College Football

BLOOMINGTON — Last year, Curt Cignetti’s first Indiana football spring season turned out to be an exciting preamble to a historic season. Hindsight proved the seeds of IU’s record-breaking 2024 were sown during Cignetti’s first months on the job. Now, the Hoosiers try to reload for another go. There are proven winners already bedded in at multiple positions, but if …

A recent salary analysis shows that Nebraska women’s volleyball coach Dani Busboom Kelly is the highest-paid volleyball coach in the Big Ten Conference. According to information Lincoln Arneal of Huskers Illustrated released earlier this week, her salary tops at $700,000. Second in line is Wisconsin Badgers head coach Kelly Sheffield, who makes $625,000. Busboom Kelly is returning home to Nebraska, …

Florida State’s Kevin Sperry may be new to college football, but he has the confidence of a veteran player. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to Seminole fans, though, as he models himself after former Oklahoma and current Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield. Sperry grew up a running back, but he made the transition in eighth grade to quarterback …

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame has hired running backs coach Ja’Juan Seider away from Penn State to do the same job for the Irish, coach Marcus Freeman announced Tuesday. Seider had been the Nittany Lions’ running backs coach since 2018 and was promoted to co-offensive coordinator in 2022 and assistant head coach in 2023. He coached 1,000-yard rushers Nicholas …

Louisiana’s 2026 high school recruiting class is a good one. There’s a good chance the state ends up with several five-stars, including interior offensive lineman Lamar Brown. According to the On3 Industry Rankings, Brown is the No. 11 ranked recruit in the country and the top ranked player at his position. 247Sports and ESPN rank Brown as the top recruit …

Joel Klatt, Fox Sports’ lead college football analyst, released his Way-Too-Early Top 10 for the 2025 season, placing Clemson at No. 7. He admitted it was a tough ranking but pointed to key factors that earned the Tigers a top-10 spot. Klatt highlighted Cade Klubnik’s return for his third year as the starting quarterback in the same offensive system and …

FORT WORTH, Texas — Mack Brown is back to living in Austin, Texas, during the winter and through the spring, and plans to spend the summer at the family’s home in the North Carolina mountains. He is certainly at peace nearly three months after coaching his final game for the Tar Heels. “We were doing that before and it worked,” …

Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach who has ever lived, and at this point, there is no debate. Whether you define success as national titles, individual accolades, or players sent to the NFL, the former Alabama head coach is in a league of his own. In his 17 years with the Crimson Tide, Saban won six national titles, …

At first glance, the list of outgoing Texas football transfers this offseason won’t send many Longhorns fans spiraling into the depths of despair. Nor should it. Nobody who played more than 115 snaps for the Longhorns last season elected to move on in the winter transfer portal period. Still, hidden beneath a few layers of nuance, the Longhorns lost some …

Michigan football fielded one of the worst offenses in the country last year and still managed to go 8-5, with big wins over Ohio State and Alabama to finish the year. However, entering his second year, head coach Sherrone Moore is no longer willing to see a moribund performance on that side of the ball. Enter Chip Lindsey, who has …

Throughout the 2024 college football season, there were a few plays in particular from the Alabama Crimson Tide that fans likely still remember, whether that be for a positive reason or not. Taking a look at the latter of those two reasons, were there any plays that Alabama fans still remember for being negative for the Crimson Tide, and if …

The Iowa Hawkeyes and the Big Ten could find themselves on the right side of College Football Playoff expansion talks if the smoke and rumors continue to grow. Right now, there is reportedly some momentum growing around expanding the College Football Playoff to 14 or 16 teams and with some caveats. As reported by Ross Dellenger of Yahoo! Sports, expansion …

One of the top members of the Oregon Ducks’ elite 2026 recruiting class may soon be on the move. According to On3’s Steve Wiltfong and Chad Simmons, 4-star quarterback Jonas Williams is being predicted to flip from Oregon to the USC Trojans following a recent visit to Los Angeles. Williams is rated by 247Sports as the No. 6 QB and …

Alabama football’s 2024 season is the subject of a new Fox Nation documentary, ‘The Tides That Bind: Inside Alabama football.’ The six-episode series on the premium streaming platform debuted on Wednesday with an episode called ‘Faith’ that revolved around the Crimson Tide’s preparation for last September’s Week 4 home clash against Georgia, and the spiritual impact of the program on …

There are a lot of ways to measure how successful a college football program has been over a long period of time. Wins and losses are the most important thing, to be sure. National and conference championships, too. The number of players a team sends to the NFL also makes for a good program. Fortunately, the Clemson Tigers check all …