College Football

Lincoln-Way West’s Josh Veldman wasn’t too into sports as a young kid. After playing baseball in first and second grade, he gave that up and did not compete on any teams until seventh grade. That’s when Veldman decided to give football a shot. It was the sport that stuck. “Some friends got me interested in it and kind of talked …

Florida A&M has officially crossed the halfway mark of spring football. On Thursday, the Rattlers met on Ken Riley Field at Bragg Memorial for their eighth of 15 practices. And so far, FAMU head football coach James Colzie III likes his team’s responsiveness and adaptiveness to his leadership and nuanced implementations. Colzie will test his team on Friday for an intrasquad scrimmage. He says he’ll …

Five-star defensive lineman Justus Terry spurned Georgia football last week, flipping his commitment to the USC Trojans. That doesn’t mean his decision is final, though, as he has since scheduled another visit to Athens. UGA will host the Manchester High School (Ga.) product this weekend, according to a report from Rivals. Terry (6-foot-5, 275 pounds) is rated as the No. …

Former Tennessee Titans and LSU football quarterback Zach Mettenberger, who spent the past two seasons as an Alabama analyst for Nick Saban, has rejoined Father Ryan’s staff as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Mettenberger was a Father Ryan assistant for the 2021 season when the Irish went 7-5 and lost to eventual state Division II-AAA state champion McCallie, 42-35, in …

Fernandina Beach has found the next captain of its football Pirate ship. The Pirates hired former Providence coach Bobby Dan McGlohorn as their new head high school football coach, the athletic department announced Thursday. He replaces Apollo Wright, who coached the Pirates for two years before stepping down in February to take a college football position as offensive coordinator at …

Rivals national recruiting analyst John Garcia is joined by national recruiting director Adam Gorney, TideIllustrated.com’s Jack Knowlton and FirstAndTenFlorida.com’s Jason Higdon to tackle three topics and determine whether they believe each statement is FACT or FICTION. ***** MORE FACT OR FICTION: Penn State leads Notre Dame for JaDon Blair CLASS OF 2024 RANKINGS: Rivals250 | Team | Position | State …

1 Winning in the SEC is hard, which Georgia knows as much as anyone, and it just got way more difficult with the additions of Oklahoma and Texas. But no team has been as dominant as the Bulldogs since 2021. They’ve won two out of the last three national titles and went almost two whole years without losing a game …

It was a big question coming into 2025 Florida linebacker Tarvos Alford’s visit to Ohio State last week. Just ow serious was he considering the Buckeyes? Short answer, very serious. On Wednesday a flood of 247Sports Crystal Ball picks went in for the 6-foot, 2-inch, 210-pound prospect to pick Ohio State when he announces his commitment on Saturday. It’s not …

OXFORD — Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin made three additions to his staff of assistants after the 2023 season ended. Together, they’ll combine to earn $1.7 million in 2024. The most expensive newcomer is secondary coach Bryan Brown, who will also serve as the Rebels’ co-defensive coordinator. Brown arrived from Cincinnati, where he was the defensive coordinator, and is …

Earlier this week, Connor Morrissette of USCfootball.com (247Sports) asked Lincoln Riley at a media scrum about the vibe around the USC program coming off a massive recruiting weekend. On Sunday, five defensive recruits committed to the Trojans. Three of them were four-star athletes. One was five-star prospect Justus Terry, who was committed to the Georgia Bulldogs for over a year. …

Mar. 27—Spring practices have looked a little different for Oklahoma’s linebackers this year under new defensive coordinator Zac Alley. Last year, individual drills would’ve been led by head coach Brent Venables. Now, Venables may stop by to see how things are going, but will move around to several position groups during individual drills. The 30-year-old defensive coordinator will be solely …

Many college football programs had taken a very liberal interpretation of the role collectives could play in the nascent years of the NIL game. USC football appeared to have taken a very conservative and cautious approach to anything that might resemble an “inducement” to lure a prospective athlete to the program.  The NCAA’s recent balk at enforcing its NIL rules against …

Sean Williams/Rivals.com There are more commitments each and every week as we move further into the spring and quarterbacks are at the center of it all. Big decisions are coming with plenty of critical storylines to track when it comes to the quarterback position. Here are the biggest quarterback storylines in the Midwest Region. THIS SERIES: Quarterback storylines to follow …

The Wisconsin Badgers football head coach Luke Fickell was ranked in the top third of Big Ten coaches by On3’s Jesse Simonton on Tuesday. Coming in as the sixth-best coach in the Big Ten in Simonton’s power rankings, Fickell sits behind Ryan Day (Ohio State – 1), James Franklin (Penn State – 4) and Kirk Ferentz (Iowa – 5) from …

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — There hasn’t been much change to the coaching staff this offseason for Rutgers football, a rare period of stability in what seems like otherwise turbulent times in college football. But for Rutgers football and head coach Greg Schiano, the addition of two coaches to the staff are important in that they bring a singularity of purpose to …