College Football

Auburn freshman Deuce Knight signed with Auburn hoping to see the field as a young player. Will he get the chance to break through this season? In his breakdown of ESPN 300 quarterbacks, ESPN’s senior recruiting analyst Tom Luginbill takes a crack at predicting if the four-star signee will see the field as a true freshman. Luginbill says that Knight …

Vanderbilt football coach Clark Lea has promoted three assistant coaches going into the 2025 season, the school announced Wednesday. Alex Bailey has been promoted from wide receivers coach to passing game coordinator, Larry Black has been promoted from defensive line coach to defensive run game coordinator and Jimmy Thompson has added the nickelbacks to his responsibility. Bailey is heading into …

Three All-Region football players recently announced their college plans. Riverside tight end and Class 2A all-state selection Richie Kostoff will continue his academic and athletic careers at East Stroudsburg University. Kostoff led the Vikings football program to its first District 2 championship since 2010 and is a starter for the basketball team that won the District 2 Class 3A championship …

Cade Klubnik continues to receive national recognition: Athlon Sports ranked him as the No. 2 returning quarterback in college football for the 2025 season, trailing only Texas’ Arch Manning. Coming off a breakout junior campaign, Klubnik enters 2025 as a Heisman Trophy candidate and one of the most productive quarterbacks in the nation. He was one of only two quarterbacks …

In most games in the 2024 season the Kent State Golden Flashes were not a competitive football team. That led them to a winless season. From that perspective, there’s only one way to go for Kent – up. That’s the message head coach Kenni Burns delivered with the release of the team’s 2025 schedule, which includes matchups with powerhouses Texas …

WEST LAFAYETTE − Purdue football markets itself not only as the Cradle of Quarterbacks, but also the Den of Defensive Ends. For good reason. The Boilermakers have a storied history of sending players to the NFL at the position. Jake Trump, who previously worked as a defensive quality control coach at Arkansas, was brought from Fayetteville to West Lafayette to …

GAINESVILLE — Florida opens spring practices Thursday looking to build on a four-game winning streak and respectable 8-5 finish after consecutive losing seasons featuring lengthy season-end skids. Coach Billy Napier enters Year 4 with newfound sense of stability, optimism and a potential star in sophomore quarterback DJ Lagway. He also welcomes 31 new scholarship players, including 26 in the 2025 …

New Oklahoma Sooners starting quarterback John Mateer has had plenty of expectations placed on his shoulders ahead of his first season in Norman. Fourth-year OU head coach Brent Venables brought both Mateer and his offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle to Oklahoma to fix an offense that was one of the worst in all of college football last season. Mateer spoke to …

Spring practices are approaching, and players are a week into winter workouts. Spring camp is a time for position battles, especially at the quarterback position. Many programs, especially in the Big Ten, have quarterback competitions; Ohio State, Oregon and Michigan immediately come to mind. Penn State, however, has a leg up on its conference rivals with established starter Drew Allar …

Ohio State football has had quite the changing door of coordinators over the last few seasons. From Jim Knowles leaving for Penn State this offseason to adding Chip Kelly for a season just to see him exit for an NFL gig with the Las Vegas Raiders, the Buckeyes had to revamp their staff, and they did so by promoting Brian …

Provine football is bringing back a familiar face. The Rams hired Marcellus Speaks as their head coach the school announced Wednesday. Speaks returns to the Provine after serving as the Rams’ coach in 2017. He went 6-5 during his one season. Speaks replaces Tim Wilson, who was the Rams coach from 2018-2024. Wilson had a record of 27-40 and a 0-2 playoff record. “We …

In a recent episode of his podcast “Always College Football,” ESPN analyst Greg McElory shared some encouraging thoughts on Colorado football’s upcoming 2025 season. It’s obviously still early, but McElory believes the Buffs can at least come close to replicating their success from last year’s nine-win campaign. McElroy began his analysis by sharing that although Colorado is losing quarterback Shedeur …

The hype train for Penn State football in 2025 continues to go at full speed with heightened expectations coming in left and right for the Nittany Lions. Fresh off a run to the national semifinal and an appearance in the Big Ten championship game last season, the bar is officially set high for James Franklin and his program next fall. …

During a stellar first season in the Big 12, Arizona State football shocked the conference with its underdog storyline. According to one site, ASU won’t be underdogs for next season. Athlon Sports has released its 2025 Big 12 college football rankings for the 16 teams in the conference. The defending Big 12 champions top the list ahead of spring practices, …

Dan Lanning and the Oregon Ducks have shuffled the coaching staff ahead of the start of the spring football season, internally promoting several former assistants and graduate assistants. On Wednesday, the Ducks announced that former tight ends coach Drew Mehringer would become a co-offensive coordinator. This move follows the departure of former wide receivers coach and co-offensive coordinator Junior Adams …