College Football

We may be entering the heart of basketball season, but for a team entering 2025 with sky-high expectations, there is never a bad time to check in on the happenings surrounding Penn State’s football program. Penn State head coach James Franklin met with the media Tuesday afternoon to preview the 2025 offseason and winter updates. Franklin discussed several topics, including …

Alabama basketball’s Derrion Reid is officially out for Tuesday’s game against Texas. The freshman was listed as questionable in the SEC student-athlete availability report heading into the trip to Austin. Coach Nate Oats told reporters ahead of Arkansas that Reid would be “game-to-game” after sitting out against the Razorbacks. Feb 8, 2025; Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide head coach …

Four-star tight end recruit Brock Harris could be the next great Brock to play for the Georgia Bulldogs. Of course, it is unfair to compare Harris to Georgia football legend Brock Bowers, but the two players have more similarities than just their names. Harris is an elite player and is one of the best recruits in the class of 2026. …

DeMarco Murray has emerged as a candidate to become Penn State’s next running backs coach, On3’s Pete Nakos reported Tuesday. Murray has served as OU’s running backs coach since 2020, making him the second-longest tenured assistant behind offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh. Penn State is looking to fill void left behind by Ja’Juan Seider, who accepted the Notre Dame running …

Michigan State football will reportedly host 2026 cornerback prospect Bradley Brown for a visit this spring. Brown will reportedly take a visit to Michigan State this spring, and is working to set up an official as well, according to Jason Killop of On3. Brown hails from Plano, Texas and is an under-the-radar prospect that Michigan State football has shown interest …

STATE COLLEGE − Even coach James Franklin admitted that he wasn’t banking having both of his Penn State football star running backs for the upcoming season. Maybe his electric, breakaway senior-to-be, Nick Singleton. Or his relentless, pounding senior-to-be, Kaytron Allen. “I thought there was a good chance early on that we would get one of them back,” similar, he said, …

The Colorado Buffaloes are going through another transition period. For the first time in the head coach Deion Sanders era, his son, Shedeur, is not entering spring football as the team’s top quarterback. Shedeur Sanders rewrote the record book during his two years starting in Boulder. No. 2 threw for 7,364 yards and 64 touchdowns to only 13 interceptions on …

James Franklin got the phone call at 5:40 a.m., two days after the national championship game. It was about Jim Knowles, Ohio State’s multimillion-dollar defensive coordinator. The man who had orchestrated the nation’s No. 1 defense, helped it run through the College Football Playoffs to a title victory over Notre Dame. The one Penn State football wanted to lead its …

Texas A&M’s 2026 recruiting class is highly talented. It will continue to add commitments in the coming months, but what has become a regularity during the early parts of the offseason is that decommitments occur at a rapid rate for every program. Back in November, coach Mike Elko gained commitments from four-star DL Jordan Carter, four-star wide receiver Aaron Gregory, …

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football defensive coordinator Bryant Haines’ new contract will make him one of the highest paid coordinators in the country. Haines signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with IU on Jan. 21 with a starting salary of $2 million a year through the 2027 season, per a copy of the agreement provided to The Herald-Times in response to an …

A former NFL player is set to lead the next chapter of Benjamin football. Jason Belser, who played with the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts and Kansas City Chiefs, was announced Tuesday as the Bucs’ next football coach. He will begin the job March 1 and follows longtime head coach Eric Kresser. “We are thrilled to welcome Coach Belser to The Benjamin …

Colorado football coach Deion Sanders has assembled a coaching staff of NFL greats, which includes Warren Sapp and, recently, Marshall Faulk. With Sanders hiring Faulk, a Pro Football Hall of Famer, as running backs coach for the Buffaloes this offseason, it sparks a question. How many well-known NFL players are coaching in college football? College football has numerous productive NFL …

Texas A&M football lost a big-time recruit on Tuesday when four-star tight end Xavier Tiller from Fairburn, Georgia, decommitted from the Aggies’ 2026 class. The 6-foot-5, 225-pound prospect initially committed to A&M in November. He appears to have changed his mind and is now opening his recruitment, he told On3’s Hayes Fawcett. As a sophomore at Langston Hughes High School, …

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football defensive coordinator Bryant Haines’ new contract will make him one of the highest paid coordinators in the country. Haines signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with IU on Jan. 21 with a starting salary of $2 million a year through the 2027 season, per a copy of the agreement provided to The Herald-Times in response to an …

You can never fault a coach for leaving any collegiate program to try and make it at the highest level, which is exactly what Chris O’Leary did went he left Notre Dame to become the safeties coach with the Los Angeles Chargers. His stint in the NFL did not last long, even though it was productive after seeing Derwin James …