College Football

Tweets by CowboyFB Chris Low of ESPN has reported that the Oklahoma State Cowboys and head coach Mike Gundy will be hiring former New Orleans Saints defensive line coach Todd Grantham as their defensive coordinator. Grantham had moved from the defensive line coach position to a senior advisor role in early November after Darren Rizzi took over as the interim …

The most chaotic College Football Playoff selection process in the history of the event — given it is the first year of the 12-team bracket — concluded Sunday, though there was little debate as to which program would earn the No. 1 seed. Despite playing to the wire in the Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday night, Oregon (13-0) ultimately …

Utah football has only had three losing seasons during Kyle Whittingham’s 20 years as head coach. (Photo by Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) After Kyle Whittingham raised some doubt as to whether or not he would return to Utah for his 21st season, the Utes’ coach made his intentions for 2025 quite clear. In a memo issued by the …

Getty Marshall coach Charles Huff is leaving his position to be the coach at Southern Miss, it was announced Sunday. In his place, Marshall has reportedly targeted NC State defensive coordinator Tony Gibson as its next head coach, according to FootballScoop.  The departure comes only one day after Huff led Marshall to its first conference championship since 2014 after a …

Oct 20, 2018; Fort Worth, TX, USA; Oklahoma Sooners wide receiver Lee Morris (84) celebrates with running back Kennedy Brooks (26) after catching a touchdown pass during the first half against the TCU Horned Frogs at Amon G. Carter Stadium. Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports The Oklahoma Sooners earned bowl eligibility with their win over the Alabama Crimson Tide. The Sooners’ …

USATSI Purdue has hired UNLV’s  Barry Odom, sources confirmed to CBS Sports’ Brandon Marcello. Odom led the Rebels to 19 wins over the past two seasons, the most in program history.  UNLV’s 2024 season was a magical one for the program as the Rebels won 10 games for the first time since 1984. The program shocked Houston and Kansas on the …

Florida Gators running back Dameon Pierce (27) warms up for the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl where they played the Central Florida Knights Thursday, December 23, 2021, in Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL. [Doug Engle/Ocala Star-Banner]2021 Oca 122324 Ufvsucfgasbowl The Florida Gators will face the Tulane Green Wave in the 2024 Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl in Tampa, Fla., …

Sunday was a day of celebration for many prominent teams as they saw their names unveiled on the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket. At-large programs like SMU, Indiana, Tennessee and even Ohio State can breathe a sigh of relief knowing, with certainty, that they will have a shot at playing for a national championship.  For all the joy that the …

Before he became an ESPN college football analyst and one of the faces of the sport, Kirk Herbstreit was an Ohio State quarterback, suiting up for the Buckeyes from 1989-92. Now, one of his sons is headed to his alma mater’s hated rival. Chase Herbstreit, a quarterback in the 2025 recruiting class, has committed to Michigan, he announced Sunday to …

Nearly all the debate in the final hours of College Football Playoff deliberation centered around whether SMU or Alabama should claim the final spot. It was an argument between how harshly the committee should punish championship game losers in comparison to teams sitting at home, but also how much a team should be rewarded for its strength of schedule, even …

National Signing Day has come and gone and while the 2025 class is not finished since there is a late signing period in February as well, most of the action happened this week. Rivals is breaking down each Top 25 recruiting class and we continue here with No. 9 Texas A&M. MORE AGGIES: Texas A&M’s 2025 recruiting class MORE TEAM …

Getty Images The first edition of the expanded College Football Playoff bracket has been set with 12 teams now afforded an opportunity to make a run towards a national championship. The new-look CFP is more of an event than the four-team field ever was, or the BCS before it, with action expanding across a month between December and January — …

The Illinois football team is headed to Orlando, Florida, to take on South Carolina in the Citrus Bowl Game that will be held in Camping World Stadium on Dec. 31, 2024. Coach Bret Bielema and the Fighting Illini (9-3) closed strong with three consecutive wins for their first nine-win regular season since 2007. Illinois is now headed to its second bowl game in …

Nick Saban, wearing a red tie and blazer, made a passionate argument on ESPN around the potential consequences to leaving Alabama, a school that still pays him a half-million annually, out of this year’s 12-team College Football Playoff field. Saban, who retired in January after 17 seasons and six national championships at Alabama, centered his argument around Alabama’s strength of …

One year after sneaking into the College Football Playoff, Alabama football was left out of the newly formed 12-team CFP. Entering Selection Sunday on the bubble for the CFP, the Crimson Tide were listed as one of the two “first teams out” in Sunday’s final CFP rankings. Earning the No. 11 seed over Alabama was SMU, who was upset in …