College Football

This story was updated to add new information OXFORD — Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin has added another weapon from the transfer portal to his offense next season. Former Penn State wide receiver Harrison Wallace is transferring to Ole Miss. He announced the move in a social media post Sunday. Wallace was Penn State’s top statistical wide receiver this …

ATLANTA — Pete Bevacqua, first-year athletic director for Notre Dame, inherited Marcus Freeman as the school’s football coach. Not that anyone is complaining about that with the Irish (14-1) one win from ending a 36-year national championship drought. Notre Dame faces favored Ohio State on Monday night at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in the College Football Playoff title game. “He’s the perfect …

If you’ve ever been to the Jersey Shore, you can feel it. The breeze coming off the shore. The smells of cotton candy and funnel cakes wafting through the air. A Bruce Springsteen song playing over the loudspeakers. For Al Golden, this is paradise. This is the place that shaped him, that made him into one of the best defensive …

Memphis football has a new defensive line coach. Joe Cauthen will replace Spence Nowinsky, coach Ryan Silverfield announced Sunday afternoon. Nowinsky is expected to be the next defensive coordinator at New Mexico. That opened up the spot for Cauthen, who spent 2024 as a defensive analyst with the Tigers and now earns a promotion. He has a long career in …

ATLANTA — Coming off its first appearance in the national championship game in 12 years, independent Notre Dame football faces an “unbelievably great” schedule in 2025, according to first-year athletic director Pete Bevacqua. It includes two teams ranked in the most recent College Football Playoff committee deliberation: No. 9 Boise State at home on Oct. 4 and No. 13 Miami …

With Penn State’s football season now officially in the books, now is a good time to start putting the whole season into perspective. Although the season ended with the Nittany Lions coming up just short of playing for a national championship, there were a lot of good moments to reflect on positively from the 2024 season that ended with a …

ATLANTA — Somewhere on the field Monday evening inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Ohio State linebackers coach James Laurinaitis will roam the field, searching for a fellow Buckeye legend. He’ll shake his best friend’s hand, embrace him with a hug and remind him how proud he is of his friend’s accomplishments. Their exchange will be briefer than usual, but that’s the nature …

ATLANTA — Over the final month of the regular season, one college football team endured more criticism than any other: Indiana. They played nobody! Their strength of schedule stinks! They shouldn’t even be considered for the playoff! Well, as it turns out, the Hoosiers weren’t so bad after all. Their only two losses of the season came against each of …

The longest college football season in history has just one game remaining. One hundred and thirty two Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams have seen their seasons come to an end, and now only two remain: Notre Dame and Ohio State. The Fighting Irish will be looking to end a long drought, having not been national champions since 1988. The Buckeyes …

ATLANTA — It’s debatable whether Notre Dame and Ohio State have been the two college football teams most outspoken about their religious faith this season, as Irish quarterback Riley Leonard suggested ahead of their CFP championship showdown on Monday night. Boise State players and coaches, for instance, made no secret of their Christian beliefs before losing to Penn State in …

The first champion of the 12-team College Football Playoff era will be crowned Monday night as Ohio State and Notre Dame face off at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. It is a rematch of a 2023 regular-season thriller, which Ohio State won 17-14. This game could follow a similar low-scoring script in what promises to be a bruising battle between elite …

HONOLULU – The Polynesian Bowl once again proved to be another great opportunity to evaluate many of the top prospects in the 2025 class plus a select group of juniors throughout five days in Hawaii. Many of the players who shined throughout the four practices continued their strong play during Friday’s game, and now it is time to take a …

ATLANTA — Notre Dame doesn’t have a chance, right? There’s a reason those win probability analytics are so dumb. Everyone always has a chance to win. You actually have to play the game instead of paying attention to some arbitrary numbers.  To get to the College Football Playoff National Championship, the Fighting Irish have slammed Indiana, beaten SEC power Georgia …

ATLANTA — Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman walks by a statue of Knute Rockne each time he enters Notre Dame Stadium. Freeman’s locker room speeches have become viral viewing this season, thanks to an in-house documentary showing on Peacock and social media clips.  Sunday morning, however, Freeman did his best to tamp down expectations about the pregame talk he …

Wisconsin defensive back Xavier Lucas is at the center of a major impending legal battle after his lawyer, Darren Heitner, announced that he would transfer to Miami. At issue is whether revenue-sharing agreements with schools are binding in the wake of the upcoming House v. NCAA lawsuit settlement.  The saga began when Lucas asked Wisconsin to enter his name into …