College Football

FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas football will begin its fall camp Wednesday evening, with a month of preparation all that remains before a season opener against UAPB in Little Rock. Bobby Petrino is back, and he’ll be working with a new signal-caller in quarterback Taylen Green. Together, they’ll try to orchestrate a bounceback season for head coach Sam Pittman after a disappointing 2023 …

Tyler Campbell was 22 years old – the youngest head football coach in the state – when he coached his first game at Covington in 2020. His team threw 34 passes, four interceptions and lost by six touchdowns. “When you’re throwing the ball 40 times and you lose your first game by 40 points,” said Campbell, “you get some questions.” …

With the high school football season set to kickoff in a couple weeks, it looks like it’s going to be another excellent season for fans in the Greater Savannah area looking to see some star power under the Friday Night Lights. One area that stands out this year is on the defensive side of the ball, in the front seven, …

We’re less than a month away from high school football kicking off once again in Indiana. There’s excitement for another season on the gridiron, from the jaw-dropping catches and gallops into the endzone to the overtime thrillers and game-winning drives. There will be low-scoring affairs and back-and-forth shootouts, rivalry showdowns and homecoming. Who will be the six teams crowned as …

Vanderbilt football is set to kick off its 2024 season at home when it faces Virginia Tech on Aug. 31 at FirstBank Stadium. Season tickets for the 2024 season sold out in June, but individual game tickets are still available for each of the 12 games, including all eight SEC games, via the secondary market. With the SEC expanding to …

It’s almost time for toe to meet leather in Jordan-Hare Stadium. Auburn football will begin the 2024 season against Alabama A&M on Aug. 31. That game will be the first for many new Tigers, including a batch of 16 players Auburn has added through the transfer portal this offseason. The Tigers have addressed needs at eight different positions, with a …

PISCATAWAY – The Athan Kaliakmanis era officially began Monday as Rutgers football took the field for its first practice of training camp, one month ahead of the opening game for a highly anticipated season. Coach Greg Schiano anointed Kaliakmanis QB1 immediately following spring practices, giving the Minnesota transfer the rest of the summer to cement himself as the leader of …

Heading into 2024, all eyes are on the Oklahoma Sooners and first-year starting quarterback, Jackson Arnold. Arnold, the former five-star prospect will be leading the Sooners into the deep waters of the SEC. One of the best quarterbacks in the 2023 recruiting class and the first commit of the cycle under Brent Venables, Arnold has all the tools to be …

Jul. 29—The Illinois football team gathered Sunday for the start of fall training camp. Monday marks the first day of practice, and beat writer Scott Richey has a roster breakdown, position by position, to catch you up on Bret Bielema’s latest squad: is back for year two as QB1 for the Illini with a sense of comfort in coordinator ‘s …

College football’s history goes back more than 150 years, but in just the last 20 or so, we’ve seen quite a bit of special talent come through the sport. ESPN’s Bill Connelly recently undertook the difficult task of trimming that list of stars down to just the 25 best since the year 2000, and unsurprisingly, LSU had a couple of …

North Carolina Tar Heels’ running back Omarion Hampton is back for another season, fresh off a big 2023 campaign. And before 2024 gets going, Hampton is earning some preseason recognition. On Monday before the Tar Heels open up training camp, Hampton was named to the 2024 Maxwell Award Watch List. Hampton is one of 80 players in college football to …

We have officially entered award watchlist season as the 2024 college football season is fast approaching. On Monday, the Maxwell Award announced its watchlist. This is the 88th year that the award will be given out to the most outstanding player in college football. Of the 80 players listed, the Texas Longhorns lone athlete listed is redshirt junior quarterback Quinn …

Florida State football and Clemson may have been joining forces in their legal battle with the ACC, but the game still has to be played. Clemson has had FSU’s number in seven of the last eight meetings. Last year, the Seminoles ended its seven-year slump against the Tigers with an overtime victory in Death Valley. The FSU went on to …

ULM football is looking for improvement in 2024. The Warhawks slumped to a 2-10 record last season, losing their final 10 games, including all eight in Sun Belt play. Then-head coach Terry Bowden was fired the day after ULM’s rivalry loss to Louisiana, and he was replaced by former UAB head coach Bryant Vincent. In his first season in Monroe, …

The College Football Playoff could easily be played before huge crowds − in a different stadium for all 11 games (remember the expanded field this year) − inside Indianapolis Motor Speedway. So why shouldn’t the home of the Indianapolis 500 have a team? Now, it does … sort of. The IMS Brickyarders have been created in the EA Sports College …