College Football

With the additions of the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners to the SEC and the expansion to a 12-team College Football Playoff, the 2024 season will be unlike anything we have seen in years past. With eight more Playoff spots now, teams with two to three losses will be getting into the playoffs and you won’t have to run the …

The College Football Playoff will expand to 12 teams beginning this season, which will allow more teams to have a say in who wins the national championship. Not only will teams such as Florida State or Georgia have better odds of not missing a bid again, but it also opens the door for Group of Five champions or even Cinderella …

Rivals national recruiting analyst Sam Spiegelman is joined by National Recruiting Director Adam Gorney, DottingTheEyes.com’s Jeremy Birmingham and CaneCounty.com’s Marcus Benjamin to tackle three topics and determine whether they believe each statement is FACT or FICTION. MORE FACT OR FICTION: Jonah Williams will be Mike Elko’s first five-star at Texas A&M ***** CLASS OF 2024 RANKINGS: Rivals250 | Team | …

Wisconsin top class of 2025 wide receiver target Davion Chandler committed to Illinois on Sunday. The three-star wideout chose the Illini over other top contenders including the Badgers, Kansas Jayhawks and Indiana Hoosiers. Related: Ranking the highest rated recruits in the history of Wisconsin football Chandler is 247Sports’ No. 1,150 player in the class of 2025, No. 173 wide receiver …

The Gophers football program is holding its first of two consecutive “Summer Splash” recruiting weekends, and on Sunday morning coach P.J. Fleck and his staff began adding to Minnesota’s 2025 class. Bradley Martino, a wide receiver from Golden Gate High School in Naples, Fla., and Nick Spence, an offensive lineman from Liberty High School in Peoria, Ariz., announced Sunday on …

Cannonballs continued to land during the Gophers football program’s “Summer Splash” recruiting weekend on Sunday. Peoria, Ariz., offensive lineman Nick Spence started things off with a pledge at 9 a.m. The 6-foot-6, 290-pound, three-star recruit from Liberty High School had offers from Duke, Iowa State, San Diego State and others. “Proud to announce my commitment to Minnesota!” Spence posted on …

It is now two Big Ten offers in the span of a week for David Forster, an athlete prospect who hasn’t even played high school football yet. Last week, Forster was offered by his in-state program of Rutgers. His brother, John Forster, was at Rutgers last weekend for an official visit. David Forster was offered by Rutgers during that visit …

STILLWATER — Mike Gundy is never short on opinions. And this offseason, college football is not short on impactful rule changes. So the Oklahoma State coach has thoughts on the new technology and guidelines coming to the game this season. The three most notable rule changes are: Two-minute warning time stoppages at the end of each half, like the NFL. …

The Georgia Bulldogs aren’t giving up hope on adding a commitment from five-star defensive line recruit Justus Terry. In fact, Terry was previously committed to head coach Kirby Smart and Georgia. However, the elite defensive lineman is now committed to the USC Trojans. Georgia football is not going to stop recruiting Justus Terry until early signing day. “I won’t sign …

Today, I choose to see the bright side. Take that, Darth Vader. I could write about the nearly unrecognizable state of the Big 12, which once supplied football that was as entertaining as you’d find anywhere, or mourn the loss of “Pac-12 After Dark.” Such musings would be a look in college football’s rearview mirror. Let’s set our eyes today …

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech football has officially added six transfers to its 2024 roster. The newest Yellow Jackets are TE Josh Beetham (Yorkville, Ill./Michigan), DB Jayden Davis (Suwanee, Ga./Cincinnati), DL Thomas Gore (Nashville, Tenn./Miami (Fla.)), DL Romello Height (Dublin, Ga./Southern California), DB Zachary Tobe (Ocoee, Fla./Illinois) and DL Jordan van den Berg (Johannesburg, South Africa/Penn State). All six have …

Former Jackson State defensive back Kevin Dent was inducted Saturday into the Black College Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Dent was joined in the 2024 class by Joe “747” Adams (Tennessee State); Antoine Bethea (Howard); Waymond Bryant (Tennessee State); Richard Huntley (Winston-Salem State); Lemar Parrish (Lincoln University); and Eddie Hurt (Morgan State). “It is a great honor to …

TAMPA, Fla. – The OT7 Finals kicked off Day 2 of pool play on Saturday with dozens of blue-chip recruits in the 2025 and 2026 classes and beyond descending upon Tampa as competition heated up. Rivals National Recruiting Analysts Sam Spiegelman and John Garcia were on hand for the action. Here’s the latest roundup of rumors from the OT7 Championships. …

SMU took a big hit earlier this week as elite four-star quarterback Keelon Russell flipped his commitment away from Mustangs over to the Crimson Tide of Alabama. The move was one that was not a surprise given the level of interest Alabama has expressed to Russell in the past months and Russell’s openness that the Tide could very well be …

Oklahoma State has dipped into a familiar spot in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to grab a commitment. On the heels of an official visit in Stillwater, McKinney (Texas) three-star defensive tackle Jordan Covington has committed to the Cowboys. He chose Oklahoma State over offers from Kansas, Michigan State, Missouri, Cincinnati, and others. This embedded content is not available in your …