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Rivera among those on 2022 College Football Hall of Fame ballot originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington Ron Rivera joined a group of former Washington Football Team players on the 2022 College Football Hall of Fame ballot released Wednesday afternoon.  Rivera starred as a linebacker for California Berkley in the early 1980s and was named

8:30 AM ET All John Keller wanted when he got to his parents’ house in Canton, Ohio, was some Raising Cane’s chicken and one of his mom’s hamburgers. Normal things a college kid usually takes for granted — spending time with family and gathering around the dinner table for mom’s cooking — were now treasured

Getty Images Arik Gilbert finally has a home. The highly-regarded ex-LSU tight end told 247Sports‘ Rusty Mansell on Tuesday that he will head to SEC East power Georgia. It shouldn’t come as a surprise considering Gilbert, a rising true sophomore, was a five-star prospect and No. 5 overall player out of Marietta (Georgia) High School

WINSTON SALEM, N.C. – There has been a longing for normalcy in the college football world for the past 16 months. With the calendar flipping to June, football recruiting reopening with vigor and the idea of full stadiums in the fall barreling toward reality, there’s a sense that the familiar rhythms of college football will

7:00 AM ET College football recruiting has been anything but normal for the 2022 class because of restrictions from COVID-19. A recruiting dead period that prevented any recruits from visiting campus had been in place since March of last year. That dead period was lifted on Tuesday. Recruits will once again be allowed to visit

The Telegraph Portugal Euro 2021 squad list, fixtures and latest team news Having won their first major trophy at Euro 2016, Portugal approach this year’s tournament with a far better squad than last time and crucially have the belief which previous sides seemingly lacked. For all the emotion released by Portugal’s success five years ago,

6:27 AM ET When Mark Deal, a former Indiana football assistant who oversees the program’s alumni relations, needed former players to help with youth clinics, he always called Chris Beaty. A walk-on defensive lineman at Indiana from 2000 to 2003, Beaty always provided the same response: “I’m there, Coach.” Beaty didn’t play much at Indiana,

Mizzou Athletics Eli Drinkwitz had more than a plan for a new house when he moved from Appalachian State to Missouri 18 months ago. First, the Tigers’ new coach had to call compliance. Before picking the location of his home in Columbia, Missouri, Drinkwitz inquired about a little-known NCAA rule that allows a recruiting advantage

The Telegraph Foul-mouthed Dan Evans takes aim at umpire and fans in first-round French Open defeat A bad-tempered Dan Evans maintained his unhappy record at the French Open as he departed in four sets to world No48 Miomir Kecmanovic, swearing and tossing rackets as he went. Broadcasters were forced to apologise for Evans’s language as

USATSI With the arrival of the transfer portal, college football coaches have adjusted the way that they recruit and build their rosters. Adding in a sure thing through transfer can often be a better option than taking a chance on an unproven high school prospect, especially at a position like quarterback.  But with the NCAA’s

3:55 PM ET Former All-Sun Belt wide receiver Kaylon Geiger announced on Saturday that he will transfer from Troy to Texas Tech. The move allows Geiger to be closer to his home of Fort Worth, Texas. Geiger, a senior, caught 64 passes in 11 games last season. In 2019, Geiger was voted Sun Belt Newcomer

Oklahoma Sooners head coach Lincoln Riley has been one of the top coaches in all of college football since he took over in 2017. From 2015-16, he led the offense to new heights and prepared for the opportunity to replace legendary head coach Bob Stoops. Since 2017, Riley has compiled a record of 45-8 and

1:48 PM ET Associated Press Notre Dame said Friday its home game against Arkansas that originally was set for 2020 and wasn’t played due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be played in 2028. Arkansas’ first trip to Notre Dame originally was scheduled for Sept. 12, 2020. The teams also will play at Arkansas in 2025.

Getty Images If the Pac-12 fails to send a team to the College Football Playoff this season, it will mark five straight years the league has been absent from the event. But with the league gearing up for a normal 2021 campaign after its condensed 2020 season, there’s reason for optimism that the conference can

9:00 AM ET Our staff has spent the past 10 weeks on the road scouting college football prospects on the spring camp circuit. COVID-19 restrictions led to a lot of shortened or even canceled high school football seasons, so this in-person platform allowed our team an invaluable opportunity to evaluate prospects. Whether it’s a prospect

SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The framed picture in Brian Kelly’s office showcases three halogen grins in the aftermath of one of Notre Dame’s biggest football victories this century. In the minutes after Notre Dame’s double-overtime upset of No. 1 Clemson in November, Kelly posed for a locker room group shot with athletic director Jack Swarbrick

Getty Images We are less than 100 days from the first full Saturday of the college football season, but we also know what we should expect at the end of the season. The 2021-22 bowl schedule has been announced, and it looks to be a three-and-a-half week extravaganza over the holidays. The postseason will culminate

USATSI In college football, every game counts. That’s what you’re constantly being told, and that’s what everybody worries about protecting when talk of expanding the College Football Playoff comes around. Well, “every game counts” is more useful as a marketing campaign than it’s factual. Don’t get me wrong: every game does indeed count. It’s just,