College Football

Texas holds the top spot in the USA Today preseason coaches football poll released on Monday. The Longhorns received 28 of the 67 first-place votes. Defending national champion Ohio State is No. 2 after receiving 20 first-place votes and the Buckeyes are followed by No. 3 Penn State, No. 4 Georgia and No. 5 Notre Dame. Texas leads nine Southeastern …

The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman releases a list of the top “Freaks” in college football ahead of every season, and he dropped his 2025 edition on Monday. This list isn’t necessarily about the best players in college football, but more about the freakish athletes that will play in the game this season. Those two things are often correlated, though. The Michigan …

Demetres Samuel Jr. is different. The Syracuse Orange freshman hasn’t even turned 18 yet, but he’s already planning on being a two-way star in college football. Samuel spoke to the media on Tuesday to share the mindset he is taking into his freshman season. “Coach Fran (Brown) tells me to just be myself and let my game play,” Samuel said. …

Mickey Joseph has added a recruiting wizard to his Grambling State squad that is also set to fortify his team during the season. Wyatt Anderson announced officially on his X account that he has joined the Tigers, with FCS Central Reporter Zach McKinnell reporting that he has been named tight end coach. Anderson previously served on Mississippi Valley State’s coaching …

Dan Cozzetto, the Gonzaga Prep graduate and longtime college football assistant who coached and played at the University of Idaho, has died at age 70. A 1974 graduate of G-Prep who played two seasons at Spokane Falls Community College, Cozzetto arrived at Idaho in 1977. He played tight end, linebacker and offensive line for two seasons before becoming a UI …

Michigan State football: Watch highlights from MSU’s Aug. 5 practice Watch two minutes of highlights from Michigan State’s football practice on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. Michigan State football held a live tackling practice inside Spartan Stadium on Monday, August 6th.The Spartans will conduct their first scrimmage of the preseason on Saturday, August 9th.The team is focusing on improving their tackling …

With a week’s worth of practices in the books this summer for the Eastern Washington football team, head coach Aaron Best has seen enough to declare that he wants to hear more out of one particular group: the offensive linemen. It’s a group Best, a former player and position coach, knows and appreciates. But so far, he’s not heard much …

PULLMAN – The throw looked perfect right away, a smooth parabola off the hands of Washington State quarterback Zevi Eckaus, who was targeting wideout Kaden Harken toward the end zone. The ball reached its peak at around the 15-yard line, underneath a cloudless Tuesday morning sky at Gesa Field, before heading back toward the turf. As that happened, Harken jockeyed …

The Oklahoma Sooners are in the running for one of the top edge rushers in the nation in ESPN five-star prospect Jake Kreul. Oklahoma, along with Texas and Ole Miss, is in the running for the elite pass rushers’ services, and Kreul has set a decision date ahead of his senior season. Kreul told ESPN’s Eli Lederman that he plans …

North Carolina now has a pair of commitments in its 2027 recruiting class after landing a pledge from Raleigh (N.C.) Rolesville four-star running back Amir Brown on Sunday. Head coach Bill Belichick and the new-look staff in Chapel Hill have shown they’ve got the recruiting chops to compete with others in the ACC and they’ll look to make a mark …

GRAND FORKS — Tuesday was busy on UND’s campus. Construction crews began demolition on Hyslop Sports Center, the Fighting Hawks went through Day 5 of fall camp and the program held media day in old Memorial Stadium — now named Hyslop at Memorial Village. After morning practice, UND held a lunch followed by comments from head coach Eric Schmidt, offensive …

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Warren Sapp strictly enforces Colorado players being in straight lines while stretching at practice. Marshall Faulk harps over and over on proper footwork. These two Hall of Fame players turned coaches are sticklers for the little things. That’s on orders from the third member of their gold-coat club: Deion Sanders. Sapp and Faulk are part of …

Jeremiah Smith, Ryan Williams on cover of EA Sports College Football ’26 EA Sports chose Ohio State’s Jeremiah Smith and Alabama’s Ryan Williams to be on the cover of College Football ’26. We talk to the athletes about what this moment means to them. Heading into the 2025 college football season, the SEC is widely regarded as being a wide-open …

BROOKINGS — Towards the end of Tuesday’s practice — South Dakota State’s sixth, and third with pads — coach Dan Jackson gave his players a quick ‘recovery’ break for water and snacks. When they returned to the field, Jackson gathered them at midfield and, through some high-volume colorful language and animated gesturing, let them know the first 3/4 of practice …

Top contenders Ohio State and Penn State are the preseason favorites to face off in the Big Ten Conference Championship this season.  The Buckeyes (+190), Nittany Lions (+240) and Oregon Ducks (+350) have the best chance of becoming Big Ten Champions, per odds released Tuesday by BetMGM.  But just as those three lead the list, someone has to finish last.  …