College Football

LSU has a loaded SEC schedule in the first year of the league’s expansion to 16 teams, but the tough contests will start before conference play begins. The Tigers open the season against USC in Las Vegas on Labor Day Sunday in what could be a fascinating matchup between teams that had struggling defenses in 2023 and lost a lot …

Brian Kelly’s first two years at LSU have been largely successful. After leaving Notre Dame, where he’s the winningest coach in program history, he has turned in a 20-7 record in two years in Baton Rouge, featuring back-to-back 10-win seasons as his program produced a Heisman-winner in 2023. In spite of that, there have been some questions surrounding Kelly and …

ORLANDO — UCF’s biggest recruiting weekend of the summer paid instant dividends Sunday afternoon when one of the Knights’ prized 2025 offensive line targets verbally committed inside Gus Malzahn’s office. Gavin Blanchard, who recently transferred to Wiregrass Ranch from Tampa Jesuit, told Malzahn, offensive line coach Herb Hand and director of high school relations Jeris McIntyre that he was “all-in, …

Jun. 4—The 2025 College Football Hall of Fame ballot includes a current Ohio State assistant coach, a former Ohio State head coach and six players who went on to play for the Cincinnati Bengals. A pair of former Ohio State assistants who led national championship teams are also on the ballot (Nick Saban and Larry Coker), but Urban Meyer headlines …

Jun. 4—The 2025 College Football Hall of Fame ballot includes a current Ohio State assistant coach, a former Ohio State head coach and six players who went on to play for the Cincinnati Bengals. A pair of former Ohio State assistants who led national championship teams are also on the ballot (Nick Saban and Larry Coker), but Urban Meyer headlines …

The Texas Longhorns have plenty of talent on the offensive side of the ball led by the quarterbacks. Heading into the 2024 college football season the two-deep depth chart has a pair of former five-star prospects at the top. Quinn Ewers is the returning starter with Arch Manning serving as the backup and future of the program. All eyes seem …

Earlier this year, Oregon Ducks legend Kenjon Barner was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame, an honor he said on the Bleav in Oregon podcast that he never expected, but would cherish for the rest of his life. Now, an even more prestigious accolade could be on the horizon for Barner, who was named to the 2025 College …

Emaree Winston, a 2025 four-star tight end, visited Auburn last week and left with a good impression. The Texas commit, who hadn’t visited the Plains since middle school, explained his re-kindled relationship with the Auburn staff, including tight ends coach Ben Aigamaua, in an interview with Auburn Undercover. “We had never talked. Now we talk every day. I wake up …

If you’re unhappy about USC football playing an 8 p.m. game in Los Angeles against Utah State on Sept. 7, you might not be alone in that regard. However, being unhappy should not mean that you should be surprised. You had to know this was coming, right? The Big Ten and Fox wanted this chance to put games on in …

2025 four-star safety prospect Lagonza Hayward set his commitment date. Hayward will announce his commitment on Aug. 7, he told On3. Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Florida State, South Carolina, Georgia and USC are finalists in his recruitment. Hayward will make four official visits during June after visiting Georgia on May 31. He will visit USC this weekend, Florida on June 14 and Tennessee on …

Tennessee football head coach Josh Heupel and three former Vols are on the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame ballot. Heupel, Willie Gault, Larry Seivers and John Henderson are on the ballot, released Monday by the National Football Foundation. Heupel is appearing on the ballot for a fifth consecutive year. As a quarterback for Oklahoma, he was a first-team consensus …

Are some people still trying to process the fact that USC and the Pac-12 couldn’t make things work out? Is it still sad that the Pac-12, a conference we all grew up with out here in the West, couldn’t survive? Yes. The answer is yes. This is still something that will take some getting used to. However, the fact that …

Wisconsin football class of 2025 running back target Javin Gordon announced his commitment to Duke on Monday. Gordon became the fourth Wisconsin class of 2025 target to commit elsewhere over the weekend, joining three-star WR Vernon Allen III, three-star iOL N’Kye Wynn and three-star LB Elliot Schaper. Allen and Wynn chose Rutgers while Schaper, like Gordon, committed to Duke. The …

Colorado Buffaloes cornerback Travis Hunter (12) during a spring game event at Folsom Field on April 27, 2024, in Boulder. Colorado football had one of the worst defenses in all of college football last season. No, seriously. The Buffaloes allowed 34.8 points per game, which ranked 121st among FBS teams, worse than schools like Louisiana Tech, Tulsa and Kent State. …

Not every national talking head is pessimistic about the Colorado Buffaloes taking a great leap forward in 2024. Speaking on “The Herd with Colin Cowherd,” Fox Sports college football analyst Joel Klatt admitted that Colorado competing for a spot in next season’s Big 12 Championship Game isn’t “out of the realm of possibility.” Klatt, who started at quarterback for Colorado …