Tennessee will kick off its 2024 football season in 43 days. The Vols will open its upcoming campaign on Aug. 31 against Chattanooga at Neyland Stadium. Kickoff is slated for 12:45 p.m. EDT and SEC Network will televise the contest. 2024 will be the fourth season for Tennessee under head coach Josh Heupel. In his first three seasons, Heupel is 27-12 and guided the …

Blasting the NFL for trying to “reverse-engineer” how a Los Angeles jury calculated the NFL must pay $4.7 billion in damages for Sunday Ticket antitrust violations, attorneys for the class action plaintiffs Wednesday urged the presiding judge to not “play Monday morning quarterback,” and instead deny the league’s motion for a judgment as a matter of law or new trial. As Sportico detailed, the …

Alabama’s football field is reportedly set to bear Nick Saban’s name. According to a report from ESPN, Alabama’s board of trustees will consider a resolution to name the field at Bryant-Denny Stadium for Saban on Friday. The longtime Alabama coach retired in January and has been replaced by Kalen DeBoer. The resolution will surely pass, and a ceremony honoring Saban …

Jordan Love was one of the hottest quarterbacks in the NFL by the end of last season. (Yahoo Sports/Gregory Hodge) Other NFL team previews: 32. Panthers | 31. Patriots | 30. Broncos | 29. Commanders | 28. Giants | 27. Titans | 26. Raiders | 25. Cardinals | 24. Saints | 23. Chargers | 22. Vikings | 21. Seahawks | …

Florida Gators head coach Billy Napier called former Wisconsin Badgers QB Graham Mertz ‘one of the best quarterbacks in America’ at SEC media days this week. Mertz is entering year two with the Gators after spending the first four years of his college career at Wisconsin. Badgers fans have tracked his career and progress closer than anybody after he initially …

Jul 19, 2024, 07:53 AM ET We have spent the last week counting down our list of the top 100 athletes of the 21st century, but what about the next generation? If we were doing another list in 2050, which current athletes who didn’t make it this time around are likely to be included? We came up with a list …

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab discuss expectations for quarterback Jordan Love after a late turnaround last season. Listen and subscribe to the “Zero Blitz” podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript I genuinely don’t know what we should expect from Jordan love because everybody’s telling me that the Packers have their quarterback …

Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium landed at No. 8 in ESPN’s latest ranking of the top 25 college football venues on Thursday. The Badgers’ home turf was ranked just above Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium and Clemson Memorial Stadium. The playing grounds for five Big Ten rivals landed higher than UW’s gridiron including UCLA’s Rose Bowl Stadium, Michigan’s Michigan Stadium, …

The Wisconsin Badgers boast the 14th-most appearances in the College Football Playoff rankings since the format began 2014. UW has entered a given week ranked within the ranking’s top 25 on 32 occasions since 2014. For reference, Oregon holds 38 appearances while Penn State has reached the ranking system 36 times. The Badgers’ football program has experienced its fair share …

Trent Brown has never played for the Dallas Cowboys, but he knows a thing or two about tending cattle. The Cincinnati Bengals hired the rancher this offseason to protect franchise quarterback Joe Burrow. But when the NFL veteran isn’t focused on passing schemes or slide protections, you can probably find him on his ranch back in Bastrop, east of Austin, …

The University of Colorado gave an unusual discretionary bonus of $250,000 to football coach Deion Sanders late last year for the national recognition the university received during Sanders’ first year on the job, according to records obtained by USA TODAY Sports. The bonus hasn’t been made public until now and was unusual for at least a couple of reasons: ∎ …

At long last, University of Miami football fans can play as the Hurricanes with the release of College Football 25. The last time EA Sports released a college football video game was 2013 with NCAA Football 14. Back then, gamers couldn’t play as Duke Johnson: Instead, RB #8 was in the backfield for the U. Now with NIL rules in place, player names and likenesses are in …

Editor’s note: Steve Doerschuk spent months researching quarterbacks. The result is three waves of a series, “Year of the Quarterback.” The first wave revolves around tremendous high school QBs fighting to find the field in college. This is the fourth article in the first wave. Matt Campbell isn’t in the middle of nowhere, but being in the middle of Iowa …

NORMAN — When OU’s Board of Regents approved a new six-year contract scheduled to be worth at least $51.6 million for head coach Brent Venables on June 21, his performance bonuses included a significant increase from his original agreement. In addition to the $250,000 bonus for winning the SEC Championship Game — up from $150,000 for winning the Big 12 Championship Game in his …

Nixa football star Jackson Cantwell, the No. 1 offensive line prospect in the 2026 class, said it felt like the right time to focus on the schools he could see himself attending. With over two dozen offers from the biggest college football programs in the country, Cantwell narrowed his list down to 14 heading into his junior season. “I wanted …