College Football

USATSI The Arch Manning hype train is rumbling down the tracks, and Xavier Worthy is the conductor. Ahead of Manning’s first year as Texas’ starting quarterback, Worthy — a former Longhorns standout and current rookie wide receiver with the Kansas City Chiefs — made a bold prediction for Manning.  “Arch is a dog, man,” Worthy said at a media appearance …

Robb Smith will be helping to run Rutgers football’s defense once again. Scarlet Knights coach Greg Schiano is hiring Smith, who’s worked on his coaching staff in two previous stints, as the team’s co-defensive coordinator along with Bergen Catholic graduate Zach Sparber. Smith was Rutgers’ defensive coordinator from 2020-21, Schiano’s first two seasons back in Piscataway. He was also on …

LSU football is building its support staff. On Monday, LSU hired ECU analyst Noah Joseph as a defensive analyst per a report from 247Sports’ Matt Zenitz. Joseph wasn’t with ECU for long. He joined the Pirates in December, but then LSU came calling. A 247Sports report said Joseph was looking to get back on the coaching side of things rather …

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Deion Sanders has done the unthinkable with Colorado football in just two seasons. Sanders took over a Buffaloes football program, which had won just one game in 2022, and turned it into a 9-4 team in two seasons. Colorado was in contention for the Big 12 championship game until the end, but fell short of reaching it due to convoluted …

The Exeter Monarchs enjoyed an outstanding 2024 Tri-County Conference Sequoia championship high school football season. That’s why the Monarchs highlighted this past season’s All-Tri-County Conference Sequoia postseason awards. Exeter captured its third straight Tri-County Conference title, capping off its 2024 season with an outright league crown and a perfect 4-0 league record. Monarchs senior quarterback Jacob Molina was named the …

The Oklahoma Sooners lost a pair of key contributors when Danny Stutsman and Billy Bowman declared for the NFL draft. Stutsman was arguably the most important player to the Sooners’ defensive turnaround to start the Brent Venables era in Norman. With Stutsman preparing for the draft, the Sooners are preparing for life without their All-American linebacker. ESPN released their way-too-early …

On Saturday morning, Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule went into detail about the roles that some new additions will play in the 2025 season. Specifically, he talked about transfer linebacker Dasan McCullough and how he envisions him fitting into John Butler’s defensive scheme. McCullough comes over to Nebraska after spending last season with the Oklahoma Sooners. He recorded 17 tackles …

An Alabama Crimson Tide legend in his own right has been named the head coach of a college football program not far from Tuscaloosa. Scott Cochran was announced as the head coach at West Alabama on Monday. The 45-year-old Cochran was Alabama’s strength and conditioning coach from 2007-2019 under Nick Saban. He joined Kirby Smart’s Georgia Bulldogs coaching staff in …

The Oklahoma men’s basketball team will continue SEC play with a road game against No. 1-ranked Auburn at 8 p.m. Tuesday. OU (16-5, 3-5 SEC) earned a 97-67 home win over Vanderbilt on Saturday. Auburn (20-1, 8-0 SEC) secured a 92-82 road win over then-No. 23 Ole Miss on Saturday. Here’s how to watch the OU vs Auburn game today, …

There will be no lack of star power on either side of the ball for Notre Dame football in the fall, as they return multiple players who are nationally recognized. Two of them, running back Jeremiyah Love and cornerback Leonard Moore, were named to ESPN’s way-too-early 2025 All-American first-team. The pair was dubbed part of the “next way of rising …

The Georgia Bulldogs are going to have a new look team in 2025. Former Georgia starting quarterback Carson Beck transferred to Miami and the Dawgs lost over a dozen players to the 2025 NFL draft. ESPN predicts that Georgia’s 2025 season will fare just fine. Bill Connelly predicts (subscription required) that Georgia will make the College Football Playoff for a …

Wisconsin class of 2026 target Jalayne Miller included the Badgers in his list of finalists on Monday. The 6-foot-5, 320-pound offensive lineman becomes the second highly touted 2026 target to feature Wisconsin in his list of finalists over the past two days, following three-star tight end Landen Miree. Miller included the Badgers alongside Arkansas, Stanford, Arizona State, Minnesota, USC and …

Notre Dame football is really starting to make a habit of going after son’s of former NFL stars. At the current moment, there are multiple on the roster like safety Kennedy Urlacher and defensive end Bryce Young, and incoming freshman safety JaDon Blair, wide receivers Elijah Burress and Jerome Bettis Jr. The pipeline of NFL son’s to South Bend is …

On Monday, Notre Dame football made an offer to an 2028 Illinois defensive tackle, and aside from the early offer, it may not have made many waves. What was different for Caleb Tucker, the 6-foot, 5-inch and 355-pounder, is his nickname, which just so happens to be “Bonecrusher.” I actually got a chance to see him play this fall, when …