College Football

Feb. 6—Exactly 49 days after he accepted the head coaching position with the Idaho football team, Thomas Ford Jr. announced a signing class of 33 players on the traditional National Signing Day on Wednesday, signaling he and his staff have been hot on the recruiting trails from Day 1. Ford’s first class includes 10 of the 19 players UI signed …

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Throughout his time with the Oregon Ducks, head coach Dan Lanning has not only filled his coaching staff with great teachers but also great recruiters. Lanning’s first full recruiting class in Eugene ranked No. 9 in the nation, while the 2024 class ranked No. 4 and the 2025 class ranked No. 5. Clearly, the Ducks are doing something right in …

Four-star defensive lineman Bryce Perry-Wright has set up official visits with five schools including the Georgia Bulldogs. Perry-Wright plans to visit the Auburn Tigers from May 16-18, the Clemson Tigers from May 30-June 2, Georgia from June 6-8, the Texas Longhorns from June 13-15, and the Texas A&M Aggies from June 20-22. Perry-Wright, who is a member of the class …

LSU football and Brian Kelly made another addition to the Tigers’ coaching staff. Antonio Parks will join the offensive staff as a wide receivers analyst, per a report from Wilson Alexander. A Reserve, Louisiana native, Parks played safety under associate head coach and running backs coach Frank Wilson when he was the head coach at UTSA. LSU was looking to …

LSU football bolstered its recruiting staff on Thursday, taking a member from Ohio State’s staff. According to a report from On3, the Tigers hired Morgan Phillips into a senior recruiting role. She was the Director of Football Recruiting and Special Events for Ohio State starting in August 2024. This will be Phillips’ second stint under head coach Brian Kelly after …

Wisconsin football projects to enter 2025 with a veteran-heavy lineup on both sides of the football. That reality is due to a confluence of factors. First, the program saw an unusually large number of underclassmen transfer out this offseason, led by most of the program’s secondary depth. That meant that several projected members of the 2025 two-deep now play elsewhere. …

With National Signing Day coming and going on Wednesday, college football programs have largely finalized their 2025 recruiting classes. Only two top 100 prospects in 247Sports’ Composite rankings entered Wednesday unsigned, as the vast majority of players signed to their respective teams in the early signing period from Wednesday, Dec. 4, through Friday, Dec. 6. A large portion of players …

The Northern Michigan University football team has gone a combined 0-22 the last two seasons while being outscored by an average of 30.6 points per game during that span. Perhaps all NMU needs is some more Green Bay area talent to help turn things around and win a game for the first time since November 2022. The Wildcats signed five …

Several insiders have named the Georgia Bulldogs as the college football team that spent their name, image and likeness (NIL) money the best on recruiting in the 2025 cycle. Georgia finished with the No. 2 recruiting class in the country behind the Texas Longhorns. Several NIL collectives in the SEC, Big Ten and ACC along with Power Four personnel staffers …

Three Wisconsin Badgers made 247Sports’ recent ranking of the 100 most impactful transfers to move during the winter window. Those additions: former Ball State tight end Tanner Koziol (No. 67 overall), Kentucky edge rusher Tyreese Fearbry (No. 82) and Tulane defensive lineman Parker Petersen (No. 88). Meanwhile, former Badgers defensive lineman James Thompson Jr. (Illinois) was the one departure to …

Now in his third recruiting cycle as head coach of the University of West Florida football team, Kaleb Nobles has come to expect the unexpected. With the current landscape of college football and the transfer portal – with players leaving whenever they want to almost go wherever they want – college coaches have to be ready to add more players …

James Colzie III is tailoring his second Florida A&M football team to become who and what he wants it to be. A significant step to accomplishing that was Wednesday’s National Signing Day, where the Rattlers are projected to add 27 new players for the 2025 football season thus far. According to a signing day document provided by FAMU football, 24 …

Yesterday was an uneventful National Signing Day for the Nebraska Cornhuskers class of 2025. The class officially closed with 20 signees, 12 of whom were listed as 4-star prospects and the remaining eight players as 3-star recruits. The first Wednesday in February used to be the time when all the action took place, as signees announced their schools on national …

Richmond Hill fielded one of the toughest football teams in the Coastal Empire this season, and Tuesday’s Signing Day celebration on campus showed why as six athletes put pen to paper, joining Thomas Zimbalatti (Murray State) and Caleb Easterling (Furman), who signed in December. Here’s a look at the Wildcats who signed Wednesday, along with athletes from a number of …