College Football

A new era of Big Ten football begins this fall with four powerful brands joining the conference. No more Big Ten East and West divisions and no more Midwest-centric geography. Now the Big Ten reaches coast-to-coast and contains some of the biggest brands in the sport. What this means for business has been discussed at length. What it means for competition …

STILLWATER — Sitting alone in his Atlanta home, David Paulsen looked down at his buzzing phone where a news alert had just come through, telling him that his hometown NFL team, the Falcons, had just hired a new offensive coordinator. Paulsen let out a brief but joyous scream. You see, there’s only one other football team that conjures as much …

Brian Kelly and his recruiting staff took a trip to Oklahoma to extend an offer to one of the best cornerbacks in the 2025 recruiting class. If Kelly wants him, he will have to fight fellow SEC school Oklahoma to get him. Trystan Haynes is a 6-foot-2, 175-pound, four-star cornerback from Midwest City, Oklahoma, where he plays for Carl Albert …

Texas A&M’s 2025 recruiting class has the potential to grow exponentially over the next couple of months, as head coach Mike Elko and his staff hosted a bevy of 2025 and 2026 prospects during the third junior day weekend, which also happened to include the Aggies remaining 2024 commit, 5-star athlete Terry Bussey. On Saturday, it was reported that a …

We are all in for a treat when the Big Ten football season kicks off this September with four former Pac-12 schools joining the conference. UCLA and USC were announced as future members in the summer of 2022, while Washington and Oregon joined at the beginning of August. With the extinction of the Pac-12 all but complete, Big Ten’s new …

The 2024 Reese’s Senior Bowl is over. On Saturday, the National team defeated the American team 16-7, and South Carolina quarterback Spencer Rattler was named the MVP. Rattler played the first two series, completing all four passing attempts for 69 yards and a touchdown. The game isn’t the most essential part of the week. It’s the weigh-ins, the three practices …

The Senior Bowl, in the past, has been described as a week where “the game doesn’t really matter,” by the time certain players opt out and some NFL scouts start to leave Mobile, Alabama, after the three days of practice. But that wasn’t the case for Saturday’s rendition, the 75th anniversary of the game. Some players, like Washington State’s Chau …

The North Carolina Tar Heels ended a two-game losing streak to rival Duke on Saturday, winning the first of two regular season matchups for 2024. North Carolina got off to a fast start, grabbing a 10-point lead at halftime and in the second half, held off a few Duke pushes, hitting big shots to ultimately win. And they did so …

In each of the last two recruiting cycles, the Oklahoma Sooners have found a way to land a trio of five-star defenders in Peyton Bowen, Adepoju Adebawore, and David Stone. They might be heading to another recruiting cycle with a five-star defender in the 2025 recruiting class. Jonah Williams, out of Galveston, Texas, was predicted to land with the Oklahoma …

Fresh off its best recruiting class in school history, UCF has landed a verbal commitment from its highest-rated recruit for its Class of 2025. The Knights secured a pledge from Kendarius Reddick Saturday night, a four-star safety from Thomasville, Georgia, who is the 64th-ranked player in the country according to 247Sports’ composite rankings. According to the website, Reddick is also …

AUBURN — Auburn football has lost a commitment from a top-100 recruit, and he flipped to a familiar face Saturday evening. Four-star safety Kendarius Reddick, who had been verbally pledged to the Tigers since October, announced through On3’s Hayes Fawcett that his commitment has changed from Auburn to UCF and former AU coach Gus Malzahn. Reddick is tabbed by the …

College football’s kings are aligning in an effort to pave the sport’s future path. Amid one of the most pivotal times in college athletics, the SEC and Big Ten, the two wealthiest conferences in America, are creating a joint advisory group of university presidents, chancellors and athletics directors to address the turmoil enveloping the industry, the league’s two commissioners told …

The Iowa Hawkeyes have their new offensive coordinator. It’s former Western Michigan head coach and, most recently, Green Bay Packers analyst Tim Lester. Iowa football and men’s basketball play-by-play voice Gary Dolphin shared an exclusive conversation with Lester on the Hawkeye Radio Network prior to Iowa basketball’s win over Ohio State on Friday night. Lester shared why Iowa was the …

Georgia football wide receiver Marcus Rosemy-Jacksaint has boosted his 2024 NFL draft stock thanks to an impressive week at the Senior Bowl. Rosemy-Jacksaint capped off his excellent week with a touchdown in the Senior Bowl’s annual scrimmage. Rosemy-Jacksaint caught 34 passes for 535 yards and four touchdowns in 2023. The senior receiver has proved to be a reliable target for …

Before Kirby Smart was a two-time national champion at Georgia or even Nick Saban’s right-hand man at Alabama, he was a defensive backs coach under Saban at LSU in 2004. It was the first big break in the industry for Smart, who was previously a graduate assistant at Florida State. But it seems that initial first interview for the job …