College Football

The USC football program received some good news on Sunday. St. Louis-based high school receiver Corey Simms chose USC over Big Ten competitor Penn State and his home-state team, Missouri. Beating out Penn State for a receiver gives USC value on two levels: adding to its roster while depriving a Big Ten foe of a roster enhancement. Beating out Missouri …

The upcoming 2024 college football season will be one to remember for a number of reasons. For fans of the Alabama Crimson Tide, it will be because the team will be led by a new head coach. After the 2023 season concluded, Nick Saban announced his decision to retire from coaching after nearly two decades and a historic run with …

The upcoming college football season features a plethora of changes, one of the biggest being mass conference realignment. Though the Big Ten and ACC added a handful of new programs to the lineup, the SEC will only welcome in the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners. While having those two programs in the conference boosts the competition, it also results …

AuburnWire_CBP Auburn football’s 2025 recruiting class has experienced highs and lows this month. The class ranked as high as No. 4 after four-star running back [autotag]Alvin Henderson[/autotag] flipped his pledge from Auburn to Penn State on June 21 and has since dropped to No. 13 in a week after de-commitments from four-star OL [autotag]Carde Smith[/autotag] and four-star linebacker [autotag]Tyler Lockhart[/autotag]. …

The Florida Gators added another commitment to its 2025 recruiting class on Saturday. Jacksonville Riverside receiver Tae’shaun Gelsey has pledged his services to the Orange and Blue. “It’s the relationship I have with each coach,” Gelsey said to On3. “Everyone is just brought together and everybody is just family. They made me feel welcome and it’s just a great environment …

The ACC isn’t much of a mystery this season. There are a few legitimate contenders like Clemson, Florida State, Miami, and Louisville, but most are in a race to stay off the bottom. Athlon Sports tries to project exactly how the ACC will shake out with its 2024 conference predictions. In Steven Lassan’s article, Clemson finishes second in the ACC …

A position-by-position look at the 2024 Gators leading up to fall camp: TODAY: RUNNING BACKWhat to expect Senior Montrell Johnson Jr. led the Gators in rushing yards the past two seasons while sharing carries with Trevor Etienne. Etienne’s transfer to Georgia put more on Johnson’s shoulders but also left Florida without its home-run threat out of the backfield. The 5-foot-11, …

The past two years, rival fans of Michigan football decried the nonconference schedule, but this year, the Wolverines will be center stage when Week 2 comes around. That’s because, for the first time ever, the maize and blue will be hosting Texas, the second time the Wolverines and Longhorns will face each other, and the first time in the regular …

The USC football program expects to compete for national championships. That’s the standard around here, and no one is claiming otherwise. Pete Carroll reminded us of that standard. However, context matters, and processes sometimes can’t occur instantly, in one fell swoop. Sometimes, building a program to a championship standard requires two or even three years. Such is life at USC …

Trojans Wire hosts a USC football fan call-in show on Fridays at The Voice of College Football. Our most recent show on Friday, June 28 elicited a spirited conversation which became surprisingly contentious. In one sense, I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by the reaction, but I was. The surprise came from a caller and another commentator saying that …

Oklahoma’s quarterbacking future is in excellent hands. The Sooners have depth on the current roster and have talented quarterbacks committed from the classes of 2025 and 2026. Oklahoma’s latest quarterback, Jaden O’Neal, chose the Sooners during the last week of June over offers from Miami, Washington, Ohio State, and Florida State. With his recruitment over, O’Neal’s number one objective is …

The Big Ten was long known as a stodgy conference, reliant on its methods, its style of play, immersed in an older, more traditional way of doing things. So even when the first monumental change in the modern era happened — the addition of Nebraska in 2011 — it was a shift, but one that wasn’t exactly seismic. Adding the …

National outlet The Sporting News released its first 2024-25 college football bowl game projections and the Colorado Buffaloes landed a spot in one of the five New Year’s Eve games. In the early forecast, head coach Deion Sanders’ Buffs are matched up against the ACC’s North Carolina State Wolfpack in the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, one of the oldest …

Last month, the Colorado Buffaloes football program offered class of 2025 three-star (Rivals) wide receiver James Johnson. On Friday, the Douglasville, Georgia prospect announced his top 20 schools on X (formally Twitter) and CU made the cut. At 6-foot-even and 175 pounds, Johnson’s top 20 includes all Power Four teams, including the USC Trojans, Florida State Seminoles, Georiga Bulldogs, Missouri …

With the Big Ten conference expanding to 18 teams officially on Monday, the end of June marks the end of an era for the legendary Big Ten map television advertisement. The ad takes the viewer from the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California, to each of the current 14 Big Ten campus locations from west to east, wrapping up at …