College Football

UCF Knights football highlights from first practice of 2025 fall camp The UCF Knights returned to the field Monday, July 28, opening training camp ahead of their 2025 college football season. Here’s how they looked. There is no shortage of intriguing UCF football storylines in 2025. Scott Frost’s return as head coach. More than 60 new Knights. The quarterback battle. …

COLUMBIA — No South Carolina football fan wants to think about what happens if star LaNorris Sellers gets hurt. The 6-foot-3, 240-pound quarterback returns for his second year as starter, and Sellers finished the 2024 season off a lot better than he started it. After a rocky first week, Sellers battled various injuries, ranging from a minor issue for one quarter …

Joshua Ritchey has 24 seasons of high school coaching experience, but his 25th year on the sidelines will be different.  For the first time in his career, Ritchey will be an athletic director and head football coach after taking over the Electra Tigers in February. Good thing he has three assistants on his staff who have experience in those roles.  …

Ball State football season is right around the corner. The Cardinals will kick off their season on Saturday, Aug. 30, with an in-state road game at Purdue. Ball State is coming off a 3-9 season and hasn’t qualified for a bowl game since 2021, but new head coach Mike Uremovich will look to lead a quick turnaround. With the season …

Missouri football quarterbacks dodge tackling dummies in footwork drill Missouri football quarterbacks dodge tackling dummies in footwork drill Missouri football’s 2025 season is right around the corner. ESPN’s Football Power Index ratings give Mizzou a 9.2% chance of making the College Football Playoff, and the setup of the Tigers’ schedule appears to do MU some favors. MU avoids the likes …

Alabama football has some big expectations this year, in Kalen DeBoer’s second season. The Crimson Tide are looking for a new play caller this year, as Jalen Milroe has moved on to the NFL. DeBoer says he is feeling good about his squad’s quarterbacks as practices continue for the summer. “The biggest thing with those guys, the quarterbacks, is they’ve …

CARLETON – Football coaches are famous for losing sleep over the game they love. They fret about injuries, the next opponent, their players doing the right thing and many other things. There is one day Derek Anderson doesn’t mind losing sleep. The second-year head coach has started a new tradition at Airport. As they did last fall, the Jets opened …

Jimbo Fisher is looking for another job after getting let go by Texas A&M football in 2023. Fisher is admitting after nearly two years out of coaching, that he was saddened to leave his job at Florida State football for College Station. Fisher left Florida State after winning a national championship coaching at that school. “Most difficult thing I’ve ever …

One week after hosting the Oregon Ducks on homecoming, Rutgers football will hit the road to take on the Purdue Boilermakers in West Lafayette. Rutgers has a 2-0 record against Purdue, with a 14-12 squeaker in 2017, followed by a 37-30 win in West Lafayette. The programs have not faced off since, making this the first football contest between the …

On a recent podcast, former Florida State and Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher talked about what it was like to work under former Alabama and LSU head coach Nick Saban. Fisher worked with Saban while he was at Saban and was one of the few assistants that had beaten Saban while he was at Alabama, although he didn’t have …

It was an offseason of change for Virginia Tech. Some of it the Hokies expected, others not so much. After the regular season ended, head coach Brent Pry fired defensive coordinator Chris Marve, offensive line coach Ron Crook and strength coach Dwight Galt IV. All three coaches needed to go and were liabilities. In Marve’s case, he was nowhere close …

Colorado football must decide their starting quarterback in less than 19 days. Deion Sanders faces his biggest coaching decision yet. As he must find the first replacement for Shedeur Sanders between Kaidon Salter and Julian Lewis. Sanders didn’t guarantee or announce Salter as the starter. But he delivered a stirring “havoc” prediction involving the prized college football transfer portal addition. …

With the 2026 recruiting cycle moving lightning fast from a commitment standpoint, some are beginning to take a harder look at the top talent that resides at the top of the board in the 2027 class. There’s already been plenty of pledges made by incoming juniors. Many more are already eyeing decisions this fall, too. With the recruiting landscape ever-changing, …

JACKSONVILLE — The Jacksonville State football quarterback battle is coming to a close. On Sunday, both offensive coordinator Clint Trickett and supposed front-runner Gavin Wimsatt talked to the media. Trickett has been pleased what he’s seen with the Kentucky transfer in Wimsatt, and said the room is looking to put even more on his plate. “I’ve been very pleased with …

Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders let the Big 12, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens, and Wyoming Cowboys know that Kaidon Salter is coming this season. Coming to “cause havoc,” by Coach Prime’s admission. Coming to leave defenses in the dust, scrambling out of broken plays with two-way skills that Sanders openly admired. And, in a perfect …