TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The crush of NFL coaches, scouts and executives will return to Tuscaloosa this morning.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- In a banquet hall nestled deep in the Birmingham suburbs, Nick Saban managed a chuckle. He’d been there before.
AUBURN, Ala. -- Auburn released Sunday the dates for its spring practice sessions and its Pro Day.
AUBURN, Ala. -- Before Willie Martinez can begin the business of putting together Auburn’s secondary, he has to get a feel for the Tigers’ personnel in the defensive backfield.
ATHENS, Ga. -- Isaiah Crowell has been a target of criticism from almost the moment he stepped on Georgia’s campus, a lightning rod for rumors, message board chatter and at one point in the SEC championship game, booing.
ATHENS, Ga. -- Malcolm Mitchell’s experiment at cornerback is happening out of necessity. But before all the off-field events that led to it, the star freshman wanted to make it happen anyway.
AUBURN, Ala. -- Earnest Robinson, a four-star wide receiver from Pinson Valley, Ala., verbally committed Saturday to Auburn during the school’s Junior Day.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Alabama running back Trent Richardson deals with everything the same way -- head on.
ATHENS, Ga. -- The stated purpose of a Mark Richt teleconference on Thursday was for the media to ask “whatever you want.” But upon the first question, it became clear that Richt had one mantra in mind:
The BCS might not want to admit it publicly, but the rumors and reports swirling around this week’s meetings in Dallas gave every indication that the days of arguing over which college football team is No. 3 might soon be over.
AUBURN, Ala. -- The majority of the SEC voted to support the NCAA’s new rule that allows schools to offer multiyear scholarships in last week’s failed attempt to override the rule, according to a document posted online Wednesday by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Before there will be significant changes to college football’s postseason and how to determine a champion, there are plenty of options to be considered.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Alabama reportedly received two commitments following Saturday’s second junior day in the past month.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Vanderbilt officials say the Atlantic Coast Conference has filed a formal complaint for one of its members with the Southeastern Conference involving the Commodores’ football team.
AUBURN, Ala. -- The process of reshaping Auburn’s coaching staff under Gene Chizik took another turn Tuesday.
AUBURN, Ala. -- Jimmy Hutchinson, the nation’s top-ranked punter in the class of 2013, has committed to Auburn, bringing the Tigers’ list of 2013 commitments to three.
Former Georgia defensive coordinator Willie Martinez has been hired as a defensive assistant at Auburn, the university announced Friday.
MACON, Ga. -- This time last year, the term “hot seat” was a sensitive one around Mark Richt. Now the Georgia football coach is joking about it. In fact, it apparently is part of his new stump speech for fans.
AUBURN, Ala. -- The final touches on Auburn’s 2012 football schedule have been finished.
ATHENS, Ga. -- Georgia is set to be without one of its top cornerbacks when it opens SEC play next year – against potentially one of the league’s top receivers.
AUBURN, Ala. -- Former Georgia defensive coordinator Willie Martinez is the leading candidate to replace Phillip Lolley on Auburn’s staff, according to multiple media reports.
Five-star wide receiver Stefon Diggs, the second-ranked high school pass-catcher in the nation, chose Maryland over Auburn, Florida and Ohio State in a highly publicized ceremony Friday night.
ATHENS, Ga. -- Former Georgia football player Chris Sanders, who was dismissed from the team last week, is set to enroll at Georgia Military College, according to multiple reports. Sanders will be doing so with the hope of getting back in the good graces of the Bulldog program and perhaps returning to the team.
The Alabama pairing at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am surged from also-ran to almost-contender Friday afternoon.
The pairing of Alabama’s football coach and a former Crimson Tide star golfer at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am finished under par in Round 1 -- just not far enough to make much of an impact on the leaderboard.
ATHENS, Ga. -- University of Georgia president Michael Adams is very confident that a college football playoff is on the way.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-- Mike Slive helped propose the plus-one plan to find a national champion in football and says actual change remains a couple years away even if everyone can agree on changes to the Bowl Championship Series.
ATHENS, Ga. -- The University of Georgia athletic board discussed but did not finalize a new contract for head football coach Mark Richt on Wednesday.
Any questions about the talent level of Alabama’s national championship team were answered Tuesday, when the NFL released its official list of invitees to the NFL Scouting Combine.
AUBURN, Ala. -- Phillip Lolley has decided to step down as Auburn’s cornerbacks coach and return to an administrative capacity within the football program.
ATHENS, Ga. -- Again, the military college in Milledgeville is worth watching when it comes to former -- and possibly future -- Georgia football players.
ATHENS, Ga. -- Keith Marshall slumped himself in a chair in a meeting room Wednesday at the Georgia football team facility. He grinned and shook his head when the subject of his local fame came up.
AUBURN, Ala. -- Nestled somewhere in the stream of national rankings, televised announcements and letters of intent being faxed into coaches across the country on national signing day, another piece of news emerged.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Alphonse Taylor played it cool at first.
ATHENS, Ga. -- There was a lot going on elsewhere, especially in south Georgia, on Wednesday afternoon when Mark Richt made this pronouncement about the suspense of this day:
AUBURN, Ala. -- Auburn emerged from a national signing day full of split decisions with a respectable recruiting class that still remains unfinished.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Nick Saban woke up Wednesday morning with a clear mind and a horizon free of surprises.
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.
