College Football

UTEP is set to hire TCU assistant quarterbacks coach Mark Cala to be its next offensive coordinator, multiple media outlets have reported. 247 Sports was the first to report the news. The Albuquerque native replaces Jake Brown, who resigned following UTEP’s 3-9 season. UTEP won’t comment until his hiring is official, which could take a week or two. Mark Cala …

Mike Sonneborn, who led Southside Christian football to high school state championships in 2020 and 2021, has resigned as coach. The announcement was made Thursday by Mike Johnson, executive director of athletics at Southside Christian. Sonneborn spent eight seasons with the Sabres and is the winningest coach in program history, going 77-29. From Sonneborn’s arrival in 2017 through 2021, the …

Ohio State plans to don a familiar look in the College Football Playoff final on Monday. As revealed Thursday afternoon, the Buckeyes are to be in their white road uniforms with gray sleeves against Notre Dame. In Monday’s championship game, Ohio State wide receiver Emeka Egbuka (2) and his teammates will be wearing the same uniform they wore during a …

The NFL announced Thursday that it has granted 55 players special eligibility for the 2025 NFL Draft. Another 15 underclassmen have fulfilled their degree requirements with college football eligibility remaining also are eligible for selection in the April 24-26 draft in Green Bay. Twenty-five players applied for special eligibility prior to the newly instituted early “soft” deadline of Jan. 6, …

Ohio State is inviting fans to help send off the Buckeyes as they travel to Atlanta on Friday for the College Football Playoff final. The Buckeyes are scheduled to leave on buses from the Woody Hayes Athletic Center at 4:30 p.m. HEY BUCKEYE NATION‼️ Come out and send off @OhioStateFB The Buckeyes leave for ATL tomorrow afternoon at 4:30PM ⏰ …

ATLANTA – One final box to check. Noie: Thoughts about Notre Dame football while counting down the hours until Monday’s kickoff One more game, one more box and the kid from the one flashing stoplight town of Royal Center, Indiana, can look back on his six seasons of college football and say that there’s absolutely nothing left to do. Or …

It’s very clear that football players’ ability to make money in college means fewer underclassmen are declaring early for the NFL Draft. That number will grow by Jan. 24. That’s the deadline for Notre Dame and Ohio State players to declare early for the draft. The declaration deadline for anyone not playing in the national title game was Jan. 15. …

Mizzou’s staff is reportedly whole again. Missouri football is expected to hire Miami’s Derek Nicholson as its next linebackers coach, per a report Thursday morning from ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Nicholson had been the linebackers coach for the Hurricanes since 2023 and added the title of co-defensive coordinator in 2024. Nicholson will fill the open position vacated by D.J. Smith, who …

Hutto athletic director and former Hippos football coach Brad LaPlante, who has worked at the school and in the school district since 2014, has left to become the athletic director for the Montgomery school district outside of Houston. Will Compton, who has been the Hippos’ football coach for the past three years, will leave that position to become Hutto ISD’s …

Ohio State and Notre Dame have reached the same destination with rosters built much the same way. The teams set to play in the College Football Playoff championship game in Atlanta sign elite high school recruiting classes year after year. That has been and continues to be their foundations. While many teams relentlessly mine the transfer portal in hopes of …

Georgia defensive lineman Mykel Williams (13) goes in for a sack on Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers (3) during the second half of the SEC championship game against Texas in Atlanta, on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. The NFL made an important announcement about the 2025 NFL draft on Thursday. It announced that 55 underclassmen were granted eligibility for the 2025 NFL …

The Brief Quarterback Riley Leonard transferred to Notre Dame from Duke for the 2024 season. The Irish, who lost to Ohio State in the 2022 and 2023 seasons, get a third crack at the Buckeyes during the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship game. Can Leonard, who wasn’t quarterbacking Notre Dame in ‘22 or ’23, be the difference in Round …

Naheem Ridore is finished dominating the South Shore’s high school football trenches. He’s headed to the next level. On Thursday, Ridore announced on X that he will continue his football career at the Division 1 FCS level at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The 6-foot-2, 230-pound lineman finished his All-Scholastic senior season as the Wildcats’ all-time sack leader. This …

Army senior left guard Bill Katsigiannis was named a second-team all-America as selected by sports giant ESPN. Last month he was named first-team by Sports Illustrated. A native of Katy, Texas, Katsigiannis played a major role with the Black Knights’ receiving the Joe Moore Award, presented to the most outstanding offensive line unit in college football. Oct 12, 2024; West …

The Texas Longhorns came close to reaching two lofty goals this past season, losing to Georgia in the SEC Championship Game and falling to Ohio State in the semifinals of the College Football Playoff. However, those two near-misses are likely to fuel even higher expectations in 2025 and Steve Sarkisian is already hard at work to address the Texas football …