College Football

Texas A&M’s 2026 recruiting class is highly talented. It will continue to add commitments in the coming months, but what has become a regularity during the early parts of the offseason is that decommitments occur at a rapid rate for every program. Back in November, coach Mike Elko gained commitments from four-star DL Jordan Carter, four-star wide receiver Aaron Gregory, …

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football defensive coordinator Bryant Haines’ new contract will make him one of the highest paid coordinators in the country. Haines signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with IU on Jan. 21 with a starting salary of $2 million a year through the 2027 season, per a copy of the agreement provided to The Herald-Times in response to an …

A former NFL player is set to lead the next chapter of Benjamin football. Jason Belser, who played with the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts and Kansas City Chiefs, was announced Tuesday as the Bucs’ next football coach. He will begin the job March 1 and follows longtime head coach Eric Kresser. “We are thrilled to welcome Coach Belser to The Benjamin …

Colorado football coach Deion Sanders has assembled a coaching staff of NFL greats, which includes Warren Sapp and, recently, Marshall Faulk. With Sanders hiring Faulk, a Pro Football Hall of Famer, as running backs coach for the Buffaloes this offseason, it sparks a question. How many well-known NFL players are coaching in college football? College football has numerous productive NFL …

Texas A&M football lost a big-time recruit on Tuesday when four-star tight end Xavier Tiller from Fairburn, Georgia, decommitted from the Aggies’ 2026 class. The 6-foot-5, 225-pound prospect initially committed to A&M in November. He appears to have changed his mind and is now opening his recruitment, he told On3’s Hayes Fawcett. As a sophomore at Langston Hughes High School, …

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football defensive coordinator Bryant Haines’ new contract will make him one of the highest paid coordinators in the country. Haines signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with IU on Jan. 21 with a starting salary of $2 million a year through the 2027 season, per a copy of the agreement provided to The Herald-Times in response to an …

You can never fault a coach for leaving any collegiate program to try and make it at the highest level, which is exactly what Chris O’Leary did went he left Notre Dame to become the safeties coach with the Los Angeles Chargers. His stint in the NFL did not last long, even though it was productive after seeing Derwin James …

Getty Images Ohio State hosted former NFL coach Matt Patricia in Columbus for a meeting about the Buckeyes’ defensive coordinator vacancy, CBS Sports’/247Sports’ Matt Zenitz reports. Ohio State is searching for a new defensive coordinator after former playcaller Jim Knowles left to serve in the same capacity at Penn State.  The 50-year-old Patricia hasn’t worked at the collegiate level since 2003, when …

Just weeks after Texas A&M hired Mike Elko as the program’s newest head football coach, the veteran defensive coordinator was tasked with closing out the Aggies’ 2024 recruiting class that Jimbo Fisher nearly completed. However, keeping four-star linebacker and Tupelo, Mississippi native Tristan Jernigan, to sign on the dotted line remained challenging. In the final weeks of December, Alabama attempted …

Robert Clardy, the winningest coach in Southwest Baptist University football history, has stepped down to become the new head coach at Bolivar High School. Jamie LaSalle, the previous Bolivar coach, retired after the 2024 season. Clardy had been with the Bearcats football program for 22 years, including four as a player and 18 as a coach. In 2015, he was …

Mark Richt was scurrying around the country recruiting in 1990 as the new quarterbacks coach at FSU when he landed in Marietta to watch Eric Zeier throw the ball around. He met with Blue Devils’ coach, Dexter Wood, who had an eight-year run as the head coach of the Cobb County school. Although Richt was just in the early stages …

One of Colorado football’s top position coaches from this past season is moving on from head coach Deion Sanders’ staff. As reported by 247Sports’ Matt Zenitz on Tuesday morning, defensive line coach Damione Lewis is leaving the Buffs for the same role at his alma mater Miami. Lewis was a two-time All-Big East performer with the Hurricanes before going 12th …

CBS Sports spotlighted the Florida football program, naming the Gators as one of the “five teams that closed strong to finish the 2025 recruiting cycle.” This recognition highlights the efforts of Billy Napier and the Florida coaching staff to improve their roster as national signing day approached. Because of the competitiveness that comes with college football recruiting, the closing weeks …

Wisconsin football extended an offer to class of 2026 wide receiver Justin Williams on Tuesday. Williams, a rising senior at Buchholz High School in Gainesville, Florida, is the former high school teammate of Wisconsin class of 2025 signee Nicolas Clayton. Clayton, who is among the group of early enrollees to join the Wisconsin program earlier this winter, finished the 2025 …

The dust has settled in the college football recruiting class of 2025 and Rivals is putting a bow on the cycle by looking at the top programs by position. We move to the defensive line today. RELATED: Final defensive tackle rankings | Final strongside defensive end rankings | Final weakside defensive end rankings MORE 2025 NSD: Big 12 winners | …