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Football starts in the trenches. That fundamental truth has been repeated so often it’s become a Hall of Fame coachspeak example. And yet, it remains a constant in football. Brian Schottenheimer seemed to understand that when he built out his offensive staff a year ago. Klayton Adams took the reins as offensive coordinator after spending […]
If you didn’t remember, today is National Signing Day for football. Softball starts its season this weekend. And did you know that a former UW athlete will be competing in the Winter Olympics which start this weekend? Those and more for your Wednesday dots. Football Dots Basketball Dots Other UW Athletics Dots
Northwestern football brought in 16 total transfers during the winter portal window while bringing back 27 of its 30 eligible players who logged more than 100 snaps in 2025, per Northwestern Athletics. The Wildcat transfer class is the highest-ranked in program history, finishing ninth and 11th in On3 and 247Sports’ respective Big Ten rankings. Per […]
If Ohio State wins the Big Ten Championship this upcoming season, it will be their first conference championship in six seasons. The Buckeyes haven’t gone six seasons without winning a Big Ten Championship since 1986-1993. In three straight seasons from 2021 to 2023, Michigan beat Ohio State in The Game and went on to win […]
Shane Wickes met his partner online thanks to his TED Talk. The two got engaged just in time for the holidays. The post Gay former college football player popped the question and the answer was a resounding yes appeared first on Outsports .
A standout on the baseball diamond as well as the gridiron, Nolan McLean was a two-sport star while attending the eponymously named Garner High School in Garner, North Carolina. As a football player, he lettered three years and threw for 6809 yards for 62 touchdowns. He was a three year letterman in baseball as well, […]
With the conclusion of the 2025 season for the Chicago Bears, we get to fondly look back and reflect on what we saw. There were plenty of “wow” moments in all phases from the ‘25 squad, but no player on the team embodied that “wow” factor more than second-year quarterback Caleb Williams. With the arrival […]
As college athletic departments look for more ways to generate revenue, they will get a new opportunity in the 26-27 athletic year as jersey patches are coming. Each sport can wear up to two commercial pathches on uniforms and an additonal on equipment, so how should Syracuse approach this? Do you go for a sponsor […]
Today’s column and all the Wednesday columns for this month will be recruiting-themed. Traditional recruiting rankings are nice, but they don’t come close to telling the entire story. Even if a team recruits better the next year, their ranking may actually be lower if enough teams also recruit better. What makes the most sense is […]
National Signing Day isn’t what it used to be. It used to be the day when all the high school recruits signed their letters of intent to play at their future schools. Recently, that day has been overshadowed by early national signing day in December. For Rutgers, 22 of its 23 commits signed on early […]
Former Wisconsin Badgers defensive coordinator and interim head coach Jim Leonhard found his first defensive coordinator job since leaving Madison with the Buffalo Bills over the weekend. Leonhard, 43, had been in consideration for several defensive coordinator jobs this offseason after working as the pass game coordinator and assistant head coach for the Denver Broncos […]
Eagles Question of the Day: Let’s pretend the Eagles won Super Bowl LVII. Do you think they definitely win another after that? Or do you think they needed to lose LVII in order to win LIX? Head over to The Feed and weigh in with your answer and explanation! Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles […]
Louisville Cardinals (15-6, 5-4) vs. Notre Dame Fighting Irish (11-11, 2-7) Game Time: 7 p.m. Location: KFC Yum Center: Louisville, Ky. Television: ESPN2 Announcers: Wes Durham (play-by-play) and Dennis Scott (analysis) Favorite: Louisville by 17.5 Series: Louisville leads, 27-19 Last Meeting: Louisville won 75-60 on Feb. 16, 2025 in South Bend Series History: Projected Starting Lineups: Louisville Notre Dame Injury Reports: […]
He’s back (reportedly.) Tino Sunseri, coming off of a brief stint as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at UCLA, is set to return to Indiana as the Hoosiers’ quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator ahead of the 2026 season, according to several reports. Sunseri previously worked in that role on head coach Curt Cignetti’s first […]
Using the charting data from every Big Ten football game in the 2025-26 season, excluding garbage time and games against FCS opponents, we can make granular comparisons of how each team performed. The strongest correlation with scoring strength that survives regardless of opponent quality — that is, what teams bring with them into the postseason […]
As a chaotic #transferszn seems to finally have come to a close, it’s now time to dig through the rubble, count the casualties and take stock of how it all played out. A larger than normal (or at least exected) wave of young players exited the program through the portal, leaving the Tigers short not […]
Christian Scott was the first of the Mets’ current crop of young minor league starters to make his MLB debut back in the summer of 2024. It says a lot about the strength of the Mets’ farm system that despite Scott getting Tommy John Surgery late in that year, as well as trading away three […]
The conclusion of the college football season also brought the Fall Sports season of the Learfield Director’s Cup competition. Syracuse finished the Fall ranked 22nd with 198 points behind the strength of the men’s cross-country and women’s field hockey programs. North Carolina leads with 359 points, thanks to success in everything but football. Stanford is in […]
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[SORRY, COMMENTS WERE TURNED OFF FOR SOME REASON. #REFUNDS FORTHCOMING] Gather ‘round young chil’ren and let me tell you about the time when the February National Signing Day was a wild and wacky day of commitment flips, hat switcheroo press conferences, and grown-ass men biting their nails off over the college choice of teenagers. Yes […]
It’s been an eventful week so far around Indiana. Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti is set to join Big Ten Network around noon to discuss the Hoosiers’ signing class of 2026, Pat Knight resigned as the head coach of Marian in Indianapolis and Kentucky football head coach and former Oregon offensive coordinator Will Stein […]
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Syracuse fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Last week we talked about the NCAA adding flag football as an emerging sport, so this […]
I have good news and bad news for LSU as we head into the 2026 college baseball season. The bad news is they are losing just about the entire starting infield from a national championship team that—oh by the way—was statistically the best defense in LSU’s storied history. The good news is the one returner […]
Illinois, for the second time in three games, faced a top-5 opponent away from State Farm Center and walked out a winner, The Illini worked the inside-out game and hit the boards hard in the first half on Sunday in Lincoln. Nebraska, to its credit, started out hitting three-pointers like it was throwing paper into […]
On this week’s episode of Rays Your Voice, we discuss the recent press conference led by Governor Ron DeSantis, where major power players came out in support of the Rays new stadium plan on the Hillsborough College Dale Mabry campus. While funding was not discussed, Tuesday’s presser feels like a big step in the right […]