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Georgia Tech (9-3) – The Yeller Jackets meet BYU in the Pop-Tarts Bowl on Dec 27.
Western Michigan (9-4) – The Broncos take on Kennesaw in the Myrtle Beach Bowl Dec 19.
Southern Miss (7-5) – The Golden Eagles will face WKU in the New Orleans Bowl on Dec 23.
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The University of Colorado athletic department is projecting a $27M deficit for the fiscal year ending June 2026.
It will also need $11.9M from the university and $2.2M from student fees, according to @USATODAY.https://t.co/TtwQh5CXtgpic.twitter.com/z60PkTSBUC
— Sports Business Journal (@SBJ) December 2, 2025
Gee. I wonder if somehow Deion Sanders’s $10M salary and foolishly spending on the Transfer Portal has something to do with this.
The SEC presidents voted to increase the number of maximum scholarships available to football rosters from 85 to 105. As part of the House settlement, schools are permitted to increase scholarships to 105 in football, but the SEC last year remained at 85. Are there any successful hedge fund managers out there that are Alabama fans?
The University of Georgia athletic department has made a monumental move of seeking $390,000 from former defensive end Damon Wilson, claiming his transfer to Missouri terminated his name, image and likeness agreement with the Bulldogs’ collective. UGA is looking to go to arbitration in this case. The outcome could set a precedence for all other such cases, present or future. It’s about time!
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Coach O to Tulane? Almost seems too perfect.pic.twitter.com/CPk8bmzmtJ
— Old Row Sports (@OldRowSports) December 6, 2025
^{Yeah, it was.}↑↑↑
Coaching changes:
Arkansas > Ryan Silverfield
Auburn > Alex Golesh
Cal > Tosh Lupoi
Coastal Carolina – open
Colorado State > Jim Mora, The Younger
Florida > Jon Sumrall
JMU – Billy Napier
K-State > Collin Klein
Kent State > Mark Carney
Kentucky > Will Stein
LSU > Lane Kiffin
Memphis – Charles Huff
Michigan State > Pat Fitzgerald
North Texas > Neal Brown
Oklahoma State > Eric Morris
Ole Miss > Pete Golding
Oregon State > JaMarcus Shephard
Penn State >Matt Campbell
South Florida > Brian Hartline
Southern Miss – NEW
Stanford > Tavita Pritchard
Toledo – NEW
Tulane – Will Hall
UAB – Alex Mortensen
UCLA – Bob Chesney
UConn – Jason Candle
Virginia Tech > James Franklin
Washington State – NEW
^{Jimmy Sexton file photo}
After a big public miss on Kalani Sitake, Penn State made the shocking move of prying Matt Campbell away from Iowa State. It seemed like every time a big-time coaching spot came open, all the blabbermouths were frothing at the mouth for the replacement to be Campbell. But such a move would never happened. This time, nobody was touting Campbell as the next Brittany Lion coach and lo and behold this bombshell. PSU signed all of two recruits on Signing Day. Look for Campbell to loot the ISU roster beginning with quarterback Rocco Becht.
Former interim coach Terry Smith has agreed to a 4-year deal to stick around Happy Valley as an assistant – most likely to quell any potential player revolt.
The Cyclones must have gotten a head’s up on the Campbell move, because they swiftly hired Washington State coach Jimmy Rogers. Wazzu went 6-6 in his one season in Pullman. Prior to that, Rogers led South Dakota State to a FCS Championship in is first season as a head coach in 2023, and a semfinals appearance in 2024.
Back to Sitake for a moment: After turning down Penn State, BYU rewarded him with a big fat long-term extension. It would have been an odd pairing between coach and program, and it never seemed like Sitake even wanted to leave Provo. All this makes it likely that this flirtation was just another ploy for The Devil Jimmy Sexton (pictured above) to get his client more money.
Previous to the Campbell hiring, Kalen DeBoer shut down being any connection from him to the Penn State job opening: “We’re extremely happy at Alabama. There’s never been any link. There’s never been any conversation. There’s never been any interest either way. I’m glad we can put that to bed right now.”
Some reports had said that PSU wanted to interview Louisville head coach Jeff Brohm. However, he informed his superiors that he was not exploring any other job offers.
Penn State fired James Franklin waaaaay back on October 12. PSU and Cal were the only Power teams to not have a coach in place for the crucial days leading up to the Early Signing Day.
Cal has reached into the Nick Saban coaching tree and plucked Tosh Lupoi to be their next head football coach. Lupoi began his coaching career at Cal as DL coach (2008-2011) and was on the Alabama coaching staff from 2014–2018. After three years on NFL staffs, he joined former Bama staffer from 2015 Dan Lanning in Oregon as his defensive coordinator 2022-2025. Lanning has now lost two co-coordinators with Will Stein (Kentucky) being the other. Lupoi earned his first win by flying to Hawaii to meet with star QB Jaron Keawe Sagapolutele to secure his continued enrollment at Berkeley.
Speaking of Kentucky, they are set to hire Joe Sloan as the school’s offensive coordinator. Sloan is the former OC and quarterbacks coach at LSU and spent nine years at Louisiana Tech prior to that.
