College Football

CARLSBAD, Calif. — It’s hard to imagine Jackson Koivun’s freshman year at Auburn going any better. Now, he’s being recognized for his incredible season. On Tuesday, Koivun was named winner of the 2024 Fred Haskins Award presented by Stifel, given to the best male golfer in college golf. Koivun is the first Haskins winner from Auburn and the first freshman …

The first year of the 12-team College Football Playoffs could not have come at a better time for the Alabama Crimson Tide as they make their first transition at the head coaching position in 17 years. In the past, with just four teams qualifying for the tournament, there was almost no room for error. Now with 12 spots available, teams …

A football sits on the tee as kickers get warmed up as the Utes and Trojans prepare to play at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News Over the weekend, veteran New York Daily News sportswriter Dick Weiss started up a realignment debate by posting on X about a possible …

Florida head coach Billy Napier commented on the lawsuit filed by Georgia quarterback Jaden Rashada on Tuesday at the SEC’s spring meetings. “I’m comfortable with my actions,” Napier said, according to On3’s Jesse Simonton. “‘I’m thankful for the university’s support and we’re going to keep it at that and let the process take it’s course. Napier went on to state …

Alabama Crimson Tide quarterback Jalen Milroe lit the world on fire last year with his electrifying speed and ability to make anyone miss in the open field. However, the part of Milroe’s game that people forget to account for is the fact that he is an absolute gunslinger. Describing a big time throw can be difficult, but PFF defines it as …

Columbia football has its new coach. Columbia has hired Lance Pogue as its next football coach, two weeks after former coach Chip Bilderback resigned. Pogue replaces Bilderback, who resigned from the program after six seasons and accepted another coaching job in Louisiana to be closer to his wife, Missy Bilderback after she just finished her first year as women’s basketball …

Colorado Buffaloes mascot “Ralphie” runs across the field before the game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Folsom Field on Sept. 9, 2023, in Boulder. Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports Mantrez Walker had a movie-like experience at Colorado football’s spring game last month. The three-star linebacker from Buford, Georgia, was one of many visitors on campus for a massive recruiting …

When we reached out to Rutgers Wire editor Kristian Dyer about the 2024 USC-Rutgers football game, we asked Dyer about the biggest key to this Big Ten game, which will air on national television on Fox Sports. “I really want to see in the trenches on this one,” Dyer told us. “Everyone is questioning if USC can compete in the …

It will be a new-look UNC football program when they hit the field in August against Minnesota to open up the 2024 season. The Tar Heels saw some big names leave the team to head to the NFL or the transfer portal as Mack Brown and his staff look to re-work the roster. But among those returning is one of …

DESTIN, Fla. — Josh Booty could have had it all.  When former LSU baseball coach Skip Bertman recruited Booty 30 years ago, the offer was not only a scholarship, it was essentially to play shortstop for the defending national champions.  Ah, but the blue-chip prospect out of Shreveport, Louisiana, was going to play quarterback (on scholarship) and start basically as …

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — Texas coach Steve Sarkisian doesn’t know SEC spring meetings with Nick Saban. Sarkisian is attending his first this week with the Longhorns joining the SEC starting this fall. So he couldn’t answer what it was like for the newly retired Saban not to be in attendance for the conference’s annual meetings for the first time in …

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. – Kalen DeBoer spared us a lecture. Instead, he offered a philosophy. Control what you can control. Don’t overreact. Adapt as necessary. A hot topic at SEC spring meetings this week is the possibility of football roster-size reductions in the aftermath of the House court case settlement. The upshot: It’s still undetermined, but rosters might shrink, and …

Class of 2025 five-star quarterback Julian “JuJu” Lewis has seen almost every recruiting tactic in the book from the Colorado football program. Luckily for the Buffaloes, they seem to be working. Lewis, the No. 2 quarterback in the class of 2025 (247Sports composite), committed to the USC Trojans in August. Yet, his recruiting ventures have continued with the Auburn Tigers, …

DESTIN — Former USF football star and Auburn running back Brian Battie remains hospitalized but is improving after being shot in the head earlier this month. “He’s getting better,” Auburn coach Hugh Freeze said Tuesday at the SEC’s spring meetings. “(To) honor the family, I don’t want to go into too many things, but they appreciate all the prayers, for …

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. – As Lane Kiffin looked around the coaches’ meeting room Tuesday at the SEC spring meetings, he began to feel the length of his career in this conference. Mark Stoops is the longest-tenured SEC football coach at his current school. Stoops has coached Kentucky since 2013. But, Kiffin’s SEC coaching experience spans to his 2009 season at …