College Football

Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava signed autographs in print as a 16-year-old phenom because his cursive writing wasn’t ready for primetime. He put on 25 pounds since enrolling at UT in 2023 by eating a lot of French toast and sausage. And he’s won two national championships on the recently released EA Sports “College Football 25,” a video game which mispronounces …

The future of the Southwest Ohio Conference is in flux. On July 24, Talawanda announced it would join the Southwestern Buckeye League. Football will make the move in 2027, and every other sport will do so in 2026. With the SWOC only having four football teams, more movement is expected. Still, there are at least two more seasons of SWOC …

AUSTIN, Texas – Less than a week after the Dallas Cowboys and other NFL teams opened training camp, people in Austin are getting giddy as the UT Football team is about to kick off theirs. Coming off their first-ever College Football Playoff appearance, as you might imagine, the bar’s usually set pretty high around here. Now, it has definitely been …

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech senior center Weston Franklin (Jesup, Ga./Wayne County H.S.) is one of 75 student-athletes on the official preseason watch list for the 2024 Outland Trophy, the Football Writers Association of America announced on Tuesday. The Outland Trophy honors college football’s top interior lineman. Franklin has started 25-straight games at center for the Yellow Jackets over the …

Oct 7, 2023; Tempe, Arizona, USA; Colorado Buffaloes linebacker LaVonta Bentley (20) celebrates a play with defensive lineman Shane Cokes (99) against the Arizona State Sun Devils at Mountain America Stadium. Colorado football’s fall camp is underway, which means the 2024 season is rapidly approaching. With less than a month before the Buffaloes’ season opener vs. North Dakota State (Thursday, …

The “stripe out” was in effect on Saturday for the Golden Gophers. (FOX 9) MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – The University of Minnesota football team is hosting its annual F.A.M.I.L.Y. Day as part of fall camp on Saturday at Huntington Bank Stadium. The Gophers have made it a tradition to open one fall camp practice to fans, with the Spring Game …

Rivals rankings director and national transfer portal analyst Adam Friedman is joined by national recruiting analyst Marshall Levenson, national recruiting analyst Greg Smith and Paul Strelow of TigerIllustrated.com to tackle three topics and determine whether they believe each statement is FACT or FICTION. MORE FACT OR FICTION: David Sanders will sign with Nebraska or Tennessee RUMOR MILL: Feedback rolls in …

On Tuesday, the Texas football program sent its coordinators out to meet with the media. Unless an appearance in front of a microphone is mandated by a bowl game, UT head coach Steve Sarkisian does not allow his assistants to participate in press conferences during the season. Texas, though, usually does make its coordinators available at the beginning of fall …

Jul. 30—MOSCOW, Idaho — It’s easy to see how potent Idaho’s football team was in 2023. The Vandals reached the quarterfinals of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. Three players on the roster are in National Football League preseason camps. But Idaho coach Jason Eck is not mourning the departure of All-Big Sky Conference wide receivers Hayden Hatten and Jermaine Jackson, …

BYU players converge during spring camp practice in Provo on March 16, 2024. On Wednesday, the Cougars will hold their first practice of fall camp in Provo. | Jaren Wilkey, BYU Photo A little more than eight months ago, BYU’s first season in the Big 12 ended with a heartbreaking 40-34 double-overtime loss in the pouring rain at No. 21 …

On Tuesday, the Texas football program sent its coordinators out to meet with the media. Unless an appearance in front of a microphone is mandated by a bowl game, UT head coach Steve Sarkisian does not allow his assistants to participate in press conferences during the season. Texas, though, usually does make its coordinators available at the beginning of fall …

Jul. 30—Luke Wysong glanced down at his practice jersey and came back up with a light smile, the look of a man reunited with an old friend. “Feels good to finally have my one-five back,” the redshirt junior wide receiver said after practice on Tuesday morning. Because, for the first time under head coach Bronco Mendenhall, players like Wysong have …

Army football opened preseason camp on Tuesday with loads of optimism, a new purpose and the realization that the season is exactly one month away. “Honestly, it doesn’t feel real yet,’’ said senior co-captain Kyle Lewis, asked about the August 30 opener against Lehigh. “I think as it gets closer it’ll be like, ‘Man, this is going to be the …

The 2018 Sun Belt Coach of the Year and 2019 ACC Coach of the Year will hit the field this week looking to improve on his least productive season on the sidelines. Last year’s 3-9 campaign at the University of Cincinnati was a career-low for Scott Satterfield, albeit with a new team in a highly competitive Big 12. Heading into …

Jul. 30—Another local player is planning to play his college football in the Big 12. Noah King, a senior defensive back for Hamilton, announced Monday he has verbally committed to Kansas State from a group of about a dozen scholarship offers. “I fit well in their scheme,” the 6-foot-3, 195-pound King told 247Sports.com. “With three safeties, they see me playing …