College Football

NORMAN — OU football’s big recruiting weekend is seeing some returns. After hosting its Junior Day this past weekend, the Sooners landed a commitment from 2026 four-star wide receiver Daniel Odom on Tuesday. Odom is ranked as the No. 33 receiver nationally and the No. 194 overall player by 247Sports. Odom, a Bellflower, California, native will team up with fellow …

Former Lakota West High School quarterback Mitch Bolden is one of 12 transfers joining the Miami University RedHawks ahead of spring ball, head coach Chuck Martin announced. Bolden spent two seasons at Army, and was listed as a QB on the Black Knights’ roster. He’s a redshirt sophomore tight end on MU’s roster. Bolden’s brother, Luke, played tight end for …

The Brief The 2024 college football season is over. A national champ got their crown. It’s time for the offseason. This season was a banner year, for the new 23-team College Football Playoff as well as the monstrous upsets and steps forward teams took. Here are some parting thoughts on Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Illinois and Notre Dame football. Here are …

MOBILE, Ala. — Kalen DeBoer said he didn’t need to add an Alabama football alum to his coaching staff. But with Jason Jones, it was an added bonus. After firing Colin Hitschler after one season with the Crimson Tide, DeBoer hired Jones, a former Alabama defensive back and Tuscaloosa native who was most recently the cornerbacks coach at North Carolina, to …

East Robertson edge rusher Zach Groves received a scholarship offer from Georgia football on Monday. Groves posted the offer on his X account, formerly known as Twitter. Groves is a 6-foot-4, 212-pound junior. He is a four-star 247Sports Composite prospect ranked as the No. 5 player in Tennessee in the 2026 class and the No. 15 edge rusher nationally. He …

MOBILE, Ala. — Standing outside Hancock Whitney Stadium at the Senior Bowl where former Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe was getting looked at by NFL scouts, Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer spoke glowingly of what was to come for the Crimson Tide at quarterback. Alabama will have a new starting quarterback taking reps when the Crimson Tide opens the 2025 season on …

Wisconsin wide receiver Vinny Anthony II was included in 247Sports’ top 10 Big Ten wide receivers for the 2025 season on Tuesday. The outlet listed the fourth-year Badger as the No. 9 wide receiver in the conference ahead of Oregon’s Dakorien Moore (No. 10). He was then ranked behind Rutgers’ Ian Strong (No. 8), Nebraska’s Dane Key (No. 7), Washington’s …

The Wisconsin Badgers made the top four schools for highly-touted class of 2026 safety Kaden Gebhardt on Tuesday. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound defensive playmaker received his offer from UW back on Feb. 2, 2024. The Badgers were one of his first Power Four offers at the time.Since then, the Olentangy High School product received offer 20 offers from programs including Oklahoma, …

Let the accolades continue for Tuscaloosa Academy’s Preston Lancaster. For the second-straight year, Lancaster was named the Alabama Sports Writers Association Class 2A Back of the Year award on Tuesday at the 2024 Mr. Football & Players of the Year Banquet in Montgomery. “It means a lot,” Lancaster said. “I couldn’t have done it without my teammates. My receivers and …

Getty Images Tyler Sabapathy, an 18-year-old first-year student at Temple University, died Tuesday as a result of injuries sustained from falling from a street pole while celebrating the Eagles’ NFC Championship game victory over the Commanders on Sunday, per reports from FOX 29 Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Temple confirmed Sabapathy’s death in an announcement from president John Fry and …

Jim Knowles made a move few have in the course of college football history, leaving a program fresh off a national championship for a conference rival. The decorated defensive coordinator had at least one big reason to go from Ohio State to Penn State — a reported three million per year, to be more specific — but there was another …

Barry Odom became the latest Big Ten Conference head football coach to watch a little basketball in Dunlap. Odom, the newly hired Purdue coach, was in Dunlap on Tuesday night to see four-star tight end Mack Sutter face Limestone in a Mid-Illini Conference game. Purdue was the fifth Big Ten school to offer Sutter, who posted it to his social …

Jan. 28—Another former Bobcat is headed for Albuquerque. Montana State cornerback Jon Johnson has signed with New Mexico, the program announced this week. The 6-foot-0, 185-pound senior made 22 total tackles and two interceptions in 14 games last season. A Gardena, California native, Johnson played at El Camino (Calif.) Community College before joining Montana State in 2023. He has one …

There are two remaining players ranked inside the top 100 of 247Sports’ Composite rankings for the 2025 recruiting class. Does Michigan have a shot at landing either player? Four-star offensive lineman Ty Haywood and four-star edge rusher Zahir Mathis are the lone two unsigned players of the class, and they’re both still uncommitted, as well. Haywood, from Denton, Texas, was …

Feb 1, 2024; Mobile, AL, USA; NFL personnel track the practice for the National team at Hancock Whitney Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Vasha Hunt-USA TODAY Sports The Senior Bowl is one of the tentpole events of the pre-NFL draft process, pitting many of the top prospects against each other in front of the eyes of a sea of coaches and decision …