College Football

Belvidere looked far searching for a new football coach but found him near. After interviewing a wide variety of candidates to fill a tradition-rich position for a team that has struggled since the town opened a second high school, Belvidere wound up hiring wrestling coach Sean Donnelly for a second coaching position. Donnelly will replace Tony Ambrogio, who moved to …

Memphis football is hiring Ohio’s Spence Nowinsky to fill the vacancy left by Lou Esposito’s departure, according to multiple reports. Esposito was hired in January as defensive line coach and co-defensive coordinator but left last week for the defensive line coach job at Michigan. Memphis coach Ryan Silverfield said Tuesday night that he was “not going to be in a …

MADISON – Sean West, a kicker/punter from Homestead High School, has accepted a preferred walk-on offer from Wisconsin for the 2024 class. West was named the winner of the Kevin Stemke Award last fall. The award is named after the former UW standout and given annually to the best senior kicker or punter in the state. West averaged 42.9 yards …

Quarterback Behren Morton will sit out the rest of the Texas Tech football team’s spring practices, continuing rehabilitation on the right shoulder injury he played through for much of the 2023 season. Tech announced Morton’s ceasing participation in spring practice on Wednesday, just before the Red Raiders’ eighth of their allotted 15 sessions. The announcement said Morton was a full …

Apr. 3—SMITHFIELD, R.I. — After a historic senior season at Mountain Ridge and a stop at Lawrenceville Prep, Leuma Pua’auli committed to Division I Bryant University. The former Miner announced his commitment in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on March 22. Pua’auli graduated from Mountain Ridge in 2023 and played last season at Lawrenceville Prep in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. …

Apr. 3—The Idaho football team has specialized in stopping the pass two years into the Jason Eck Era. The Vandals were the Big Sky’s top aerial defense last season, allowing a conference-low 182.3 yards per game to opposing passers. Idaho led the conference with 16 interceptions in 2022 and ranked third against the pass (190 yards per game). One of …

Former Georgia Bulldogs linebacker Rian Davis has re-entered the NCAA transfer portal after spending the 2023 college football season at UCF. Davis recorded 14 tackles for UCF in 2023 and likely has two years of eligibility remaining (only appeared in one game in 2021 and played during the 2020 season, which did not count against eligibility). Davis appeared in seven …

Four-star defensive lineman Landon Rink committed to Texas A&M on Wednesday, giving the SEC program another strong in-state for their rebuild. A 6-foot-2, 280-pound defensive lineman from Cy-Fair (Cypress, Texas), Rink is a four-star recruit in the 247Sports Composite. He held offers that included Arizona, Arizona State, Duke, Kansas, Miami, Ohio State, Ole Miss and Penn State among others. His …

Penn State is already off to a solid start with its efforts in the Class of 2025 recruiting cycle. Already with one of the nation’s and the Big Ten’s top-rated recruiting classes, the Nittany Lions are missing a commitment from one key position in 2025, and that hole could be filled this week. Spring-Ford quarterback Matt Zollers, from Royersford, PA, …

Penn State continues looking to build upon their strong showing so far in the class of 2025 and are coming out of a weekend where many of their top targets were on campus to witness spring practice in person. At this time, many of the uncommitted recruits are still gathering information on different schools interested in them before planning out …

It’s quite possibly taken Julian Fleming four years seasons, two bad shoulders and one dramatic change of working scenery. The Penn State football wide receiver from Catawissa, Pa. − via Ohio State − has proclaimed himself healthier than ever, seemingly perfect-placed news, for all involved. It is exquisite timing for a Nittany Lion team in the midst of breaking in …

Recruiting from the high school ranks is not at all easy and often is a thankless effort for a college football staff. However, the critical component in convincing a young student-athlete to attend your school is the establishment of a healthy relationship between the two parties. Mike Roach of 247Sports recently caught up with three-star interior offensive lineman Henry Fenuku …

None of Ohio State’s position groups has experienced as much fluctuation in spring practice as its running backs. Tony Alford started off as their position coach last month before his sudden departure to archrival Michigan. As the Buckeyes took the following weeks to search for a replacement for Alford, who had spent nearly a decade on staff, it was coach …

The American Athletic Conference has hired longtime college sports executive Tim Pernetti as its next commissioner, the conference announced Wednesday. Pernetti replaces Mike Aresco, who transformed the league from the former Big East to the AAC.  “I am fired up to work alongside our board, conference staff, athletics directors and coaches as we continue to transform the AAC into a …

Florida football’s recruiting focus in recent weeks has primarily been on the 2025 cycle but Billy Napier and Co. are also working hard on the following class as well. Five-star safety Zelus Hicks out of Carrollton (Georgia) in the 2026 cycle wrapped up his second trip to the Swamp on Tuesday to get another look at what the Orange and …