College Football

Steve Sarkisian was the only one deserving of the AP All-Big 12 Coach of the Year award, and no other coach should have even come close. After an 8-5 season in 2022, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian led the 2023 Texas Longhorns to a 12-1 record, a Big 12 Championship, and a College Football Playoff berth. Texas has always had …

Dillon Gabriel, formerly of the UCF Knights and Oklahoma Sooners, transferred to the Oregon Ducks on Saturday. This was one of the bigger pieces of the transfer portal’s quarterback drama. It creates the distinct possibility that USC’s portal quarterback will be one of two men, Cam Ward of Washington State or Will Howard of Kansas State. While we wait to …

LAWRENCE — Kansas football head coach Lance Leipold announced Dec. 7 that the team hired Jeff Grimes as its new assistant head coach/offensive coordinator. Grimes follows Andy Kotelnicki, who departed the program for position at Penn State. Grimes was most recently on the staff at Baylor this past season, but wasn’t retained. He joins a Jayhawks team that is about …

The 2023-24 college football bowl schedule features intriguing matchups from the middle of December until the CFP National Championship on Jan. 8. While top-10 matchups will command the most attention, there are also exciting games between Power 5 and Group of 5 teams. Kansas will face UNLV in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl on Dec. 26, as the Rebels aim for …

Enyce Sledge was the first Auburn player to announce his intentions to enter the transfer portal and he is now the first one to announce his new school. The defensive lineman committed to Illinois Saturday, announcing the move on social media. Sledge spent two seasons on the Plains, appearing in four games and did not record a stat. The Louisiana …

LSU has extended an offer to another player in the transfer portal. This time it is an offensive lineman from Texas A&M. Remington Strickland is a 6-foot-4, 300-pound offensive lineman from Sugar Land, Texas. He was a member of the 2021 recruiting class and was rated as a three-star out of high school. He redshirted his first year in College …

Penn State has a long history of facing SEC opponents over the years, with most of those matchups coming in postseason play. And even with the SEC set to expand with two new members, Penn State will have played at least one game against almost every team in the conference as of 2024. Penn State will add a game against …

Funny how a shot at a championship ring can narrow the nozzle on the flow of transfers. The NCAA transfer portal has been open for a week now, and only four players have decided to part ways with Alabama football: WR Ja’Corey Brooks, DL Isaiah Hastings, QB Tyler Buchner and WR Thaiu Jones-Bell. PORTAL TRACKER: Alabama football transfer portal tracker …

A Nebraska target at quarterback has announced that he will be heading to the SEC. Baylor transfer Blake Shapen has confirmed that he will be heading to Mississippi State for the 2024 season. Shapen was originally a three-star prospect out of Shreveport, Louisiana, in the 2020 recruiting cycle. This season, he appeared in eight games for Baylor, completing 61.7% of …

The Army Black Knights defeated the Navy Midshipmen 17-11 Saturday at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The win is Army’s second win in a row against Navy and sixth in the last eight contests. The Black Knights looked dominant for most of the game, scoring the game’s first points with a four-yard touchdown pass from Bryson Daily to Tyson Riley …

With national signing day right around the corner, flip season is in full effect and Michigan’s staff are more than happy to contribute. The last few years they have targeting offensive targets, but this year the Wolverines snagged a defensive lineman from Big Ten opponent USC. Deyvid Palepale was considered a Michigan lean for much of the process, but committed …

STILLWATER — As he spoke to the media immediately following Oklahoma State’s 49-21 loss to Texas in the Big 12 Championship Game last weekend, Bryan Nardo sounded like a man ready to get back to work. The Cowboys’ first-year defensive coordinator knew he wouldn’t coach another game for nearly a month, and he’ll get that chance when the 20th-ranked Cowboys …

Brian Kelly is working on beefing up the defensive line in the 2026 recruiting class. That search has led him to Buford, Georgia where he has found a guy who has not heated up on the recruiting trail yet, but it is only a matter of time. James Morrow is a 6-foot-4, 240-pound defensive lineman from Buford, Georgia where he …

In about three weeks Nick Saban will lead the Alabama Crimson Tide football team into Pasadena for their College Football Playoff semifinal matchup against Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines in the Rose Bowl. The contest between the two heavyweight programs is sure to draw one of the largest audiences in college football history and with a spot in the …

Brent Venables isn’t one to be glass-half-empty. The OU coach wasn’t one to get too down on things last year when the Sooners stumbled to a 6-7 mark, their first losing record since 1998. He certainly isn’t going to be down this year after a number of players — quarterback Dillon Gabriel among them — jumped into the transfer portal following a …