College Football

Fomer USC receiver Bru McCoy is part of an NCAA eligibility drama

Tennessee Volunteers wide receiver Bru McCoy, who once played for USC, could be granted an additional season of elibility by the NCAA. The US Department of Justice ruled the NCAA couldn’t enforce their transfer eligbility rules that forced an athlete to sit out for a season before beginning their career with a new program. McCoy was projected to enter the 2024 …

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Fact or Fiction: Miami commit Hylton Stubbs is nearing five-star status

Rivals national recruiting analyst John Garcia Jr. is joined by national rankings director Adam Friedman and national recruiting analysts Marshall Levenson and Sam Spiegelman to tackle three topics and determine whether they believe each statement is FACT or FICTION. 1. Blue-chip Miami commitment Hylton Stubbs is on the verge of earning his fifth star. Friedman: FACT. Hylton Stubbs isn’t a …

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SWAC Media Day 2024: Target on FAMU’s back renews Rattlers’ hunger to stay atop HBCU football

All eyes are on Florida A&M football. Some look for the Rattlers to maintain its Black College Football National Championship standard as they achieved in 2023. At the same time, others view the Rattlers as inferior to last year’s team that claimed the program’s first Southwestern Athletic Conference and Celebration Bowl trophies last December. The assumption of a championship hangover …

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Big 12 team preview: Can new Houston coach work his magic in Space City?

Houston coach Willie Fritz speaks during the Big 12 Conference media days in Las Vegas, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. | Lucas Peltier, Associated Press Editor’s note: Fourth in a series previewing each team in the Big 12 in 2024. When a college football team has its starting quarterback back, it usually gets treated favorably by the prognosticators who like to …

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Where Jackson State football is picked to finish in 2024 SWAC preseason poll

At the Southwestern Athletic Conference Media Day on Tuesday. Jackson State football was picked to finish third in the SWAC East Division behind Alabama State and defending Black national champions Florida A&M in 2024. The voting was based on a poll of SWAC head coaches and sports information directors. Alcorn State was picked to win the West Division. In T.C. …

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North Carolina to be ‘highly sought after’ in conference realignment

Conferences in college athletics will look a little different starting with the upcoming college football season as the SEC, Big Ten and Big 12 have added programs. The ACC added three programs with Stanford, SMU and Cal joining but there continues to be talk of teams leaving and joining other conferences. The latest centered around Florida State and Clemson, with …

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Why Kirby Smart compared Nick Saban to Darth Vader at SEC Media Days

Former Alabama Crimson Tide football head coach Nick Saban and current Georgia Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart have shared an interesting relationship over the years. With Saban officially retired, the two are no loger adversaries on the field. Smart had served as the Alabama football defensive coordinator under Saban from 2008-2015. Beginning in 2016, the two coaches were direct rivals, …

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2025 4-star WR Kelshaun Johnson has committed to Texas A&M

. Boom! Texas A&M’s 2025 recruiting class has added its 19th commitment in the cycle, as 4-star wide receiver Kelshaun Johnson, who had to delay his announcement the last two weeks due to Hurricane Beryl, has finally committed to Texas A&M over rival Texas on Tuesday afternoon. Set to enter his senior season at Hitchcock HS, Johnson’s gravitation to the …

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Longtime Cal and Fresno State football coach Jeff Tedford retires

Jeff Tedford forged a great career as a college football head coach. The architect of the Cal football team that kept Pete Carroll’s 2003 USC Trojans out of the BCS Championship Game stepped down as Fresno State’s head coach, citing health concerns. Tedford led Fresno State to multiple Mountain West Conference championships. Over a decade earlier, he guided Cal to …

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