Ohio State offensive coordinator Brian Hartline is taking the job at South Florida. Some thought he might be a candidate for Penn State. He is anOSU’s play caller and built a reputation as the country’s top developer of wide receivers.
Fired Florida coach Billy Napier gets a big upgrade as he goes to a College Football Playoff team, James Madison. He follows Bob Chesney who is off to UCLA.
Kansas State coach Chris Klieman is set to retire. Former K-State QB and OC Collin Klein returns to his alma mater as head coach. Klieman came to Manhattan from North Dakota State where he won four FCS Championships in five years. With the Wildcats, he had only one losing seasons in seven campaigns, but never really set the world on fire. Only twice did his teams end up ranked with a peak of No. 14 in 2022. Klein was somehow a finalist for the Heisman in 2012. He was not drafted and wisely made the change to coaching in 2014. Bill Snyder hired him and Klieman retained him. The last two seasons, Klein has been at Texas A&M as OC/QB coach.
North Texas hired former West Virginia and Troy coach Neal Brown. He was an assistant to head coach Steve Sarkisian at Texas this season.
It appeared momentarily that LSU defensive coordinator Blake Baker would become the next coach at Tulane. However, the Bayou Bengals took out a fifth mortgage on the state capitol building to keep him in Baton Rouge.
UConn lit up the college football world with the hiring of Toledo’s Jason Candle as their new head coach. He burned bright in the MAC with an 81-44 record, including four straight seasons with eight or more wins.
Memphis has landed Southern Miss’ Charles Huff as their next head coach. He turned USM from 1-11 to 7-5 with many of his Marshall players coming along for the ride. We’ll see how many are willing to move again.
Tulane promoted veteran assistant Will Hall to head coach. He played quarterback at North Alabama from 2002 to 2003 and coached at West Alabama from 2008–2013 with the last three years as head man. More recent, Hall had been head coach at Southern Miss 2021–2024 and was pretty dang awful (14-30). Good luck with that, Wave.
Texa$ Tech coach Joey McGuire agreed to a seven-year, $7 million a year extension. The deal will keep him in Lubbock through the 2032 season. [Cue evil Jimmy Sexton laugh]
New Auburn coach Alex Golesh has opted to keep defensive coordinator DJ Durkin. The Plains Tigers were 32nd in FBS in scoring defense with 20.7 points allowed per game, and 31st in yardage allowed at 329.2.
UNC is reportedly committed to football coach Bill Belichick “for at least another year” after the Tar Heels finished with a 4-8 record, per on3sports.
Mississippi State defensive coordinator Coleman Hutzler has been let go. Former MSU DC Zach Arnett, who was a one year head coach following Mike Leach’s untimely death returns to Starkville in Hutzler’s place.
Virginia Tech would like Missy State to hold their beer. New head coach James Franklin has hired the coach he is replacing to be his DC. Brent Pry was fired as head coach of the Hokies in September. Previous to his gig in Blacksburg, Pry was on Franklin’s staffs at Vanderbilt and Penn State (2011-2021).
Tennessee dismissed defensive coordinator Tim Banks on Monday. Banks, 53, joined the Vols in 2021.
A little girl told Urban Meyer that an onion is the only food that makes her cry. So, he threw a coconut in her face.
The only way that Fat F*** Phil Fulmer burns calories is by leaving brownies in the oven too long.
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Heading into the SECCG, the Crimson Tide was a walking M*A*S*H unit. Alabama starting linebacker Justin Jefferson and starting corner Zabien Brown left Saturday’s game with injuries. Tide coach Kalen DeBoer stated that both are expected to be available against Oklahoma on Dec. 19.
DeBoer said that they are optimistic but continue to evaluate defender LT Overton who was out with some mysterious illness.
Running back Jam Miller is “probably the farthest along.” DeBoer added, “He’s got a really strong chance of being not just available, but ready to go at the level he can compete and do some good things for us.”
Tight end Josh Cuevas is “on his way.” DeBoer stated “I’m holding on to some pretty good hope. But we’ll see.”
College Football Playoff: Friday, December 19, 2025
#9 Alabama Crimson Tide (10-3) at #8 Oklahoma Sooners(10-2)
Norman, OK ~ 7:00/8:00 ABC
Editorial: What can you say? It’s do or die. Alabama will have revenge on their mind. The Tide needs to cut down on mistakes in order to pull this one off.
Oklahoma Coach: Year 4 Brent Venables is in the midst of his best season as head coach with Okie reaching their first playoff since 2019. The Sooners are 7th in FBS scoring defense with 13.9 points allowed per game.
Oklahoma 2025: Oklahoma finished 6-2 in the SEC which put them in 6th place. The losses came at neutral site Dallas against Texas and at home vs Ole Miss.
Series: Alabama is a miserable 2-5-1 all-time against the Sooners. Bama needs to fix that.
Weather: It’s pretty far out to predict but clear skies are expected with a high of 56° during the day and dropping down to 39° overnight.
TV Announcers: A-Team Chris Fowler on play-by-play, Kirk Herbstreit as analyst with Holly Rowe and Laura Rutledge as sideline reporters.
Radio: Chris Stewart, Tyler Watts, Corey Reamer on Alabama Radio.
Vegas: The FanDuel point spread has Alabama as a 1.5 point favorite and 40.5 on the Over/Under.

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