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An A-Z guide to the 2024-25 season: Availability reports — In a move the league said is intended to curtail gambling, the SEC will provide public reports on player availability for conference games. Schools are required to provide availability reports starting three days before each league game and then daily updates, the last coming 90 minutes before kickoff. Athletes will be regarded as “available,” “probable,” “questionable,” “doubtful” or “out” in the pre-gameday reports.
The final report will have “available,” “game-time decision” or “out” as designations and without specifics regarding if the listing is based on injury or not. Failing to follow the policy could result in up to $100,000 in penalties. The Big 10 and Mid-American Conference already have instituted such reports.
Beamer, Shane — He enters his fourth season as South Carolina’s coach with 20-18 overall record (10-14 SEC). Half of his wins in league play have come against Kentucky and Vanderbilt. Conference makeovers — It’s now a Power 4 world.
The SEC added Texas and Oklahoma , expanding to 16 teams. The Big Ten has a whopping 18 schools thanks to the addition of Oregon, Southern Cal, UCLA and Washington. Cal, SMU and Stanford are now in the ACC, while the corner schools (Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah) make the Big 12 a 16-member conference.
DeBoer, Kalen — He’s 49 years old, is 104-12 in nine years as a head coach and led Washington to last season‘s national championship game. DeBoer is also the guy tasked with replacing Nick Saban at Alabama. Good luck with that.
Election night — While the fate of our country is being decided, the first College Football Playoff rankings of the 12-team era will come out on the same night. Allocate your television viewing wisely. Oh, and the national championship game is on Inauguration Day.
Kid you not. Florida’s schedule — Eleven of 12 games are against P4 teams, eight of which are currently ranked in the AP Top 25. That’s historically tough sledding for coach Billy Napier, who's 11-14 during his first two seasons with the Gators.
Georgia — The Bulldogs are the preseason No. 1, have a Heisman Trophy favorite at quarterback in Carson Beck and are chasing history via a possible third title in four years. Hot seat — See “Florida’s schedule.
” In-helmet radios — Coaches will now be able to communicate directly with one player on offense, one player on defense. The radios , which shut off with 15 seconds remaining on the play clock, are in response to the Michigan sign-stealing scandal that’s yet to be resolved. Jurisprudence — Four lawsuits in three states: Clemson is suing the ACC in South Carolina; Florida State is suing the ACC in Florida; and the ACC is suing both in North Carolina.
What a time to be alive. Klubnik, Cade — He returns as Clemson’s starting quarterback . And plenty of folks are still sideways he’s not yet turned into Deshaun Watson or Trevor Lawrence.
L’s — Two many of those before Halloween, and Bobby Petrino will be Arkansas’ head coach. McCall, Grayson — It’s going to be weird seeing McCall wearing N.C.
State red instead of Coastal Carolina teal. But it’s an opportunity for him to prove his three Sun Belt Player of the Year awards were legit, not merely the result of playing Group of 5 competition. And Myrtle Beach State University will never be the same.
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What's driving the trend? NIL — You’re either providing opportunities to your players or you’re losing. Offense — In-helmet radios, additional timeouts, etc., are all changes to assist the offense.
Don’t believe otherwise. Pac-2 — It’s just Oregon State. It’s just Washington State.
It’s just sad. Quit — Jim Harbaugh split Ann Arbor for the Los Angeles Chargers, leaving town after winning the national title, but before the NCAA’s posse. Remote control — Know your channel listings.
After nearly 30 years on CBS, the SEC is now on ABC/ESPN , most notably with a double-header to air at 3:30 p.m., and 7:30p.
m each Saturday. Meanwhile, CBS is filling that loss by featuring a Big Ten game at 3:30 p.m.
, while NBC also has Big 10 games along with its Notre Dame package. And don’t forget Fox still has the premier Big 10 game of the week. By the way: You also need to know where TNT is on your TV, as some playoff games will be there starting this year.
Sellers, LaNorris — South Carolina’s new quarterback is a redshirt freshman and has attempted four passes in college. But he was 4-of-4 passing for 86 yards and a touchdown along with 51 yards rushing and another TD against Furman last year. So the potential is as evident as his God-given abilities.
Transfer Portal — Nearly 3,900 players entered since last season, with more than 2,100 moving to a different team. Colorado (41) again collected the most players out of the portal, followed by Louisville (31) and Indiana (30). Four FBS programs didn’t use the portal at all: the three service academies .
.. and Clemson.
Uiagalelei, DJ — The former Clemson, former Oregon State quarterback is now at Florida State. New team, same results: 19-27 for 193 yards passing with no touchdowns in the Seminoles’ 24-21 season-opening loss to Georgia Tech . Victory — Speaking of Georgia Tech, the Yellow Jackets' win over FSU was their first against a top-10 opponent since 2015.
Walk-ons — The ones at Oklahoma are getting an assist from teammate Danny Stutsman. An All-Big 12 linebacker last year, he’s putting $50,000 of his NIL money toward helping walk-on teammates. X-rays — They say Utah quarterback Cam Rising is good to go for a sixth (sixth!) season of college football.
A major knee injury sidelined him all of last year after leading the Utes to the Pac-12 title in 2021 and 2022. Rising was the first-team all-Pac-12 quarterback in 2021. Youngster — Nebraska’s starting quarterback will be true freshman Dylan Raiola .
It’s the second time in seven seasons the Huskers will have a guy straight out of high school as their starter (Adrian Martinez in 2018). Zero — As in “Week Zero.” As in what comes immediately before one, meaning before Week 1.
Yes, it’s really a thing. Just ask Florida State..
