Signees: 18
Signees: 19
Signees: 26
ATHENS, Ga. -- Last summer, Georgia helped lead the charge to stem the supposed scourge of over-signing in the SEC. In the first year of those new rules, the Bulldogs lived up to it by under-signing.
AUBURN, Ala. -- A few changes to the system had a profound impact on Auburn’s 2012 recruiting class.
ATHENS, Ga. -- The fax machine, enjoying its day in the spotlight, will pump up this morning at the Georgia football facility.
AUBURN, Ala. -- The past three weeks have been relatively quiet for Auburn football’s 2012 signing class.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- All is quiet as signing day begins in Tuscaloosa.
Today is a national holiday for college football fans. As silly as it might be, many of us will sit around and wait for 18-year-olds to fax in football national letters of intent. Then we’ll get our depth charts out and see where they might fit in for the upcoming season.
Chances are, you were once 18. You might be in college now. You might be a parent. You might have played some sports on some level. You might be a teacher or a doctor or a lawyer or even a coach.
ATHENS, Ga. -- A year ago, the suspense leading up to signing day for the Georgia football team was centered on just one player: Isaiah Crowell. One puppy lift later, it was considered a successful day for the Bulldogs.
The motion is always the same.
ATHENS, Ga. -- This time last year, Isaiah Crowell was a few days from announcing he would play at Georgia -- a few days away from hoisting an English bulldog puppy at his signing ceremony, thus becoming the new favorite of Georgia fans.
With national signing day less than a week away, Georgia’s coaching staff could be in store for an unusual supply of tense moments.
AUBURN, Ala. -- The final push to Wednesday’s national signing day could make or break Auburn’s 2012 recruiting class.
AUBURN, Ala. -- Asking for restraint on Twitter and the rest of the Internet is a little bit like staring up at the sky in the middle of a Gulf Coast storm and begging the rain to stop.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- From his seat in Bryant-Denny Stadium on an early November night, Adam Griffith saw the perils of college football kicking.
Former Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, his body ravaged by chemotherapy and radiation treatments for lung cancer, fiercely battled for his life Saturday night at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, Pa.
ATHENS, Ga. -- Georgia defensive back Sanders Commings was arrested Saturday on a charge of simple battery domestic violence. The charge is a misdemeanor.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Two Januarys ago, Nick Saban stood on a stage on the 50-yard line of Bryant-Denny Stadium. The Alabama coach delivered a speech replayed countless times since.
The 2012 Crimson Caravan will make its final stop May 17 at the Columbus Convention & Trade Center.
Today 32-year-old Brian Downing has a wife and baby, a second cousin who’s the sheriff of Russell County, a felony charge of sexual battery and a nationwide notoriety that may dog him the rest of his life.
Harvey Updyke, the alleged poisoner of the two famous oak trees at Toomer’s Corner, turned down a plea bargain from prosecutors that would have required him to spend 13 years in prison and never attend an Alabama sporting event again, according to an ESPN report.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- For the second time in three years, Alabama will celebrate a football national championship Saturday afternoon.
AUBURN, Ala. -- News of Jay Prosch’s decision to transfer from Illinois to Auburn sparked more speculation than the average college football player switching schools.
The Georgia coaching staff will spend this weekend courting a pair of Auburn commitments.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Continuing the trend of the last several years, some Alabama football recruits couldn’t wait for the fall semester.
AUBURN, Ala. -- When the week began, Arik Armstead thought he was going to be enrolled in the college of his choice by this time.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- A week earlier, Dre Kirkpatrick hoisted a crystal football in New Orleans.
JONESBORO, Ark. -- Arkansas State has announced the signing of former Auburn running back Michael Dyer.
NEW ORLEANS -- A year of tragedy and renewal in Alabama officially ended with extra redemption.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division I Board of Directors still believes scholarship limits should be expanded.
It would seem that Georgia and football coach Mark Richt are having a successful offseason season so far.
Nick Saban addressed the exuberant crowd at Bryant-Denny Stadium -- estimated to be nearly 40,000 strong, pretty fair for a work day -- and issued a promise to Alabama fans.
NEW ORLEANS -- It wasn’t perfect.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- It’s not clear if Darwin Holt ever met Dre Kirkpatrick. They don’t exactly run in the same circles.
NEW ORLEANS -- They kicked the top team in the nation to the curb. They pulled the plug on an electric LSU offense. They won by 21.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The Alabama football program lost one Sunseri but kept the other.
ATHENS, Ga. -- The only conceivable way this day could have gone better for the Georgia football program would have been if Orson Charles had decided he didn’t want to go to the NFL after all.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- New Penn State coach Bill O’Brien is turning his defense over to a veteran, well-traveled assistant with a national title on his resume.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Never again will Katrina Richardson work a restaurant shift or house sit.
Every great defense leaves a mark, a little like the signature a master craftsman leaves on every piece of work he sells.
AUBURN, Ala. -- A surprising early enrollment Thursday put a highlight on a week that had been relatively slow for Auburn recruiting commitments.
The Georgia coaching staff could hear good news today involving a position of need in the 2012 recruiting class.
ATHENS, Ga. -- Georgia got a split-decision Wednesday on players opting to leave for the NFL or stay with the Bulldogs for next season.
AUBURN, Ala. -- Brian VanGorder already had a pretty good job with the Atlanta Falcons. In four seasons, he had helped the Falcons reach the playoffs three times.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The burning questions surrounding the future of Alabama’s top juniors should be answered today.
NEW ORLEANS -- Carson Tinker had a hard time getting to his locker late Monday night.
AUBURN, Ala. -- Zeke Pike, a quarterback recruit from Dixie Heights High School in Crestview Hills, Ky., has enrolled at Auburn for the spring semester.
The same people who said LSU was the best team in college football all season had to concede that Alabama was the far better team Monday night.
NEW ORLEANS -- Nick Saban had a hard time remembering staying up that late.
AUBURN, Ala. -- Running back Onterio McCalebb has decided to stay at Auburn for his senior season.
NEW ORLEANS -- College football leaders, including Big Ten commissioner and staunch playoff opponent Jim Delany, are open to considering the idea of turning the Bowl Championship Series into a four-team playoff.
NEW ORLEANS -- When it happened, C.J. Mosley’s knee appeared to have no chance.
NEW ORLEANS -- The game, Nick Saban insisted rather testily the day before, was never about him. Said it wouldn’t define him as a person or as a coach, no matter what happened on the field.
