College Football Insiders

If a coach is going to turn a program around, there are usually some pretty strong signs that he'll be able to get it done by his second year. With Tom Herman set to drop his sophomore album as UT's head coach, Jeff Howe of Horns247 joins the podcast to preview the Longhorns' 2018 season.

Not since 1999 has LSU won fewer than eight games, and yet many oddsmakers and pundits are projecting the Tigers to do just that. Are things really so dire in Baton Rouge? Shea Dixon of Geaux247 joins the podcast to preview LSU's 2018 season.

Can UCF repeat their undefeated season despite heavy losses to the NFL and Scott Frost leaving for Nebraska? 247Sports national college football writer Brad Crawford joins the podcast to preview the Knights 2018 season.

Brendan Sonnone of Noles247 joins The Morning Blitz to preview FSU's first season under the direction of Willie Taggart.

The Florida Gators are No. 24 in the 247Sports Summer Top 25. Thomas Goldkamp of Swamp247 joins The Morning Blitz to preview UF's 2018 season.

Matt Prehm of Duck Territory joins The Morning Blitz to preview the No. 25 Oregon Ducks.

Texas and Alabama have scheduled a home-and-home for the 2022 and 2023 seasons. What does this say about the Longhorns' non-conference scheduling ambitions and the likelihood of them ever rekindling their rivalry with Texas A&M?

Joe Burrow announced his intention to transfer from Ohio State toward the beginning of last week, and by the end of it he had already taken a pair of visits, including one to LSU. Shea Dixon has his ear to the ground in Baton Rouge.

Rising redshirt junior quarterback Joe Burrow announced on Monday that he intends to transfer from Ohio State to another school this fall where, as a graduate transfer, he would be eligible to play immediately. Some are calling Burrow the most coveted player on this offseason’s college football quarterback transfer market. What does this mean for Ohio State and whichever lucky school ends up with...

The 2018 MLB Draft begins in less than a month, and Oklahoma football fans will be paying closer attention to it than they might have ever imagined. Just how much is there to the speculation about Kyler Murray leaving college in the MLB Draft? We talk to national college football writer Chris Hummer and OU Insider editor Joey Helmer.

The NFL Draft has come and gone, leaving behind a fresh set of data to help us size up the player development prowess of your favorite college football. But even as they watched their former stars go pro, college football coaches across the country were hard at work recruiting the first-round picks of 2021 and beyond. On that score, it was Ohio State who landed one of the 10 best prospects in the...

The Michigan Insider reported on Thursday afternoon that the NCAA is expected to grant former five-star quarterback Shea Patterson’s appeal to be immediately eligible to play for the Wolverines in the 2018 season, with an announcement coming as early as Friday. What could that mean for Michigan's upcoming season? Steve Lorenz joins the podcast to explain.

After seven months of investigating the causes of corruption in college basketball, the Rice Commission released its 60-page report Wednesday. The Commission, led by former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, laid out a series of recommended policy changes with the goal of stamping out said corruption. Could this document lead to reforms that would expand over into other sports governed by the NCA...

The 2018 NFL Draft begins on Thursday afternoon, and though for this crop of players the draft signifies the end of their college careers, the results of the draft will help shape how future college stars begin their college careers. Today we’re talking about the relationship between the NFL Draft and high school recruiting rankings with 247Sports director of scouting Barton Simmons.

Are college football video games returning to a console near you? A new company says it’s picking up where EA Sports left off in 2013 — but can they deliver a product that college football fans will actually want to buy? 247Sports college football writer Brad Crawford joins the podcast to discuss.

It was the last big Saturday of spring games this weekend, which meant one more opportunity for coaching staffs around the country to simulate game-like conditions at their home stadiums for the nation’s top recruits. At the end of it all, there was a new No. 1 in the 247Sports Composite Team Rankings — well, for a few hours, anyway.

Bleacher Report published an article on Thursday in which Averion Hurts, father of Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts, intimates that his son is not interested in changing positions to accommodate Tua Tagovailoa and would transfer to another school if he doesn’t win the starting job. What does this mean for the ongoing quarter back battle in Tuscaloosa? We talk to 247Sports national college football...

Alabama and Clemson both have to decide whether to replace their accomplished but limited quarterbacks with heralded but inexperienced ones. Clemson played its spring game last weekend, and the two front-runners for the QB job delivered performances of wildly contrasting quality. Meanwhile, Alabama’s spring game is this Saturday, but the favorite to win that job will be on the sideline. Today we’l...

Ohio State’s spring practice has concluded without anyone seizing control of the starting quarterback job, and the lack of clarity is making life complicated for one of the contenders, who would be eligible to play immediately at another school if he decided to transfer. And fresh reporting from AL.com sheds interesting new light on how Greg Sankey used the power of the commissioner’s office to ke...

Is the kickoff on its way out? The NCAA passed a handful of new rules on Friday, and one change in particular has the college football world buzzing. Kipp Adams of Dawgs247 joins the podcast to give us Kirby Smart's reaction to the revised laws of the game.

As we head into what is, for many schools, the final week of spring practice, one of the major stories to follow through this weekend’s batch of spring games is the quarterback battle at Ohio State, where Dwayne Haskins and Joe Burrow have been fighting it out for the role of QB1 this March and April. And on Tuesday, Urban Meyer threw in a new twist to that tale.

The Alabama football team visited with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday and their trip was noteworthy for just how un-noteworthy it was. Meanwhile, Ole Miss has filed a formal objection to the NCAA to try and keep its former star quarterback, Shea Patterson, from being able to play for Michigan in 2018.

Less than a year after Hugh Freeze resigned in disgrace, Ole Miss is —improbably — No. 1 in the 247Sports Composite Team Rankings for the class of 2019. David Johnson of OMSpirit.com joins The Morning Blitz to explain how the Rebels have gotten to this point, and 247Sports national college football writer Chris Hummer hops on the podcast to analyze a proposed change to the NCAA transfer policy.

Will the Amazon documentary series on Michigan's 2017 season do anything to stem the tide of criticism directed toward Jim Harbaugh's program? Isaiah Hole of The Michigan Insider binged all eight episodes within 24 hours of release and wrote a review of the documentary.