College Football

The road to the 2024 NFL Draft is officially underway. The pro football world has migrated to Mobile, Alabama for the annual Reese’s Senior Bowl to watch the nation’s top college football prospects compete. The Senior Bowl, which began in Jacksonville, Florida in 1950, is widely considered the most prestigious showcase during the NFL draft process. It’s also perhaps one …

Penn State’s third and final Junior Day is taking place this weekend in Happy Valley as they host a number of recruits to see the campus, meet with the coaching staff and further develop relationships. These continue to be a great way for the Nittany Lions to stay on the radar of some of the top talents across the country, …

For those interested in seeing many of the top 2024 NFL draft prospects compete against one another, this is the last football game opportunity. It is the Senior Bowl, the biggest and most important postseason college all-star game. NFL teams had decision makers and evaluators in Mobile, AL to watch practices and to talk to the players. Now comes the …

Tennessee offered a scholarship to 2025 wide receiver Chance Ables. The 6-foot-3, 177-pound wide receiver prospect is from Dallas Christian School in Mesquite, Texas. There are not recruiting rankings currently for Ables from Rivals, 247Sports, On3 or ESPN. He is recruited by Tennessee wide receivers coach Kelsey Pope. The Vols are one of three Southeastern Conference schools to offer Ables. …

Rowan Byrne visited Rutgers football on Thursday, giving the Big Ten program a chance to further connect with the four-star offensive lineman. Byrne is a standout at Iona Prep (New Rochelle, New York). He is one of the top players in the Northeast and is the No. 242 recruit in the nation according to On3. There is no shortage of …

The 2023 football season concluded this month and with it, so did the conference structure we’ve known for the last decade. Gone are the East and West divisions, and in come UCLA, USC, Washington and Oregon. The structure of the conference is advancing like the landscape of college football — into an environment nobody can accurately predict. What we do know …

Nate Oats and the Alabama Crimson Tide men’s basketball team has a chance to tighten its grip on the SEC when they host Chris Jans and the Mississippi State Bulldogs on Saturday night from inside Coleman Coliseum. Alabama currently sits with a 15-6 overall record and an impressive 7-1 record in conference play. The Bulldogs enter the matchup with a …

Derrick Brooks took advantage nearly 30 years ago to utilize the Senior Bowl practice week and game performance to launch his decorated NFL career. That highlight effort will be recognized Saturday in Mobile when Brooks, a Pensacola native and Booker T. Washington High graduate, is officially honored as part of the Senior Bowl 75th Anniversary Team during the milestone 75th …

Texas A&M’s 2025 recruiting class is shaping up to be a slam dunk for new head football coach Mike Elko, already acquiring several commitments, including 4-star linebacker Kelvion Riggins and 4-star cornerback Deyjhon Pettaway last weekend. Elko and his staff will host another batch of 2025 prospects for the third consecutive weekend. However, one of their highly touted targets, 5-star …

The Georgia Bulldogs and defensive backs coach Donte Williams have extended a scholarship offer to cornerback recruit Shamari Earls. Earls is ranked as a four-star recruit and is a member of the class of 2025. Georgia is always looking for elite secondary talent. Shamari Earls fits that bill. The 6-foot-2, 180-pound cornerback is the No. 154 prospect in the junior …

It’s been an eventful season in all of college football but especially in the Big Ten. It was less than a month ago that the Michigan Wolverines won the national championship but yet it feels much longer. In an offseason that was already going to be historic thanks to conference realignment, the entire landscape of college football continued to change …

Gophers football coach P.J. Fleck on Friday announced two promotions on his coaching staff, while salary figures for new defensive coordinator Corey Hetherman were released in Board of Regents documents. Fleck promoted defensive line coach Winston DeLattiboudere III to assistant head coach and named Eric Koehler, who was a senior offensive analyst, as tight ends coach. DeLattiboudere, who’ll continue to …

Ron Dickerson Jr. knows that head coach opportunities at the college level don’t come often. Especially opportunities like the one at Division II Benedict College, located in Columbia, South Carolina. So after conversations with family, friends and other coaches, that’s when he knew the job at Benedict was the one for him. And Dickerson was introduced as the Tigers’ next …

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey says the NCAA should focus on the “big realities” in college athletics rather than pursuing individual cases of recruiting violations of the association’s name, image and likeness (NIL) policy. In an interview with Yahoo Sports this week, Sankey suggested that the NCAA and its enforcement staff are “distracted” by NIL-related recruiting cases. Though he did not …

In terms of a guarantee, UCF receiver Kobe Hudson’s proclamation that “I can get way better” in 2024 is nothing as seismic as a young Muhammed Ali’s called shot against Sonny Liston in 1964, but it’s still monumental news for the Knights. The fifth-year senior played an integral part in UCF’s offensive success in its first Big 12 season, finishing …