Player Notes

Sixth in a position-by-position series looking at the 2023 Wisconsin Badgers football team.MADISON – One of the questions Mike Brown faced shortly after taking over as Wisconsin’s wide receivers coach involved personnel.What is the minimum number of players you want available each week to execute the game plan?Brown’s answer: Six.Based on the team’s 15 spring practices, Brown should have more than ...

MADISON – Bret Bielema came close in 2006.Gary Andersen gave it a strong run in 2013.Paul Chryst did the same in 2015.All three had Wisconsin in position to challenge for a Big Ten title in their first season as UW's head coach, only to fall short.Can Luke Fickell break through in his first season as UW’s head coach and lead the Badgers to the their first West Division title since 2019 and their first ...

The gap between an Alamo Bowl win and a playoff berth is difficult to measure.In his debut season in Seattle, Kalen DeBoer flipped the flaming remains of a 4-8 roster into an 11-2 revelation.But this program has greater goals.Namely, Washington covets a return to the Pac-12 Championship Game (for the first time since 2018) and the College Football Playoff (for the first time since 2016). And while ...

And it’s the appreciation for the chance to finish up their time in school closer to home at Virginia.“I really value being able to represent my state in the best way possible and I feel like it was time,” cornerback Malcolm Greene, a former standout at Highland Springs, said last week about his move to depart Clemson and join the Cavaliers earlier this summer.“I was hoping UVa would be in the bunch ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — This close to the beginning of training camp, there wasn’t time to restock the roster.Virginia coach Tony Elliott couldn’t replace the depth the Cavaliers lost at their quarterback spot following Jay Woolfolk’s choice two weeks ago to leave the football program in order to concentrate on his baseball.“It’s tough because there’s not guys out there that you can go and bring into the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — He attempted previously to recruit his buddy, but was unsuccessful the first time around.So, when Boston College quarterback Emmett Morehead took another crack at luring offensive lineman Logan Taylor to Chestnut Hill, the signal-caller said he knew he wasn’t going to come up empty again.Morehead and Taylor were teammates at Episcopal High School in Northern Virginia. The 6-foot-6 ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – The UTEP football team opened up its fall camp ahead of the 2023 college football season at Glory Field on Thursday.First @UTEPFB fall practice for the 2023 season is underway. It’s practice 1 of 25 this fall before UTEP opens up its season with a CUSA showdown against Jacksonville State. pic.twitter.com/TPhgoLuxpq— Sam Guzman (@SamGuzmanTV) July 27, 2023UTEP hit the ground ...

The 103-degree heat didn't feel like fall, but the UTEP football team started pointing that way when it took Glory Field for the first practice of 2023.The Miners were one of 14 teams nationally to begin fall camp Thursday, one of 14 teams that opens the season Aug. 26, a week before the other 119 teams crank up. For UTEP that will mean a game at FBS and Conference USA newcomer Jacksonville State.The ...

“The longer we go, the better we get.”That’s because in Year 1 under Coach Lincoln Riley, the Trojans led all 14 games they played, sometimes late with wins apparently in hand, but finished their season in Dallas with a third defeat.Leading up to fall camp on Friday and a month from the commencement of Year 2 at the Coliseum against San Jose State, Riley and his unchanged coaching staff placed a heavy ...

Last week at Pac-12 media day, league commissioner George Kliavkoff did something that looks even more ridiculous in retrospect. Speaking from the stage, he said he chose not to announce a new media rights deal for the conference at the event so that the focus could be on football.Naturally, he was then asked to clarify: Was he saying the Pac-12 had an agreement in place after a year of waiting?“I ...