College Football

PISCATAWAY – This time last year, Kyle Monangai was a relatively under-the-radar running back, an important piece of Rutgers football’s offense but not a high-profile name around the rest of the Big Ten. A lot has changed since then. Leading the Big Ten in rushing will do that. Monangai had a dominant 2023 season, finishing with 1,262 rushing yards to …

NEWBURGH, Ind. — From Brady Allen at Louisville to Branson Combs at Wake Forest, Southwestern Indiana has its fair share of representation in NCAA Power 4 conferences. That’s especially the case in Warrick County, as former Boonville standouts Devin Mockobee and Clay Conner are in Big Ten football programs while Castle graduates Cameron Tilly and Antonio Harris are at Auburn and …

Omarion Hampton emerged as a breakout star for North Carolina football in 2023, finishing the season as the ACC’s top running back. Texas A&M transfer Max Johnson, one of the UNC quarterbacks hoping to get the starting nod for the 2024 opener at Minnesota, went back to watch film of Hampton’s stellar sophomore season before joining the Tar Heels. Hampton …

LAWRENCE — For Devin Neal and Cobee Bryant, Tuesday provided another opportunity to appreciate the fact that this is their last season with Kansas football. Neal, a senior running back, recalled how his position coach — Jonathan Wallace — told him, “It’s the first of lasts,” before KU’s first practice of preseason camp began. Bryant, a senior cornerback, said he felt a …

Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava signed autographs in print as a 16-year-old phenom because his cursive writing wasn’t ready for primetime. He put on 25 pounds since enrolling at UT in 2023 by eating a lot of French toast and sausage. And he’s won two national championships on the recently released EA Sports “College Football 25,” a video game which mispronounces …

The future of the Southwest Ohio Conference is in flux. On July 24, Talawanda announced it would join the Southwestern Buckeye League. Football will make the move in 2027, and every other sport will do so in 2026. With the SWOC only having four football teams, more movement is expected. Still, there are at least two more seasons of SWOC …

AUSTIN, Texas – Less than a week after the Dallas Cowboys and other NFL teams opened training camp, people in Austin are getting giddy as the UT Football team is about to kick off theirs. Coming off their first-ever College Football Playoff appearance, as you might imagine, the bar’s usually set pretty high around here. Now, it has definitely been …

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech senior center Weston Franklin (Jesup, Ga./Wayne County H.S.) is one of 75 student-athletes on the official preseason watch list for the 2024 Outland Trophy, the Football Writers Association of America announced on Tuesday. The Outland Trophy honors college football’s top interior lineman. Franklin has started 25-straight games at center for the Yellow Jackets over the …

Oct 7, 2023; Tempe, Arizona, USA; Colorado Buffaloes linebacker LaVonta Bentley (20) celebrates a play with defensive lineman Shane Cokes (99) against the Arizona State Sun Devils at Mountain America Stadium. Colorado football’s fall camp is underway, which means the 2024 season is rapidly approaching. With less than a month before the Buffaloes’ season opener vs. North Dakota State (Thursday, …

The “stripe out” was in effect on Saturday for the Golden Gophers. (FOX 9) MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – The University of Minnesota football team is hosting its annual F.A.M.I.L.Y. Day as part of fall camp on Saturday at Huntington Bank Stadium. The Gophers have made it a tradition to open one fall camp practice to fans, with the Spring Game …

Rivals rankings director and national transfer portal analyst Adam Friedman is joined by national recruiting analyst Marshall Levenson, national recruiting analyst Greg Smith and Paul Strelow of TigerIllustrated.com to tackle three topics and determine whether they believe each statement is FACT or FICTION. MORE FACT OR FICTION: David Sanders will sign with Nebraska or Tennessee RUMOR MILL: Feedback rolls in …

On Tuesday, the Texas football program sent its coordinators out to meet with the media. Unless an appearance in front of a microphone is mandated by a bowl game, UT head coach Steve Sarkisian does not allow his assistants to participate in press conferences during the season. Texas, though, usually does make its coordinators available at the beginning of fall …

Jul. 30—MOSCOW, Idaho — It’s easy to see how potent Idaho’s football team was in 2023. The Vandals reached the quarterfinals of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. Three players on the roster are in National Football League preseason camps. But Idaho coach Jason Eck is not mourning the departure of All-Big Sky Conference wide receivers Hayden Hatten and Jermaine Jackson, …

BYU players converge during spring camp practice in Provo on March 16, 2024. On Wednesday, the Cougars will hold their first practice of fall camp in Provo. | Jaren Wilkey, BYU Photo A little more than eight months ago, BYU’s first season in the Big 12 ended with a heartbreaking 40-34 double-overtime loss in the pouring rain at No. 21 …

On Tuesday, the Texas football program sent its coordinators out to meet with the media. Unless an appearance in front of a microphone is mandated by a bowl game, UT head coach Steve Sarkisian does not allow his assistants to participate in press conferences during the season. Texas, though, usually does make its coordinators available at the beginning of fall …