College Football

Arranging Marcus Freeman’s Ohio State linebacker days under a looking glass reveals just how steeped he is in the program he will try to deprive of a national championship. Freeman — head coach the Notre Dame team gearing up for a Monday showdown against the Buckeyes — played with and against assorted Stark County players and national names after going from Anthony …

Jul 24, 2024; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Giants defensive coordinator Shane Bowen looks on during training camp at Quest Diagnostics Training Facility. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports The New York Giants will send several of their coaches, including assistant head coach Mike Kafka and running backs coach Joel Thomas, to the 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl in February. …

No matter who wins the College Football Playoff championship game Monday night, be prepared for detractors to offer the following data points: “But they lost to Northern Illinois!” will be a popular refrain in the case of a Notre Dame win, noting that no national champion had ever suffered as embarrassing a loss. Meanwhile, should Ohio State deliver coach Ryan …

When Ohio State gears up for the College Football Playoff National Championship on Jan. 20, New Hampshire will be well-represented on the sidelines. Ohio State will take on Notre Dame on Monday, Jan. 20 at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium in the hunt for a national title. Ryan Day, Ohio State’s head coach, and Chip Kelly, the team’s offensive coordinator, are both …

New York Giants offensive coordinator Mike Kafka talks to reporters before the organized team activities (OTA’s) are canceled due to air quality at the Giants training center on Thursday, June 8, 2023. The New York Giants will once again be well-represented at the Senior Bowl, which will be played at Hancock Whitney Stadium in Mobile, Alabama on Saturday, February 1. …

Florida football coach Billy Napier gave Gator Nation signs of hope by leading UF to a four-game win streak to close the 2024 season. As a result, Florida Gators fans are starting to open their checkbooks. After two unnamed Florida football boosters pledged $500,000 each to the Florida Victorious Collective for Name, Image and Likeness funding, it took less than …

Tennessee sports doubled their recruiting budgets in the 2024 fiscal year, documents provided to Knox News show. UT increased its recruiting expenses across all sports from $4.3 million in 2022-23 to $8.1 million in 2023-24. Football made the biggest jump from $2.6 million to $5.4 million. That’s a growth rate of 103%. Men’s basketball increased by 91%. It grew from …

College football is, for just a moment, entering a brief period of relative calm. Most teams — Missouri football included — appear to have conducted the bulk of their business in the transfer portal and have set their rosters for spring camp, which is likely a little more than a month away. That doesn’t mean there won’t be a newcomer or …

Do you want to play Alabama football? The Crimson Tide is giving UA students the chance. Alabama announced Wednesday it would hold walk-on tryouts Jan. 21 at the Hank Crisp Indoor Facility on UA’s campus. WALK-ON TRYOUTS 📆 January 21📍 Hank Crisp Indoor Facility ⏰ 6pm Must be a FULL TIME STUDENT enrolled in 12+ hours this semester pic.twitter.com/fP3xTdOuuK — …

Former Minnesota center Greg Eslinger and St. John’s receiver Blake Elliott were named to the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame class on Wednesday. They will be officially inducted along with 16 other players and four coaches, including Urban Meyer and Nick Saban, on Dec. 9. Eslinger won the Outland and Rimington trophies, and was a unanimous All-American after his …

Commerce football has hired its new head coach in Lenny Gregory. The announcement was posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. Gregory has been a head coach in the Georgia high school football scene since 2015. He started in 2015 at Centennial, where he stayed through the 2016 season and collected a 13-8 record in two years. They went to …

Clark Lea, by the logo on his polo, shared a commonality with Tommy Rees while they were both employed by the University of Notre Dame. However, by their positions on the coaching staff, there was a natural competition of sorts that would arise between the man who would go on to become an SEC head coach at Vanderbilt and one …

CLEMSON — Dabo Swinney noticed the transfer portal talk around Clemson football changed this offseason. The Tigers have landed three transfers for Clemson’s 2025 roster so far: Southeast Missouri State wide receiver Tristan Smith, Purdue defensive lineman Will Heldt and Alabama linebacker Jeremiah Alexander. These additions are more than what they have taken in the previous six years of the portal’s existence (two). Swinney …

The Ohio State Buckeyes are in the college football national championship game for the first time since the 2020 season and third time in the College Football Playoff era. Quarterback Will Howard, head coach Ryan Day and the Buckeyes face the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Jan. 20, marking their ninth meeting overall and …

Graham Harrell has been selected as the seventh Texas Tech football player to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Harrell was announced as a member of the 2025 class on Wednesday by the National Football Foundation. He will officially be inducted in December and be immortalized at the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. Other …