College Football

Though the last official signing period for the 2025 college football season arrives Feb. 5, it should be fairly uneventful for an Oregon football team that did most of its work in the fall and during the early signing period in December. The Ducks signed all but one of their 21 committed recruits during the early signing period and have …

The 2024 college football season is finally a wrap. For Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, it’s been over for quite some time. We’re a month removed from OU’s loss to Navy in the Armed Forces Bowl. It’s been two months since OSU was blasted by Colorado in its season finale. Here’s a brief recap of what’s happened since then in Norman …

On Feb. 5, high school football recruits around the country still without a landing spot for next fall will start announcing their future school selections. After early signing day on Dec. 4, Iowa State football already has a sizeable number of newcomers ready to hit the field next season. Here’s a look at where the Cyclones’ 2025 recruiting class ranks …

A new era of Chicago Bears football is set to begin with the announcement that former Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson has been hired as the team’s next head coach. While Johnson won’t be formally introduce until a press conference on Wednesday, the immediate conversation turns to what the coaching staff will look like for the first-time head coach. …

Devin Smith and Steve Miller watched the game at home with their families in Frisco, Texas, and Cleveland, respectively, while Doran Grant visited a friend’s house in Akron to view the highly anticipated action on TV. The three former Ohio State football teammates who were high school stars in the Akron-Canton area experienced blasts from the past as the Buckeyes …

Clemson football signed 15 freshmen on December’s national signing day, and 13 of them arrived in December and January. Tigers coach Dabo Swinney’s 2025 recruiting class, which ranks 27th according to the 247Sports Composite rankings, has all of its members on campus except three-star defensive lineman Makhi Williams-Lee and offensive lineman Tucker Kattus. Both will arrive in the summer. Many …

The year is done. All assignments have been completed, for better or worse. Sorry, but there is no opportunity for extra credit. Now that the dust has cleared on Ohio State’s national championship, it’s time to hand out report cards in the form of season grades for every team in the Bowl Subdivision. An annual tradition, the grades consider overall …

Penn State ended the 2024 college football season one win shy of playing for a national championship, but the Nittany Lions will close the books on the season with the highest AP ranking for the program under head coach James Franklin. Penn State was ranked no. 5 in the final AP Top 25 poll released on Tuesday. National champion Ohio …

Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: Expanding the College Football Playoff worked. The grand experiment to allow more teams to play for the national championship wasn’t perfect, but it ended up where it was supposed to: A worthy national champion with exciting, close games in …

Madrid Tucker’s recruiting picked up at a most unexpected time. The Fort Myers multi-sport athlete picked up a pair of Power 4 offers — North Carolina and West Virginia — more than a month after the early December signing period. Most Power 4 programs try to have their high school signing classes wrapped up in December, but North Carolina and …

Alabama football did not leave much of a final impression on the 2024 season. After regular-season road losses to Vanderbilt, Tennessee and Oklahoma, the Crimson Tide missed the College Football Playoff and lost to Michigan in the ReliaQuest Bowl, securing Alabama’s first season without 10 wins since 2007. Last season, the lowest Alabama football was ranked in the final US …

The College Football Playoff championship game left no doubt who would be ranked at No. 1 with the season now concluded. But to put a final bow on the 2024 campaign, the US LBM Coaches Poll panel weighed in one more time to rank the rest of the playoff and bowl participants. National champ Ohio State, of course, is the unanimous top-ranked finisher claiming …

Missouri State football has landed commitments from four high school recruits in recent weeks, including a three-star linebacker who was once committed at the FBS level. Bears coach Ryan Beard added a pair of players to a growing wide receiver room, a defensive lineman whose recruitment got off to a late start and a linebacker who is finally settling on …

Nearly half the freshmen the Texas Tech football program landed on the December national signing day enrolled at mid-year and were in school when the university’s spring semester started Jan. 15. The nine freshmen can go through winter workouts and be part of the action when spring practice starts March 10. The traditional February signing day coming up on Feb. …

Georgia football coach Kirby Smart put his team in the final ballot of the US LBM Coaches Poll ahead of two teams that reached the College Football Playoff semifinals. Smart placed Georgia at No. 4 on his ballot, ahead of No. 5 Texas and No. 6 Penn State, according to ballots released Tuesday by USA TODAY Sports.  Texas finished No. …