Player Notes

While Texas benefits from returning many starters on both sides of the ball, the handful of players they did lose were crucial in multiple aspects.Running backs Bijan Robinson and Roschon Johnson were both vocal leaders for the offense and team last season, while also being two of the best players on the entire roster. Same with linebacker DeMarvion Overshown who is also off the NFL, and to a lesser ...

Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables stumbled in his first season as the Sooners lost seven of their last 10 games, including a 49-0 rout by Texas. He is full of optimism, though, with 99 of the 123 players on the roster being in their first or second year at OU.Brent Venables returned to Oklahoma as a favorite son and is committed to restoring the Sooners to prominence after 6-7 season.Athletic director ...

Tennessee Athletics photo / Tennessee fifth-year senior linebacker Aaron Beasley is coming off an Orange Bowl performance last December in which he racked up 12 tackles and four tackles for loss. Beasley has worn jersey No. 24 for the Volunteers but is now wearing No. 6.If fifth-year senior linebacker Aaron Beasley picks up right where he left off last season, the Tennessee Volunteers may start compiling ...

There’s fast, and then there’s Nyck Harbor fast.Or Ahmarean Brown fast. Maybe Nick Emmanwori fast. Oh, by the way, don’t forget to throw Xavier Legette in the mix, too.During South Carolina’s on-campus media day Thursday, we asked coaches and players for the fastest athlete on the Gamecocks team.The odds-on favorite for the fastest was heralded freshman Nyck Harbor. The five-star recruit came to campus ...

By Creg StephensonSouth Alabama is through two days of preseason football camp following Saturday morning’s workout at the Jaguar Training Center.The Jaguars won’t put on the pads until Thursday and won’t scrimmage for the first time until Aug. 12, so it’s a little too early to make definite determinations about who will play where and how much in 2023. However, there are a few clues into what the ...

BY KIRK KENNEYCould it be the best thing that happened for San Diego State is that nothing happened at all?Imagine if SDSU cut a $17 million check five weeks ago to leave the Mountain West for the Pac-12, only to come hat in hand at the MW’s door — perhaps joined on the porch by Oregon State and Washington State (with Stanford and Cal watching from the car?) — after Extinction Friday delivered the ...

On Day 1 of preseason camp, San Diego State football coach Brady Hoke said the defense is ahead of the offense.Eight days later, nothing has changed.The SDSU defense picked off passes, picked up fumbles and generally made life miserable for their offensive counterparts during a midday scrimmage Saturday at the SDSU practice field.In fact, it wasn’t until sophomore running back Cam Davis took a toss ...

Pitt’s senior cornerbacks Marquis Williams, M.J. Devonshire and A.J. Woods aren’t afraid to speak what’s on their minds. It could be spreading a little trash on the practice field to irritate teammates and coaches (playfully, you understand); or, on social media, when they might feel disrespected by those preseason prognostications that pop up across the nation every August.Enough Of The Yap Drop The ...

Can Oregon State put a defense on the field this season that was as good as the Beavers’ 2022 unit?It’s a tall ask. OSU’s defense was one of the top stories of Pac-12 football a year ago, as it led the conference in scoring, rushing and total defense.Many of the key performers are no longer in Corvallis, having moved on either to the NFL or a high-profile college. Nonetheless, there’s hope the Beavers’ ...

Dan Lanning said there would be “a lot” coming next for the Oregon Ducks.“So sit back and watch,” Lanning said Monday afternoon.The next part of the “bold vision” for Oregon athletics that UO athletic director Rob Mullens cited to the school’s board of trustees while presenting Lanning’s contract last week was set on Friday. The Ducks are bound for the Big Ten.“I think our players are really excited ...