Recent success and future expectations have allowed the Michigan football program to chase—and already land—several of the 2017 recruiting cycle's best prospects. Although head coach Jim Harbaugh and Co. aren't pursuing every highest-rated option, the Wolverines are in the picture for commitments from those players. Summer events like unofficial visits and camps will allow the coaching staff to get an up-close look at some of the talents. Those interactions might even lead to verbal pledges. While the Wolverines ...

Georgia star running back Nick Chubb is recovering from the season-ending left knee surgery he underwent in October 2015. Continue for updates. Chubb's Status Remains Unclear Wednesday, April 20 “I am not a [subject matter expert] on knee injuries. So I don’t know if that guy is going to be back or not," Georgia head coach Kirby Smart told Seth Emerson of DawgNation.com on Tuesday. "Do I want him to be back? Yes. But it’s hard to say with where he is now whether he’ll ...

More than 40 college football coaching staffs have extended a scholarship offer to dominant Maryland defensive prospect Chase Young, and he believes it's time to focus on favorites. The DeMatha Catholic (Maryland) junior took a significant step in that process April 5 when he announced a top-15 list featuring several of America's premier programs: Less than two weeks later, while speaking with Bleacher Report at The Opening's Washington, D.C., regional camp, Young expressed plans to pare things down ...

Though Notre Dame has College Football Playoff aspirations in 2016, its schedule and roster shortcomings could result in the program falling short. Last season, Stanford crushed the Irish's dreams during their regular-season finale. Brian Kelly's squad will attempt to avoid a similar fate at the hands of this year's power-conference opponents. Notre Dame doesn't necessarily have a weakness at any position because the coaching staff has regularly signed top classes. However, many expected key players—particularly on defense—spent ...

Upsets are part of college football’s fabric. Sometimes, it’s fun to see a 40-point underdog come out of nowhere and stun a top-tier foe (as Stanford did to Southern California in 2007) or watch an FCS school vanquish a titan of college football (as then-FCS team Appalachian State did at Michigan earlier that season). Upsets are a part of college gridiron life, and they happen on a yearly basis. At times, however, they can deal a ...

Since he was hired in late November 2011, Urban Meyer has been absolutely dominant at the helm of Ohio State. The Buckeyes' head man has gone an incredible 50-4 since the start of the 2012 season. He's signed the Big Ten's best recruiting class in each of the last five cycles, including four top-five finishes nationally, according to 247Sports. He laid waste to college football heavyweights Alabama and Oregon on his way to winning the first-ever ...

Former standout Syracuse basketball player Dwayne Washington has died after being diagnosed with a brain tumor last summer. He was 52.  Syracuse's official athletics site confirmed the news through his family Wednesday. Washington, who was affectionately nicknamed Pearl, starred with the Orange starting in 1983 before becoming a first-round pick of the New Jersey Nets in 1986. The announcement included comments that longtime Syracuse head basketball coach Jim Boeheim made in January about the former guard's impact: ...

Picture an overzealous safety cracking a tight end high on a seam route and the uncertain, silent seconds that follow. As the offensive player slowly lifts himself off the turf, the official glides to the defensive player awaiting his fate, who's gesturing his innocence to his sideline and the crowd. The official, having seen the play in real time at indefinable speeds, has an impossible obligation of making a ruling in front of more than 110,000 ...

ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. doesn’t quite understand it either. When the NFL draft is held next week in Chicago, the Southeastern Conference is expected to have high-profile picks at nearly every position but the one that gets talked about the most: quarterback. Although Peyton Manning just won his final Super Bowl and Cam Newton is the reigning league MVP, former Florida quarterbacks Jacoby Brissett of North Carolina State and Jeff Driskel of Louisiana Tech could ...

On Nov. 1, 2014, Tennessee roared back from a late two-touchdown deficit to stun South Carolina on the road 45-42 in overtime.  Since that point, the program has been on the brink of something special. The Vols have lost five games since that night in Columbia by a total of 25 points, including an overtime loss to Big 12 champion and College Football Playoff participant Oklahoma, a one-point loss to SEC East champion Florida in Gainesville and ...