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The now unranked Alabama Crimson Tide return home looking to bounce back from an ugly performance this past Sunday in Gainesville. Meeting them in Tuscaloosa will be the SEC-leading Texas A&M Aggies and first year head coach, Bucky McMillan – the pride of Mountain Brook, AL. The Aggies have been the big surprise of the […]
Not who you want to be playing when you are trying to end a losing streak.
The potential was always clear with Drake Maye. Mike Vrabel saw it last year all the way Cleveland, where he served as a coaching and personnel consultant. It was part of the reason Vrabel wanted the Patriots coaching job. Wide receiver Stefon Diggs saw the talent from a closer vantage point. Standing on the away […]
Time for our Spartans to begin a new win streak. MSU heads to the Twin Cities to take on the Golden Gophers. Game tips at 7 PM ET and can be seen on BTN. And if you have BTN+, you can check out the Lady Spartans at 6:30 in a top 25 matchup against Maryland. […]
The Pittsburgh Steelers are constructing one of the largest coaching staffs in team history, and you can keep up with every hire on our assistant coach tracker. The latest hire comes from Montana State University, as Mike McCarthy is adding Montana defensive coordinator Shawn Howe to his staff. Howe is set to be the team’s […]
Like Will Ferrell at a frat party, Michael Carrick’s Manchester United are going streaking. The old school (sorry!) references don’t stop there with the club scoring recent game winners near the end of 90 minutes and in Fergie Time. Since the last vibes-o-meter reading, Manchester United beat Arsenal at the Emirates, 3-2, with an 87th-minute […]
Rutgers senior offensive assistant John McNulty is expected to join Michigan State’s coaching staff as their quarterbacks coach, per a report by Pete Thamel. With this move, Rutgers loses one of the most experienced members of its coaching staff. McNulty has served three separate stints on the Scarlet Knights coaching staff. His first stint was […]
Bo Jackson is the unquestioned starter going into 2026, but Ohio State’s best version almost always comes with two backs the staff trusts. That is why the RB2 job is quietly one of the most important position battles of the offseason. A real second option changes how defenses play early downs, keeps the run game […]
The college all-star circuit is wrapped up, which means that several prospects have caught the eyes of scouts and media alike ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft. That includes a handful of names that Green Bay Packers fans should keep an eye on. Brian Gutekunst and his staff have found a handful of players from […]
This column is a lot more fun to write after Purdue wins games. That three game losing streak that knocked us from the top 5 and out of first in the Big Ten put a real damper on what was supposed to be a very special season. Fortunately, it still can be. Barring an absolute […]
—Spread check: Louisville by 17.5. —ACC commissioner Jim Phillips says the tiebreaker for making the ACC football championship game will change for next season. —Ryan Conwell has been named to the Julius Erving Award (best small forward in college basketball) midseason list. —Jeff Brohm has been impressed by what he’s seen from Lincoln Keinholz over […]
From U of L: University of Louisville football assistant coaches Mark Ivey and Steve Ellis have been named Co-Defensive Coordinators, head coach Jeff Brohm announced. Ivey and Ellis will share defensive coordinator responsibilities, with Ivey leading the defensive line and Ellis overseeing the secondary. Ivey has coached the Cardinals’ linebackers since being retained when Brohm was hired prior to the 2023 […]
No. 9 Ohio State women’s basketball is bound for the Pacific Northwest as the Big Ten side takes its second annual conference trip to the West Coast for two games. This time, against the No. 24 Washington Huskies and Oregon Ducks. It is a trip that features a ranked matchup, a return to Eugene, Oregon […]
For the first time since 2021 a Minnesota Golden Gopher alum is guaranteed to win a Super Bowl when the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks meet in Super Bowl LX Sunday night in Santa Clara, California. Nineteen previous Gophers have touched the Lombardi Trophy, and at the end of the night on Sunday that […]
Signing Day may have lost some of its lustre in the age of the transfer portal, but Nebraska landed a genuinely important piece with the signing of defensive lineman Dylan Berymon. Berymon comes in at 6-foot-2, 330 pounds and carries an impressive four-star rating, ranked No. 124 nationally by 247Sports. He hails from Monroe, Louisiana, […]
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 […]