College Football

Stop me if you’ve heard this one, but Texas A&M has added yet another blue-chip recruit to their 2026 recruiting class. This time it’s four-star Pascagoula, MS safety Tylan Wilson. Wilson stands at 6’2” and 185 pounds, and is ranked as the No. 242 recruit in the country, the No. 20 safety and the No. 10 recruit in Mississippi, according …

Lane Kiffin and the Ole Miss Rebels continue to be aggressive in the 2026 recruiting class, landing a talented defender in Craig Tutt. Tutt announced his commitment to the Rebels on Friday, per On3 insider Hayes Fawcett. Coming from Murfreesboro, Tenn., he chose the Rebels over the Tennessee Volunteers and Auburn Tigers. He stands out as a four-star prospect with …

This article was first published in the Ute Insiders newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Wednesday night. There’s a lot on the line for offensive tackle Spencer Fano and the Utes this season. Utah has gone all-in on an offensive revamp to try and rebound from a 5-7 season, with players hungry to prove last …

It’s beginning to feel a lot closer to college football season and the ability to watch YOUR Ohio State Buckeyes. The college football preseason preview magazines are out, Big Ten media days are next week, and OSU will start its fall camp in just a couple of weeks. And while there’s still more than a month to go before the …

Clemson football is once again being recognized as a legitimate national title contender heading into the 2025 season, this time by way of the Blue-Chip Ratio—a recruiting-based metric from CBS Sports that identifies the teams most equipped to win it all. According to Bud Elliott, who developed the BCR formula, only 18 programs currently meet the standard for championship contention. …

College football has seen more changes than the price of gas these days, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. In order for the best programs to keep up, they have to embrace Name, Image and Likeness, the transfer portal, direct revenue sharing, and anything else that comes their way. Oh, and you still better have a …

SEC Media Days 2025 have come to an end. A busy week in Atlanta served as the unofficial start for the season, with Week 1 six short weeks and a fall camp away on the calendar. The Oklahoma Sooners are eager to make up for last year’s disappointing performance, and they’ve made numerous changes this offseason to ensure that the …

Ole Miss football lands Oakland four-star safety Craig Tutt Oakland senior football safety Craig Tutt announced his commitment to Ole Miss on July 18. Four-star safety Craig Tutt committed to Ole Miss, choosing the Rebels over Tennessee and Auburn.Tutt, ranked the No. 6 player in Tennessee, cited the players, coaches, culture, and city of Oxford as key factors in his …

Texas A&M’s 2026 recruiting class gained its 26th commit in the cycle on Friday night, as four-star safety Tylan Wilson chose the Aggies over Clemson, which is the second time this summer that head coach Mike Elko and his staff won a recruiting battle over the Tigers after five-star edge Bryce Perry-Write committed to Texas A&M earlier this month. Texas …

Coaching in the college ranks is a constant challenge, no matter the level of experience, as good and bad years aren’t simply based on play calling, as Auburn’s 2010 season, led by star quarterback Cam Newton, was a team coached by Gene Chizik, who failed to produce a winning season after two years at Iowa State, but struck gold before …

Dear UCF Football Team: Let’s not sugarcoat this. Let’s get right to the point: Nobody believes in you. Everybody thinks you’re going to stink this season. The Tulsa World just dropped its Big 12 preseason poll a few days ago, and guess where you ranked? Last. Not middle of the pack. Not a “rebuilding year with promise.” Last. Flat-out, stone-cold, …

Earlier in the offseason, Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule joked that the College Football Playoff should expand to 40 teams. But at SEC media days, Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz suggested the playoff should expand to 30 — and he didn’t appear to be joking. Of course, either program could really benefit from expansion. Nebraska has only made one bowl game …

Generally, you can somewhat predict what teams will produce each season based on the talent they have at prominent positions. The mix between talent, experience, coaching decisions, the schedule, the previous year’s success or failure, and more goes into how prognosticators look at teams, but CBS Sports is looking specifically at the first category as it assesses the ‘blue-chip ratio’ …

In 2021, it was PFF that believed that Michigan football would be much better than advertised, following a moribund 2-4 campaign in 2020. The same could be said in 2023, when PFF analysts proclaimed the Wolverines the best team in the country, entering the season. So now that the maize and blue enter 2025 with some questions following an 8-5 …

Despite being just one season removed from winning a national championship, most pundits in college football have started to look at Michigan football as something of an also-ran following an 8-5 season in 2024, rather than last year being a blip on the radar. The operative word here is ‘most.’ ESPN’s resident advanced analytics guru Bill Connelly isn’t among those …