College Football

Ahead of the ReliaQuest Bowl against Michigan, Kalen DeBoer feels the culture of Alabama football is “in a good place.” It’s a Crimson Tide program, he said, that has taken pride in its path, how it stayed the course, how it stuck together through the highs and the lows. And as Alabama prepares for its final game of 2024 against …

Recruiting It’s not just in-state athlete Mark Zackery IV coming to the Notre Dame football program as a MaxPreps state player of the Year. Irish 2025 signee Nolan James was named as New Jersey’s top player in 2024, as the 5-foot, 10-inch and 200-pound running back dominated the competition. The star carried the ball 243 times for 1,921-yards with 19 …

Joey McGuire’s always on the hunt for talent he can add to the Texas Tech football roster, so the Red Raiders’ coach will be hard at it the next three weeks in particular. The NCAA transfer portal opened Monday for a 20-day period, and McGuire says he’s in the market for at least 10 players. His wants: One running back, …

The release of the Division IV and Division V All-Ohio football teams saw 18 more Wayne County-area players earn All-Ohio distinction. Headlining with first-team selections were Orrville placekicker Kaleb Wayt (Div. IV) and Norwayne running back Mason Moyer (Div. V). Wayt had the best leg seen in the area since Dan Stultz, setting the area’s record for longest field goal …

Traditional powers from the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference will meet at Ohio Stadium in the first round of the first 12-team College Football Playoff. Who will Ohio State play in CFP? Ohio State, the No. 8 seed, will face No. 9 Tennessee. Both teams are 10-2. Tennessee running back Dylan Sampson (6) leaves Georgia defensive back Dan Jackson (17) …

Dec. 10—It may have been a bittersweet ending to the 2024 UTPB football season but considering all the Falcons had to deal with, head coach Kris McCullough and his players still have reasons to be positive from this year. The Falcons fell to No. 25 Central Missouri in Saturday’s Heritage Bowl in a double-overtime thriller, 39-37 in Corsicana. With the …

Florida is headed to Tampa to face Tulane Dec. 20 in the Gasparilla Bowl. The Gators’ appearance in the 2021 game occurred under much different circumstances, with an interim coach and Billy Napier waiting in the wings to replace Dan Mullen. Florida now seeks its first four-game winning streak under Napier. Meanwhile, the Green Wave’s starting quarterback entered the transfer …

The college football postseason is a little different this year with the 12-team playoff, but it doesn’t change one indisputable fact — it’s bowl season, and that means it’s time to pick some winners. For the ninth year, I am employing my “Quality Game” system to help me pick the bowl games and the playoff games. Who is going to …

The Texas A&M football program reportedly gained a veteran signal-caller Tuesday night after the transfer portal opened a day earlier. Former UAB quarterback Jacob Zeno will join his third team and play with the Aggies in 2025, per On3’s Hayes Fawcett. The 6-foot-2, 211-pound quarterback has appeared in 30 games in his collegiate career, most recently playing in four games …

Penn State edge rusher Abdul Carter continues to pad his resume this season. On Tuesday, Carter was named the Associated Press Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year. Carter was named the Big Ten’s Nagurski-Woodson Defensive Player of the Year and the Smith-Brown Defensive Lineman of the Year last week by the Big Ten, so receiving the AP’s top defensive …

Jalen Milroe added to his legacy as an Alabama football quarterback Tuesday night. The Alabama redshirt junior was named as the 35th recipient of the William V. Campbell Trophy by the National Football Foundation. Known as the “Academic Heisman,” is an award given to the player who best combined academic success, football performance and leadership. Alabama offensive lineman Barrett Jones …

Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin criticized the NCAA for keeping the transfer portal open between the end of the regular season and bowl games. “It really is a dumb system,” Kiffin said Tuesday during a conference call with reporters to promote the Gator Bowl. “Think about what we’re talking about: a quarterback (Duke’s Maalik Murphy) going in the portal. …

Dec. 10—Tony Gibson, who spent two formative years of his college coaching career at Cumberland in the 1990s, will be introduced for his first head coaching job later this week at Marshall University, the school has announced. Gibson coached defensive backs on Herschel Moore’s CU staff in 1997 and ’98. Now 52, he broke into Division I coaching at West …

Photo: Isaiah Hole After Michigan football upset then-No. 2 Ohio State on Nov. 30, the Wolverines did what they had done two years prior: took the flag from the cheer team and went to plant it at midfield. However, the home team in Columbus didn’t much appreciate that, and several Buckeyes rushed the celebrating maize and blue team. Now a …

Two-dozen UCF football players have publicly stated intentions to enter the transfer portal since Gus Malzahn resigned as head coach, but the Knights suffered arguably their biggest potential loss late Tuesday night. Tight end Randy Pittman Jr., who has played 25 consecutive games for the Knights and was the team’s second-leading receiver as a true sophomore, plans to enter the …