Category: College Football

Five-star 2025 Metairie (La.) St. Martin’s running back and LSU target Harlem Berry was expected to announce a commitment decision on Dec. 18. However, his plans have since changed.

Now, Berry intends to reveal his commitment on Jan. 3 at the Under Armour All-American Game in Orlando, where he will become the first underclassman to announce a college decision at that game.

Berry is the No. 1 running back in the 2025 class, and he ranks as the No. 11 overall player nationally per On3 and No. 16 per 247Sports. LSU holds three Crystal Balls for Berry, two of which have been place in the last week.

The Tigers are also a heavy favorite to land him per the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine at 98.7%.

LSU already has one five-star prospect committed in the 2025 class in Dakorien Moore, and it will look to add another in what could be a special group.

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BLOOMINGTON – IU got more good news on offense Sunday, when redshirt junior running back Trent Howland announced his intention to withdraw from the transfer portal and return to Bloomington.

Howland, who has two years of eligibility remaining, rose through the running back rotation and landed the Hoosiers’ No. 1 spot late in the season. He finished the 2023 season with 75 carries for 354 yards (4.7 ypc), and a pair of touchdowns.

Much of that production came in the second half of the season. Over Indiana’s last six games, Howland rushed for 283 yards and the TDs.

From the portal: IU lands mammoth OL Trey Wedig from Wisconsin

His return doubles coach Curt Cignetti’s fortune for the weekend, after honorable mention All-Big Ten wide receiver Donaven McCulley announced his intention to withdraw from the portal.

Now, Cignetti has a running back with a rising ceiling to plug into his offense as well, as he rebuilds the roster he inherited from Tom Allen.

Follow IndyStar reporter Zach Osterman on Twitter: @ZachOsterman.

This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Indiana football running back Trent Howland leaves transfer portal

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The full college football bowl game schedule following the 2023 season features 43 contests spanning three weeks in December and January. Action begins on Dec. 16 with seven exciting contests and runs through Jan. 8, when a College Football Playoff national champion will be crowned at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. 

The CFP semifinals return to New Year’s Day, with the Rose Bowl (No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 4 Alabama) and Sugar Bowl (No. 2 Washington vs. No. 3 Texas) appropriately playing semifinal hosts for the fourth time since the CFP’s implementation in 2014. The 2023-24 bowl season will also be the last featuring a four-team field for the CFP; an expanded, 12-team playoff arrives following the 2024 season. 

As part of bowl season, CBS will continue its run broadcasting the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl between Notre Dame and Oregon State. Kick is set for 2 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 29 in El Paso, Texas.

Below is a detailed look at the complete schedule for the 2023-24 college football season, including dates, locations and TV channels and scores. All times are Eastern. 

2022-23 college football bowl schedule

College Football Playoff

Jan. 8

National Championship
Houston, Texas

7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Semifinal winners

Jan. 1

Sugar
New Orleans, La.

8:30 p.m. (ESPN)

(2) Washington vs. (3) Texas

Jan. 1

Rose
Pasadena, Calif.

5 p.m. (ESPN)

(1) Michigan vs. (4) Alabama

New Year’s Six bowl games

Jan. 1

Fiesta
Glendale, Ariz. 

1 p.m. (ESPN)

(8) Oregon vs. (23) Liberty

Dec. 30…

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Georgia football legend David Pollack is one of three Bulldogs to to be named first-team All-American three times. Heisman-winning running back Herschel Walker is one of the other two.

The third is tight end Brock Bowers, who earned his third first-team All-American honor this month, capping off a generational career in Athens and cementing his name in UGA lore forever.

“Best college football tight end of all time. CONGRATS, Captain America!!” Pollack wrote on X.

Bowers is also the only player in college football history to win the Mackey Award, given to the nation’s top tight end, twice.

He’s expected to enter the 2024 NFL draft and is widely considered a top-10 pick and for good reason.

Bowers established UGA tight end records for single-season receptions (56), receiving yards (882) and touchdowns (13) in his freshman season of 2021. His 13 touchdown catches are also a single-season UGA record by any pass catcher.

The Napa, Calif., native eclipsed his own tight end receiving records in 2022 with 63 catches for 942 yards.

Despite missing two games in 2023 due to injury, Bowers totaled 56 receptions for 714 yards and seven total touchdowns.

No. 19 will hold a special place in Georgia faithful’s hearts for years to come.

 

Story originally appeared on UGA Wire

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Former Mississippi State quarterback Will Rogers committed to Washington Friday, giving the Huskies a clear successor to star quarterback Michael Penix Jr. for the 2024 season. Rogers is one of the most accomplished quarterbacks in SEC history and will spend his final season on the West Coast to help aid UW’s transition to the Big Ten.

