College Football

The Texas Longhorns again face a blue blood in a premier nonconference matchup in Week 2. This season’s matchup features a road battle against the Michigan Wolverines. Michigan won a national title last season. It did so under the radar despite consistently making close battles seem out of reach. The Wolverines are comfortable in close matchups. Perhaps the confidence comes …

Texas might still have a target on its back after leaving the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference. One SEC football analyst believes the Longhorns begin the season atop the conference with Georgia. SEC Network’s Peter Burns heaped plenty of praise on head coach Steve Sarkisian’s team on Mike Griffith’s “On The Beat” podcast. According to Burns, Texas looks like …

CBS Sports capped its 2024 Power Four coach rankings with the release of Wednesday’s top 25, highlighting the upper echelon of coaches at the highest level of college football. This year’s list features several new names after Nick Saban’s retirement and Jim Harbaugh’s departure for the NFL left some huge vacancies near the top.  Georgia’s Kirby Smart was a natural …

The 2024 college football season will be a pivotal one for Billy Napier. He got a boost this week with cornerback Cormani McClain, a former top-rated high school recruit who spent last season at Colorado, committing to play for Florida, according to multiple reports Wednesday. It’s a homecoming of sorts for the Lakeland, Florida native, who made headlines last year …

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — The future of Florida State and Clemson, amid ongoing litigation against the Atlantic Coast Conference, loomed over the ACC spring meetings this week, but commissioner Jim Phillips remained optimistic that those relationships could still be salvaged. The conference is currently embroiled in multiple lawsuits with Florida State and Clemson as the two schools legally challenge the ACC’s …

The 2025 recruiting cycle is steadily rising in crescendo ahead of the official visit season and the Florida Gators have been right in the mix when it comes to pursuing the top prep prospects in the land. The Athletic’s senior writer Ari Wasserman recently put together his list of the 10 most impactful uncommitted prospects in the class, which included …

Week 1 of the college football season used to be comprised mostly of tune-up games. That’s not the case this season. It could be one of the more exciting first weeks in recent memory. At a glance, the featured matchups look like bowl games. On Saturday of Week 1, the Georgia Bulldogs and Clemson Tigers kick off the day in …

Outside of the military academies, Clemson was the only program in the country not to take a single transfer. While many have criticized coach Dabo Swinney’s approach to the portal, the Tigers’ head man defended his program’s lack of activity in the transfer market during an interview Tuesday on the ACC Network. “It wasn’t really necessarily an intentional thing,” Swinney …

The college football recruiting grind continues in the month of May with programs around the nation preparing their official visit lists for the coming weeks. Scholarship offers have been handed out and plans are being made as the 2025 cycle climbs to a crescendo. The Florida Gators have been extremely active this offseason and so far have put together a …

COLUMBIA — South Carolina football’s game at Kentucky on Sept. 7 will kick off at 3:30 p.m. and will be televised on ABC. The Gamecocks start the season at home with a nonconference game against Old Dominion on Aug. 31. Game time has not been announced along with 10 other games. In 2023, the Gamecocks beat the Wildcats 17-13 at …

Former Florida Gators head coach Steve Spurrier is trying to be optimistic about the Gators. However, that’s a challenge these days. The Gators have really struggled over the past three seasons and this fall Florida faces the nation’s hardest schedule. Florida’s challenging 2024 slate five-game stretch against Georgia, at Texas, LSU, Ole Miss and at Florida State to finish the …

Last week, the deluxe version of the upcoming and long-awaited EA Sports College Football 25 was revealed and a Michigan football star was front and center. The focal point of the deluxe version is none other than Wolverines running back Donovan Edwards, the reserve tailback for the past three years who has produced some of the maize and blue’s biggest …

“Speech! Speech!” That’s what Purdue second-year safety Dillon Thieneman heard as the Boilermakers opened spring practice back in March. He wasn’t prepared. He definitely hadn’t expected his family to show up moments before or for Purdue to drop a banner honoring his 2023 All-American season (AP third-team). But he did his best when promoted, quickly thanking his teammates: “It’s because …

The Big Ten is one of the toughest conferences in college football, with some of the toughest environments in college football. FoxSports football analyst Joel Klatt ranked his top five home-field advantages in college football. Two programs from the Big Ten made the list. Klatt ranks Penn State as the second-toughest environment in college football and Oregon as No. 4 …

A top offensive lineman in the class of 2025 has named the Auburn Tigers and the Nebraska Cornhuskers as the co-leaders for his commitment. Offensive tackle Broderick Shull made the confirmation to On3’s Steve Wiltfong. The 6-foot-6, 280-pound offensive lineman has 13 offers in his recruitment, including Auburn, Boston College, Cincinnati, Duke, Illinois, Kansas State, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, TCU, Texas Tech, …