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Aug 5, 2023 Updated 21 hrs agoAuburn football has landed its fourth commitment in 11 days, as cornerback prospect Jalewis Solomon announced Saturday that he was pledged to the program’s 2024 class.The 15th member of the program’s ’24 class, Solomon is also the 13th blue-chip recruit in that bunch. He’s listed as a four-star by 247Sports’ composite rating, as well as ESPN and Rivals.Solomon, who’s the ...

Published Aug. 05, 2023, 6:38 p.m.By Ainslie Lee |As the old saying goes, you can’t win them all.After a remarkable week of recruiting which saw Hugh Freeze and Auburn land a pair of 5-star prospects in linebacker Demarcus Riddick and wide receiver Perry Thompson, as well as the pick up of 4-star cornerback Jalewis Soloman on Saturday, the Tigers weren’t able to land their next big target.KJ Bolden, ...

Published Sunday, August 6, 2023FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas held its third football practice of the preseason Sunday beginning at 9 a.m., splitting time between the indoor facility and the fields outside.Here are some notes and takeaways from the open viewing window:• The Razorbacks began the day by working on blocking bubble screens and quick hitters toward the sideline. It was maybe as physical of a ...

Ethan Westerman's Twitter accountPublished Saturday, August 5, 2023FAYETTEVILLE — If one didn’t know better while listening to Arkansas running backs coach Jimmy Smith speak Saturday, they may think his backfield is full of unproven players.That is because the fourth-year Razorbacks assistant demands his players “earn their keep” week in and week out. Even preseason first-team All-SEC selection Raheim ...

Ethan Westerman's Twitter account , Matt Jones Matt Jones's Twitter account , Scottie Bordelon Scottie Bordelon's Twitter accountPublished Saturday, August 5, 2023FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas’ football team held its second practice of the preseason Saturday around 9 a.m. on the fields outside Walker Pavilion.Here are some notes, observations and takeaways from the open-viewing periods. Thunder and lightning ...

BY WILLS RICEArizona SportsThe Arizona State Sun Devils have ramped up their recruiting in the south, especially in Texas.The newest member of the Sun Devils will be 2025 three-star athlete Joseph Smith from Legacy School of Sport Sciences in Texas, the first commit after the school announced it was leaving for the Big 12.Smith also had offers from Kansas, Utah, Houston and Arkansas State.Despite being ...

Arizona RepublicJayden Daniels, Ethan Long, Dillon Sterling-Cole, Joey Yellen. Then came Finn Collins, Daylin McLemore, Jack Smith, Paul Tyson and Emory Jones. Then Bennett Meredith. If you didn't count, those are the 10 scholarship quarterbacks who have skipped town since Trenton Bourguet arrived in Tempe in 2018.Bourguet can rattle off another five non-scholarship quarterbacks who have also left ...

The first football commit for Arizona since announcing its decision to move to the Big 12 was formerly committed to a future conference opponent.Three-star 2024 athlete Chance Harrison, who is expected to play defensive back in college, committed to the Wildcats on Saturday; he decommitted from BYU in June.The 6-1, 185-pound Harrison also held offers from Washington State, Colorado, State, San Diego ...

This week has been ... a lot.No one died — aside from the Pac-12 — so we don’t want to be overly dramatic here. But Arizona leaving the “Conference of Champions” for the Big 12, along with ASU, Colorado and Utah, is a seismic event that impacts a lot of people, positively and negatively.We aren’t done mourning the demise of the Pac-12, which still has one more season with its full 12-school membership. ...

Tuscaloosa NewsTwo things we know with certainty about Nick Saban: he's not going to show his hand in a public preseason setting, and he's not going to waste one of the NCAA's allotted preseason practices on subterfuge. Those conditions generated a low-ceiling, high-floor opportunity to peer into the state of 2023 Alabama football on Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium, in the form of the Crimson Tide's ...