College Football

GAINESVILLE — Florida defensive coordinator Austin Armstrong can look back on the rapid decline of his D with a healthy dose of humility and even a touch of humor. “When you’re young and you’re successful, you’re Boy Wonder,” he said following Tuesday’s practice. “When you’re not, you’re boy blunder.” The Gators’ fall from a top-10 unit in September to a …

BLOOMINGTON — An annual rite of spring has been a new quarterback competition for the Indiana football team. There’s a fresh round of optimism this year with the program hiring Curt Cignetti, a coach with a proven history of developing quarterbacks. The same is true of the brain trust he hired — offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan and quarterbacks coach Tino Sunseri …

BLOOMINGTON — First-year Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti has laid out lofty expectations for the 2024 season ever since landing the job. “We’re going to win and we’re going to win this year and we’re going to change the brand and the expectation level and the way people see Indiana football,” Cignetti said. Cignetti didn’t have to set such a high …

Last May, on what began as a quiet Monday morning, ACC athletic directors filed into a conference room within a luxurious oceanfront resort in Florida to begin their annual spring meetings. A proverbial cloud loomed over the meetings. An elephant lurked in the corner. In a published story that morning, a months-long secret was revealed: Seven of the 14 ACC …

SEATTLE – After more than five months as the University of Washington athletic director, Troy Dannen will be leaving to oversee the University of Nebraska’s Athletics Department. ESPN’s Pete Thamel first reported on Wednesday that Nebraska was finalizing a six-year deal to be the school’s new athletic director. Sources: Nebraska is finalizing a six-year deal to make Washington athletic director …

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – The University of Minnesota football team starts spring practice this week, and P.J. Fleck is starting his eighth season with the Gophers. That’s key, after another program reportedly showed interest in Fleck as recently as two months ago. Chip Kelly left UCLA to be the offensive coordinator for Ryan Day at Ohio State, and Fleck was …

Even while Rutgers football prepared for its appearance in the Pinstripe Bowl, plenty of people outside the program began looking ahead to the 2024 season. For good reason. The Scarlet Knights will return the bulk of their stout defense. They’ll be bringing back the Big Ten’s leading rusher in Kyle Monangai. And in a revamped Big Ten that’s now without …

The 2025 Georgia football opponents were released Wednesday afternoon. The home schedule for the Bulldogs should be a blockbuster. The SEC is staying with an eight-game schedule for 2025, and the opponents will remain the same as 2024 except the locations will be flipped, according to a source before the SEC’s formal announcement came. The league confirmed the continuation of …

Mainland hired within the family Wednesday to fill its sudden football coaching vacancy — in more ways than one. Jerrime “Squatty” Bell, who led Atlantic to the District 8-2S championship and a return to the Florida High School Athletic Association playoffs last fall, told The News-Journal on Wednesday afternoon that he has accepted an offer to take over at his …

Most of the talk among the LSU football offensive players entering this spring and through the first couple of weeks of practice has been turning the page. For the mostly new crop of receivers, it’s making their own name after Malik Nabers and Brian Thomas Jr. have moved on. At running back, the scarcely-thin group has been working to produce …

NORMAN — DeMarco Murray, the former OU football star and fourth-year running backs coach, has reportedly decided to stay after being offered a three-year contract to turn down Ohio State. On3 first reported Murray’s decision on Wednesday. Longtime Ohio State running backs coach Tony Alford departed to serve on new Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore’s staff on March 13, resulting …

The SEC is sticking with eight conference games for the 2025 season, the conference announced Wednesday. The schedule for Mississippi State and Ole Miss football will feature a replica of the 2024 SEC schedule, but home and road assignments will be flipped. MSU will play home contests against Texas, Tennessee, Ole Miss and Georgia. That’ll accompany a nonconference schedule featuring …

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas football opponents for 2025 were revealed by the SEC Wednesday, with the league also confirming it will maintain its eight-game schedule. In 2025, the Razorbacks will have home games against Missouri, Auburn, Texas A&M and Mississippi State. The Hogs will travel to face Texas, Tennessee, LSU and Ole Miss. Those are the same opponents Arkansas will …

Tennessee football will play the same eight SEC opponents in 2025 as the 2024 season, but with home and away games flipped. On Wednesday, the SEC released the list of conference games for the 2025 season. It will stick with an eight-game league schedule for at least one more year, keeping the same matchups in place. That means Tennessee will …

Auburn football now knows its conference opponents on its 2025 schedule. The SEC released the opponent list Wednesday, and it’s an exact copy of who the Tigers are playing in 2024. The only difference is that the home games in 2024 are now away games in 2025, and vise versa. The 2025 season will be the third of the coach …