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4-5 minutes 8/26/2023Orlando Sentinel CorrespondentTALLAHASSEE — Coming off a 10-win season, Florida State was able to retain an overwhelming majority of its offensive and defensive talent. And coach Mike Norvell only had to fill an opening for a defensive backs coach.Norvell chose Patrick Surtain, who had won three state championships at Plantation American Heritage and spent a year on the Miami Dolphins’ ...

7-9 minutes 8/27/2023Entering his third season as a starting quarterback in college football, Shedeur Sanders is also learning his third different offensive system.The talented junior hasn’t been fazed by the challenge, however.“I mean, passing is passing. You throw the ball, it’s throwing the ball,” Sanders said. “It’s just a different scheme, it’s a different way to call it – as long as everything ...

4-5 minutes 8/25/2023Friday brought good news for one new Colorado Buffalo and heartbreaking news for another.Head coach Deion Sanders announced to the team that running back Sy’veon Wilkerson has been deemed eligible to play this season after transferring from Jackson State this summer.Offensive lineman Tyler Brown, however, had his waiver request denied by the NCAA and he must sit out the 2023 season.The ...

By Ainslie Lee |When Auburn kicks off the 2023 football season against UMass on Sept. 2, it’ll have been 1,340 days since the Tigers last appeared in a bowl game and 1,709 days since the Tigers won a bowl game.After back-to-back losing seasons, there’s an undeniable thirst among Auburn fans to reach bowl eligibility this season. And if history is any indication, the Tigers have the right guy at the ...

Arizona State football coach Kenny Dillingham runs about 8 miles a day … in practice. He sweats as much as his players. And every time you talk to the guy, his voice is as hoarse as a stable.He wants to win, and if he can infuse that into his players, this team will have a shot at a bowl game come season’s end, regardless of what the critics are predicting.“I want … everybody that watches us play to ...

Lance Tucker made his Demopolis debut in a 29-20 win over American Christian Academy on Friday night.The victory makes it the Tigers' fourth straight win over the Patriots. The teams traded the lead throughout the game, with American Christian Academy scoring first, but ultimately a late third-quarter safety and a touchdown on the ensuing drive secured the victory for Demopolis.Keishawn Rowser led ...

Aug. 12, 2023, 12:06 a.m.Gainesville, Fla. • Wisconsin transfer Graham Mertz will be Florida’s starting quarterback when the Gators open the season at Utah on Aug. 31.Coach Billy Napier made the announcement Friday, a day after the team’s first scrimmage of training camp.“We’ve seen enough,” Napier said before making his decision public. “The big thing I’ve been impressed with is just his ability to ...

Aug. 12, 2023, 3:14 p.m.Updated: 5:11 p.m.Utah quarterback Brandon Rose has suffered an undisclosed injury, according to the redshirt freshman’s social media.Rose “has been released and is home now,” according to an update shared on Rose’s Instagram account. He is “expected to make a full recovery.”Rose added: “Thank you for all the prayers. That’s love”.The quarterback has been vying to be the Utes’ ...

BY J. BRADY MCCOLLOUGHSTAFF WRITERAUG. 12, 2023 5 AMThe Kelly Plan. It has a nice ring to it, but it will never happen.Chip Kelly’s idea about how to steer the college sports enterprise away from fully losing its soul — having top football schools be classified as independent and playing by their own rules, allowing the rest of the sports to be grouped together regionally as they used to be — is simply ...

For the first time in a couple weeks following what was the a historic blunder for the conference, there seems to be signs of life coming out of Pac-12 country.Something that the college sports world likely would have never imagined following the news a couple weeks ago that saw Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah all leave the conference. The exodus left just four programs ...