College Football

Icon Sportswire Florida State defensive lineman Jared Verse will opt out of the Orange Bowl against Georgia and begin his preparation for the NFL Draft, he announced Tuesday.  “I am filled with gratitude as I reflect on my time wearing the garnet and gold,” he said in a statement released on social media. “Playing football for the Seminoles has been an extraordinary …

Every year, Alabama seems to sign one of the top-ranked recruiting classes in the country. The 2024 recruiting cycle will be no different for the Crimson Tide. Alabama is poised to have a top-3 finish for the ’24 class if things go their way during the early signing period. It will be interesting to see if all of the current …

The wheels are always churning for the Alabama coaching staff on the recruiting trail. There is always work to be done. In recent years, Alabama fans have come to the realization that enough is never enough. Well, that is how it seems to the fans at least. The coaching staff continues to work effortlessly to flip some of the nation’s …

IMG’s Jordan Seaton (77) protects his quarterback against a Lipscomb defender at Lipscomb’s Reese Smith Football Field in Nashville, Tenn., Friday night, Aug. 18, 2023. IMG went on to win the game 35-10. A total of nine high school football recruits are expected to make their commitments to Colorado official on Wednesday, Dec. 20, college football’s early national signing day. …

Dec. 19—Lake Erie College has hired David Price as its new football coach, the school announced Dec. 19. Price moves to Painesville after five years on the Tiffin staff. His roles during his time with the Dragons included defensive coordinator, associate head coach, defensive line coach and academic coordinator. “LEC is located in one of the strongest regions of football …

Dec. 19—The Penn State Board of Trustees formally approved the hiring of former Indiana head coach Tom Allen as the football team’s new defensive coordinator and linebacker coach on Tuesday. The 53-year-old Allen replaces Manny Diaz, who left the Nittany Lions earlier this month after two very successful seasons to become head coach at Duke. Allen is expected to be …

The accountants at ABC Sports had spoken. There would be no new money for a Rose Bowl extension. In the mid-1990s, sports television revenue was booming … but just not enough at that moment in a Pasadena, California, hotel ballroom. ABC Sports executives Tony Petitti and Dennis Swanson had flown across the country to deliver what was not necessarily bad …

Dec. 19—It hasn’t been difficult to identify Penn State’s greatest personnel need, whether it’s in the current recruiting cycle or through the transfer portal. The Nittany Lions want to improve their wide receiver position. They’ve received commitments from three high school wide receivers, who are expected to sign national letters of intent on Wednesday, the first day of the early …

There is a three or four team race going on right now for the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 NFL draft. Depending on which of those teams gets that pick will determine the entire direction of the first round. But what about the rest of the NFL? Who are they picking if they should somehow land that top …

Rutgers football will be welcoming 23 new high school players on National Signing Day as well as one player in the transfer portal. That means that, if everything goes according to plan, the entirety of the 2024 recruiting class for Rutgers will sign their National Letter of Intent on Wednesday during the start of the early signing period. One player …

Dec. 19—”Dolla Bill” is officially here to stay. New Mexico running back Andrew Henry — nicknamed “Dolla” — has withdrawn from the transfer portal, a program spokesperson confirmed to the Journal. The redshirt senior has one year of eligibility remaining. Henry, a Dallas native and former University of Louisiana-Monroe transfer, ran for 350 yards and three touchdowns over nine games …

Dec. 19—Slowly — but surely — UNM football head coach Bronco Mendenhall’s staff is coming together. ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg reported on Tuesday that Syracuse offensive coordinator Jason Beck is set to join UNM in the same capacity. A former quarterback at BYU, Beck, 43, coached quarterbacks under Mendenhall at BYU and Virginia before coordinating an offense that averaged 358.7 yards …

Dec. 19—For the first time in the Jerry Kill era, New Mexico State is set to deal with a major staffing change. Per a report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel, NMSU assistant head coach and offensive coordinator Tim Beck is poised to become Vanderbilt’s offensive coordinator. KTSM-9 News and 24/7 Sports have separately corroborated Thamel’s report, initially released after the Aggies …

Ole Miss and Lane Kiffin have finalized a contract extension fresh off the program’s second-ever 10-win regular season, both of which have come under Kiffin. The Rebels have a chance to pick up their first 11-win season in program history on Dec. 30 in the Peach Bowl showdown against No. 10 Penn State.  No details of the extension have been released; …

It wasn’t public knowledge but earlier this month Notre Dame defensive back Thomas Harper told the Fighting Irish coaching staff that he won’t play in the Sun Bowl versus Oregon State. Tuesday’s practice was open to the public as the Irish get ready for the Sun Bowl on December 29. Harper wasn’t there and when the media asked about his …