College Football

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 …

Former Wisconsin star running back Montee Ball earned a spot on the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame Ballot on Monday, per an announcement from the National Football Foundation. Over his three-year career in Madison, Ball was a two-time All-American and the 2011 Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year. The Wentzville, Missouri native totaled a staggering 4,749 yards, 73 …

For Raedyn Bruens, his weekend commitment to Rutgers football was based on the feeling of home he felt on his official visit. It made for a natural selection for Bruens, who established himself as a top recruit out of Florida coming into his weekend trip to New Jersey. Bruens held offers from Colorado, Miami, USF, Tulane and West Virginia at the …

The Penn State football defense was the best in the nation last year at tackling opponents behind the line of scrimmage. The Nittany Lions led the FBS in sacks. They led the country in tackles for loss. They even were No. 1 in stopping the run. But they can be better. And they probably should be in the fast-approaching 2024 …

Texas Tech football coaches believe they have a reliable two-deep at inside linebacker: starters Jacob Rodriguez and Ben Roberts, top backups John Curry and Bryce Ramirez. The Red Raiders went through spring with a battle at star between Baylor transfer A.J. McCarty and sophomore Brenden Jordan, who started five games as a true freshman last season at the hybrid safety-outside …

That’s a wrap on another successful flag football season, Marion County athletes. As the sport continues pushing athletes across Ocala schools to new heights, we must give them a well done for the season. Titans Jakyra Bostick of Belleview and Madison Boyd of Trinity Catholic were player of the year finalists. Let’s find out who joins them on the 2024 …

TOPEKA — Kansas football coach Lance Leipold took time Monday to catch up with fans and reporters at an event in Topeka. Leipold, who guided his team to the program’s first bowl victory in more than a decade last season, had a lot to talk about. There’s interest in the team’s trajectory, as well as its key players. There’s interest in …

Two days. Ten total commitments. It was a hectic but successful recruiting weekend for Greg Schiano and Rutgers football. The Scarlet Knights essentially doubled their 2025 recruiting class on Saturday and Sunday as recruits from 10 states spanning into the South and the Midwest pledged to Schiano during a weekend that included tours of the campus facilities, a trip into …

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti didn’t downplay the importance of landing cornerback D’Angelo Ponds during the spring transfer window. “He’s a big get,” Cignetti said, speaking to reporters ahead of an NIL-related event at Huber’s Orchard and Winery on May 29. Cignetti would know better than anyone having coached Ponds in 2023. The then-James Madison defender took home freshman …

A weekend featuring nine commits pushes Rutgers football to having one of the top recruiting classes in the nation. The weekend saw the most commits to Rutgers over a two-day span in program history. Rutgers came into the weekend with eight committed players and the No. 33 class in the nation. Following nine commits over the weekend, the Scarlet Knights …