College Football

USATSI Three-star wide receiver Elijah Burress, the son of former NFL star wide receiver and Super Bowl champion Plaxico Burress, committed to Notre Dame on Saturday. The younger Burress ranks as the No. 36 wide receiver in the 2025 recruiting cycle by 247Sports and is the 15th member of Notre Dame’s top-tanked recruiting class. Notre Dame offered Burress on Jan. …

Ohio State has a new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. After Bill O’Brien left the post three weeks after he was hired for the Boston College head coaching job, the Buckeyes announced the hiring of former UCLA coach Chip Kelly as their next offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. It’s a fit former Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud is impressed by. …

LSU assistant coach Bob Diaco will remain with the program, returning to his analyst role. Diaco was originally hired as a defensive analyst last spring, but after defensive line coach Jimmy Lindsey stepped away with a health issue, Diaco took an on-field role, working with outside linebackers and special teams. After LSU’s staff shakeup, Diaco is the lone defensive assistant …

After reportedly telling his players he was staying at Michigan earlier in the week, it seems that defensive backs coach Steve Clinkscale has reversed course. Tony Garcia of the Detroit Free Press reports that Michigan’s former co-defensive coordinator is jumping ships with Jim Harbaugh. This just in: Defensive backs coach and Steve Clinkscale is leaving Michigan to join Jim Harbaugh’s …

Cottage Grove football will move down from competing in the OSAA Class 4A to 3A this fall. The move was decided by the football ad hoc committee of the OSAA. Cottage Grove, which won the 4A state championship in 2017, was dropped to 3A for “schools that meet 22% or less winning percentage” and will compete in the Special District …

Texas A&M’s football program is now under new leadership, as new head coach Mike Elko has only been on the job for two full months, already acquiring 22 players from the transfer portal while solidifying the Aggies’ 2024 recruiting class to boot. During Wednesday’s National Signing Day, Elko and his staff secured signings from several 2024 commits, headlined by 5-star …

Feb. 10—Co-offensive coordinator Roman Sapolu and Jacob Yoro, who was the defensive coordinator the past two seasons, are leaving the University of Hawaii football team, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser has learned. Sapolu, who also coached UH’s offensive linemen, is expected to join the Miami Dolphins’ coaching staff. Yoro is poised to join the Missouri coaching staff, where he will be reunited …

BOULDER, Colo. — Deion Sanders rounded out his Colorado coaching staff by bringing in Robert Livingston as defensive coordinator and sticking with Pat Shurmur to oversee the offense. In addition, Sanders added Phil Loadholt to revamp a shaky offensive line and Jason Phillips to work with the receivers, the school announced Friday. The Buffaloes also shifted Vincent Dancy from analyst …

A familiar face will be roaming the Michigan football sidelines this fall. Steve Casula, a former analyst for the Wolverines (2019-21) during the middle Jim Harbaugh years, was officially named the program’s tight end coach by head coach Sherrone Moore. Casula spent the past two seasons at UMass as the team’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under former U-M defensive …

Tennessee offered a scholarship to 2026 tight end Zachery Turner. “Blessed to receive an offer from the University of Tennessee,” Turner said. The 6-foot-3, 215-pound tight end prospect is from Duncanville High School in Duncanville, Texas. Turner is also listed as an athlete, playing wide receiver and defensive end. There are not recruiting rankings currently for Turner from Rivals, 247Sports, …

Feb. 10—Three Ada seniors will continue their football careers at the next level. George Maddox, Cord Coffee, and Fisher Marr made it official by signing letters of intent to play college football this fall during a signing ceremony held earlier this week inside the Cougar Activity Center. Maddox is headed to Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Coffee is headed …

Jackson State football lost defensive coordinator and defensive line coach Jonathan Bradley on Friday. Bradley has been hired as defensive line coach for South Alabama, according to AL.com. The hiring has not been announced by South Alabama. Bradley is the second Jackson State assistant this offseason to join Major Applewhite’s staff at South Alabama, a member of the Sun Belt …

First-year Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer already faced the gargantuan undertaking of replacing college football legend Nick Saban. Now, he is facing that task without his right-hand man following the news that Ryan Grubb won’t be the Crimson Tide’s offensive coordinator in 2024. With Grubb instead heading to the NFL to be the offensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks, it leaves …

Texas A&M’s 2024 recruiting class is complete after head coach Mike Elko secured signings from several key prospects, headlined by 5-star athlete Terry Bussey and 4-star wide receiver Ashton Belton-Roman, who was previously committed to Arkansas. Elko and his staff have shifted all their remaining focus to gaining ground with the 2025 cycle, already securing commitments from 4-star linebacker Kelvion …

Alabama football has to look for a new offensive coordinator, but the Crimson Tide doesn’t sound caught off guard. Here’s what Alabama athletics director Greg Byrne told The Tuscaloosa News when asked for comment before Alabama’s basketball’s game vs. LSU about Ryan Grubb departing for the Seattle Seahawks. “We knew when we hired Coach (Kalen) DeBoer that there was a …