College Football

Northern Illinois beat Arkansas State 21-19 in the 10th Anniversary Camellia Bowl on Saturday, giving coach Thomas Hammock his first career bowl victory. The tone of the game was set before it even kicked off, as both teams and head coaches exchanged some words on the way to their respective sideline. Players on both sides engaged in trash talk throughout …

Ryan Pellum made an early signing period flip, the four-star wide receiver changing things up and committing to Oregon. The California wide receiver had been a USC commit. The switch by Pellum to Oregon came as a bit of a surprise. He had been committed to USC since June 26, one week after he took an official visit to the …

The transfer portal is one of the latest trends to rock college football, and many programs are experiencing the benefit, especially at the quarterback position. Since the transfer portal began in 2018, three of the five Heisman Trophy winners have been transfer quarterbacks. This season, three of the four Heisman candidates were transfer signal callers including winner Jayden Daniels, who …

High school football in the state of Texas is special, and there are few bigger individual honors than receiving the Mr. Texas Football Award. Florida signee and Willis high quarterback DJ Lagway took home the prestigious award on Friday, according to a release from Dave Campbell’s Texas Football. “Dave Campbell’s Texas Football, the leading publication for all things football in …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — After a slow start Duke football was able to pull away and hold off Troy in the 2023 Birmingham Bowl to earn a 17-10 win on Saturday at Protective Stadium. With under three minutes left in the first quarter, the Blue Devils (8-5) scored the first touchdown of the game and then made the two-point conversion after …

There are far worse places to spend the holidays than the islands of Hawaii, which is where the San Jose State Spartans and Coastal Carolina Chanticleers will meet in the Hawaii Bowl on Saturday. It’s a matchup of two 7-5 teams looking to end their seasons on a high note. As you might expect from two schools located on opposite …

2026 quarterback prospect Jared Curtis announced his top six schools on Saturday. Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida State, Ohio State and Texas A&M are Curtis’ top six schools in his recruitment. The 6-foot-3, 210-pound quarterback is from Nashville Christian School in Nashville, Tennessee. Curtis unofficially visited Tennessee on Sept. 30 for the Vols’ game against South Carolina. He also unofficially visited Tennessee on …

Northern Illinois got off to a hot start against Arkansas State in the Camellia Bowl thanks to some aggressive coaching decisions, including a perfectly executed trick play. With 10 minutes to go in the second quarter and holding a 13-7 lead, the Huskies lined up for a 49-yard field goal to push their lead to nine. When kicker Kanon Woodill …

LSU has certainly hit the jackpot at the quarterback position in the transfer portal era. In the last five seasons, the team has produced two Heisman winners at the position in Joe Burrow and Jayden Daniels, and both were transfers who came in after spending several years at Ohio State and Arizona State, respectively. Their arcs aren’t identical. Burrow rode …

It was a relatively drama-free early signing period for LSU, which ultimately inked all 27 players who entered Dec. 20 committed to the program. The Tigers also brought in something of a surprise addition on Friday as four-star Katy, Texas, interior offensive lineman Coen Echols committed to LSU over conference rival Auburn, becoming the 28th signee in the 2024 recruiting …

The Georgia Bulldogs have added a commitment from Miami Hurricanes transfer Colbie Young. Young, a junior, will have at least one season of eligibility remaining at Georgia. This is the second consecutive offseason that Georgia has acquired two productive wide receivers via the transfer portal. Colbie Young joins Vanderbilt transfer London Humphreys as Georgia’s two transfer wide receiver commitments. Colbie …

Ohio State football’s recruiting focus can’t completely turn to the 2025 class, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be working on that cycle. Alabama offensive tackle, Micah Dubose, committed to Georgia last January, but that did not stop multiple other schools, including the Buckeyes in recruiting the 6-foot, 5-inch, 315-pound offensive tackle. Ohio State officially joined in his recruitment in …

With Mike Denbrock filling Notre Dame’s offensive coordinator vacancy, LSU now has one of its own. After coordinating the best offense in the country, Denbrock’s name was sure to draw interest and it did, with Texas A&M also courting him earlier this month. But after two years in Baton Rouge, the Fighting Irish were able to draw Denbrock back to …

Dec. 23—By Katherine Fominykh — Kfominykh@baltsun.com PUBLISHED:December 23, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.| UPDATED:December 23, 2023 at 10:01 a.m. Junior Malik Washington squeezed his eyes shut and recalled all 18 schools from memory. “Not in order,” he said quickly. Virginia Tech. Maryland. Penn State. James Madison. Duke. Oregon. Texas A&M. Illinois. Virginia. Syracuse. Western Michigan, West Virginia. Toledo. Charlotte. Temple. Rutgers. …

As the early signing period window has now closed, we know which Notre Dame 2024 signees will enroll early. The first player on this list, quarterback CJ Carr, is already on campus and practicing with the team as they prepare for Oklahoma State in the Sun Bowl. The rest of his classmates will come into the program in January, giving …