College Football

Feb. 14—Malakoff placed several players off the Class 3A Championship team on the Blue Bell/Texas Sports Writers Association All-State Team, released on Tuesday. Coach Jamie Driskell was named coach of the year for guiding the Tigers to a 16-0, perfect season. Chauncey Hogg was a first team selection as a defensive back, while offensive standout Mason Logan was the second …

Army football will face Notre Dame at Yankee Stadium on November 23, 2024, the Saturday before Thanksgiving. It will be the 52nd meeting between the schools, with Notre Dame leading 39-8-4. NBC Sports will televise the contest; it will also be streamed on Peacock. No start time was announced. This will mark the 23rd meeting between the two teams at …

Former Arizona football coach Jedd Fisch isn’t exactly mending fences with his former team’s fan base with comments he’s made since leaving the Wildcats for the Washington football job. Far from it. Previous comments from Fisch had already upset and angered fans, and now some supporters of the team are livid with their former coach, who left for Washington after …

Another familiar face is returning to Ann Arbor for a spot on Sherrone Moore’s new-look coaching staff for Michigan football. Stephen Adegoke will be joining Michigan’s staff as the defensive backs coach according to a report from 247Sports. He will be replacing Steve Clinkscale, who followed Jim Harbaugh to take a job with the Chargers. Adegoke spent the last two …

Darryl Tapp, a former star at Deep Creek High in Chesapeake and Virginia Tech, has been hired as the Washington Commanders defensive line coach, according to multiple media reports. Tapp, 39, returns to Washington, where he played defensive end and linebacker in 2013 during an NFL career that spanned 12 seasons. Tapp was an All-American at Virginia Tech and is …

Auburn has hired many new assistant coaches this offseason, and details surrounding new contracts are beginning to emerge. Auburn Undercover’s Nathan King has revealed details surrounding the contract and salary of Auburn’s new defensive coaches including co-defensive coordinators DJ Durkin and Charles Kelly. Reports surfaced of Auburn’s hiring of Charles Kelly before the Tigers’ Music City Bowl game against Maryland. …

The dust has begun to settle following Nick Saban’s retirement as head coach from Alabama. The Crimson Tide hired former Washington coach Kalen DeBoer, who led the Huskies to the national title game last season. DeBoer inherited a star-studded roster, but several players on the Crimson Tide have since entered the college football transfer portal, including former prized recruits like …

The college football contact period has come and gone but Billy Napier and the Florida football program are still reaping the fruits of their labors from their recent efforts. One of the prep prospects the Gators have been pressing hard for is four-star safety Hylton Stubbs out of Jacksonville (Florida) Mandarin in the 2025 recruiting cycle. The 6-foot-1-inch, 180-pound defensive …

USATSI It was going to be a (somewhat) quiet, predictable coaching carousel. There were 19 coaching changes, which was considered a slow year for a carousel that never seems to stop spinning. Then Nick Saban shocked the world by retiring. Then Jim Harbaugh did what we always thought was possible by going to the NFL. Chip Kelly took a pay …

Lucas Oil Stadium will once again host the NFL scouting combine at the end of the month as the 2024 NFL draft creeps closer with each passing day. While the Circle City prepares for one of the offseason’s biggest events, the NFL has released the full list of prospects who received an invite to the pre-draft showcase. It should be …

Feb. 14—Rich Miano’s football career was nearly all on the defensive side of the ball. Rich Miano’s football career was nearly all on the defensive side of the ball. “I’m told I’m a quarterback apologist, ” he said. That seems strange, since Miano played 10 seasons as a defensive back in the NFL and was the University of Hawaii’s defensive …

Back in December 2023, it looked like Penn State was going to lose one of their key members on the recruiting team after Khalil Ahmad took a job at Syracuse to become their executive director of personnel and recruiting. However, Ahmad is back in Happy Valley, taking the familiar role of assistant recruiting coordinator for personnel and recruitment with the …

It’s that time of the year again… ESPN has released their college football preseason SP+ rankings ($).  Year after year, ESPN’s Bill Connelly releases his ESPN SP+ rankings early before the season, and we see these rankings updated accordingly. While no metric is perfect for analyzing a football team, Connelly’s SP+ has proven to be a solid model that considers multiple …

The College Football Playoff and ESPN have agreed on a six-year extension worth a total of $7.8 billion that will keep playoff games on the ESPN family of networks through the 2031-32 season, according to The Athletic. The playoff still has two years remaining on its current deal with ESPN, with the network holding rights to first-round, quarterfinal, semifinal and championship …

Today marks an important day on the college football calendar, or at least it should. It is the annual release of Bill Connelly’s pre-spring SP+ rankings — arguably the best forward-looking rating system in college football. His ratings merge returning production from the previous year, recent recruiting and transfer portal performance, and each program’s recent history to create the most …