College Football

At 11 a.m. MT on Sunday morning, class of 2025 linebacker Mantrez Walker took to X to announce his top five schools, which included Colorado. The three-star LB was committed to Michigan but revoked his decision in September. Now, LSU, Ole Miss, Penn State and Miami have joined the Buffs in Walker’s top five. Walker, a 6-foot, 215-pound prospect from …

MADISON – Luke Fickell has spent plenty of time since the end of his first full season at Wisconsin remaking his coaching staff. Fickell likely will have to make another move with the impending departure of defensive line coach Greg Scruggs. A Big Ten source on Sunday confirmed a report that Scruggs is expected to join the Michigan staff to …

New strength coach Craig Fitzgerald’s tenure as Florida football strength coach turned out to be short. Fitzgerald left the Florida Gators less than two months into the job on Sunday to take over as strength coach at Boston College. Fitzgerald made the move based on his close relationship with Boston College coach Bill O’Brien, who was hired on Friday. He …

Could Stanford coach Troy Taylor end up with the job at UCLA? (Jed Jacobsohn / Associated Press) UCLA has cast a wide net in its hopes of reeling in the big one for its next football coach. Athletics officials have corresponded with more than a dozen potential candidates for the vacancy created by the departure of Chip Kelly to become …

Jauan Jennings is no stranger to getting a touchdown in a big moment. The moments, however, don’t get any bigger than the one he was in on Sunday. And in the biggest game in the country’s most popular sport, he delivered. The San Francisco 49ers wide receiver, a former Tennessee football standout, threw a touchdown pass on a trick play …

Jaden Smith, a four-star recruit in the 2024 class, has requested his release from Michigan. The request by Smith was posted on Sunday afternoon. He was a four-star in the 247Sports Composite and the No. 284 overall recruit in the nation. At Michigan, he was slated to play linebacker. The 6-foot-3, 195-pound athlete from West Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) played …

Michigan’s defensive staff has undergone a complete overhaul. Head coach Jim Harbaugh left for the NFL and took with him the defensive coordinator, strength and conditioning coach, defensive backs coach, and defensive line coach. Oh yeah, and the linebackers coach to start the season was let go during the investigation. It’s a pretty crazy change of faces considering Michigan just …

Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer is going to need to find himself a new offensive line coach, too. Scott Huff, who joined the Crimson Tide with DeBoer from Washington, is finalizing a deal to join the Seahawks staff, per NFL Network. The move coincides with Ryan Grubb taking the offensive coordinator job with the Seahawks. Grubb also had joined DeBoer …

The last Pac-12 football season was spectacular. Washington made the College Football Playoff National Championship Game after beating Texas in a playoff semifinal. Oregon made a New Year’s Six bowl and had a strong season, basically the same season USC football had in 2022 (11 regular-season wins and two losses to one team). Michael Penix and Bo Nix were both …

The Texas football hype has reached FanDuel. The site has the Longhorns’ 2024 win total set for 10.5 wins. If we had told you two years ago that the Longhorns’ initial predicted win total in the SEC would be set at 10.5 wins few would have believed it. But the conference gave Texas a favorable schedule, and the program built …

SOUTH BEND — For the second straight year, Super Bowl Sunday has brought change to the Notre Dame football coaching staff. Safeties coach Chris O’Leary, according to multiple published reports, is headed to the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers in the same role. A year ago, it was offensive line coach Harry Hiestand announcing his retirement on Super Sunday. At 32, …

When Lincoln Riley left Oklahoma for USC, one of the hot topics of discussion was Riley’s ability to recruit the state of California. California, along with Texas and Florida, has long been considered the recruiting hotbed for college football. USC being the biggest brand in the state and Riley’s propensity for offense created an assumption that he was going to …

Each year, Alabama signs some of the top recruits in the country. There is no questioning the fact that Alabama has established depth from a talent standpoint. While it has not been proven by some, others have already solidified their spot as a starter and key contributor. With that being the case, it will be interesting to see which players …

USC fans certainly hope UCLA won’t land a quality football coach. Trojan fans aren’t worried about the matter, either. Everyone is looking at Westwood and wondering what can possibly happen at a school with a bad NIL setup and an administration which clearly doesn’t care that much about football. UCLA might not be a poverty school, and it’s true that …

The last time college football had a video game they chose to honor Michigan legend Denard Robinson on the cover. Good call. This time, with a decade of football since the last game, there’s no telling who will be on the cover. Blake Corum, J.J. McCarthy, and Will Johnson are all unironically realistic possibilities, but so are Joe Burrow, Johnny …