College Football

National Signing Day is often about getting the biggest names in a recruiting class but it’s also about getting the right players that fit your system. Here are five running backs that are in a great spot in this Commit Fit look: RELATED: How the top 2025 QBs fit with their future programs TEAM SPOTLIGHTS: No. 1 Oregon | No. …

They’ve used words like unsustainable and unrealistic, forecasting doom for college football and their job of coaching and developing players suddenly flush with cash and free movement. Then this new world for coaches was proven to be financially and operationally sustainable. And very realistic. And now here we are, steamrolling into a fourth year of seismic player procurement change in …

Calling someone “underpaid” when they make well into six figures — and sometimes seven — is a strange reality of college football. Of course we know that the average college football fan probably would be thrilled to make $800,000-plus, as everyone on this list does. But it’s all relative. And when it comes to competing for national championships, schools that …

Missing the inaugural 12-team playoff leaves Alabama feeling out of sorts – and evaluating its schedule. In the wake of the College Football Playoff selection committee choosing SMU over Alabama for the final playoff bid, Crimson Tide athletics director Greg Byrne indicated the football program will consider watering down its future non-conference schedules. Never mind that Alabama’s three losses came …

Georgia needs for Kirby Smart to have screwed up. See, if Smart had this correct, and Georgia played its best quarterback all along, then the Bulldogs face a spot of trouble for the College Football Playoff, because Carson Beck’s prognosis sounds concerning. Beck injured his right elbow while absorbing a hit Saturday on a Hail Mary play just before halftime …

Jan 10, 2022; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Georgia Bulldogs offensive lineman Chad Lindberg (78) against the Alabama Crimson Tide in the 2022 CFP college football national championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Former Georgia Bulldogs offensive tackle Chad Lindberg is back in the transfer portal. Lindberg transferred from Georgia to the Rice Owls last …

Ahead of the ReliaQuest Bowl against Michigan, Kalen DeBoer feels the culture of Alabama football is “in a good place.” It’s a Crimson Tide program, he said, that has taken pride in its path, how it stayed the course, how it stuck together through the highs and the lows. And as Alabama prepares for its final game of 2024 against …

Recruiting It’s not just in-state athlete Mark Zackery IV coming to the Notre Dame football program as a MaxPreps state player of the Year. Irish 2025 signee Nolan James was named as New Jersey’s top player in 2024, as the 5-foot, 10-inch and 200-pound running back dominated the competition. The star carried the ball 243 times for 1,921-yards with 19 …

Joey McGuire’s always on the hunt for talent he can add to the Texas Tech football roster, so the Red Raiders’ coach will be hard at it the next three weeks in particular. The NCAA transfer portal opened Monday for a 20-day period, and McGuire says he’s in the market for at least 10 players. His wants: One running back, …

The release of the Division IV and Division V All-Ohio football teams saw 18 more Wayne County-area players earn All-Ohio distinction. Headlining with first-team selections were Orrville placekicker Kaleb Wayt (Div. IV) and Norwayne running back Mason Moyer (Div. V). Wayt had the best leg seen in the area since Dan Stultz, setting the area’s record for longest field goal …

Traditional powers from the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference will meet at Ohio Stadium in the first round of the first 12-team College Football Playoff. Who will Ohio State play in CFP? Ohio State, the No. 8 seed, will face No. 9 Tennessee. Both teams are 10-2. Tennessee running back Dylan Sampson (6) leaves Georgia defensive back Dan Jackson (17) …

Dec. 10—It may have been a bittersweet ending to the 2024 UTPB football season but considering all the Falcons had to deal with, head coach Kris McCullough and his players still have reasons to be positive from this year. The Falcons fell to No. 25 Central Missouri in Saturday’s Heritage Bowl in a double-overtime thriller, 39-37 in Corsicana. With the …

Florida is headed to Tampa to face Tulane Dec. 20 in the Gasparilla Bowl. The Gators’ appearance in the 2021 game occurred under much different circumstances, with an interim coach and Billy Napier waiting in the wings to replace Dan Mullen. Florida now seeks its first four-game winning streak under Napier. Meanwhile, the Green Wave’s starting quarterback entered the transfer …

The college football postseason is a little different this year with the 12-team playoff, but it doesn’t change one indisputable fact — it’s bowl season, and that means it’s time to pick some winners. For the ninth year, I am employing my “Quality Game” system to help me pick the bowl games and the playoff games. Who is going to …

The Texas A&M football program reportedly gained a veteran signal-caller Tuesday night after the transfer portal opened a day earlier. Former UAB quarterback Jacob Zeno will join his third team and play with the Aggies in 2025, per On3’s Hayes Fawcett. The 6-foot-2, 211-pound quarterback has appeared in 30 games in his collegiate career, most recently playing in four games …