College Football

SMU has started their month of July on a tear and it gets even better today, on July 4. A day after landing their headlining quarterback piece of their 2025 class, they now add a big offensive tackle to block for him. Houston (Texas) Lamar four-star offensive tackle Dramodd Odoms is off the board and headed to SMU, he announced …

USATSI Stacking the ACC coaches against each other is an incredibly difficult task, and that’s not just because there are now 17 teams in the league after the offseason additions of Cal, Stanford and SMU.  Heading into 2024, the ACC is a wildly disparate league when it comes to coach rankings; it’s easy to pick out a couple names for …

Class of 2025 three-star linebacker Myles Johnson announced that he was decommitting from the Alabama Crimson Tide. The news came just hours after 2025 four-star athlete Zymear Smith decommitted from the program. Johnson had been committed to Alabama since October. However, he had taken official visits to the Florida Gators and Ole Miss Rebels in June. Many had expected that Johnson …

It was an Independence Day commitment for Zion Williams, the four-star defensive lineman from Texas giving his verbal to LSU on the Fourth of July. Williams is the thirteenth commitment for LSU in a class that is now No. 9 in the nation according to 247Sports. A 6-foot-5, 330-pound defensive lineman from Lufkin (Lufkin, Texas), Williams is the No. 174 …

247Sports Three-star linebacker LaVar Arrington Jr., the son of former Penn State linebacker Lavar Arrington, committed to the Nittany Lions on Thursday. The younger Arrington chose Penn State over fellow finalists Tennessee and UCLA, which both received official visits during the month of June.  A product of Charter Oak High School in Covina, California, Arrington Jr. is the No. 61 …

Jul. 4—LeROY — Camden Hungerholt pulled Todd Hoffner aside briefly last Saturday before they walked into a restaurant. It was part of “Mav Day” at Minnesota State University, Mankato, a day for potential Mavericks football recruits to talk to coaches, see the program’s facilities and see the MSU campus. Hungerholt and Hoffner were headed to a dinner with other potential …

Ohio State football has been killing it on the recruiting trail and although they haven’t gotten a commitment from everyone on its wish list, it has been close. The most recent commitment though is a tad more depressing than most and a bit surprising. Justin Hill is a four-star edge rusher in the Buckeye backyard of Cincinnati, Ohio. The consensus …

Michigan State’s new coaching staff landed a home run when they were able to fend off Washington to bring Oregon State transfer tight end Jack Velling over to East Lansing from Corvallis. Velling has got a lot of praise for his outstanding play in his first two seasons with Oregon State. Now, it looks like the National Football League is …

In many ways, 2012 feels like it was yesterday, and in others, a lifetime away. Seattle Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith took to Twitter on his trip down memory lane in regards to the 2012 Orange Bowl. Winding the clock back, a young Geno Smith was merely a junior at West Virginia. Smith had helped guide the Mountaneers to a respectable …

College football is drastically changing the game in 2024 with another sweeping round of realignment changes and the first expansion of the College Football Playoff. With all of the changes now in effect, it has never been easier to make the College Football Playoff than ever before as the field grows from four teams to 12. It would seem that …

When the 2024 college football season begins, the SEC will look a little different. The conference now includes two former Big 12 powerhouses, Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners. As a result, the conference is home to one of the biggest rivalries in college football, which many fans will highlight on the schedule. CBS Sports ranked the top rivalries in the …

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Penn State may go by the nickname of Linebacker-U, but the defensive line has established a tradition of its own of sustained success up front. And the 2024 season looks to keep that tradition going with one of the best defensive line units in the Big Ten, if not the nation. College football analyst Phil Steele ranked what he believes …

Marcus James has played multiple positions throughout his high school football career both at McGuinness as a freshman and sophomore and at Carl Albert last season as a junior. Each of the national recruiting sites list him as playing a different position, On3 as a linebacker, ESPN as an inside linebacker, Rivals as an outside linebacker and 247Sports even has …

Wisconsin football currently sits at No. 21 in On3’s industry team recruiting rankings for the class of 2025. The program recently rose in the ranking after landing four-star lineman Hardy Watts earlier this week. The Badgers notably sit ahead of the Washington Huskies, Kentucky Wildcats, South Carolina Gamecocks and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in the nation’s top 25. Ohio State, Oregon, …