College Football

After BYU’s 2024 football season ended with a 36-14 thumping of Coach Prime’s Colorado Buffaloes in the Alamo Bowl, head coach Kalani Sitake and offensive coordinator Aaron Roderick almost immediately began talking about the biggest impediments they would face in attempting to replicate the standout year in 2025. That would be pride, complacency and arrogance. “By no means can we …

Any time a football program changes hands, alterations are expected. It’s the norm for new staffs to craft things to their liking, by installing new schemes, bringing in new players and letting old players move on. That cycle has happened at Utah State a few times in recent years. When Matt Wells left Utah State for Texas Tech and Gary …

SOUTH BEND — They’re there.  For too many college football seasons past, there seemingly was always an explanation or an excuse or something else to rationalize why Notre Dame football has stayed stuck on 11 national championships since 1988.  It was the head coach. It was an assistant coach. It was the players. It was recruiting. It was too great a …

Colorado football opened up fall camp with its first practice on Tuesday, and Kaidon Salter made an instant highlight play as he battles for the starting quarterback position. Salter was captured on video throwing a beautiful goal line fade to wide receiver Omarion Miller. A potential Salter-Miller connection would be beneficial for the Buffaloes’ offense, which has lost Shedeur Sanders …

PULLMAN – As Washington State angles toward fall camp, beginning on Wednesday morning and ushering in the Jimmy Rogers era, the new head coach finds himself empathizing with one veteran wide receiver. Josh Meredith, a San Diego native, is headed into his fifth season of college football. He’s meeting his third new coaching staff, all at WSU. He established something …

Washington has the potential to be an X-factor in the new-look Big Ten. Head coach Jedd Fisch and his staff are recruiting like it so far in the 2026 cycle. As of July 29, the Huskies have landed 21 commitments, forming a class that currently ranks No. 18 nationally, according to the Rivals Industry Team Recruiting Rankings. That’s good for …

Rejoice, college football fans! It’s preseason watch list time, and one of the biggest ones announced its preseason watch list on Monday, and there is indeed an Ohio State football player on it. The Maxwell Award has been handed out annually since 1937 and goes to the players judged to be the best in college football. The award announced 80 …

Former Super Bowl-winning offensive coordinator and longtime NFL starting quarterback Byron Leftwich has joined Deion Sanders’ staff at Colorado. Sanders introduced Leftwich during a team meeting Tuesday, as revealed in a video posted by Thee Pregame Show. Leftwich interviewed for several jobs at the NFL level in recent years but is now tasked with developing a pivotal quarterback room in …

The amount of love being heaped on Ohio State receiver Jeremiah Smith isn’t too terribly surprising. After all, all you have to do is look at the season he put together as a freshman is perphaps second to none in the history of the game for a wide receiver. Count Fox’s Joel Klatt into that same group of admirers because …

Florida football QB D.J. Lagway limited for start of fall camp Florida football coach Billy Napier runs down the list of injuries, including starting quarterbak DJ Lagway, before the start of fall camp. Former Florida safety Asa Turner will not play football for the Gators this season despite being granted a seventh year of eligibility by the NCAA.Turner transferred from …

OLYPHANT — There was a buzz in the air as players representing their schools filtered into the Regal Room on a steamy Tuesday afternoon. Players and coaches from the Lackawanna Football Conference exchanged handshakes and pleasantries, and the excitement of those in attendance showed on their faces as the 2025 season rapidly approaches with heat acclimatization Monday. It was the …

LSU football reported for fall camp on Tuesday as the Tigers are just one month away from kicking off the season at Clemson. It’s the final stretch of the offseason — the last chance for everyone to file their predictions away before toe meets leather. Brian Kelly and LSU expect to contend for the playoff in 2025 after retaining key …

LSU football linebacker Whit Weeks was named to the watch list for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, announced Tuesday. The annual award is presented to the top defensive player in college football. LSU has just one Nagurski award winner in its history — defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey. He won the trophy in 2007 after totaling 69 tackles and seven sacks. South …

It’s officially watch list season in college football as the 2025 season kicks off in late-August with Week Zero, and then Week One action takes place on Thursday through Monday of Labor Day weekend. The Oklahoma Sooners had another player make a preseason watch list for a postseason award on Tuesday. Linebacker Kip Lewis was one of 60 players named …

Oregon Ducks wide receiver Evan Stewart was a major piece of the team’s passing attack a season ago, finishing the year with the second-most receptions (48), tied for second in receiving touchdowns (five) and was third in receiving yards (613) despite missing the final two games. He was especially impressive in Oregon’s regular season upset victory over the No. 2 …