College Football

Steve Sarkisian didn’t pursue the Alabama job and is set to receive a hefty pay increase that would make him college football’s third-highest-paid coach behind Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and Georgia’s Kirby Smart. Steve Sarkisian’s very good year just got better. But so did Texas’. The Longhorns’ third-year head football coach, who took them to a 12-2 record and their first …

Under head football coach Mike Elko, Texas A&M’s 2025 recruiting class is looking to grow in the coming months, already adding multiple defensive prospects, including 4-star linebacker Kelvion Riggins and 4-star cornerback Deyjhon Pettaway. During his two seasons as Duke’s head coach, Elko recruited current star Aggies linebacker Taurean York, knowing he would quickly become one of the more underrated …

The Georgia Bulldogs finished the class of 2024 recruiting cycle with the No. 1 class in the SEC and the No. 1 class in the country. Georgia won the recruiting title, but the Bulldogs did it without dominating in-state recruiting. Overall, nine of Georgia’s total 28 signees are in-state recruits. Georgia signed four of The Peach State’s top-11 recruits in …

Former UCLA star DeShaun Foster has his work cut out for him as the Bruins’ new head coach. Here are some thoughts on how he should build his brand. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) The handshakes, back slaps and congratulatory text messages are over. It’s time for DeShaun Foster to get to work. The passion the former UCLA star running …

Usually when a team wins a national championship, it gets a lot of hype for the next year. But for Michigan football, considering the personnel and staff turnover, as well as next year’s schedule, not everyone is optimistic about the Wolverines in 2024. Not only did Jim Harbaugh leave and take a good portion of the defensive staff along with …

Tennessee offered a scholarship to 2025 wide receiver prospect Derek Meadows. “I am truly blessed and honored to receive an offer from the University of Tennessee,” Meadows said. The 6-foot-5, 200-pound four-star wide receiver prospect is from Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. Meadows is the No. 144 overall prospect in the class of 2025. He ranks as …

The Tennessee Volunteers are heading into their fourth season under head coach Josh Heupel, who signed a contract extension last year that will keep him in Knoxville through 2029. He led the Vols to an 8-4 regular season in 2023 and capped it off with a 35-0 win over Iowa in the Citrus Bowl to earn the No. 21 spot …

Alabama football enters the 2024 season with a lot of unknowns. A new head coach, a handful of new players having to replace key contributors and a new-look SEC schedule. Another new aspect of the team is incoming transfers and recruits, but that happens every season. ESPN’s Blake Baumgartner and Tom VanHaaren shared their picks for the top newcomers from …

The Florida Gators football team starts the spring at No. 33 overall on the SP+ rankings from ESPN. SP+ is “a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a résumé ranking. Along those same lines, these projections aren’t intended to be a guess at …

USC football’s spring camp will come to a close with its traditional spring game on April 20. USC football is generating excitement for 2024 with the arrival of several new defensive coaches who are all saying and doing the right things. Everything USC fans have wanted to see and hear is coming to fruition with D’Anton Lynn, Eric Henderson, Matt …

Brian Kelly and the LSU recruiting staff took a trip to Marietta, Georgia, to extend an offer to a three-star cornerback who is currently up for grabs. Mark Manfred is a 6-foot-3, 175-pound, three-star defensive back from Marietta, Georgia, where he plays for Sprayberry High School. The Sprayberry Yellow Jackets finished the 2023 season 6-5 with a loss to Rome …

It’s been more than 10 years since the last time a college football video game was on the horizon, but on Wednesday, EA Sports announced that “College Football 25” will be available in the summer. Fans across the country — including myself — have already begun speculation as to what will be included in the new game and what won’t. …

Steve Sarkisian is set to become one of college football’s highest-paid coaches. Details of Sarkisian’s new contract were released on Saturday. The fourth-year Texas head coach will become the third-highest paid coach in college football, trailing only Georgia’s Kirby Smart and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney. After an impressive 2023 season that included a Big 12 Championship and College Football Playoff berth, …

George MacIntyre, the five-star quarterback from Brentwood Academy who has committed to Tennessee football, said UT coaches have told him not to worry about the NCAA’s investigation into the football program and the court battle involving the state of Tennessee and the NCAA over NIL. He is monitoring the situation “a little bit,” MacIntyre said. “Everybody I’ve talked to, Tennessee …

On Friday, Rutgers football offered Florida defensive lineman Derry ‘Chuck’ Norris. The Big Ten program is now involved in a recruitment for Norris that is truly national. Norris is a class of 2025 recruit from Spruce Creek (Port Orange, Florida). He is a three-star and ranked the No. 51 defensive lineman in the nation and the No. 69 player in …