College Football

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SEC Media Days continued on Tuesday with four College Football Playoff hopefuls headlining the event. Texas and Georgia competed in the SEC Championship Game last season, while Tennessee and Auburn believe they have the rosters to make an appearance in Atlanta this year. Media days are a chance for high-profile coaches to set agendas. It’s also a perfect opportunity to …

The Texas Longhorns are on cloud nine after winning the recruiting battle for five-star linebacker Tyler Atkinson and also pulling off a major flip by snagging five-star defensive lineman James Johnson from Georgia on Tuesday. The addition of Johnson has catapulted the Longhorns up the recruiting rankings significantly. Texas now holds the No. 6 class per Rivals industry rankings. Johnson …

The best college football teams avoid complacency, even when it is clear that they have the talent necessary to compete for national championships. At Ohio State, superstar wide receiver Jeremiah Smith seemingly has found his motivation for the 2025 season.  Despite Smith entering his sophomore campaign as a reigning national champion and the Buckeyes garnering love as a preseason darling once …

Texas kicked off Tuesday by the best news possible. Despite several other top programs pursuing him to the very end, five-star linebacker Tyler Atkinson committed to the Longhorns. The Longhorns now have three five-star commits for the 2026 cycle per Rivals industry rankings. This puts them past LSU and ties them for the second-most with Oregon. Both trail Alabama who …

There’s no pressure like that of being a quarterback, but when you’re a Manning and playing for the Texas Longhorns, things can get a little bit more intense than normal. That’s the situation Arch Manning is navigating as he prepares for his first full season under center for Texas. Expectations for Manning are sky high entering the season. DraftKings lists …

Hugh Freeze has proven himself a virtuoso in the excuse-making arts, but he shelved those abilities at SEC media days and welcomed expectations for Auburn. Nussmeier, Williams and more stars in 2025 USA TODAY Network’s preseason All-SEC team The 2025 USA TODAY Network’s 2025 preseason ALL-SEC football team is out! Find out who our reporters have selected for QB, RB …

Few coaches around the nation — let alone in the SEC — face as much pressure as Auburn’s Hugh Freeze entering the 2025 season. Freeze was brought in to revive a stagnant program by injecting it with new talent and bringing back its winning ways.  Entering year three, he’s achieved half of those crucial objectives. Auburn has recruited well under …

I know it. You know it. Your twice-removed cousin from your long-lost brother (not sure that’s a thing) knows it. Ohio State receiver Jeremiah Smith is the best player in college football entering 2025. Pro Football Focus also agrees when it ranked the rising sophomore atop its list of top 50 college football players this offseason. And while these things …

Getty Images This week, the leaders of the top conference in college football descended upon Atlanta for SEC Media Days. A total of four head coaches are scheduled to take the podium each day to address reporters, and all will do so with their school’s fight song playing in the background. Unless you’re Steve Sarkisian, that is. When it was …

Georgia made a key update to their football support staffers list on the media guide. Now, former Georgia safety and former South Carolina/Florida head coach Will Muschamp is no longer listed on it. He was the co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach from 2022-23, but decided to take a step back to defensive analyst in 2024 to spend more time with …

Is Auburn a playoff-caliber team in 2025? Tigers coach Hugh Freeze certainly thinks so. Freeze said Tuesday at SEC media day that he believed his team would be in the playoff conversation at the end of the season. Auburn went 5-7 in 2024, but Freeze said that he felt his team was better than it was a season ago. Advertisement …

Whoever was in charge of the introductory music at SEC media days had quite the mixup on Tuesday. Coaches head to the podium for their main press conferences to their school’s fight songs. But right after SEC commissioner Greg Sankey introduced Texas coach Steve Sarkisian, a fight song that distinctly was not the University of Texas’ played over the loudspeakers. …

Getty Images In a week dominated by talk of the upcoming college football season, Texas safety Michael Taaffe brought something different to SEC Media Days in Atlanta: perspective. Wearing a burnt orange tie stitched with the initials of the 27 victims at Camp Mystic, one of several communities impacted by the recent devastating floods in Texas, Taaffe used the national …

LSU football is set to meet Clemson when it opens the 2025 college football season next month. The game features two big-name coaches with Brian Kelly leading LSU and Dabo Swinney at the helm of Clemson. But before things get serious on the field, Swinney had a funny story involving Brian Kelly. Or so he thought. Swinney took a trip …