Player Notes

Byrd is one of 53 players in the country named to the list.Byrd was the 49ers leading rusher and leading kick returner in 2022 and led the team with 1494 all-purpose yards. He earned Honorable Mention All-Conference USA honors as a kick returner, was named the CUSA Special Teams Player of the Week once, and was twice named to the Hornung Award Weekly Honor Roll.He rushed for 620 yards and shared the ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich.—Ten Central Michigan football players were named to the College Football Network Preseason All-Mid-American Conference team, the organization announced this week. The College Football Network preseason All-MAC team is posted at this link.One CMU player—junior defensive back Donte Kent—earned First Team All-MAC honors. Three Chippewas were named to the Second Team, including senior ...

MEMORIAL STADIUM - After a seemingly eternal offseason, fall camp kicked off this afternoon/evening in Memorial Stadium in picture-perfect weather.The first practice saw four primary QBs take snaps, with presumed starter Sam Jackson taking the lion’s share of first team reps and RS frosh QB Fernando Mendoza taking a handful of first team snaps along with primarily second team reps followed by NC State ...

By JEFF FARAUDOBERKELEY — Cal football begins its seventh season under coach Justin Wilcox with modest outside expectations but growing pressure to win.The Bears were projected to finish ninth in the Pac-12 Conference in the annual preseason media poll, and few people beyond Memorial Stadium envision much more than that.But after three straight losing seasons — and 13 consecutive years without a winning ...

BYU punter Ryan Rehkow punts the ball during the game against Liberty at Williams Stadium in Lynchburg, Virginia, on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2022.AUGUSTA, Georgia — The Augusta Sports Council announced on Wednesday that BYU punter Ryan Rehkow has been named to the preseason watch list for the 2023 Ray Guy Award, which honors the nation’s top collegiate punter.Rehkow, a 6-foot-5, 235-pound junior from Veradale, ...

The University at Buffalo football team opens its season Sept. 2 at Wisconsin, and its top players are already being recognized on preseason watch lists, including safety Marcus Fuqua, who was tied for the national lead in interceptions (seven) in 2022, and linebacker Shaun Dolac, a West Seneca East graduate who led the nation with 97 solo tackles.The Buffalo News will keep track of UB's watch list ...

If not for a strict diet of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and protein shakes, Cade Beresford might have been a very different football player.That PB&Js-for-days diet — as dad Harry Beresford coined it — transformed Beresford from a tall and skinny high school quarterback to a behemoth offensive lineman by his senior year who was sought after by programs like USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, ...

Baylor football is officially back.The Bears begin fall camp on Thursday with less than a month until the 2023 season kicks off against Texas State on Sept. 2 at McLane Stadium.“I’m excited about the team, it’s been way positive,” Baylor head coach Dave Aranda said. “Guys have been crushing it in school, and the locker room is good. I’m excited for our opportunity.”Here are four things to look out ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — Ball State football on Wednesday held its first on-field practice of training camp.At the Scheumann Family Indoor Practice Facility, players got their first chance to compete, without pads, against one another since the Spring Game and see where they initially fall in the roster hierarchy.While there are several position battles to watch this camp, newly anointed starting quarterback ...

If fans wanted a quick answer to who will be starting at quarterback for Auburn come the opener against UMass in a month, then this isn’t the right place.After months of talking about an upcoming quarterback battle mixing new faces with old ones, Auburn finally had the group together on the same field Thursday. And for the first time, that meant coaches got to take a look at Payton Thorne.Thursday ...