College Football

Jan. 21—CHAMPAIGN — Sure, the 2024 Illinois football season doesn’t start for another 223 days. But spring practice is just around the corner. During the next two months, I’m going to take a position-by-position look at Bret Bielema’s fourth Illini team. My 35 years on the Illinois football beat should come in handy. I have seen it all. First up: …

Arizona Wildcat football fans have a lot to celebrate today. The Pac-12 Freshman Offensive Player of the Year, quarterback Noah Fifita, and sophomore Second Team All-Pac-12 selection Tetairoa McMillan will be returning to Tucson to play for new head coach Brent Brennan in 2024. Fifita and McMillan explain in a tweet below from Arizona Football, “Tucson we have unfinished business. We runnin’ …

The Clemson football program has a huge opportunity in 2024 as the College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams. The more teams, the more opportunities for the Tigers to return to the playoff and make a run at a title. While the team needs a lot of development for them to do so, college football is a crazy place where …

South Carolina football has hired Marquel Blackwell as running backs coach with SEC experience. Blackwell has been a running backs coach at three different programs in four years. Most recently, Blackwell was at Texas A&M, where he oversaw a rushing attack that averaged 136.2 yards per game. Blackwell was the running backs coach at Ole Miss in 2022, where he …

Elite class of 2025 cornerback Tae Harris has decommitted from the Georgia Bulldogs. Harris is ranked as a four-star recruit. Harris originally committed to Georgia football in June 2023. However, a lot has changed for the Georgia coaching staff since then. Former Georgia defensive backs coach Fran Brown accepted the head coaching job at Syracuse. The Bulldogs subsequently hired USC …

Stanford defensive tackle Jaxson Moi committed to transfer to Tennessee football on Sunday. Moi chose the Vols over Washington, which recently lost coach Kalen DeBoer to Alabama. And he also took an official visit to Arizona after entering the transfer portal on Dec. 31. Moi, a 6-foot-2, 302-pounder, played all 12 games at Stanford this season, including seven starts. He …

Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer has added a key transfer for his first Crimson Tide team on Saturday in Parker Brailsford, who started at center last year for DeBoer’s Washington team. Brailsford earned second-team All-Pac 12 honors, as well as being named a Freshman All-American, in his first year as a starter. Though light at 275 pounds, Brailsford displays excellent …

South Carolina associate head coach and special teams coordinator Pete Lembo has been hired to lead Buffalo, the program announced Sunday. Lembo had been the Gamecocks’ special teams coordinator since December 2020 and helped lead a special teams unit that was among the nation’s best in 2022, when the Gamecocks were ranked fourth in the nation in kick returns, fifth …

Is this real? CBS Sports is saying it is: Chip Kelly really is being considered by some NFL teams, according to the latest whispers from the coaching carousel. Here’s the link and a piece of intel from the CBS report: “Multiple sources tell CBS Sports that UCLA head coach Chip Kelly has been mentioned as a possible offensive coordinator by …

Buckeyes Wire shared on Friday that Ohio State has officially hired a new offensive coordinator for 2024. “OSU announced the hiring of O’Brien as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in a statement just a day after ESPN’s Pete Thamel broke the story. The announcement came from Ryan Day through an Ohio State spokesman. “I am extremely pleased to be able to add …

The Tigers are off to a nice start in the 2025 class already with an eight-man class that currently ranks second in the nation and features the top overall player and quarterback as well as the top running back and receiver. Now, LSU may be in contention for a player it missed out on the first time around. Cornerback Tae …

The Texas football program rarely offers scholarships to sophomores in high school, but players such as running back Raycine Guillory rarely come around. After visiting the Texas campus along with dozens of other recruits during the program’s annual Junior Day on Saturday, Guillory became the first member of the 2026 class to commit to Texas. A 5-foot-10, 180-pound speedster from …

The end of the college football season was only a couple of weeks ago, although we are already getting closer and closer to the opening of spring football practices around the country, and the hype for a game-shifting 2024 season in college football is already building. Fox analyst Joel Klatt is among the many ready to look forward to next …

The No. 11 Auburn Tigers cruised to its 11th straight win on Saturday by taking care of No. 21 Ole Miss, 82-59 in front of a rowdy crowd at Neville Arena. Auburn’s defense played a key role in the win, as they limited Ole Miss, who has four players with double-digit scoring averages, to shoot just 36.8% from the field. …

New Michigan State football coach Jonathan Smith is known for being a quarterbacks coach, and the Spartans are looking for their next big quarterback addition after successfully adding big transfer pick-ups like Aidan Chiles and Tommy Schuster. On Saturday, the Spartans offered TJ Lateef, a 4-star quarterback in the 2025 recruiting class. Lateef had already been offered by Smith when …