College Football

The Nebraska football team received a resignation letter right before the start of training camp. Defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator Evan Cooper resigned on Friday evening. Cooper was entering his second season as the Huskers’ defensive backs coach. The 2024 campaign would have been his 12th consecutive year on Rhule’s staff. He resigned for personal reasons. Cooper’s secondary …

Gadsden City’s Zyan Gibson has burst onto the recruiting scene last spring and this summer, garnering offers from some of the top schools in the country. The Class of 2026 defensive back has an offer sheet headlined by SEC and in-state giants Alabama and Auburn. Tennessee, Texas A&M, Miami, Georgia, LSU, defending champions Michigan and other power conference offers have …

WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue football coach Ryan Walters made recruiting lockdown cornerbacks a priority. On Friday evening, the Boilermakers landed one of the nation’s best in the 2025 class. Columbus, Ohio’s Dawayne Galloway, a four-star cornerback by 247Sports, announced on his Instagram account he’s verbally “100% committed” to Purdue. Galloway becomes the 11th known member of Purdue’s 2025 football recruiting …

Damien Shanklin will be a LSU Tiger. The Indianapolis (Ind.) Warren Central four-star defensive end announced his pledge to the Tigers on Friday. He took official visits to Tennessee, Ohio State and Alabama in addition to his trip to Baton Rouge. Shanklin originally planned to commit on Aug. 29 but moved his date up since he knew LSU was the …

The Alabama Crimson Tide coaching staff has already begun to recruit for the 2026 recruiting class. One prospect that the Crimson Tide are an early finalist for is interior offensive lineman Brandon Anderson. On Friday, Anderson listed Alabama in his top seven. The other six finalists were Georgia Bulldogs, Georgia Tech, LSU Tigers, North Carolina State, Tennessee Volunteers, and UCF. …

USC football recruiting might not exactly be terrible. The Trojans could have a top-15 class for 2025. That’s certainly not atrocious. Moreover, USC is taking big swings and is not shying away from high-profile recruitments in the South and other contested regions. However, for all the swings USC takes, the Trojans aren’t hitting it out of the park. That’s what …

LSU’s 2025 class took a hit in the ratings with a couple of key recent decommitments, namely five-star receiver Dakorien Moore and four-star cornerback Jaboree Antoine. It will take some time before the Tigers are pushing for the top class in the country as they were previously, but after landing a trio of commitments this week, they’re back on track. …

The Tigers are on a roll. Missouri football secured a verbal commitment from four-star wide receiver Donovan Olubode on Friday, marking the second blue chip receiver based in the state of Florida to pledge to Eli Drinkwitz’s Class of 2025 in as many days. Olugbode — who is originally from Naperville, Illinois — committed to the Tigers on the heels …

LSU has seen its standing in the 2025 recruiting rankings fall a bit in recent weeks, but it’s picked up quite a bit of momentum to start the July 4 weekend. The Tigers landed a trio of commitments capped off by the addition of four-star EDGE Damien Shanklin, who committed to the Tigers on Friday. Shanklin, an Indianapolis prospect, is …

IMG Academy wide receiver Donovan Olugbode committed to the Missouri Tigers on Friday over Florida, Oregon, USC and Washington. Olugbode announced his decision live on 247Sports’ YouTube channel surrounded by his family. He reviewed each of his top five schools with national college football recruiting analyst Tom Loy before revealing his choice. “Billy Napier, him being a receiver guy, coming …

The state’s top high school football prospect is headed to bayou country for college. Warren Central defensive end Damien Shanklin, ranked as the No. 48 prospect in the country by 247sports and the No. 5 defensive end, announced his commitment to LSU on Friday on his Instagram page. The 6-5, 245-pound picked LSU over Alabama and Ohio State. He took …

If you didn’t know, Notre Dame football added 2025 North Carolina safety JaDon Blair to its recruiting class on Friday afternoon. Although he committed to the Irish, it wasn’t without a bit of decision day trolling. Blair had multiple hats on the table when he made his choice, but before he made the announcement, he trolled Penn State and Michigan. …

Loss after loss, East Union football could feel the 2023-24 season slipping away. The Lancers would finish with a 3-7 overall record prompting the firing of the head coach and a search for someone who could lead them to victories. That’s where Rodney Daniels came in. “I saw the position vacant here and I hopped right on it,” Daniels said. …

Brian Kelly gave Texas a “Welcome to the SEC” present as he and his recruiting staff have flipped a four-star defensive line commit for the 2025 recruiting class. Brandon Brown is a 6-foot-1, 286-pound, four-star defensive lineman from Melbourne, Florida, where he plays for Eau Gallie High School. Brown committed to the Texas Longhorns on December 19, 2023, and has …

Tylon Lee is entering his senior year with a verbal commitment. Lee, a USA Today Top 100 recruit in the class of 2025 from Pace – slotting in at No. 38 overall – and the fourth-best edge-rusher in that Top 100 list, posted on social media on Friday that he has committed to the University of Central Florida. Lee took …