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The Lane Kiffin era at Ole Miss is over. Kiffin, who kept the college football world guessing about his status with the Rebels, announced on Sunday that he’ll leave the school for a new job as head coach at LSU. For LSU, it’s a solid pickup in the wake of Brian Kelly getting fired and […]

The Arkansas Razorbacks went through a tough 2025 college football season. Now, though, the storied program looks to Memphis’ head coach to bring it back to prominence. Arkansas is set to hire Memphis head coach Ryan Silverfield as its new head coach. Bobby Petrino, who took over on an interim basis after Sam Pittman was […]

Reports are circulating on Sunday morning that Tulane head coach Jon Sumrall will be going to the Sunshine State to take over at Florida. According to ESPN College Football Reporter Pete Thamel, the Gators will give Sumrall a sweet deal to come to Gainesville, Fla., and lead the Gators. “Florida is finalizing a six-year deal […]

The Auburn Tigers have found their man to lead the football team into its future. On Sunday, Auburn hired South Florida head coach Alex Golesh to take over its football program. The school released the news regarding Golesh in a statement on Sunday morning. “I want to thank President Roberts and John Cohen for the […]

It had been 2191 days since the Ohio State Buckeyes (12-0, 9-0 Big Ten) tasted victory against Michigan (9-3, 6-3 Big Ten. Redemption now belongs to the Buckeyes. It’s time for the Buckeye faithful to hold it over their rivals’ heads for at least the next 365 days. It didn’t start off all cupcake and […]

Coaching Carousel In 2025, there have been numerous openings in college football. Among the openings for head coaches, schools like Penn State, LSU, Florida have topped the list with other openings at Arkansas, UCLA, Virginia Tech, and Stanford among the Power Four conferences. With many of those jobs, Clark Lea was listed as a possible […]

Tony Thomas
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The Red Raiders are 23.5-point favorites against West Virginia

Stephen Leonard
Writer
Columbus, OH– It doesn’t get any bigger than Ohio State vs Michigan in terms of college football rivalries, or rivalries in all of sport. It only takes a spark to get a fire burning, but what happened in November 30th, 2024 at midfield of Ohio Stadium was bigger than a rapidly spreading 100,000 acre burn. […]

2026 3-star defensive lineman Darryus McKinley has flipped his committment from LSU to Ohio State according to ON3 Insider Hayes Fawcett. The Louisiana native had been committed to the Tigers since August. McKinley received an offer from Larry Johnson and Ohio State on October 30th of this year and held offers from 15 other schools. […]