Player Notes

Indianapolis — Ohio State coach Ryan Day said moving the Michigan-Ohio State game from its traditional spot at the end of the regular season is worth discussing in light of the Big Ten moving from divisions beginning in 2024.The elimination of divisions was announced in June to accommodate the additions of Southern California and UCLA. Under that arrangement, Michigan and Ohio State could potentially ...

Indianapolis — When it comes to the expectations game, Mel Tucker’s tenure at Michigan State has been quite the thrill ride.And as Tucker pointed out Wednesday, in a rare moment of candor at the Big Ten football media days, that really was the case even before he’d accepted the “challenge” of succeeding Mark Dantonio as the Spartans’ head coach some 3½ years ago.Dantonio, the winningest coach in school ...

Indianapolis — Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, facing what likely will be a four-game suspension as part of a negotiated resolution with the NCAA, took the podium on the final day of Big Ten media days and said he couldn’t comment on the penalty or investigation.Harbaugh faced a Level I allegation from the NCAA for allegedly making false statements about recruiting violations during the 2021 COVID dead ...

Published Jul. 26, 2023, 6:38 p.m.By Aaron McMann |INDIANAPOLIS — When it comes to football coaching suspensions, Greg Schiano knows a thing or two.The Rutgers head coach was defensive coordinator at Ohio State in 2018 when Urban Meyer was sidelined for three games as part of the fallout involving assistant Zach Smith.Meyer was sent home for a full three weeks, forcing Schiano and the rest of the staff ...

By Andrew Kahn |As Michigan was in a familiar spot last December, preparing for a College Football Playoff game, East Carolina was playing in its first bowl game in eight years.Trailing midway through the second quarter, East Carolina dominated the rest of the way and won 53-29 over a ranked Coastal Carolina team.The Pirates will try to ride that momentum into the 2023 season opener at Michigan. Simply ...

By Aaron McMann |INDIANAPOLIS — Michigan football found success two years ago by rebranding its 9-on-7 drill the ‘Beat Ohio State’ period, flipping the once one-sided rivalry over.And now that the Wolverines’ goals are bigger and better than ever, having beaten the Buckeyes twice, won back-to-back Big Ten titles and reached the College Football Playoff, they are aiming higher — to back-to-back national ...

8-10 minutes 7/27/2023Part 3 of our five-part series on the Miami Hurricanes’ personnel, as we approach the start of fall camp on Tuesday:▪ The enduring visual nightmare from UM’s 5-7 debacle last year, at least for me, was UM’s defensive backs being beaten repeatedly for long gains.By the time the season was over, UM had allowed 8.37 yards per pass attempt. Only Colorado, Vanderbilt and Arkansas were ...

Jul 26, 2023NEW ORLEANS — Owen Porter was unmistakable when he walked into the conference room with a wide-brimmed cowboy hat.He picked it up on a road trip to Denton, Texas, where Marshall’s football team faced the North Texas Mean Green in October 2021. But he’s a different man now than when he bought the hat.That was Charles Huff’s first season as the Thundering Herd’s coach. Porter wasn’t the impact ...

The strength of LSU football's recruitment of defensive backs for the 2024 recruiting class took another big leap forward Wednesday night.Edgewater (Fla.) star and four-star cornerback Cai Bates pledged to Brian Kelly and the Tigers, giving them six secondary players committed for the 2024 class. LSU's top two rated players in this year's signing class are defensive backs, topped by four-star Denham ...

Jul 26, 202339 Steve RippleLB, 1975-77When Steve Ripple arrived at LSU in 1973 from Jesuit High School, he couldn’t have known his football career would be the start of a South Louisiana athletic dynasty.Born in 1955, Ripple played linebacker for the Tigers, working his way up to being defensive team captain as a senior in 1977 on LSU’s 8-4 team that lost to Stanford 24-14 in the Sun Bowl. Ripple, ...