College Football

Brad Taylor is returning as the Bearden football coach.  Bearden announced it has hired Taylor, who led the school to the TSSAA football Class 5A state semifinals in 2007, to fill the void left when the school fired former coach Josh Jones in February.   “Coach Taylor does a tremendous job in leading and developing young men of character as a …

The summer months are fast approaching, which means the class of 2026 recruiting cycle is set to heat up. The Big Ten was all over the top tier of the final class of 2025 national team recruiting rankings. Ohio State, the national champion, finished with the sport’s No. 3-ranked class, Oregon sat at No. 5, Michigan at No. 6, USC …

Can the Tar Heels add a wide receiver to their 2026 recruiting class? The UNC football team is just over five months away from officially kicking off the Bill Belichick era, when TCU comes to Kenan Stadium on Monday, September 1 for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff under the lights. North Carolina already has its 2025 recruiting class locked down, highlighted …

Stuart Cramer football has found its next head man. Ashton Simmons was announced as the Storm’s new football coach Friday via social media. “Storm Nation, I am excited to be named the next head football coach at Stuart W. Cramer High School,” Simmons said. “I am ready to begin this new chapter in life with you.” He takes over for …

Credit: Jeff Lange / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The world of division one college football is a crazy place. With 134 FBS programs — including the Minnesota Gophers — all trying to do whatever it takes to win, that shouldn’t be a surprise. But where some schools offer structure and discipline from the top down, others are drowning …

SOUTH BEND — Kevin Bauman, back for a sixth year at tight end for Notre Dame football, is still amazed by Jayden Harrison’s 98-yard kickoff return in the Sugar Bowl win over Georgia. While Harrison was timed at 4.57 seconds in the 40-yard dash at Thursday’s Pro Day, Bauman on Friday was reminded he somehow ran stride for stride with …

The University of Colorado has approved a new five-year contract for coach Deion Sanders that will nearly double his annual pay to $10 million and more through 2029, making him one of the nation’s highest-paid coaches. Sanders earned $5.7 million in guaranteed pay last year and recently entered the third year of a five-year contract that ran through 2027. His new deal …

Deion Sanders’ quest to play a spring football game against another team has been shot down by the NCAA, at least for this year. NCAA rules currently forbid two teams playing each other in the spring. But the Colorado and Syracuse football programs applied for a waiver from the NCAA to play and practice against each other in April. The …

NEWS: The FBS oversight committee has denied Colorado and Syracuse’s request for spring practice together. It’s partly due to the late timing, and the topic will be discussed more in the future. pic.twitter.com/3Lx7HpHfUQ — Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini) March 28, 2025 Well, Buff fans, the NCAA seems to be against having an epic scene on April 19 for Colorado football’s annual …

Over the past 25 years and even beyond that, the Oregon Ducks football program has been blessed with some quality quarterback play going back to Norm Van Brocklin and Dan Fouts. But it is in this century that the quarterback play in Eugene has gone up a notch or two. The Ducks even secured their first and only Heisman Trophy …

Deion Sanders won’t be going anywhere anytime soon as the Colorado football head coach is signing a massive extension with the Buffaloes. It was announced by the school Friday morning that Sanders signed a 5-year, $54 million contract extension with Colorado. The university’s board of regents approved the deal to make Sanders one of the highest-paid coaches in the country. …

Colorado will not play Syracuse or another team during the spring. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) Deion Sanders’ dream of Colorado and Syracuse playing each other in a spring game is dead. The NCAA’s FBS oversight committee announced that a waiver for the two teams to practice against each other was denied. It’s against NCAA rules for teams to …

The Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles officially have hired Barberton High School alum Scot Loeffler to be their quarterbacks coach. The Eagles announced two coaching promotions and five new hires, including Loeffler, on Friday to the staff of head coach Nick Sirianni. Loeffler will work closely with Sirianni, newly named offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo and quarterback Jalen Hurts, the Super …

Tyler Brown has caught Dabo Swinney’s attention this spring, and in the best way possible. Clemson’s head coach called Brown the receiver he is “most proud of” following Wednesday’s scrimmage at Memorial Stadium. After a breakout freshman season in 2023, Brown’s sophomore year was cut short by an ankle injury that required surgery. He played in just four regular season …

Deion Sanders just received a massive raise from Colorado. Any talk of Coach Prime going to the NFL has been put to bed by Sanders and Colorado after the third-year head coach agreed to a massive five-year, $54 million contract to keep him in Boulder until 2029. The extension makes him the highest-paid coach in the Big 12, but what …