College Football

With the release of the Big 12 Conference play slate on Tuesday morning, the puzzle is complete. The entire Iowa State football schedule for the 2025 season is set. The Cyclones will open the season with a conference game against rival Kansas State in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin, Ireland, on Aug. 23. Non-conference play features back-to-back …

Alabama made a huge splash when it hired Ryan Grubb as offensive coordinator, reuniting the assistant with Crimson Tide coach Kalen DeBoer. The two have worked together at the collegiate level for almost 10 years through stops at Sioux Falls, Fresno State and Washington, with it all culminating in a College Football Playoff National Championship appearance to cap the 2023 …

The Texas Tech football team will play three of its first four Big 12 games on the road in 2025, starting with a conference opener at Utah on Sept. 20. Tech has open dates the week after its conference opener and the week before its regular-season finale, meaning the Red Raiders will play seven consecutive weeks in between. In November …

Getty Images Former Texas and Washington wide receiver Johntay Cook II, the top available prospect in 247Sports’ Transfer Rankings, was arrested Tuesday on charges of property theft and interference of public duties, according to a listing in Tarrant County, Texas’ inmate database. Cook is currently being held at Lon Evans Correctional Center in Fort Worth.  Cook, a former top-40 prospect …

Michigan State football seemingly landed a home run hire when they poached Jonathan Smith from Oregon State a year ago. Smith, at his alma mater, had the Beavers as a top 25 program in America under his tutelage. During his time in Corvallis, especially in recent years, there is no doubt that he would have been considered a top-25 coach …

Georgia Bulldogs linebacker CJ Allen is set to visit with SEC commissioner Greg Sankey. He will be representing Georgia for the SEC Football Leadership Council annual meaning. The Football Leadership Council of the SEC involves 16 representatives; one representative from each team. The players will meet with commissioner Sankey to review SEC and NCAA legislative terms, engaging with football officials …

USATSI The Arch Manning hype train is rumbling down the tracks, and Xavier Worthy is the conductor. Ahead of Manning’s first year as Texas’ starting quarterback, Worthy — a former Longhorns standout and current rookie wide receiver with the Kansas City Chiefs — made a bold prediction for Manning.  “Arch is a dog, man,” Worthy said at a media appearance …

Robb Smith will be helping to run Rutgers football’s defense once again. Scarlet Knights coach Greg Schiano is hiring Smith, who’s worked on his coaching staff in two previous stints, as the team’s co-defensive coordinator along with Bergen Catholic graduate Zach Sparber. Smith was Rutgers’ defensive coordinator from 2020-21, Schiano’s first two seasons back in Piscataway. He was also on …

LSU football is building its support staff. On Monday, LSU hired ECU analyst Noah Joseph as a defensive analyst per a report from 247Sports’ Matt Zenitz. Joseph wasn’t with ECU for long. He joined the Pirates in December, but then LSU came calling. A 247Sports report said Joseph was looking to get back on the coaching side of things rather …

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Deion Sanders has done the unthinkable with Colorado football in just two seasons. Sanders took over a Buffaloes football program, which had won just one game in 2022, and turned it into a 9-4 team in two seasons. Colorado was in contention for the Big 12 championship game until the end, but fell short of reaching it due to convoluted …

The Exeter Monarchs enjoyed an outstanding 2024 Tri-County Conference Sequoia championship high school football season. That’s why the Monarchs highlighted this past season’s All-Tri-County Conference Sequoia postseason awards. Exeter captured its third straight Tri-County Conference title, capping off its 2024 season with an outright league crown and a perfect 4-0 league record. Monarchs senior quarterback Jacob Molina was named the …

The Oklahoma Sooners lost a pair of key contributors when Danny Stutsman and Billy Bowman declared for the NFL draft. Stutsman was arguably the most important player to the Sooners’ defensive turnaround to start the Brent Venables era in Norman. With Stutsman preparing for the draft, the Sooners are preparing for life without their All-American linebacker. ESPN released their way-too-early …

On Saturday morning, Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule went into detail about the roles that some new additions will play in the 2025 season. Specifically, he talked about transfer linebacker Dasan McCullough and how he envisions him fitting into John Butler’s defensive scheme. McCullough comes over to Nebraska after spending last season with the Oklahoma Sooners. He recorded 17 tackles …

An Alabama Crimson Tide legend in his own right has been named the head coach of a college football program not far from Tuscaloosa. Scott Cochran was announced as the head coach at West Alabama on Monday. The 45-year-old Cochran was Alabama’s strength and conditioning coach from 2007-2019 under Nick Saban. He joined Kirby Smart’s Georgia Bulldogs coaching staff in …