College Football

Tennessee quarterback Tee Martin against Alabama on Oct. 23, 1999, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The Vols won 21-7. Michael Patrick/USA TODAY Network Tennessee will kick off its 2024 football season in 17 days. The Vols will open its upcoming campaign on Aug. 31 against Chattanooga at Neyland Stadium. Kickoff is slated for 12:45 p.m. EDT and SEC Network will televise the contest. 2024 will …

EAST LANSING – Aidan Chiles barked out the signals from the shotgun, a critical third down and a hard-charging defense in front of him waiting to attack. He scanned the deep middle of the field quickly. Tight end Jack Velling released from the line and flared toward the sideline. His quarterback spotted him breaking open into the flat and delivered …

Nico Iamaleava. Tennessee’s Orange & White Game at Neyland Stadium on April 13, 2024. Photo by Dan Harralson, Vols Wire Tennessee will kick off its 2024 college football season in 17 days at Neyland Stadium. The Vols continue to practice in fall training camp in preparation for the upcoming season opening Aug. 31. Ahead of Week 1, ESPN’s Bill Connelly …

Stuck behind more veteran options at center, Sheridan Wilson said Tuesday he spent his first two years with the Texas Tech football team feeling undervalued. That’s not uncommon for an offensive lineman playing in the Big 12 with the last name Wilson. The Tech redshirt sophomore said the same thing happened to his older brother Preston, who is now a …

ORLANDO — The most important game is the next one, or so any coach will have you believe. It’s a classic college football cliché and, sure, there’s a fair share of truth involved. Teams don’t typically begin preparations for their opponents until the week of the game. But once a schedule is finalized, it’s also fairly easy to determine which …

Most Ivy Leaguers aren’t associated with smelling salts or taking cannonball plunges into cold tanks in the training room. Then again, Florida football defensive tackle Joey Slackman isn’t your typical Ivy Leaguer. Sure, Slackman enrolled at Penn, where he earned a wresting scholarship before transitioning into football his final two years on campus. But after earning Ivy League Defensive Player …

EVANSVILLE — The Courier & Press sports reporters will be making daily predictions or observations on various high school football topics this week ahead of the 2024 season. Next up: Which players in the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference and Pocket Athletic Conference have breakout potential in 2024? Everyone knows who the top players will be. Every year, a handful of …

Leroy McFadden was a rare Big Ten recruit out of the NIC-10 … sort of. He played more for Michigan State (391 yards rushing, 224 receiving in 1997 and 1998) than he ever did at Auburn, leaving Rockford to move in with his uncle in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, after his sophomore year. “I had to get away,” said McFadden, who …

STOCK | Footballs rest in a bag at a high school football game between St. Augustine and Bolles in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 25, 2023. [Clayton Freeman/Florida Times-Union] There is a quarterback battle at DeSoto, one of the top programs in Texas football and the nation. In last week’s release of the USA TODAY Sports Preseason Super 25, DeSoto was …

We’re less than two weeks from the start of the 2024 college football season. The first rankings of the season are out with familiar teams at the top: Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, and Alabama round out the top five teams. Two of those five teams made the College Football Playoff last season and the other three were one win …

Nov 26, 2022; Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA; Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Bryce Young (9) waves to fans as he leaves the field after defeating the Auburn Tigers at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Alabama won 49-27. Mandatory Credit: Gary Cosby Jr.-USA TODAY Sports During his time as head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide, Nick Saban was certainly no stranger to success on the …

Florida football held its 11th practice of fall camp on Tuesday at the Sanders Practice Fields. In all, the Florida Gators are holding 17 practices in fall camp to prepare for the 2024 season, which opens Aug. 31 at The Swamp against Miami. Florida held its first intrasquad scrimmage of the fall last Saturday and will hold another Saturday. UF …

Photo: Isaiah Hole The 2024 season is just over two weeks away, and we will soon learn more about what the Michigan Wolverines are actually capable of as they look to defend their national championship from last year. With a new head coach in Sherrone Moore, some new faces expected to step up and a much more difficult schedule than …

Florida Gators quarterback DJ Lagway (2) passes in the first half during the Orange and Blue game at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, FL on Saturday, April 13, 2024 [Doug Engle/Gainesville Sun]2024 Florida football’s five-star freshman quarterback DJ Lagway is considered by many as one of, if not the best, backup quarterbacks in the country. Lagway knows that he …

CHEBOYGAN – Just recently, Luke Munger made his way down to Northwood University. Munger, a senior football star with the Cheboygan Chiefs, was on the Midland-based campus for a barbecue with the Timberwolves program. He loved everything about it – and then he got an offer to play there. That’s all it took. On Sunday evening, Munger made it official …