College Football

EAST LANSING — Even before Michigan State football’s spring practice started, new coach Jonathan Smith said it would be “an upset” if Aidan Chiles isn’t the Spartans’ starting quarterback this fall. For some, that would amp up the pressure on their shoulders. For Chiles, who followed Smith from Corvallis, Oregon, to East Lansing for that opportunity, it is just a …

Alabama football offensive coordinator Nick Sheridan is quick to point out the importance of all 11 players on his side of the ball executing in unison. It only takes one missed assignment, after all, to torpedo one of his play calls. But with the Crimson Tide marching through spring practice — about halfway through on its way to the annual …

Jayvan Boggs has decommitted from Ohio State, he announced Tuesday night on social media. “God’s plan,” he wrote. A four-star wide receiver from Florida in the class of 2025, Boggs had verbally committed to the Buckeyes in October. Recruit Jayvan Boggs watches Ohio State warm up before playing Penn State Oct. 21, 2023 at Ohio Stadium. The composite rankings from …

A.J. McCarty’s already scored a touchdown in a Texas Tech football game at Jones A&T Stadium, intercepting Tyler Shough and running it in for a score. It put an exclamation point on a 45-17 Baylor victory, Texas Tech’s most lopsided loss of 2022. “It was fun for me to get a pick-six. That was my first pick,” McCarty said. “That …

Mar. 26—Melaki Gutierrez caught the attention of the University of New Mexico track and field program first. The football program swooped in to seal the deal for the Los Alamos senior. Gutierrez, the reigning Class 4A state champion in the 100 meters and a first-team 5A selection in football this fall, said he already had committed to UNM’s track program …

Mar. 26—Spring began March 19 but for New Mexico, it might as well have been 9:53 a.m. on Tuesday morning, when UNM football broke huddle for its first official practice of the Bronco Mendenhall era. As promised, players’ jerseys had no numbers, but did have names on the back. Coaches guided and urged, sprinting between drills before a mild sun …

It has been a common theme for Ohio State football recruiting opponents to use defensive line coach, Larry johnson’s age, and potential retirement as a negative recruiting ploy. As we all have seen, Johnson hasn’t retired and doesn’t plan on going anywhere aside from the Woody Hayes Athletic Center for the time being. The Hall of Fame coach met with …

The NFL approved a new kickoff rule Tuesday, one of the most significant changes to the rulebook ever. The NFL is hoping this is only the start. “All eyes are going to be on this hybrid kickoff, every league — college leagues, spring leagues, high school, down to youth football,” Saints special teams coach Darren Rizzi said. “If we can …

Iowa State football picked up another commitment in its 2025 recruiting class on Tuesday night, this time from Valley wide receiver Zay Robinson. The 6-foot, 175-pound junior is a 3-star recruit, the No. 4 player in Iowa, and a top-100 receiver nationwide, according to 247Sports Composite. He was ranked the No. 4 player in the 2025 class in the Des …

STILLWATER — March felt more like November, and it wasn’t just the chilly breeze blowing through the open doors of the Sherman Smith Training Center on Tuesday afternoon. The typical uncertainty of a new football season is so limited at Oklahoma State, the cast of Cowboys taking part in the first practice of spring was nearly identical to the roster …

Mar. 26—GRAND FORKS — With the UND football program at the midway point of spring football practices, the Herald asked readers to submit questions for Fighting Hawks beat reporter Tom Miller. Q. The defense hasn’t been the greatest over the past two years, particularly on third-and-long. Can you give us an optimistic outlook for that side of the ball for …

Alabama football might not have a great deal of experience at the wide receiver position in the first spring practice under new coach Kalen DeBoer, but with that comes a more open competition. And that’s good news for players like Emmanuel Henderson. The junior from Hartford, Ala., hasn’t yet found his niche in the program, coming to Alabama as a …

The saying with Florida recruits is pretty simple, you have to recruit them until they sign, and Ohio State football is feeling that on Tuesday night. The Buckeyes lived through the Jeremiah Smith back-and-forth during the early signing period, and it won’t get there with Jayvan Boggs. The 6-foot, 188-pound receiver has decommitted from Ohio State, leaving the Buckeyes without …

Arizona State assistant football coaches Ra’Shaad Samples and Bryan Carrington know one of the keys to recruiting nowadays is meeting prospective players in their own space, and a big part of that is social media. Since the two are not that far removed from their playing days it is something that comes natural to them. Samples, 29, heads up the …

The Ohio State football team got some pretty big news when it found out that former Freshman All-American Caleb Downs was transferring from Tuscaloosa to Columbus. From the sounds of things, Downs has been making an impression since day one and now he’s been officially welcomed to the Brotherhood after losing his black stripe. Downs made an instant impact at …