College Football

The Texas Longhorns crack another top 25 poll following spring football. Once again, Texas is given a No. 3 ranking in the nation. On3 Sports’ Jesse Simonton ranked the top teams out of spring camp. The list is fairly ranked. Here’s a look at eleven Power Four teams who would make the playoff on the list. Georgia Bulldogs (SEC champion) …

Nick Lucero/Rivals.com The big visit weekends are coming up but there is still a ton of recruiting news with many of the top players in the country. Here’s the latest in this week’s Recruiting Rumor Mill. MORE: Who should be No. 1 in 2025? | Would Jahkeem Stewart be No. 1 in 2025? ***** CLASS OF 2024 RANKINGS: Rivals250 | …

“SEC! SEC! SEC!” Those chants won’t just be coming from yell leaders at Kyle Field when Notre Dame travels to take on Texas A&M in the season opener, but all across the southeast. In college football’s first season with an expanded playoff, SEC fans will be rooting extra hard against Notre Dame in Week One.  That’s not real surprise in …

One of the longest-running high school all-star games took place this weekend, and one of Penn State’s incoming players rose to the occasion. The Big 33 Classic, pitting some of Pennsylvania’s top high school seniors against a team of Maryland all-stars, was played Sunday, and Penn State commit Tyseer Denmark dazzled early and often. Denmark caught four passes for 95 …

There is a compelling argument that Rutgers football head coach Greg Schiano consistently isn’t ranked enough among a recent pecking order of the top Big Ten football coaches. But the order has nothing to do with the acumen or success of the Big Ten’s coaches (Rutgers after all went 7-6 last year with a bowl win over Miami). Instead, Schiano …

James Simon’s took advantage of the off-season to move closer and closer toward making his college decision. Since March, the four-star running back has had an idea of where he was leaning. On Wednesday, Simon will reveal his college commitment and choose from LSU, Texas, Alabama, Texas A&M and Notre Dame. Simon and his family have been visiting college campuses …

One of the biggest differences in Notre Dame football’s recent recruiting success has been its pursuit of quarterbacks. Head coach Marcus Freeman has put a major emphasis on stacking talent in that room, and has done a great job in doing so. The 2024 team might be the deepest the unit has been in a very long time, as starter …

D.C. (4-5) defeated Memphis (1-8), 36-21, at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium during Week 9 of the inaugural UFL season. Former Vol and D.C. tight end Alex Ellis recorded three receptions, 28 receiving yards and one receiving touchdown. He was targeted three times. Ellis played for the Vols from 2011-15 under head coaches Derek Dooley and Butch Jones. He played in …

May 27—BROOKINGS — Appalachian State. Georgia Southern. Jacksonville State. Sam Houston. James Madison. Kennesaw State. Delaware. And now Missouri State. The string of FCS-to-FBS defections continues, but the most recent one hits much closer to home here in the Dakotas, as the Missouri State Bears are the first team from the powerful Missouri Valley Football Conference to make the jump …

Wisconsin made the top 10 schools for class of 2025 three-star cornerback Jojo Scott on Sunday. The Badgers made the cut along with NC State, Iowa State, Kansas State, West Virginia, Oregon State, Liberty, Louisville, Kansas and Georgia Tech. Related: Where every member of Wisconsin’s record-breaking recruiting class of 2021 is now Scott is 247Sports’ No. 120 cornerback in the …

Of the 14 power conference schools that named new coaches during college football’s coaching carousel, three hired coordinators from other power conference schools. Most notable among them was Michigan, which promoted offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore after Jim Harbaugh left for the Los Angeles Chargers. Elsewhere, Duke landed Penn State defensive coordinator and former Miami head coach Manny Diaz, while Mississippi …

One of the most anticipated freshman signees is officially on campus at the University of Alabama. Five-star wide receiver Ryan Williams arrived over the weekend with the other summer enrollees set to join the rest of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team for summer workouts in preparation for the 2024 college football season. These young men are certainly part of …

After jumping into the transfer portal for a second time since coming to Penn State, defensive lineman Davon Townley is officially on the move out of Happy Valley. Townley announced a commitment to his new school out of the transfer portal on Sunday. Townley announced he committed to Missouri State, an FCS program that will be making the move into …

May 26—Steed Hill pointed to a collection of University of Georgia coins from the 1970s and ’80s that list the Bulldogs’ football schedules. “I’ve got these same ones,” Hill, who graduated from UGA’s pharmacy school in 1966 and was a pharmacist in Dalton for 48 years before retiring, said. “It brings me back.” The coins along with numerous other pieces …

Wisconsin class of 2025 cornerback target Jayden Shipps will officially visit the Badgers the weekend of June 14. The program offered the three-star recruit on January 17. Shipps is a rising senior representing Archbishop Spalding High School in Maryland. 247Sports’ composite ranking has Shipps as the No. 1002 player in the class of 2025, No. 86 cornerback and No. 26 …