College Football

The signing period can signal hope for programs coming off a season of struggles. It can also show the start of the next emerging dynasty. The three-day signing period lasts from Wednesday, Dec. 4 through Friday, Dec. 6, allowing high school recruits to sign earlier than ever in the NCAA calendar. Most recruits in recent years have signed during this …

Wednesday marks the first day of the early signing period in college football, also unofficially known as the early signing day. On Wednesday, high school recruits can sign their National Letter of Intent to the football program they’ll be spending the foreseeable future at. It’s become the unofficial signing day, as most top players put pen to paper on the …

Kentucky tight end Josh Kattus has been named one of four finalists for the 15th annual Pop Warner College Football Award, Pop Warner Little Scholars announced Tuesday. The Cincinnati native has caught 21 passes for 310 yards and five touchdowns in 33 career games and 15 starts for the Wildcats. This season, he made six receptions for 77 yards and …

Travis Hunter of the Colorado Buffaloes, center, celebrates after scoring a fourth-quarter touchdown against Utah at Folsom Field last month.Photograph: Dustin Bradford/Getty Images The Heisman Trophy is college football’s supreme individual honor, an annual tribute to the best player in the game, and more often than not it’s the country’s top quarterback who takes the prize. But this could be …

(Photo by Eric Francis/Getty Images) The Nebraska Cornhuskers are already feeling the impact of the transfer portal during the 2024 offseason. The portal officially opens on Monday, December 9, and closes on Thursday, December 28. That hasn’t stopped several Huskers from already declaring their intentions to enter when it opens. The first player to announce his plans to enter the portal …

Ben Davis standout Mark Zackery IV will sign with Notre Dame on Wednesday, the start of the early signing period for college football. Zackery explains, in his own words, why he committed to the Irish: Notre Dame was a school I saw a lot on TV when I was younger, but I never knew much about it. I grew up …

CHEBOYGAN – Luke Munger was a force on the football field for the Cheboygan Chiefs. Recently, the Cheboygan senior star was recognized by the Northern Michigan Football League Legends Division in a major way. Thanks to an excellent final season, Munger was named the league’s defensive player of the year. In addition, he made the NMFL defensive first team as …

Four days is a long, long time in college football recruiting. Class of 2025 and three-star running back Brendon Haygood committed to Missouri football on Tuesday evening. The tailback was committed to Boise State until Saturday, when the tailback announced he was backing out of his pledge to the Mountain West Conference team while on a visit with the Tigers …

The upsets on the penultimate weekend of the college football season created drama around how the playoff rankings, released by the committee Tuesday, would shape the announcement of the 12-team field that is coming in less than a week. The suspense was centered on how far Ohio State, ranked No. 2 last week, would fall after its loss to Michigan …

USA TODAY SMG On the eve of National Signing Day, a key member of LSU’s 2025 recruiting class took himself off flip watch. Linebacker Keylan Moses took to social media and announced his intention to sign with LSU on Wednesday. The four-star linebacker committed to LSU in November of 2023, but took a visit to Texas A&M last week. There …

FLOWOOD — Ole Miss football quarterback Jaxson Dart said the Conerly Trophy ranks near the top of his list of career awards. Dart won the C Spire Conerly Trophy on Tuesday, awarded to the best football player in Mississippi. “It’s a tremendous honor to be a part of this group,” Dart said at The Sheraton Hotel. “It’s crazy looking at …

. The early signing period for the 2025 recruiting class is set to open on Wednesday. Now that the Oklahoma Sooners have their offensive coordinator in Ben Arbuckle, some new targets are emerging. The Oklahoma Sooners issued an offer to three-star quarterback and Oklahoma State commit Jett Niu. Out of Lehi, Utah, Niu is a three-star prospect and is considered …

The Army football depth chart has been remarkably steady headed into December but the defensive corps is taking a hit. Senior defensive end Kyle Lewis was injured prior to the Texas San Antonio game last weekend and is likely out for the remainder of the season with a lower body injury. A late scratch was also nose tackle Kody Harris-Miller, …

Tennessee’s last hope of hosting a College Football Playoff game depends on a blowout in the SEC or Big Ten title games. The Vols probably would need Georgia or Penn State to lose by a wide margin in their conference championship games to keep the possibility open. No. 2 Texas (11-1) plays No. 5 Georgia (10-2) in the SEC championship …

Penn State moved up one spot to No. 3 Tuesday night in the penultimate College Football Playoff rankings and is projected to play Arizona State in the first round. The Nittany Lions were projected as the fifth seeds in the 12-team playoff and would play the 12th-seeded Sun Devils (10-2) in the first round Dec. 20 or 21 at Beaver …