Rogers signed with Mississippi State in 2020. He owns the SEC career completions record. His 12,315 passing yards and 94 passing touchdowns rank second and fourth in conference history. Rogers ranked as the No. 53 overall player available and the No. 11 quarterback available in the 247Sports portal rankings.

The veteran signal caller had a chance to chance to break the SEC’s all-time passing record held by former Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray, but a shoulder injury suffered in an Oct. 7 win over Western Michigan forced him to miss some time. In his final game at Mississippi State against Ole Miss, Rogers completed 25 of his 39 passes for 207 yards in a 17-7 loss. 

Washington coach Kalen DeBoer used the transfer portal to land Penix from Indiana when he took the job in 2021. Penix revived his career with the Huskies and led the program to a 13-0 record and a spot in the College Football Playoff, earning an invitation to New York City as a Heisman finalist along the way. 

Using the transfer portal to get a veteran 

In the new era of college football, it has become more and more common for a program to get a proven signal caller through the transfer portal over a highly-touted quarterback out of the high school ranks. Washington signed Sam Huard — the No. 3 quarterback in the 2021 recruiting cycle — and elected to instead start Penix last season. The Indiana transfer ranked as the No. 23…

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The fallout from Florida State’s exclusion from the College Football Playoff ramped up this week when Attorney General Ashley Moody made the first step in an antitrust investigation into the playoff.

It’s a complicated case, even by the standards of the handful of antitrust experts we consulted. Attorney Hal K. Litchford called it a “fairly advanced antitrust issue.”

Here are some questions and answers on why the state is looking into a 13-member committee picking 12-1 Alabama over undefeated FSU.

What happened this week?

Moody issued an antitrust civil investigative demand, or CID. It acts like a civil subpoena. In this case, the Attorney General’s Office asked the playoff for a broad range of information and documents about its decision-making process. The topics include: protocols, votes, revenue figures and communications with ESPN, the SEC and ACC.

What is antitrust law?

The core idea is that healthy competition powers our economy, helping the individuals in each marketplace and society as a whole. Activities that stifle that healthy competition — like collusion between competitors or price-fixing — could violate those laws.

What does that have to do with college football?

“That’s the $64,000 question,” said Litchford, senior counsel with Orlando’s Baker Donelson law firm.

Think of the playoff as a marketplace. In this case, some competitors (selection committee members who are employees of other schools) picked one competitor (Alabama) over another (FSU). There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. Trade groups, for example, have some leeway to make their own rules. Some can be subjective.

“What this civil investigative demand is trying to do is to see whether there were forces at play beyond what’s sort of been the stated rationale for selecting the four teams,” said Richard Doran, a…

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The seventh year of the early signing period begins with National Signing Day on Wednesday, Dec. 20. With the NCAA transfer portal dominating not just the news cycle but also the way in which programs approach the recruiting process, the drama has seemingly been lifted.

The era of name, image and likeness and the transfer portal has engulfed the sport to a point that so much in recruiting is wrapped up before the season instead of during the stretch run. More and more players are locking in their decisions well in advance of the December signing period opening.

Georgia was the No. 1 team in the country on the field for most of the college football season but were knocked from that perch and the College Football Playoff field following a loss to Alabama in the SEC Championship Game. But it will take a Herculean effort to knock them from the top spot in the 247Sports’ Team Rankings as the Bulldogs hold a firm grasp on the No. 1 ranking heading into the early signing period.

Can anyone catch the Dawgs? Let’s have a look at the teams vying to make a run at the top spot beginning next Wednesday. 

Join us on Wednesday, Dec. 20 at 10 a.m. ET for Signing Day Live on the 247Sports’ YouTube Channel as our 247Sports experts cover all the ins and outs of the early signing period. From live commitments to updated class rankings and everything in between, Signing Day Live will be your one-stop shop for live coverage as the top programs in the nation sign the Class of 2024.

Early signing period: Who will finish No. 1?

1. Georgia

How big is Georgia’s lead? The Bulldogs could lose Dylan Raiola, their highest-rated commit and the No. 1 QB prospect in the country, and still be on top. There’s been plenty of buzz this week that Nebraska — where his father…

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The 2023 college football season isn’t complete. So, what better time for the SEC to release its 2024 schedule than Dec. 13?

The power conference, which adds Oklahoma and Texas, did that on Wednesday.

Some games of note:

Aug. 31: LSU-USC in Las Vegas

Sept. 7: Texas at Michigan

Sept. 14: Alabama at Wisconsin

Sept. 21: UCLA at LSU

Sept. 28: Georgia at Alabama

Oct. 12: Oklahoma vs. Texas

Oct. 19: Georgia at Texas

Nov. 23: Alabama at Oklahoma

Story originally appeared on Touchdown Wire

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