College Football

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — Texas coach Steve Sarkisian doesn’t know SEC spring meetings with Nick Saban. Sarkisian is attending his first this week with the Longhorns joining the SEC starting this fall. So he couldn’t answer what it was like for the newly retired Saban not to be in attendance for the conference’s annual meetings for the first time in …

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. – Kalen DeBoer spared us a lecture. Instead, he offered a philosophy. Control what you can control. Don’t overreact. Adapt as necessary. A hot topic at SEC spring meetings this week is the possibility of football roster-size reductions in the aftermath of the House court case settlement. The upshot: It’s still undetermined, but rosters might shrink, and …

Class of 2025 five-star quarterback Julian “JuJu” Lewis has seen almost every recruiting tactic in the book from the Colorado football program. Luckily for the Buffaloes, they seem to be working. Lewis, the No. 2 quarterback in the class of 2025 (247Sports composite), committed to the USC Trojans in August. Yet, his recruiting ventures have continued with the Auburn Tigers, …

DESTIN — Former USF football star and Auburn running back Brian Battie remains hospitalized but is improving after being shot in the head earlier this month. “He’s getting better,” Auburn coach Hugh Freeze said Tuesday at the SEC’s spring meetings. “(To) honor the family, I don’t want to go into too many things, but they appreciate all the prayers, for …

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. – As Lane Kiffin looked around the coaches’ meeting room Tuesday at the SEC spring meetings, he began to feel the length of his career in this conference. Mark Stoops is the longest-tenured SEC football coach at his current school. Stoops has coached Kentucky since 2013. But, Kiffin’s SEC coaching experience spans to his 2009 season at …

Jalen Milroe returns as the quarterback of Alabama Crimson Tide football team for the 2024 season and looks to build upon his performance from 2023. Now, he enters the new season being praised as one of the most versatile quarterbacks in the nation. After winning a preseason quarterback battle that featured himself, Tyler Buchner and Ty Simpson, he was benched for …

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. – Kalen DeBoer spared us a lecture. Instead, he offered a philosophy. Control what you can control. Don’t overreact. Adapt as necessary. A hot topic at SEC spring meetings this week is the possibility of football roster-size reductions in the aftermath of the House court case settlement. The upshot: It’s still undetermined, but rosters might shrink, and …

May 28—Being a first-year high school football head coach requires a lot of on-the-fly learning, especially during the transition from former program to new. It’s a challenge being faced this spring at schools around the country, and Aiken County powerhouse Silver Bluff is one of them. Luckily for Matt Hayes and the Bulldogs, the new ball coach knows his way …

Michigan State football got a nice update on the recruiting front this week, when Terrance Edwards, the cousin of Spartan legend Felton Davis III, announced the top-3 programs for his recruitment, and the Spartans made the list. Terrance ‘Deuce’ Edwards is a 3-star cornerback out of Richmond, Virginia and the No. 473 ranked player in the 2025 class by 247Sports. …

Wisconsin football received a Rivals’ FutureCast prediction to land class of 2025 four-star cornerback Rukeem Stroud on Tuesday. The prediction comes from Wisconsin insider Jon McNamara prior to Stroud’s June 7 official visit with the Badgers. A rising senior at Tampa Bay Tech High School in Florida, Stroud is 247Sports’ No. 430 player in the class of 2025, No. 35 …

After four years in Houston and one with Florida, linebacker Mannie Nunnery Jr. is transferring to Texas State for his final season of collegiate eligibility, according to Matt Zenitz of 247Sports. A starter at times last season for Florida, Nunnery battled with the decision to leave Gainesville. He initially announced his entry into the transfer portal on Jan. 11 but …

Billy Napier is still dealing with the fallout of the Jaden Rashada debacle. (Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images) Florida head coach Billy Napier made his first comments on former Florida signee Jaden Rashada’s lawsuit, one week after the new Georgia quarterback filed the complaint against the coach and a Gators booster. Speaking at the SEC spring meetings, Napier made clear …

Florida football coach Billy Napier offered his first public comments since being sued by five-star quarterback Jaden Rashada last week, saying he was comfortable in the decisions he made. Napier, booster Hugh Hathcock and former Florida Gators football staffer Marcus Castro-Walker were named in the suit last week, which accused the three of fraud for failing to follow through on …

South Carolina five-star freshman wide receiver Nyck Harbor has broken several school records this spring as the star of the Gamecocks’ track team, bringing into question his future on the gridiron.  Slated to be one of the go-to options in the passing game this fall as a second-year contributor, Harbor was limited much of spring ball to focus on running …

If there is one position on the Penn State roster that has been a top priority for James Franklin and his staff on the recruiting trail in the Class of 2025, it has to be wide receiver. After witnessing firsthand the struggles of a passing game without a viable explosive threat, Penn State has worked to try to find playmakers …