College Football

ASHLAND — Basketball icon Bob Haas was four years into his Hall of Fame coaching career at Willard when a young man, fresh out of Baldwin-Wallace College, interviewed for the football post at the high school. His name was Jim Tressel. Puff out your chest, preferably while wearing one of his signature sweater vests, if you already knew that. NJ …

Michigan football had seemingly every necessary ingredient last season en route to a 15-0 record and a national championship. A quarterback who may go in the top five later this month in the NFL draft was key. A running back who rewrote the program record book didn’t hurt either. Of course, those records were all set largely because of an …

Jermod McCoy was a high school wide receiver who signed with the only power conference school that offered him a scholarship in the 2023 class. A year later, he was among the most coveted cornerbacks in the transfer portal. McCoy chose Tennessee over Texas A&M, Auburn, Oregon, Washington and other schools who weren’t interested in him the first time around. …

Cartwheels, fourth-down conversions and trick plays during the 2023 Louisville football season were only a glimpse of what a Jeff Brohm-orchestrated offense can look like. In his first year coaching the Cardinals, Brohm had three months between his hiring and the beginning of spring football to keep the 2023 high school recruiting class together while assembling one of the country’s …

Apr. 1—PULLMAN — If Montana State coach Matt Logie wants the job at Washington State, it’s his. That’s the word from CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander, who reported Monday that WSU offered the job to Logie, who just wrapped up his first season with the Bobcats. Last season, they collected a 17-18 record, winning the Big Sky Conference tournament title and …

PISCATAWAY – With so many defensive players returning for next season, Rutgers football doesn’t have many holes to fill or position battles to sort through. But the Scarlet Knights do have to replace two starters on the defensive line. Enter Malcolm Ray, who’s in the mix to help fill one of those spots. Ray transferred to Rutgers after spending five …

One of the top wide receivers in the 2025 recruiting class has narrowed his list of final schools down to just 12. Brian Kelly and the LSU Tigers are one of those 12. Corey Simms is a 6-foot-3, 185-pound, four-star wide receiver from Saint Louis where he plays for Christian Brothers High School. The Christian Brothers Cadets finished the 2023 …

Apr. 1—COLUMBUS — Tegra Tshabola is living by two words this spring. “Nobody cares,” he said Monday morning. This was no April Fools’ joke. He was not being facetious or taking a dim view of his support. The sophomore from Lakota West simply is locked onto the task of getting better while competing for playing time on the Ohio State …

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Brian Jean-Mary has a second chance. Not that he needed one overall, but given how his Michigan football tenure went, he’s getting to prove that his one year in Ann Arbor was something of a fluke. Just before spring ball was set to start in 2021, Jean-Mary bolted for Tennessee, where he spent the past three seasons. …

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Last year, former Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh said that he was grooming then-tight ends coach Grant Newsome to be an offensive line coach for the Wolverines. Telling anyone who would hear, Harbaugh often said that Newsome was soon to be a head coach, and he’s quickly moved up the ladder in his short coaching tenure. …

Among a slew of other things, Lane Kiffin’s name has been synonymous with the development of successful college quarterbacks, going back to the early stages of his career when he was helping USC win national titles with Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart under center. That group of proteges at the college level may soon include his son. REQUIRED READING: 4-star …

Priority recruit Taeshawn Alston will be taking an unofficial visit on Monday to Rutgers football. One of the top players in North Carolina has steadily been hearing from Rutgers over the past month. In mid-February, Alston unveiled a top six that included Rutgers football. The cutdown in his recruitment came just a week after he was offered by the Scarlet …

Michigan State football has extended a scholarship to a three-star defensive lineman from the East Coast. Tommy Rupley of Belmont, Mass. announced on Monday that he’s received a scholarship offer from the Spartans. Rupley is a three-star defensive lineman in the 2025 class. Rupley ranks as the No. 66 defensive lineman in 247Sports’ rankings for the 2025 class. Additionally, he’s …

The Oregon Ducks are seeing a drastic change in their coaching staff just as the spring football season gets set to resume, with running backs coach Carlos Locklyn leaving Eugene for another job. Locklyn will be accepting a position with the Ohio State Buckeyes to become the new running backs coach, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. …

The Big 12-bound Colorado Buffaloes aren’t done yet with the Pac-12 Network. As announced Monday, CU’s spring football game on April 27 will be televised on the Pac-12 Network, an entity that could very well cease to exist this summer. The Buffs, guided by head coach Deion Sanders, landed ESPN last year. This year, however, ESPN is focusing its resources …