College Football

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 …

When news broke that Notre Dame’s safeties coach Chris O’Learly was headed to the NFL, it was a huge loss for the Irish. He is set to join a new staff for the Los Angeles Chargers, where he can continue his impressive upward rise in the coaching profession. O’Leary will now reach football’s top level at the tender age of …

The Eagles’ offseason change that had to happen originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia They’ve replaced two coordinators. Three, really, if you include Sean Desai and Matt Patricia. They’ve hired a new defensive line coach, two secondary coaches, a linebacker coach and a new quarterbacks coach. So far. The Eagles have only announced their new coordinators, so nothing else is …

The Georgia Bulldogs spent $5.3 million dollars on recruiting throughout the 2023 fiscal year (from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023). Georgia’s lavish recruiting spending did pay off as the Bulldogs recently signed the No. 1 class of 2024 in the country. Georgia spent more on recruiting than Michigan and Ohio State combined during the 2023 fiscal year. The …

The entire landscape of college football will look different in 2024, with new teams in different conferences and an expanded College Football Playoff at the end of the year. For the Oregon Ducks, a move to the Big Ten Conference will have us enthralled as we try to figure out where they stand among their new foes, and how quickly …

Dabo Swinney and the Clemson coaching staff are off to a scorching hot start recruiting in the 2025 class and look to continue this run over the rest of the offseason. The latest news coming from the 2025 class is with 4-star offensive line target Justin Hasenhuetl, who took to social media Wednesday to announce his top 10 school choices. …

The NFL doesn’t waste time trying to stay in the spotlight after the Super Bowl. On Tuesday, the league released the names of the 321 draft prospects that are invited to the Scouting Combine. Here’s the full position-by-position list of the players invited to this year’s combine which is scheduled from Feb. 26 to March 4 in Indianapolis: QB Credit: …