College Football

The expanded College Football Playoff is making the 2024-25 bowl schedule look very unfamiliar. Bowl Season announced the lineup for nearly every other bowl game on Thursday, a day after the CFP announced the schedule for the first 12-team playoff. The first bowl game is Saturday, Dec. 14 and the final non-playoff bowl game is on Jan. 4. The Camellia …

The TaxSlayer Gator Bowl will enter its ninth decade with a prime-time slot. College bowl schedules were finalized on Thursday after the College Football Playoff schedule was released earlier in the week, with the Gator Bowl landing on Thursday, Jan. 2, at 7:30 p.m. The game, which matches an SEC versus an ACC team, is on ESPN and will be …

North Carolina legislation that would’ve required UNC and NC State to regularly play the state’s Group of Five schools in football will not advance further, North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore said Thursday. House Bill 965, entitled “UNC Intrastate Athletic Competition,” passed through the house’s Appropriations committee earlier in the week.  That’s as far as it will go.  “It’s had the hearing …

Michigan football has already held one official visit weekend in the warm weather months, now its set for the encore. The Wolverines hosted two five-stars and three four-stars last week with Derek Meadows, Douglas Utu, DJ Sanders, Kainoa Winston, and Marco Jones all making it to campus. And the slate of visits for June 7 promises to also be impactful …

Jun. 6—Ethan Stendel and Colin Hansen have never gone head-to-head in a high school football game. It would be quite a matchup if it could happen, but with Hansen’s Byron Bears playing in Class 4A and Stendel’s Caledonia Warriors in Class 2A, and the teams playing in different districts during the regular season, that meeting seems an impossibility. It looks …

A member of Florida football’s 2025 recruiting class parted ways with the program on Monday when three-star wide receiver Josiah Abdullah out of Atlanta (Georgia) Woodward Academy announced his decommitment. According to Swamp247’s sources, the move was described as “a mutual parting of ways.” The 5-foot-10-inch, 170-pound pass-catcher committed to the Gators back in January had an official visit set …

Longtime Wisconsin head coach Paul Chryst is no longer on the Texas coaching staff, according to a report from On3’s Inside Texas. Chryst was an offensive analyst and a special assistant to Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian during the 2023 season. Related: Where Paul Chryst, Jim Leonhard, Wisconsin football’s entire 2022 coaching staff is now It appears his agreement with Texas …

College football offseason talk is heating up as media outlets have been putting together their lists of what teams will be atop the sport if not their conferences. And while Michigan football is among the top teams in the country, just about no one expects a fourth straight Big Ten Championship. Part of that is the influx of new teams …

When it comes to the 2024 college football season, no one is looking at the defending national champions. No, Georgia didn’t win it all last year, that honor belongs to Michigan football, but you’d think the Bulldogs were looking to get their fourth-straight championship. Their competition? It comes from either Eugene, Columbus, or Austin. But in Ann Arbor, many seem …

Texas congressman Colin Allred might know the ins and outs of college athlete legislation better than anyone else on Capitol Hill. From 2001-05, Allred played linebacker at Baylor University and landed in the NFL for five seasons with the Tennessee Titans. He later went to law school and served in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development before winning …

Auburn football continues to make pushes on the recruiting trail, trying to land some of the nation’s top high school players for the future of the sport on the Plains. With many official visits having taken place last weekend, the Tigers are putting things into full motion more than ever. One major hope that head coach Hugh Freeze has is …

Four-star safety recruit Lagonza Hayward has named his top seven schools and is nearing a commitment. Hayward plans to announce his decision on Aug. 7. Hayward’s top schools are Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Florida State, South Carolina, Tennessee and USC. Hayward, a member of the class of 2025, plays high school football for Toombs County High School in Lyons, Georgia. The …

When Mike Locksley arrived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, he had already been a head coach (New Mexico), offensive coordinator (Illinois, Maryland) and position coach at multiple schools.  Despite his long list of accomplishments, there was no grand welcome or red-carpet arrival when he joined Nick Saban’s analyst army. Instead, Locksley received some Nike school gear, a seat at a folding table …

The NFL offseason continues as teams league-wide are in the closing weeks of mini camps. Fanbases across the league have just a couple months to wait before teams begin the preseason slate of games. Some fans are looking ahead already to the 2025 NFL Draft when another crop of new talent can help their favorite team improve. The 2024 NFL …

2025 interior offensive lineman prospect Jacobe Ward included Tennessee in his top three schools. Ward’s top three schools are all from the Southeastern Conference and include: Tennessee, Auburn and LSU. Ward is ranked as the No. 689 prospect in the class of 2025. He also ranks as the No. 45 interior offensive lineman and No. 76 player in Georgia, according …