Iverson Hooks wanted to find his way onto the field in his first college football season.
The Football Championship Subdivision playoff carrot disappeared. The excitement over moving up a college football level and settling into some new facilities is reserved from someone else. That’s just part of reality for a group of 14 Jacksonville State senior football players.
High school football teams gear up another week of early season games. Some teams opened last week while others delayed their season opener to this week. Each week, we’ll take a quick look at notable games.
Dylan Hopkins will start at quarterback for the UAB Blazers in the Sept. 1 season opener against Alabama A&M at Protective Stadium.
Former UAB football coach Bill Clark missing football is not exactly unexpected news. For nearly 35 years, he’s coached football. For a lot longer than that, as the son of a high school coach, he’s been around the game. It’s toward the end of August, which means fall camp for college teams has ended and the first game quickly approaching.
On the surface, it looked like the Samford men’s basketball team’s trip to the Dominican Republic was about the game of basketball. Dig past the surface, though, and it was about much more. And you really don’t have to dig far.
He’s considering on making a fashion statement by wearing shorts, will keep his starting quarterback a secret, at least to the public, until kickoff and had to adjust some things because he believes a couple staff members from the opening day opponent were at his team’s spring game. That covers some of the highlights of the first game week press conference for first-year Jacksonville State head coach Rich Rodriguez.
Although University of Georgia head coach Kirby Smart got the best of Nick Saban in January, the legendary University of Alabama head coach again has bragging rights over his former defensive coordinator.
Bryce Damous and his fellow UAB tight end teammates know very well that their position comes complete with a question mark heading into the season.
Easing into his new situation wasn’t an option for freshly minted Troy University quarterback Jarret Doege. The much-traveled quarterback left Western Kentucky on Wednesday night, traveled with his new teammates at Troy on Thursday and participate in the Trojans fall camp scrimmage on Saturday.
Fall camp officially closed on Saturday night at Protective Stadium with UAB’s second and final scrimmage.
Jackson Bratton, who was fresh off two years in the University of Alabama football program, didn’t know what to expect when he arrived at UAB.
Jahmyr Gibbs, who has flashed his way into the spotlight during the University of Alabama football fall camp, was asked on Friday what his goals were in his first season in Tuscaloosa.
Dexter Boykin had specific future athletic plans when he first arrived at Fairfield High. “I thought I was going to be about 6-8 and go to Duke,” Boykin said.
His latest transfer portal appearance ended with Jarret Doege joining the Troy University football program.
The Tuscaloosa City Council approved a concession application to sell alcohol inside football games at the University of Alabama (UA) Tuesday.
Registration for Hunting 101 Workshops are now open.
Talking his way through a cornerback position filled with experience and talent to get into the playing rotation wasn’t an option. Colby Dempsey found an infallible option.
His bond with quarterback Bryce Young is getting stronger by the day. His crowning moment in college football is solidly in the rearview mirror. His focus on working toward a new crowning moment is solidified.
Ryan Davis was a full participant in UAB football practice on Monday morning.
Lee Witherspoon made an impact at running back during UAB’s first full-scale scrimmage of fall camp on Saturday.
The point is, with Chris Hatcher running the show, chances are pretty good that Samford is going to be good at quarterback.
UAB football interim head coach Bryant Vincent got what he wanted – balanced success - from his team’s first fall camp scrimmage on Saturday.
Samford linebacker Nathan East is taking it to another level. East, the Bulldogs' lone preseason All-Southern Conference first team selection, is back for his sixth season with the program. He’s also in his second year in the stringent Physical Therapy Program at Samford and is a newlywed.
Hayden Pittman treated his first contact with a member of World Wrestling Entertainment the same way many of us would. He considered it to be fake.
It all slowed down when Bryant Vincent heard the question. What does it mean for Kadeem Telfort to walk across the stage inside Bartow Arena on Saturday and receive his college diploma from UAB?
Alabama will be without sophomore wide receiver JoJo Earle for 6-8 weeks because of a fractured foot. UA head coach Nick Saban said that Earle hurt his foot in practice.