College Football

The Oklahoma Sooners have a lot riding on the 2025 college football season as a program. It’s year four of the Brent Venables era. Two of his three seasons have finished with 6-7 records, and he’s gone 0-3 in bowl games. Though there are certainly extenuating circumstances surrounding both years, that’s not the standard at Oklahoma. And that makes 2025 …

If there was one position group that was a clear strength of the Oklahoma Sooners in 2024, it was the defensive line. Led by breakout seasons from R Mason Thomas, Gracen Halton, and true freshman Jayden Jackson, the Sooners’ defensive line was a game-changer to Oklahoma’s fortunes last year. The addition of Damonic Williams via the transfer portal, along with …

Texas A&M is reportedly in a dead heat with the LSU Tigers for the top-ranked defensive lineman in the 2026 recruiting class, as five-star Lamar Brown is set to make his announcement on Thursday, July 10. After taking back-to-back official visits to LSU and Texas A&M over the past two weekends, the versatile lineman is reportedly “50-50” heading into next …

Michigan State football has put a ton of time, effort and resources into recruiting the 2026 class, and more importantly, Wayne (NJ) native Logan Nagle. Unfortunately for the Spartans, despite it being a red hot month of recruiting, they have lost this recruiting battle for a prospect that they had a lot of interest in acquiring. Nagle has made his …

Texas A&M’s priority prospect list in the 2026 cycle is dwindling after landing several names over the past two weeks, including back-to-back commitments from four-star tackles Avery Morcho and Zaden Krempin late last week. Coach Mike Elko and his staff are focused on building from the trenches, and while the offensive line looks loaded for the future, the defensive line …

On Monday, five experts from On3 submitted a recruiting prediction machine pick in favor of the Florida Gators for four-star defensive lineman Kendall Guervil (Ft. Myers, Florida) ahead of his July 2 commitment date. Guervil is an elite defensive line recruit ranked anywhere from No. 77 to No. 269 nationally, depending on the recruiting service. Florida offered him in the …

Alabama football has picked up its first commitment at wide receiver from the class of 2026. Three-star Tennessee receiver Owen Cabell announced his commitment to the Crimson Tide on Monday. Listed as 6-foot-3, 201 pounds, Cabell chose Alabama over a number of SEC and Big Ten schools, including Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Vanderbilt. The addition of Cabell gives Alabama 15 …

Twenty-five years into the millennium and lists abound about the best such-and-such over the first quarter-century. One of the most intriguing such lists – when it comes to college football, anyway – is CBS Sports’ look at some of the game’s biggest coaching rivalries. Different, in part, from team rivalries, a coaching rivalry can exist with animosity even when one …

The top quarterback in the recruiting class of 2027, Elijah Haven, recently capped off his two-week tour of seven schools at the University of Florida and left saying a conversation with sophomore quarterback DJ Lagway was “eye-opening” for him, according to Manny Navarro of The Athletic. “(Lagway) said the relationships he built in his recruitment process with the coaches is …

Wisconsin football top-ranked class of 2026 safety target Nick Reddish included the Badgers in his list of finalists on Monday.  Reddish, who received his offer from Luke Fickell’s program on May 14, 2024, included UW alongside the Indiana Hoosiers, Notre Dame Fighting Irish and Virginia Tech Hokies. The 5-foot-11, 185-pound safety officially visited Madison the weekend of May 30 before …

As football season approaches, the various preseason preview pieces come out, some carrying more weight than others. Two of the more-trusted outlets are Athlon Sports and Lindy’s, both of which feature a scouting section with quotes from opposing coaches in their summer preview issues. The Florida Gators ended 2024 as one of the hottest teams in college football, but there …

A very active recruiting period is coming to a close, and Notre Dame consistently made national headlines for the boatload of talent it was able to draw into its class of 2026. The latest praise for the Fighting Irish came courtesy of ESPN, which lauded Marcus Freeman and his staff for putting together an elite haul throughout the month of …

The names of former Utes head coach Ron McBride and wide receiver Roy Jefferson will soon be etched into the west side of Rice-Eccles Stadium forever. McBride and Jefferson are this year’s choices for the Utah football Ring of Honor, which celebrates some of the most impactful players and coaches ever to don the red and white. They will be …

After adding three-star offensive tackle Leon Noil Jr. on Monday afternoon, the Nebraska Cornhuskers made another addition to their offensive line. Nebraska added class of 2026 four-star offensive tackle Claude Mpouma on Monday evening. Mpouma is No. 127 overall player nationally, the No. 12 overall offensive tackle, and the third overall player in his class from the state of Illinois per the On3 …

The Big Ten and SEC’s current expanded 16-team College Football Playoff proposal for the 2026 season and beyond revolves around access and the belief strength of schedule and regular-season results ultimately trump all other data points for entry. Big Ten commissioner Tony Pettiti Pettiti told Fox Sports’ Joel Klatt in an interview this week that getting closer to a professional sports model …