College Football

Who will emerge as the top coach in the SEC without Nick Saban? | College Football Enquirer<p>Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel, senior college football reporter Ross Dellenger, and Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde discuss the SEC’s future without the former Alabama head coach. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on <a data-i13n=”cpos:1;pos:1″ href=”https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/college-football-enquirer/id1423417914″>Apple …

Midnight has arrived which means college coaches can officially call and text 2026 prospects and the messages started flying right when the clock struck 12. For No. 1 prospect Jahkeem Stewart, the New Orleans (La.) St. Augustine five-star defensive end received his first message from Ohio State position coach Larry Johnson. “Coach Johnson said he can’t wait to turn me …

Who will emerge as the top coach in the SEC without Nick Saban? | College Football Enquirer<p>Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel, senior college football reporter Ross Dellenger, and Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde discuss the SEC’s future without the former Alabama head coach. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on <a data-i13n=”cpos:1;pos:1″ href=”https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/college-football-enquirer/id1423417914″>Apple …

Sam Pittman and the Arkansas football program picked up their ninth commitment to the Class of 2025 this week when Kash Courtney decided to call Fayetteville home. Courtney, a three-star recruit from Carthage, Texas, had been committed to Baylor. But he visited Arkansas at the beginning of June and was bowled over. He joins Blake Cherry, of Owasso, Oklahoma, as …

Name, Image, and Likeness has changed the game regarding athletes getting compensated for their likeness but has also impacted recruiting. Truthfully has that changed? NIL should be named “Now It’s Legal.” Schools doing $100 handshakes with potential signees isn’t all that surprising. But our ears always perk up when players discuss their recruitment, especially before the era of NIL and …

The USC Trojans move into the Big Ten for the 2024 college football season and the 2024-2025 college sports cycle. USC’s first significant Big Ten event, to be broadcast on Big Ten Network, will be the Big Ten media days extravaganza in late July. John Canzano, at his Substack, provided the schedule for Big Ten media days in Indianapolis (paywalled; …

With the summer months upon us, Phil Steele once again has released his college football season preview magazine. It is chock full of analysis and nuggets for the upcoming year. In what seems to be an annual tradition, we were interested to see where he projects several Texas Longhorns for his preseason All-American team. There were a trio of Horns …

College football preseason publications are a great way for fans to read up on their favorite teams, and rivals, ahead of an exciting season. It also provides an outlet for coaches to share their most heated opinions while remaining incognito. Anonymous coaches were asked to share their hottest takes on SEC programs with Lindy’s Sports, and the best were included …

If “slow and steady wins the race” really does hold true, then the Michigan football program is trending in exactly the right direction. Though the Wolverines landed just their seventh high school recruit in the 2025 class — only the third directly committed to new head coach Sherrone Moore — it comes in the form of four-star safety prospect Kainoa …

Since the day Mike Elko stepped back on campus at Texas A&M as the head coach of the Aggies, the recruiting presence has been strong. That was amplified on Friday night as elite four-star tight end Kiotti Armstrong committed to Texas A&M. He chose the Aggies over the Texas Longhorns. The 6-foot-5, 246-pounder out of Jasper, Texas, is now the …

Jun. 14—In episode six of Reider’s Block, Journal staff writer Sean Reider sits down with New Mexico head coach Bronco Mendenhall to discuss his first six months on the job, recent transfer additions, the Lobos’ upcoming schedule and more. Watch Listen Read UNM football wraps up spring practice. Here’s what we learned. UNM football: Get to know the 13 transfers …

In most places college football fans look, the Iowa Hawkeyes find themselves just inside the top 25 or as one of the first teams out. In its recent post-spring top 25 rankings, ESPN ranked Iowa as the nation’s No. 23 team heading into the 2024 college football season. While Iowa is thought of by most as either a top 25 …

Between rule changes that have benefitted the other side of the ball and the emergence of spread offenses that force players to cover and tackle in space, playing in a college football secondary has become much more difficult over the past 10-15 years. For a while, this resulted in higher scores across the country as offenses pressed their advantage to …

Jamarion Morrow has selected Missouri football. The 5-foot-9, 180-pound Germantown athlete announced his decision on X, formerly known as Twitter, to commit to coach Eli Drinkwitz and the Missouri Tigers’ 2025 class. Morrow is the No. 2 recruit in the Memphis area, ranks No. 5 in the state and No. 253 in the country. He is listed as a four-star …

Which college football team was the most influential ever in the prestigious sport? That is a question ESPN’s Bill Connelly attempted to answer in his recent ranking of the top 30 most influential teams in the history of the amateur gridiron. Unsurprisingly, the Florida Gators made the list. Maybe somewhat surprising is that the program landed a top-10 team in …