College Football

The battle for Arch Manning was the biggest recruiting storyline of the class of 2023. The Georgia Bulldogs were major contenders, along with the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Texas Longhorns. Of course, he chose the Texas Longhorns, and Arch’s freshman brother, Heid, explains the reasoning in an interview with 247Sports. “I remember him asking a lot of questions away …

Even with visits closed down for a few weeks during the dead period, there is still a ton going on in the recruiting world. Rivals national recruiting director Adam Gorney has the latest in this Recruiting Rumor Mill. MORE: Top recruits following their faith and putting college on hold CLASS OF 2025 RANKINGS: Rivals250 | Team | Position | State …

Every college football offseason, teams look to become well-conditioned before the spring football season, and for Texas A&M’s 2025 roster, the freshman and transfer portal additions are becoming well-acquainted with strength and conditioning coach Tommy Moffitt. Head coach Mike Elko and his staff understand what’s at stake in the coming months. More transfer portal additions are needed to fill out …

WEST LAFAYETTE — The Big Ten’s worst defense, after allowing 39.9 points per game in 2024, has nowhere to go but up this next season. Purdue football is counting on new defensive coordinator Mike Scherer to elevate the Boilermakers on that side of the ball. After a four-year college career as a standout linebacker for Barry Odom at Missouri, Scherer …

Jayden Paluseo capped one of the most productive careers of any quarterback to come out of the Coastal Bend in December. Since then the accolades have continued to roll in for the UTRGV-bound signal caller. On Thursday, the 2024 All-South Texas most valuable player was named to the first-team on the 73rd annual Blue Bell/Texas Sports Writers Assocation Class 5A …

Alex Ward only needed one hand to secure an Alabama football offer. The 2027 Marietta, Georgia, defensive back had a torn tendon in his middle finger when he first camped in front of Alabama defensive backs coach Maurice Linguist in June. With a cast on one hand, and at times with that hand behind his back, Ward was still able …

This week, New Orleans will be the home of five Florida A&M football players looking to help their chances to go pro. On Monday, four Rattlers, Daniel Richardson (quarterback), Jamari Gassett (wide receiver), Jeremiah Pruitte (tight end), and Kendall Bohler (cornerback), will perform at the HBCU NFL Combine at the New Orleans Saints’ Ochsner Sports Performance Center. Offensive prospects will …

BLOOMINGTON — Curt Cignetti’s Indiana football defense got some big boosts for 2025 in the last month of 2024, when impact players like Aiden Fisher and Mikail Kamara decided to run it back for one last year in college. That didn’t plug every hole, though. Cignetti and his staff did important work along the defensive line, in the secondary and …

WEST LAFAYTETTE — Purdue football coach Barry Odom’s offensive and defensive coordinators will both make more than $1 million annually for the first time, per details of their first Boilermakers contracts. Offensive coordinator Josh Henson agreed to a three-year contract which pays $1.1 million this season, $1.2 million for 2026 and $1.3 million for 2027. Defensive coordinator Mike Scherer will …

You could see the disappointment in the face of Penn State quarterback Drew Allar after he threw a critical interception in the stages of the College Football Playoff semifinal against Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl, which ultimately led to a game-winning field goal by the Irish with just a few seconds remaining on the game clock. Allar clearly took …

The Oklahoma Sooners are bringing back a familiar face in former offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson. According to a report from OUInsider, the Sooners added Wilson to the staff in an analyst role. Josh Callaway and Sooners Illustrated also confirmed the report. Wilson spent 2002 to 2010 with the Sooners, serving as a co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach from 2002 …

Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger and SI’s Pat Forde look ahead to this week’s meeting between the SEC & Big Ten conferences which may change college football as we know it. After only one season of the 12-team College Football Playoff, the SEC & Big Ten conferences have already determined it’s time for a change. The conferences are likely to propose …

NORMAN — Four months ago, amid an offensive coordinator search that eventually led to Ben Arbuckle, OU football’s Brent Venables made it clear hiring coaches with Sooner ties wasn’t a necessity. However, relationships are important to Venables and he’s never shied away from hiring former colleagues and friends. “I could care less about OU ties,” Venables said then. “That doesn’t …

Last spring, during intense and, at times, heated negotiations over the future of the College Football Playoff, leaders of the Big Ten and SEC threatened to create their own postseason system if they were not granted a majority of CFP revenue and full authority over the playoff format. In the end, executives of the 10 FBS leagues and Notre Dame …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former Notre Dame defensive coordinator Al Golden has been named the Broyles Award winner as the nation’s top assistant coach. Golden helped Notre Dame reach the national championship game last month before he was hired as the Cincinnati Bengals’ defensive coordinator. The Fighting Irish ranked second in the Football Bowl Subdivision in scoring defense (14.3 points …