followed by multiple reports confirming the departure. Stienecker followed coach Luke Fickell to …
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A year ago, Lane Kiffin turned spring football into a spectacle of hot dog contests, golf cart races and tug-of-war championships, embracing chaos and fun over any meaningful football. Outsiders may have thought it was just another classic Kiffin move, college football’s great showman thumbing his nose at tradition yet again. But there was a clear motive behind the move, …
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Colorado’s Deion Sanders will enter his third year at the helm in Boulder as college football’s seventh-best head coach, according to a recent ranking by Ari Wasserman of On3. Despite just a 13-12 overall record in his two previous seasons leading the Buffs, Coach Prime has made a profound impact, bringing Colorado football from undisputed irrelevance to the national spotlight. …
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Getty Images The Big 12 released its football schedule for the 2025 season on Tuesday as the league enters its second season with a full 16-team roster. With a spot in the College Football Playoff on the line, all eyes will be on how the race in one of the most chaotic conferences in college football plays out. The first …
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The Big 12 announced its 2025 football schedule with a Big 12 schedule reveal show Tuesday on ESPNU, FS2 and TruTV. Who will each Big 12 football team play in 2025? Look at the schedule for each week in the 2025 Big 12 season, with Kansas State and Iowa State opening up the season on Aug. 23 with a conference …
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The Big 12 released its 2025 football schedule Tuesday, setting the stage for another season of back-and-forth battles in a conference that delivered thrills on a weekly basis in 2024. When Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark banged the podium to proclaim his conference the most competitive in the country at media days last July, he had no idea just how …
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The Big 12 announced its 2025 football schedule with a reveal show Tuesday on ESPNU, FS2 and TruTV. Who will each Big 12 football team play in 2025? Look at the schedule for each Big 12 team in the 2025 college football season, with Kansas State and Iowa State opening up the season on Aug. 23 with a conference game …
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Wisconsin football rising star general manager Max Stienecker has been hired away by the USC Trojans. The move was first reported by FootballScoop’s John Brice, then later confirmed by The Athletic’s Jesse Temple. The Badgers recently promoted Stienecker to GM in July 2024 after just one year with the program. He originally joined the Wisconsin staff as its player personnel …
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Even when the “Last Dance” approach is successful, there is a downside to it. When you get the band back together for one final run at a championship, even if you succeed, you know that there almost certainly will be a stepback after the all-in approach. The most famous example is the Chicago Bulls, the focus of the “Last Dance” …
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Onis Konanbanny is one of the final pieces left on the board in the 2025 class — and he is officially signed. Months after not inking with Tennessee during the Early Signing Period, the four-star defensive back originally from the United Kingdom has flipped his commitment — to Florida. He will ink with the Gators on National Signing Day on …
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For the third consecutive year, Oklahoma will be the college with the most former players in the Super Bowl as the Sooners-heavy Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday in New Orleans. Five former Oklahoma players are on the Chiefs’ 53-man roster, and two more play for Philadelphia. Georgia is second on the list with six former …
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With the release of the Big 12 Conference play slate on Tuesday morning, the puzzle is complete. The entire Iowa State football schedule for the 2025 season is set. The Cyclones will open the season with a conference game against rival Kansas State in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin, Ireland, on Aug. 23. Non-conference play features back-to-back …
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Alabama made a huge splash when it hired Ryan Grubb as offensive coordinator, reuniting the assistant with Crimson Tide coach Kalen DeBoer. The two have worked together at the collegiate level for almost 10 years through stops at Sioux Falls, Fresno State and Washington, with it all culminating in a College Football Playoff National Championship appearance to cap the 2023 …
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The Texas Tech football team will play three of its first four Big 12 games on the road in 2025, starting with a conference opener at Utah on Sept. 20. Tech has open dates the week after its conference opener and the week before its regular-season finale, meaning the Red Raiders will play seven consecutive weeks in between. In November …
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