Player Notes

PLATTEVILLE – Joe Huber should fit in perfectly at Wisconsin.Huber, 6-foot-5 and 311 pounds, is built like a UW offensive lineman.Even better, Huber went from an unheralded walk-on to a starter to an all-conference performer at Cincinnati.UW fans love their walk-on stories and Huber’s is classic.After graduating from Jerome High School in Ohio in the spring of 2020, Huber had two options. He would ...

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia coach Neal Brown and defensive coordinator Jordan Lesley are not shying away from the fact that there are question marks at the weak-side linebacker, or will, position as the Mountaineers get fall camp underway.Exree Loe, who mostly handled that role in recent years, is no longer in Morgantown, leaving competition for the starting role.“I think that’s the question mark,” ...

MORGANTOWN — UCF’s football program has seen a meteoric rise through the ranks since its first season in 1979. Now, the Knights are ready for Power Five action.UCF is one of the four newcomers to the Big 12 Conference in the 2023 season, and West Virginia will welcome the Knights to the league in Orlando, Florida, on Oct. 28 at FBC Mortgage Stadium — better known by many as “The Bounce House.”“For ...

MORGANTOWN — Make it three watch list appearances for Zach Frazier this week.The West Virginia center was added to the Rimington Trophy Watch List on Friday, after receiving a place on the Wuerffel Trophy Watch List and the Outland Trophy Watch List earlier in the week.Frazier, a 6-foot-3, 311-pound junior from Fairmont, has also received All-Big 12 first-team honors from media covering the league, ...

The change in Virginia’s training camp schedule has enabled players to seek out their coaches more frequently than they did last August.And on Friday after the Cavaliers’ third preseason practice, offensive coordinator Des Kitchings said it’s benefiting the offense.“There’s a lot of guys hanging around in McCue [Center] wanting to get extra film, nuggets and tips,” Kitchings said. “There’s more of, ...

Aug. 4, 2023Entering 2022 as UTSA’s starting right tackle for a third straight season, Makai Hart envisioned riding through a final year with the Roadrunners and then shifting to the next stage of his life, exiting the program alongside fellow multiyear starters Ahofitu Maka and Kevin Davis.For Maka and Davis, the season went to script. They both started every game of UTSA’s 11-3 run, capping their ...

Utah’s offensive line is set up to be a strong point this season.Three of Utah’s starting offensive linemen from last season are back — junior left guard Keaton Bills, sophomore right guard Michael Mokofisi and junior right tackle Sataoa Laumea. Paul Maile, who started all 14 games at center, transferred to BYU and left tackle Braeden Daniels was drafted by the Washington Commanders.Bills, Mokofisi ...

What goes around comes around and sometimes comes back to stay. After 13 years apart, BYU and Utah are returning to the same conference, and they have no one to blame but themselves, except for maybe Oklahoma, Texas, USC, UCLA, Colorado, Washington and Oregon.When the Big 12 threw the Utes a lifeline Friday and saved them from their own demise, it reunited a family feud between a couple that can’t ...

On the day the “Conference of Champions” crumbled, Lincoln Riley strode in front of the press backdrop on USC’s Howard Jones Field and delivered an opening statement before any members of the media could open their mouths.First, the Trojans’ football coach endorsed the rousing success of Tuesday’s Dave Nichol health check – a USC-sponsored health clinic for football coaches held in honor of late USC ...

Friday, Aug. 4, 2023 | 3:16 p.m.Rebel Park was a blur of activity Friday as the UNLV football team opened training camp, and not just because all the action was crammed onto one field.New head coach Barry Odom put his team through a two-hour morning session, split into 20 separate periods, and speed was of the essence. The Go-Go offense was on display as the players raced to the line of scrimmage at ...