Now that the July live evaluation period is in the books, it's time to take a look at which prospects helped themselves the most over the past several weeks. With the nation's best high school basketball prospects playing in events in front of college coaches all over the country, there were a lot of players who earned tons of scholarship offers based on their play in July. Some prospects are late bloomers who could come in and ...

July brought the heat—in temperature and recruiting. While June proved to be a busy recruiting month, July was just as entertaining for those who follow college football recruiting. Ohio State is still the nation's leader, according to the 247Sports composite team rankings, but the race to be in the top five has been a classic back-and-forth battle with roughly seven months remaining until national signing day. With all the action, there were some definite winners in July. ...

Steve Spurrier is returning to his alma mater and the site of his greatest success as a head football coach, joining the University of Florida's athletic department.  Per Matt Baker of the Tampa Bay Times, Spurrier will work as an ambassador and consultant for the Gators.  Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley issued a statement about Spurrier's hiring on the school's official athletic website: It's a great day for the Gator Nation to be able to welcome Coach Spurrier back ...

An undefeated record used to be the ultimate measuring stick in college football. Back when polls determined national champions and bowl selection wasn't as structured as it is now, seeing that zero in the final loss column meant a team was title material. Things have changed in a big way over the last several decades. In the 1990s, the Bowl Coalition and the Bowl Alliance led to the BCS, all of which tried to put the ...

Big Ten media days have come and gone, training camps across the country are getting set to open up and, before you know it, the 2016 college football season will finally be here. With that in mind, let's get to this week's Big Ten Q&A, where we'll pick the Big Ten's preseason Offensive Player of the Year and tackle Iowa's outlook for the coming season, Michigan State's title hopes and a potential conference wild card. As always, ...

There was massive coaching turnover in the SEC this offseason, as 10 of the conference's 14 member institutions welcomed at least one new coordinator. Many of the newcomers will have a ton of pressure on their shoulders, as well as several incumbents who have to find a way to turn things around in 2016 to avoid more turnover next offseason. Which SEC coordinators are under the most pressure in 2016? Here are our picks based on history, ...

Quarterback Deshaun Watson and the Clemson Tigers did just about everything right last season except win the national title, and they will try to take that next and final step in the 2016 season. But the Tigers will likely need to win the ACC championship again in order to make a repeat appearance in the College Football Playoff. Clemson is a +150 betting favorite (wager $100 to win $150) to win the ACC at sportsbooks monitored ...

After thorough study using specific scoring criteria, Bleacher Report National Recruiting Analysts Damon Sayles, Sanjay Kirpalani and Tyler Donohue have graded the top 200 players in the 247Sports' composite rankings and provided in-depth analysis on each young athlete. Bleacher Report will run a position-by-position breakdown series of the best college football recruits in the 2017 class. Here we present the Top Defensive Ends. College football coaches are focused more than ever on countering spread offensive efforts off the edge and disrupting high-octane aerial assaults. As ...

Tennessee already has 23 commitments in its 2017 recruiting class and we're only at the end of July, but that doesn't mean there will be a lack of movement in some of the names on that list before national signing day. Like always, players will move on and find greener pastures for themselves. Likewise, if the Volunteers take care of business on the football field this year, they'll upgrade a few of those guys in a ...

Ever feel like kids are growing up much faster these days? Nowhere is this more evident than in the sport of basketball, where top high school players are getting evaluated for their pro prospects long before deciding their college paths. A look at early 2017 NBA mock drafts, such as the one put together by DraftExpress, includes 13 projected picks who are still months away from making their collegiate debuts. The same goes for NBADraft.net's predictions ...