College Football

STARKVILLE — Lots of eyes, for good reason, are on Mississippi State football’s offense entering the 2024 season. The Bulldogs landed their starting quarterback in Blake Shapen from the transfer portal. They also hired coach Jeff Lebby, an offensive guru whom former Alabama coach Nick Saban tried to bring to his staff. Yet Lebby, speaking after Wednesday’s preseason practice, said …

Jul 14, 2022; Arlington, TX, USA; A view of the Texas Longhorns helmet logo during the Big 12 Media Day at AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports The Longhorns have landed the program’s first five-star recruit from the Class of 2025. Kaliq Lockett, the talented Sacshe (Texas) receiver, committed to Texas on Wednesday, choosing the new SEC squad …

Credit: NFL Films, Hard Knocks, HBO With seven national championships to his name, Nick Saban knows a thing or two about winning big football games. The legend has been around long enough to understand how to properly coach football players. More importantly, he knows how to bring along young quarterbacks. That made him a perfect guest to the Chicago Bears’ …

. One of the premier wide receivers in the 2025 class, Kaliq Lockett officially committed to the Texas Longhorns on Wednesday afternoon over a list of four additional finalists. Included in that group was the Alabama Crimson Tide, who were joined by the Florida State Seminoles, LSU Tigers, and Texas A&M Aggies. Lockett is currently ranked as the nation’s No. …

On its way to its first national championship since 1997, the Michigan football program was a continuous subject of unsavory headlines during the 2023 season college football season. Now, the repercussions of those assorted controversies are coming to life. On Wednesday, the NCAA announced a four-year show cause and one-season suspension for former Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh as a result …

Jim Harbaugh, the former Michigan football head coach who led the Wolverines to the 2023 national championship, has been suspended for one year and hit with a four-year show-cause order by the NCAA after he was found to have demonstrated both “unethical conduct” and a failure to promote “an atmosphere of compliance” as it pertains to an investigation into impermissible …

Notre Dame offensive line coach Joe Rudolph, second from right, talks to offensive lineman Aamil Wagner (59) during a Notre Dame football practice at Irish Athletic Center on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in South Bend. All eyes will be on the health and effectiveness of Notre Dame’s offensive line in 2024. Big Game Boomer, who makes a lot of college …

Photo: Isaiah Hole It’s been widely known (at least in Michigan football circles) that the NCAA has been looking to make an example of former Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh, and now it looks like it is doing just that. In January 2023, it was revealed that the NCAA was investigating Harbaugh for recruiting violations and instead of eventually issuing …

Photo: Isaiah Hole ANN ARBOR, Mich. — After coming out of spring ball a bit decimated at the position, Michigan football bolstered its wide receiving corps by adding two players via the transfer portal — one unfamiliar and one very familiar. The unfamiliar one was Youngstown State transfer C.J. Charleston. Last year, the Ohio native had 33 catches for 503 yards …

As the 2024 Notre Dame football season rapidly approaches, the goals are fairly obvious, make the expanded College Football Playoff field. ESPN ranked 25 players with the most importance (subscription required) in the CFP race, and not one member of the Irish was included in the group. There is a silver-lining however, as [autotag]Riley Leonard[/autotag] was one of two players …

Photo: Isaiah Hole ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Convention would say that without J.J. McCarthy at the helm and with Michigan football breaking in a new quarterback, the Wolverines would get more conservative and lean more on their roots of running the football. But general convention doesn’t necessarily win games. Go big or go home. The maize and blue are still embroiled …

Rivals national recruiting analyst Greg Smith is joined by recruiting analyst Jed May of UGASports.com, Ryan O’Bleness of SpartansIllustrated.com and Tim Verghese of InsideNebraska.com to tackle three topics and determine whether they believe each statement is FACT or FICTION. MORE FACT OR FICTION: Beating Miami would boost Florida’s recruiting instantly ***** CLASS OF 2025 RANKINGS: Rivals250 | Team | Position …

The chaos of the conference realignment carousel has led conferences across the country to adjust their scheduling philosophies ahead of the 2024 college football season. There are no longer any divisions in the four power conferences as the top two teams in the standings at the end of the season will play each other for the conference title. Given that …

BATON ROUGE – On-the-field work to begin the fix for LSU football’s historically bad defense from last season had to start in the defensive backfield. Opposing teams had fields days against LSU’s pass defense in 2023 and head coach Brian Kelly set out to right the ship but first, letting go of last season’s entire defensive staff. He brought in …

Nov 18, 2017; Oxford, MS, USA; Texas A&M Aggies helmets after the game against the Mississippi Rebels at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Texas A&M Aggies defeated the Mississippi Rebels 31-24. Mandatory Credit: Justin Ford-USA TODAY Sports Before fall football camp began last week, Texas A&M true freshman athlete Terry Bussey sat down for a conversation with Ali Russell of TexAgs on the …