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FSU football running back Kam Davis talks first day of spring football

FSU football running back Kam Davis talks first day of spring football

Florida State running back Kam Davis is well aware of what critics are saying about him on social media after his freshman year. He is embracing their opinions and is motivated to have a better second year after the Seminoles went 2-10 last season.

“I worked very hard last year. Feeling the performance that I had and seeing some of the stuff said on social media gave me motivation,” Davis said.

“I don’t really blame the fans. Some of the people who said what they did. I took it as motivation. I worked and did what I had to do to make sure I felt my best, and I’m still working on it, so I’m trying to get to the best of Kam Davis.”

Expectations were high for the former four-star running back. He did well enough to earn his way into the starting rotation, especially after FSU was dealing with multiple injuries in the backfield. Davis played in nine games and rushed for 173 yards, averaging 3.3 yards a carry.

It was a disappointing freshman campaign for the Albany, Georgia, native. He took it heart what was said even when he tried to block out the noise.

“We are football players. We take it sometimes. Some players might have a bad season, or we’re not at the level everybody wants us to play at, so we have to deal with that all our lives,” Davis said.

“We are mentally tough for it. Coaches put in our mind to just block it out and go out every day at practice and give it all, so that’s mainly what the mindset is. That’s the goal, and that’s what we’re working to working towards.”

Davis is motivated by the Seminoles’ getting back into the playoff conversation and their hopes of contending for the national championship, like in 2023 when they went 13-1. He is determined to reach that…

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Former Michigan co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss was indicted Thursday in a case accusing him of hacking into the private accounts of student athletes around the nation and stealing intimate, personal photographs, according to a release by the United States Department of Justice. The indictment includes 14 counts of unauthorized access to computers and and 10 counts of aggravated identity theft. 

“Today’s indictment of Matthew Weiss underscores the commitment and meticulous investigative efforts of our law enforcement professionals,” Cheyvoryea Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Michigan, said in a statement. “The FBI Detroit Cyber Task Force, in close collaboration with the University of Michigan Police Department, worked relentlessly on this case to safeguard and protect our community.”

The indictment alleges that Weiss gained unauthorized access to third-party databases containing the information of student athletes at more than 100 colleges and universities. He then downloaded personally identifiable information of over 150,000 athletes and used that information to enter the social media, email and cloud storage accounts of more than 2,000 athletes. He also targeted regular university students and alumni from various institutions. 

The complaint says Weiss primarily targeted female college athletes. 

Weiss was suspended and eventually fired by the University of Michigan in Jan. 2023 when U-M police launched its initial investigation. At least a portion of his alleged crimes occurred from Dec. 21-23 in the team’s football facilities, days before the…

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On Wednesday, Texas A&M’s 2025 spring season officially kicked off with the first press conference. Head coach Mike Elko, starting quarterback Marcel Reed, and senior cornerback Will Lee III spoke to the media, providing plenty of intriguing quotes ranging from the team’s depth to which player has stood out this offseason from the transfer portal and 2025 signing class.

Reed, the redshirt sophomore, enters his first full season as the starting signal caller after Conner Weigman transferred to Houston. From a confidence standpoint, Elko and OC Collin Klein have to feel good about their quarterback’s goals to improve as a passer after struggling in the pocket during several key SEC games last season.

“I’ve set a goal for myself to be above 70 percent passing. … That’s really good in college football, so if I can sit around there, I feel that will be great for the offense. It takes being in the film room and understanding the offense.”

Last season, Reed completed 61% of his passes for 1,864 yards, 15 touchdowns, and six interceptions, so while his goal is a big jump, he will be working with an enhanced wide receiver room and one of the deepest running back rooms behind and equally stacked offensive line.

“We have a year under this offense, and it’s going to look a lot different than it did last year, for sure.”

“We have all types of playmakers from the running back room, the O-line, receivers and tight ends.”

Bringing in former NC State wide receiver KC Concepcion, Mike Elko raved about the junior pass catcher’s potential to bring more firepower to A&M’s passing game and be a consistent leader and voice in the locker room. Concepcion’s presence is even more vital after the news that transfer WR Micah Hudson is no longer enrolled at Texas A&M.

“He’s lights-out. He has tremendous quickness, tremendous acceleration. … He…

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As sure as schools paying players next fall, the day is coming when the SEC places five teams into an expanded College Football Playoff.

That won’t happen in 2025, but it may in 2026 when the CFP potentially expands to 14 teams and the Big Ten and SEC push for four automatic qualifiers. Until then, the criteria from the first 12-team playoff remain and the SEC will have to rely on its teams impressing the selection committee. Do wins matter more than strength of schedule? That worries the SEC, which is built on beating up its teams and leaving several title contenders with three losses.

The league nearly had four teams in the fold in 2024, but the committee smartly placed SMU ahead of three-loss Alabama and South Carolina. In the end, the SEC advanced only one of its three teams into the semifinals.

Who will contend for a national championship this fall? The usual contenders remain, but we’re taking a chance on another team that has proven to be fool’s gold the last two seasons. We kept the list of contenders to five teams, but we could easily argue for seven. 

Kalen DeBoer cannot afford to miss the playoffs in Year 2. An underwhelming 9-4 start to his Alabama career places the onus on him to lift the Tide into the 12-team CFP this season, and he must do so while replacing a quarterback and refilling several holes along the offensive and defensive lines, the primary units responsible for success or failure in the SEC. Still, the Tide ranks No. 2 in the initial SP+ ratings. The favorite to replace Jalen Milroe at…

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