College Football

Florida football coach Billy Napier gave Gator Nation signs of hope by leading UF to a four-game win streak to close the 2024 season. As a result, Florida Gators fans are starting to open their checkbooks. After two unnamed Florida football boosters pledged $500,000 each to the Florida Victorious Collective for Name, Image and Likeness funding, it took less than …

Tennessee sports doubled their recruiting budgets in the 2024 fiscal year, documents provided to Knox News show. UT increased its recruiting expenses across all sports from $4.3 million in 2022-23 to $8.1 million in 2023-24. Football made the biggest jump from $2.6 million to $5.4 million. That’s a growth rate of 103%. Men’s basketball increased by 91%. It grew from …

College football is, for just a moment, entering a brief period of relative calm. Most teams — Missouri football included — appear to have conducted the bulk of their business in the transfer portal and have set their rosters for spring camp, which is likely a little more than a month away. That doesn’t mean there won’t be a newcomer or …

Do you want to play Alabama football? The Crimson Tide is giving UA students the chance. Alabama announced Wednesday it would hold walk-on tryouts Jan. 21 at the Hank Crisp Indoor Facility on UA’s campus. WALK-ON TRYOUTS 📆 January 21📍 Hank Crisp Indoor Facility ⏰ 6pm Must be a FULL TIME STUDENT enrolled in 12+ hours this semester pic.twitter.com/fP3xTdOuuK — …

Former Minnesota center Greg Eslinger and St. John’s receiver Blake Elliott were named to the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame class on Wednesday. They will be officially inducted along with 16 other players and four coaches, including Urban Meyer and Nick Saban, on Dec. 9. Eslinger won the Outland and Rimington trophies, and was a unanimous All-American after his …

Commerce football has hired its new head coach in Lenny Gregory. The announcement was posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. Gregory has been a head coach in the Georgia high school football scene since 2015. He started in 2015 at Centennial, where he stayed through the 2016 season and collected a 13-8 record in two years. They went to …

Clark Lea, by the logo on his polo, shared a commonality with Tommy Rees while they were both employed by the University of Notre Dame. However, by their positions on the coaching staff, there was a natural competition of sorts that would arise between the man who would go on to become an SEC head coach at Vanderbilt and one …

CLEMSON — Dabo Swinney noticed the transfer portal talk around Clemson football changed this offseason. The Tigers have landed three transfers for Clemson’s 2025 roster so far: Southeast Missouri State wide receiver Tristan Smith, Purdue defensive lineman Will Heldt and Alabama linebacker Jeremiah Alexander. These additions are more than what they have taken in the previous six years of the portal’s existence (two). Swinney …

The Ohio State Buckeyes are in the college football national championship game for the first time since the 2020 season and third time in the College Football Playoff era. Quarterback Will Howard, head coach Ryan Day and the Buckeyes face the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Jan. 20, marking their ninth meeting overall and …

Graham Harrell has been selected as the seventh Texas Tech football player to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Harrell was announced as a member of the 2025 class on Wednesday by the National Football Foundation. He will officially be inducted in December and be immortalized at the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. Other …

Three football players from the High Desert were recently announced as CIF-Southern Section Players of the Year. After leading Silverado to the CIF-SS Division 10 championship on Nov. 30, quarterback Jace Weiss and linebacker Taron Thompson received the offensive and defensive Player of the Year honors. Keron Jones also received the Coach of the Year award. Serrano linebacker Eddie Serpa …

Ball State football announced 25 mid-year enrollees Wednesday as part of new head coach Mike Uremovich’s first incoming class ahead of National Signing Day. These student-athletes have arrived on campus in Muncie and began taking classes in the spring 2025 semester. The first class includes 15 transfers, five mid-year freshman enrollees who signed with the Cardinals in December, and five …

The NFL playoffs are down to eight teams left. That means, for 24 of the NFL’s 32 teams, it’s draft season. Some of draft season’s iconic events, such as the Senior Bowl and the East-West Shrine Bowl are coming up, as well as some lesser-known college football all-star games that double as NFL draft showcases. Here is a list of …

Whether it’s in the transfer portal or the high school recruiting ranks, few teams have been as hot as the Oregon Ducks over the past few weeks and few years. That’s continuing into the future as Oregon builds one of the best 2026 recruiting classes in the nation. On Wednesday, 5-star quarterback Jared Curtis announced that he is down to …

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Rivals.com, the leader in college football and basketball recruiting coverage. Be the first to know and follow your teams by signing up here. Rutgers is adding a future playmaker to its offense, as class of 2026 three-star athlete Elias Coke has committed to the Scarlet Knights. Coke announced his pledge to Rutgers on Wednesday. He …