NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Aug. 24—MOSCOW, Idaho — A month’s worth of preseason practices, blocking and tackling only teammates while building a burdensome bridge of workouts and meetings between summer and football season, has concluded. Now Idaho will see what all its labor has fashioned. The Vandals head to California to open the 2026 season against Cal Poly on Friday. From second-year coach Thomas Ford Jr. to the …
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NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Key position battles on the 2026 Gophers football team have started to crystallize after three weeks of preseason camp, but placekicker has gone the other direction. It’s murkier than Day 1. On Friday, Minnesota signed New Mexico transfer Luke Drzewiecki; the Shelby Township, Mich., native was ultra-accurate last season for new U special teams coordinator Daniel Da Prato. Drzewiecki has joined …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Some say “size matters,” but how much girth do you need to succeed in National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics football? After playing four seasons of sprint football, which caps each player’s weight at 190 pounds, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College — the two-time Midwest Sprint Football League champion and two-time MSFL runner-up — will find out what it’s like to compete with the “big …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… GAINESVILLE — Scott Stricklin’s legacy at Florida rests in Jon Sumrall’s hands. It’s a precarious position for Stricklin — and one many wondered whether the Gators’ athletic director would live to see. Yet Stricklin enters his 10th full football season in Gainesville as the SEC’s longest-tenured AD. He is confident he finally got it right with Sumrall, his third — and almost certainly final — …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… COLLEGE PARK — In his first year as Maryland’s primary running back, DeJuan Williams set a school record for receiving yards in a season by a running back with 426, and his 45 catches were the second-most in a campaign. But the Baltimore resident and St. Frances graduate was far from satisfied. “It’s a blessing to have a record in my name, but the main focus is I want 1,000 yards,” he said …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… CLEMSON, S.C. — Football was the lifeline Tajh Boyd didn’t want. The glory of his high school and college days long past, the bitterness of his professional cameos lingering, he was done with the game. Sell industrial-strength packaging such as polyethylene and polypropylene? Jump into residential real estate? Dance The Nutcracker? Boyd did all of the above — and then some. “I had a weird …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Aug. 19—CHAMPAIGN — Yes, he knows the names of the famous former Illinois football players. Of course, he should. It’s the same as his own. Freshman defensive back Isaiah Williams hopes to add to the legacy of his namesakes at Illinois. He was a three-star recruit from Houston-area power Fort Bend Marshall. Williams picked Illinois ahead of offers from Arizona State, Arkansas, Florida, LSU, …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Aug. 19—The 2026 Illinois football season opener is just more than two weeks away, and on a team that has more newcomers than returning players, several key positions will be filled with players making their Illini debuts against UAB. Beat writer Scott Richey spotlights five: Katin Houser Quarterback It’s not hyperbole to call Houser the most important player on this year’s roster. That’s the …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… Aug. 18—PULLMAN — At Washington State fall camp practices, players are split into two groups. Players on offense wear crimson practice jerseys, while defenders wear white jerseys. That makes everyone pretty easily identifiable. It also makes it easy to spot those who aren’t wearing either one. Present at Tuesday’s WSU fall camp practice was former defensive tackle Soni Finau, who wore his gray …
NCAAF College Football News, Photos, Stats, Scores, Schedule & Videos… The Walter Camp Football Foundation on Monday named University of Hawaii quarterback Micah Alejado to the preseason watch list for its 2026 Player of the Year award. The sophomore was one of 50 players named to the Walter Camp award watch list. Twenty-two of those named Monday are signal-callers, with 19 more coming from the offensive side of the ball and nine from defense. In all, 38 schools …