College Football

The College Football Playoff Board of Managers unanimously approved a change to the 5+7 model as the expanded 12-team field debuts in the 2024 season, awarding automatic bids to the five highest-ranked conference champions with seven at-large bids filling out the field. It was a change necessitated by the implosion of the Pac-12 as a championship-producing conference, as 10 of …

A lot of themes emerged from Lincoln Riley and the new members of his defensive coaching staff at USC last week when they met the media. One of the themes which really came through as a centerpiece of the media availability session was mutuality. These guys are in this thing together. In the NIL space, there is something called a …

Steve Sarkisian and his staff are gearing up to host the annual Texas Football High School Coaches Clinic in Austin. The clinic will take place March 22-23 and will feature the current Texas football coaching staff as well as numerous top coaches from around the country. On Wednesday, the school announced that the keynote speaker this year will be Los …

A familiar but experienced leader will take over the Lincoln-Sudbury football program. The Warriors announced defensive coordinator Justin McKay will be the team’s next head coach Tuesday on X, formerly known as Twitter. He’s been the team’s defensive coordinator for the past five years. McKay, an Ashland alumn, will take over for Jim Girard, who stepped down in December after …

The landscape of college football has been changing so rapidly over the years, that there are few news stories anymore that are truly surprising. Stanford and California playing as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference? Sure, why not? Oregon and Washington traveling to New Jersey to face Rutgers in conference games? I guess it makes sense. But a head coach …

Notre Dame football signed one of the best recruiting classes of the 2024 cycle, with many of them enrolling early. One of those early enrollees is linebacker Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa, who was ranked as the No. 4 player at his position and 41st overall prospect in the country according to the 247Sports Composite Rankings. The California native was the second highest …

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer has hired Nick Sheridan as offensive coordinator and JaMarcus Shephard as co-offensive coordinator. DeBoer announced the hirings on Tuesday. Sheridan replaces Ryan Grubb, who had planned to follow DeBoer from Washington to Alabama but instead was hired as offensive coordinator of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. “Nick and JaMarcus are both fantastic coaches, and …

Brian Kelly and the LSU recruiting staff took a trip to Dacula, Georgia, to offer one of the best athletes in the 2025 recruiting class. The Tigers will have to fight off Georgia Tech to land this recruit. Gerritt Kemp is a 6-foot-3, 180-pound athlete from Dacula, Georgia, where he plays for Hebron Christian Academy. The Hebron Christian Lions finished …

Auburn’s chances of landing a talented offensive lineman for its 2025 haul continue to grow. Earlier this month, Christian Clemente of Auburn Undercover submitted a “crystal ball prediction” in favor of Auburn to land four-star OT Tavaris Dice with medium confidence. Anna Adams, a recruiting analyst for 247Sports, shares the same sentiment, as she has also given Auburn a “crystal …

In 2023, a team that dons a Block M defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes, much to the delight of football fans in Ann Arbor. But it was in December, and it wasn’t the Michigan Wolverines who had the honor that time. It was in the Allstate Sugar Bowl and the team was the Missouri Tigers. A month after being dispatched …

Before we know it, new Alabama head football coach Kalen DeBoer will hit the practice field with his Crimson Tide players for the first time when spring practice gets underway in March. With the retirement of the legendary Nick Saban, there have not been this many question marks surrounding the football program since 2007 when Saban took over. Contrary to …

Chuck Drury, a former Pomperaug High School football coach who also served as an assistant coach at Southington High for his son and had coached football for 40 years in the state, died in a car accident Tuesday morning in upstate New York, Southington athletic director Steve Risser said Tuesday night. His wife Clare was also in the accident and …

Class of 2025 offensive tackle Matty Augustine committed to Notre Dame on Tuesday. Wisconsin had heavily pursued the Connecticut native — and was one of his five finalists as of late last week. Augustine chooses the Fighting Irish over Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State and Wisconsin. Augustine is a three-star recruit according to 247Sports, ranked as the No. 394 player …

The 12-team College Football Playoff evolved before it ever debuted. The expanded playoff that’s set to launch this season originally had been devised as a 6+6 format. That is, automatic bids for the six-best conference champions, plus six at-large bids. But, after that format got approved, realignment crippled the Pac-12. So, on Tuesday, the CFP Board of Managers voted to …

Wisconsin football is now less than 200 days away from opening its 2024 season against Western Michigan. The 2024 campaign is an important one for Luke Fickell and his program. The team went 7-6 in 2023, an understandable record given the challenges coaches face in their first year at new jobs. Related: Ranking the Big Ten head football coaches entering the …