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Omaha World-HeraldGabe ErvinErvinWe are counting down the top 50 Nebraska football players you need to know heading into the season.* * *No. 8 Gabe Ervin6-0, 215 • Sophomore • Running backGabe ErvinErvinSomeone has to be Nebraska’s starting running back and it surely may be the man whose spring stock under a new coaching staff soared as high as anyone on the team.Ervin was the talk of fall camp two ...

Omaha World-HeraldA Nebraska starting safety for the last season and a half has entered the transfer portal.Myles Farmer is no longer with the team as it continued with its first week of fall camp Wednesday. The Atlanta native started 11 games last season and was NU’s second-leading tackler with 73.Coach Matt Rhule on Monday said Farmer was suspended by the team because of a series of minor rules violations ...

Omaha World-HeraldNebraska punter Brian Buschini appeared on the Ray Guy watchlist released Wednesday.The 6-foot-1, 225-pound junior averaged 44 yards per punt last season and downed 14 punts inside the opponents' 20-yard line.This spring, new special teams coordinator Ed Foley had high praise for Buschini's work.“He’s a joy to coach and he’s a challenge to coach because he wants so much information ...

Columbia Daily TribuneBrady Cook didn’t see the ball go in, but Cody Schrader did.Teeing off from 125 yards away on the par-3 second hole at The Golf Club of Wentzville near St. Louis, Cook, the incumbent starting quarterback for Mizzou football, pulled a pitching wedge. His shot landed a few feet behind the hole, and he went to put his club back in the bag. But unbeknownst to him, the ball spun back ...

8/2/2023STARKVILLE — The countdown to this year’s college football season has begun in earnest with just 31 days until Mississippi State football kicks off its season on Sept. 2 against Southeastern Louisiana at Davis Wade Stadium.The Bulldogs, under first-year head coach Zach Arnett, will open fall camp on Aug. 3 with the team’s first practice taking place on Aug 4.Until then, The Dispatch will be ...

Star Tribune8/1/2023All eyes are on Jah Joyner during Gophers training camp, with everyone watching the player who's arguably the biggest breakout candidate on defense.Described by teammates as the freakiest athlete on the roster, the 6-5, 260-pound redshirt sophomore defensive lineman has loads of potential but just as much unfinished business.He led the Gophers last season with 32 quarterback pressures. ...

Murfreesboro Daily News JournalMiddle Tennessee State sophomore offensive lineman Keylan Rutledge admits his group is entering the 2023 season with chips on their shoulders.He also knows that improving the play up front is going to be vital to a Blue Raiders offense that struggled to run the ball the past two seasons."We know how it was rocky last year, for sure," said Rutledge, a 6-foot-4, 312-pound ...

The Detroit NewsThere is plenty of buzz around college football this week as teams around the Big Ten and beyond begin to report for preseason camp.At Michigan State, the excitement is contained to the Spartans’ locker room and the program’s most ardent supporters.On the outside, there is no talk of conference championships and high-level bowl games. In fact, the Spartans were picked to finish fifth ...

Lansing State JournalFor every great moment in Michigan State football and basketball history, there are several what-ifs — moments that got away or seasons that might have played out differently if not for a single circumstance, sometimes beyond MSU’s control, be it a bad call or injury or decision.I didn’t include injuries on this list of what-ifs, because that could be a list all its own. There ...

Detroit Free PressMel Tucker is in a strange position. Or so he sounds.One minute, Michigan State football’s fourth-year head coach is talking about competing for championships now. The next, he’s pointing toward program-building.Ultimately, it all goes together.“When you have more competition on your roster,” Tucker said last week in Indianapolis at Big Ten media days, “then practices are more competitive. ...