College Football

Few, if any, outside the Texas Tech football team’s inner circle were allowed to see the Red Raiders’ first preseason scrimmage on Saturday. Anyone near Jones AT&T Stadium heard it, though. Subjecting his players to game-like pressure was one of Tech coach Joey McGuire’s takeaways from his trip to see Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell. McGuire said last month he …

Vanderbilt football held its first preseason scrimmage Saturday at FirstBank Stadium. It had a little bit of everything, with all six scholarship quarterbacks getting some reps. Based on the scrimmage, coach Clark Lea and offensive coordinator Tim Beck are hoping to cut down the competition from four — Diego Pavia, Nate Johnson, Blaze Berlowitz and Drew Dickey — to two. …

Ranking SEC coaches riles up my readers. If you believe I under-ranked your coach, that’s a good sign. It means you’re happy with the program’s direction. Unsurprisingly, no Arkansas and Florida fans weighed in to say I undervalued their coach. I did hear from Alabama and Auburn fans, though, who thought Kalen DeBoer and Hugh Freeze should be higher on …

UCLA quarterback Ethan Garbers talks with reporters during Big Ten conference media days at Lucas Oil Stadium on July 24. (Doug McSchooler / Associated Press) It didn’t matter that this was just a practice in the early stages of preseason training camp, or that it was UCLA’s third-string offense going against the third-string defense. Before the final snap Saturday morning, …

NORMAN — To those who know him best, Gentry Williams is a competitor at heart. Since he was a child, everything has always been a competition. A former two-sport athlete at Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Williams played multiple football positions, leading the Hornets to the Class 6A-II playoffs and winning the Class 6A 400-meter championship as a …

AUBURN, ALABAMA – SEPTEMBER 30: Head coach Kirby Smart of the Georgia Bulldogs reacts after their 27-20 win over the Auburn Tigers at Jordan-Hare Stadium on September 30, 2023 in Auburn, Alabama. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) Four-star defensive back recruit Jontae Gilbert has committed to the Georgia Bulldogs. Gilbert is commitment No. 23 for the Bulldogs in the …

Wisconsin basketball made the final eight schools for top class of 2025 small forward Ryder Frost on Sunday. The Badgers were included on Frost’s list along with Notre Dame, Michigan, Syracuse, Yale, Virginia Tech, Iowa and Penn State. 247Sports’ Dushawn London reports that Frost has additional visits scheduled for this fall to five of those eight schools: Virginia Tech, Iowa, …

Oregon head football coach Dan Lanning has emphasized four program “DNA traits” throughout his three-year tenure in Eugene, crucial to what he sees as important for a successful program: Connection, growth, toughness and sacrifice. Connection, especially, has been a major point of emphasis for the Ducks in interviews leading up to the season. Though Lanning expects the entire team to …

. USC football offensive line coach Josh Henson has an early opportunity to silence criticism of the poor performance of the 2023 Trojan offensive line. Henson’s first really big test of 2024 arrives quickly, when the Men of Troy play the LSU Tigers at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas in Week 1 of the college football season. LSU Wire recently …

Editor’s note: This article uses excerpts from a longer story about the schools recruiting Dunlap football player Mack Sutter. Mack Sutter has publicly cut his college football choices to 12. The tight end from Dunlap High School announced his dozen finalists earlier this month: Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio State, Ole Miss, Penn State and Tennessee. Here’s what the …

Jul 24, 2024; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Nebraska Cornhuskers center Ben Scott speaks to the media during the Big 10 football media day at Lucas Oil Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Robert Goddin-USA TODAY Sports Nebraska center Ben Scott was named to the Rimington Trophy Watch List on Friday. The Rimington Trophy is given to college football’s ‘most outstanding center.’ Scott officially came …

Looking back nearly 100 years later, Ken Rouse’s selection as the Chicago Tribune Silver Football winner for 1927 might appear to most people to be an unusual choice. Rouse was a center on a University of Chicago team that went just 4-4. However, the Lindblom High School graduate made quite an impression on the conference’s coaches and players throughout his …

Rivals national recruiting director Adam Gorney is joined by national recruiting analyst Marshall Levenson along with Dale Dowden of VolReport.com and Jed May of UGASports.com to tackle three topics and determine whether they believe each statement is FACT or FICTION. ROUNDTABLE: Who should be No. 1 in the Rivals250? ***** CLASS OF 2025 RANKINGS: Rivals250 | Team | Position | …

“What football player of the Big Ten is of greatest value to his team?” In October 1924, Chicago Daily Tribune sports writer Harvey Woodruff wrote that the newspaper had “authorized” him to answer that question. The player chosen would receive “an award symbolic of the honor bestowed,” Woodruff wrote. “It will be a cup, trophy, emblem or something else of …

To paraphrase Frank Zappa, college football isn’t dead, it just smells funny. To be sure, it looked like college football as a national pastime could have headed for the grave as the NCAA lost lawsuit after lawsuit in its defense of amateurism. The U.S. Supreme Court lashed out in its summary of NCAA v. Alston, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh condemning …