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With three starters off to pursue their NFL dreams, Penn State’s offensive line was going to be in a bit of a spotlight this spring. As Penn State opened spring football practices this week, head coach James Franklin offered an update on one potential starter for the 2024 season during his spring press conference. Drew Shelton, entering his junior season …

Texas A&M has hired Nebraska’s Trev Alberts to replace Ross Bjork as its athletic director. Alberts was a former football star with the Cornhuskers and had been athletic director at Nebraska for just short of three years. He leaves after overseeing the construction and planning for massive football facilities projects in Lincoln. Nebraska executive associate athletic director Doug Ewald said …

Getty Images Texas A&M is targeting Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts for the same position, 247Sports confirms. Alberts would replace Ross Bjork, who left to become the athletic director at Ohio State in January. Alberts a former Nebraska football legend.  Under Alberts’ watch, the athletic department underwent a period of strong improvement. Alberts fired former Nebraska star Scott Frost and …

Subscribe to The College Football Enquirer This embedded content is not available in your region. Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde kick off the podcast by reacting to the latest comments from Nick Saban on NIL and the future of college sports. Dellenger described what the scene was like at the congressional roundtable discussion that Saban was at …

Former Nebraska linebacker Trev Alberts has been the school’s athletic director since 2021. (Photo by Steven Branscombe/Getty Images) Texas A&M went and found an athletic director from the Big Ten after its previous AD went to the Big Ten. A&M announced Wednesday afternoon that it had hired Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts to replace Ross Bjork. Bjork left A&M earlier …

NORMAN — OU’s Board of Regents approved donations for softball coach Patty Gasso’s statue during its meeting on Tuesday. The statue was first announced on June 10 and athletic director Joe Castiglione has since said it will be unveiled later this season outside Gate 1 at Love’s Field. Gasso has led the Sooners to seven national titles in 29 seasons …

Well, that was fast. Incredibly fast. After taking a month to go from hiring Wink Martindale, Greg Scruggs, Brian Jean-Mary, and LaMar Morgan to actually announcing their hires, Michigan football has made quick work of stealing Tony Alford away from rival Ohio State. The nine-year running backs coach and assistant head coach in Columbus is coming north to Ann Arbor …

Memphis football coach Ryan Silverfield knows the stakes have been raised for his team heading into the 2024 season. The College Football Playoff is expanding to 12 teams, and one of those spots will be reserved for a team from the Group of Five. “Going to the 12-team playoff is obviously an exciting thing for our program, because of what …

The College Football Playoff is inching closer to finalizing its agreement for the future. Presidents in the ACC and Big 12 voted to authorize their commissioners to adopt the future framework related to a new CFP, including a new revenue model and concepts around a playoff format — all of which will be part of a new contract with ESPN. …

Texas appears to be in good standing with four-star edge Damien Shanklin. Shanklin is rated the No. 6 edge in the country for the 2025 recruiting class and No. 1 overall recruit in Indiana, according to 247Sports. The 6-foot-4 pass rusher narrowed down the schools in his recruitment on Wednesday. Texas made the cut for Shanklin’s top schools alongside Notre …

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. – The Rivals Camp Series stop in Southern California was loaded along the offensive and defensive lines and on Sunday there was tons of recruiting news coming from those groups as well. Rivals national recruiting director Adam Gorney and national recruiting analyst Greg Smith have the latest on many big names. RIVALS CAMP SERIES LOS ANGELES: Five-star …

AUBURN — Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze hired DJ Durkin in January to be his second defensive coordinator on the Plains. Durkin, who was a co-DC at Ole Miss from 2020-21 and the DC at Texas A&M from 2022-23, will also coach linebackers with the Tigers. Durkin spoke to reporters for the first time Wednesday since landing the Auburn job, …

As strategic and adaptable as Nick Saban was while racking up one national title after another at Alabama, his attempt Tuesday to convince lawmakers how tough coaches have it right now was like trying to run the football against a nine-man front. “It’s whoever wants to pay the most money, raise the most money, buy the most players is going …

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Mar. 13—Ohio State football is losing a longtime assistant to Michigan. A university spokesman confirmed running backs coach Tony Alford has left the program shortly after ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported Wednesday morning Alford is expected to take the same job with the Wolverines. That came after FootballScoop.com reported Alford was a Michigan target. An Akron native who played for Earle …