College Football

After ending his rookie season in the AFC Divisional Round against the Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud was asked if he called the 2023 season “a success.” With that, Stroud looked back at his time at Ohio State. “Where I come from in college, you don’t win it all, it’s a fail,” Stroud told reporters. “So that’s the …

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Jackson State football coach T. C. Taylor has seen enough that after four games with JaCobian Morgan as the starting quarterback, he decided the Tigers will go forward with the Syracuse transfer as their starter. Taylor did not go after any other big-name quarterbacks in the transfer portal even though they included a proven Southwestern Athletic Conference quarterback, Andrew Body, …

Matt McGloin was a fifth-year senior. Christian Hackenberg was a true freshman. They were the Penn State quarterbacks in Bill O’Brien’s two years as head coach of the Nittany Lions a decade ago. On Friday, Ohio State hired O’Brien as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach to lend an experienced hand to an offense that underperformed last year. McGloin’s and Hackenberg’s …

Former Texas A&M defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin may be coaching in the same role at another SEC university coming up in the 2024 season. According to 247Sports national college football reporter Matt Zenitz, Durkin has emerged as a target for the Auburn defensive coordinator vacancy. Durkin spent the last two seasons in College Station on former head coach Jimbo Fisher‘s …

As we get further into the offseason, it’s given us an opportunity to look at non-roster elements of the Oregon Ducks’ upcoming 2024 season. While the transfer portal, and incoming recruits, and returning starters are incredibly important, they are only half of the equation. The schedule is the other half, pitting Dan Lanning and the Ducks up against their new …

It’s been 10 months since SJ Tuohy moved into his new role as executive director of The Kingdom NIL, a collective geared toward supporting UCF athletes through their name, image and likeness. In that short time, the university transitioned from the American Athletic Conference to the Big 12 in July, opening the doors for a new world of opportunities on …

Corey Raymond is back in Baton Rouge. Raymond rose to prominence in the 2010s coaching LSU’s defensive backs, where he assembled some of the sport’s most talented units year after year. He wasn’t retained upon Brian Kelly’s arrival in 2021, but after LSU’s secondary struggled in 2023, Kelly is bringing back a familiar face. According to The Advocate, Raymond’s deal …

In a high school gymnasium in a suburb of Philadelphia, Will Howard threw passes in front of visiting college coaches. It was January 2019 as Howard, then a junior at Downingtown West High School, looked to make an impression. He had missed the last half of the previous season after breaking an arm, a setback that stalled his recruitment. Opportunities …

The Ohio State Buckeyes and Ryan Day continue to win big recruitments and feast on other programs’ departing players. Quarterback prospect Julian Sayin committed to Alabama but then transferred once Nick Saban retired. Ohio State picked off Sayin to bolster its roster even more in a highly productive offseason. Buckeyes Wire has more on the story: “Alabama transfer quarterback Julian Sayin committed to …

The Eagles are looking for a reset after exiting the playoffs following a stunning 32-9 loss to the Buccaneers in the Wild Card round of the NFC playoffs. Even with Nick Sirianni’s team clinching a playoff berth for the third straight year, there are question marks centered around the personnel and coaching staff following a historic collapse that saw Philadelphia …

Penn State head coach James Franklin and his updated staff were busy this weekend. Penn State hosted a number of high school juniors for the latest junior day event on campus and that led to a number of players receiving scholarship offers to take home with them. It also yielded a new commitment to the Class of 2025 with the …

Arizona football fans rejoiced on Saturday when they learned that quarterback Noah Fifita and receiver Tetairoa McMillan stayed in Tucson and refused to join former coach Jedd Fisch with the Washington Huskies. Arizona has done reasonably well in terms of retaining quality players for 2024 and its first Big 12 season under new coach Brent Brennan. However, some losses are …

Penn State was busy handing out scholarship offers over the weekend after hosting a number of potential Nittany Lions for a junior day event. One of the players receiving an offer this weekend was Jotavion Pierce, a rising safety out of Alabama. Pierce is a 6′-2″, 185-pound safety recruit in the Class of 2025 playing for Montgomery Catholic Prep in …

Jefferson senior linebacker Brian Senter is on track to play for Troy football next fall to play with the Trojans under recently hired coach Gerad Parker. There were, however, a few speed bumps in the road before this point. In mid-December, in the usual end-of-season shuffle, Troy lost its head coach Jon Sumrall and offensive coordinator Joe Bernardi. Senter was …