College Football

The OU football team is close to a deal with Doug Deakin to make him its next special teams analyst, 247Sports reported Thursday night. Jay Nunez, who spent the past two seasons coaching special teams for the Sooners, previously joined Alabama’s staff as its special teams coordinator. Deakin has been with the Aztecs as a player or coach for 17 …

SOUTH BEND — Notre Dame offensive coordinator Mike Denbrock, in his first public comments since leaving the same role at LSU two months ago, said there are no hard feelings between him and Tigers coach Brian Kelly. “I don’t know that he was real happy with my decision but I think he understood it,” Denbrock said Friday at the indoor …

Dabo Swinney and the Tigers open their 2024 season with a bang as they travel to Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, for a Week 1 matchup against the expected No. 1 team in the country, Georgia Bulldogs. It’s a wild way to start the season, and Clemson will head into this matchup as the underdog. The Tigers, more often than …

Matthew Hawn was offered by Rutgers football last week, with the New York offensive linemen registering his fifth Power Five offer. From Christian Brothers Academy (Syracuse, New York), Hawn is a 6-foot-6, 270-pound interior offensive lineman. Rutgers entered his recruitment last week alongside offers from Boston College, Duke, Pittsburgh and Syracuse. Physically well-built, Hawn moves well for his size and …

Another talented class of 2025 prospect has scheduled a recruiting visit to Colorado, as three-star tight end Bear Tenney announced Friday that he’ll be in Boulder on March 30. The Buffs, via multiple coaching staffs, have been linked to Tenney for some time now. In the spring of 2022, Tenney visited then-head coach Karl Dorrell’s program and was later re-offered …

The HBCU Legacy Bowl has become an outlet for draft-eligible football players from Black Colleges to play in a post-season all-star game before NFL scouts. Founded by the Black College Football Hall of Fame, the Legacy Bowl is filled with professional development seminars alongside last Monday’s NFL HBCU Combine leading to Saturday’s kickoff. This season’s HBCU Legacy Bowl includes seven Florida A&M football players who …

SOUTH BEND — In the first decade of the College Football Playoff, Mike Denbrock was part of just one team that managed to qualify: the 2021 Cincinnati Bearcats, the only Group of Five program that could make that claim in the four-team playoff era. Now that he’s back at Notre Dame football as its offensive coordinator, the former LSU play-caller …

The latest recruit to be linked with Florida is Lakota West (Cincinnati, Ohio) tight end Luka Gilbert, according to Corey Bender of Gators Online. Gilbert is a 6-foot-7-inch, 242-pound behemoth who is being pursued by Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State among other Power Five programs. The Buckeyes are considered the favorites to land the in-state recruit, but there …

BIG 12 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS at the Sports Performance Center Friday’s Results Team totals (through six of 19 events): 1. Oklahoma State, 33; 2. Texas, 32; 3. Oklahoma, 30; 4. Baylor, 27; 5. Kansas State, 22; 6. Iowa State, 21; 7. (tie) Brigham Young, Kansas, 16; 9. (tie) Cincinnati, Texas Tech, 11; 11. West Virginia, 10; 12. TCU, …

It’s the offseason, and while spring football is just around the corner, these early spring months are dominated by recruiting, specifically the 2025 cycle that’s filled with defensive talent. Quietly assembling in an impressive 2025 class thus far, Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko has continued to garner attention from recruits throughout the national landscape. On Friday, 2025 4-star cornerback …

Feb. 23—TUCSON, Ariz. — Kyle Smith can’t do much wrong at the moment. Washington State’s head coach, who guided No. 21 WSU to a 77-74 road upset of No. 4 Arizona Thursday night for first place in the Pac-12, has been named to the Naismith Coach of the Year late-season watch list, the organization announced Friday. Smith, who is guiding …

With many of the stars of the 2023 team like J.J. McCarthy, Blake Corum, Roman Wilson and Kris Jenkins turning their attention to the NFL Scouting Combine, there are plenty of holes on the 2024 Michigan football depth chart to be filled. That job falls to new head coach Sherrone Moore, who took over quickly after the departure of Jim …

The transfer portal is one of the biggest debate topics in college football. There’s so many positives to the portal: it allows kids to see more playing time elsewhere, suit up closer to home and play for coaches who initially recruited them, but moved schools. There’s also plenty of negatives, with the most pressing one being that college football feels …

Call it the James Laurinaitis effect for Ohio State football and its recruitment of linebackers. Although the newly elevated former Buckeye hasn’t been out on the recruiting trail for long, he’s still making his mark. One of those prospects he’s impressed is California’s, Madden Faraimo, who included Ohio State in his final four schools along with Notre Dame, Oregon and …

Getty Images South Carolina’s Williams-Brice Stadium has hosted plenty of seismic SEC football showdowns over the years. Now, the venue is set to host a different kind of major football event as European soccer powers Liverpool F.C. and Manchester United will square off inside the 77,559-seat stadium on August 3. The clubs announced the game Friday in tandem with South …