Take a look at the 2015 247Sports team recruiting rankings and you'll see the familiar faces at the top.  Alabama, Florida State, USC and LSU are scattered throughout the top 10 with a week to go before players sign on the dotted line. That'd be great for LSU, which is coming off of a rather mediocre 8-5 season, right? Technically, yes. Between 5-star cornerback Kevin Toliver, 5-star wide receiver Tyron Johnson, 4-star offensive guard Maea Teuhema and 4-star running ...

As with any other big American sporting event, comedian Anthony Richardson gave the College Football Playoff National Championship Game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Oregon Ducks the "Bad British Commentary" treatment.Things seemed to be going pretty well in the game until some pesky students drew a yellow line on the field. That turned out to be quite a hassle in this showdown.After overcoming the yellow-line prank, the red blokes pulled out a 42-20 victory ...

You wanted transparency in the College Football Playoff; you needed transparency in the College Football Playoff; and when you got transparency in the College Football Playoff from selection committee chairman Jeff Long, you complained. Long, the athletics director for Arkansas and first ever chairman of the committee, appeared on ESPN every Tuesday night down the stretch of the 2014 season and delivered to America not only the top four teams in the College Football Playoff rankings, ...

After thorough study using specific scoring criteria, Bleacher Report recruiting analysts Sanjay Kirpalani and Tyler Donohue have graded the top 200 players in the 247Sports Composite Rankings and provided in-depth analysis. As national signing day draws near, Bleacher Report provides a position-by-position breakdown of the best college football recruits. Today we present the Top Defensive Tackles.  Other Positions  Top Overall 200  Top 6 Dual-Threat Quarterbacks Top 12 Interior Offensive Linemen Top 11 Athletes Top 23 Cornerbacks Top 15 Offensive Tackles Top 12 Safeties  Top 13 Outside Linebackers Top ...

Excelling in daily fantasy sports is all about finding value. Luckily, there is plenty of that available in DraftKings' college basketball contests for Jan. 27. There are plenty of top players available at high costs, but these men can help give you more bang for the buck.   Josh Richardson, Tennessee ($7,600) When spending a big portion of your funds on one player, you want someone who will be consistent with the opportunity for a huge game. Josh Richardson ...

Can you think of an NCAA FBS record that got broken in 2014? What might come to mind is the single-game rushing mark, which got shattered not once but twice this season, in games played just a week apart. The two instances share the magical essence of any record-setting performance: a statistical mark that is the best-ever, unmatched by any other athlete in the history of a sport. These are more than just mere numbers—they are the elite ...

The town of Allen, Texas, is a sleepy burg of 90,000 located just beyond the northern edge of Dallas. In 1878, according to local legend, Allen was the site of the first train robbery in Texas. In the last few weeks, there has been another attempted heist in this dusty Lone Star town: The Texas Longhorns are desperately trying to steal one of the nation’s most coveted quarterback recruits, Allen native Kyler Murray, from the clutches ...

Nebraska football fans have been watching the 2015 class take shape as national signing day on February 4 approaches. Currently, the class sits at 14 and is ranked No. 36 nationally and No. 5 in the Big Ten by 247Sports. New Nebraska head coach Mike Riley is working hard to get his first class in Lincoln filled. While the ranking is alarmingly low, the small number of commits (no school ahead of Nebraska has fewer than ...

Considering the season that the Oregon Ducks just produced, it should come as no shock that they are attracting interest from prized high school recruits as national signing day looms. Oregon has already made a splash in recruiting this year and currently has the No. 16 class, according to 247Sports. The Ducks have signed 20 players so far this year, including five players who’ve enrolled early at the school and another one on the way in ...

Now that Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski has reached the 1,000-win milestone—doing so with Sunday's win at St. John's in New York City—the Blue Devils can get back to business achieving their more sought-after goal: winning the ACC. Fourth-ranked Duke (17-2, 4-2) is in the midst of a huge, season-defining stretch, with three of the next four games against teams above it in the conference standings. First up is Wednesday's visit to No. 8 Notre Dame (19-2, ...