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TUSCALOOSA - In one of the most unusual eligibility rulings college basketball has seen in years, former Alabama center Charles Bediako is officially back with the Crimson Tide after a Tuscaloosa County judge granted him a temporary restraining order against the NCAA. The ruling makes the 6‑foot‑11 G‑League veteran immediately eligible to compete, opening the door for his return to the floor for the first time since the 2022–23 season. Bediako, who played 82 G‑League games over the past thre...
January 20, 2026 – OXFORD – The Auburn University men's basketball team defeated the Ole Miss team by a score of 78 to 66. Auburn outshot Ole Miss 43% from the field while holding Ole Miss to just 36%. Auburn continued to struggle from the three point line with just 12 percent shooting. Auburn excelled from the free throw line – hitting 82% of their shots. Auburn dominated the board totaling 42 while limiting Ole Miss to just 26. Auburn Coach Steven Reed said, "That's an important win. Not a lot...
January 12, 2026 – TUSCALOOSA – Talented North Carolina State running back Daylan "Hollywood" Smothers, after committing to the Tide and enrolling in classes at Alabama, left this weekend to visit Texas. While there he signed papers committing him to the Longhorns who apparently offered more money than Alabama. Smothers had been seen as the top pickup for the Tide in the transfer portal. According to media reports, he apparently did not sign his NIL deal papers to play for Alabama. All the Tid...
January 5, 2025 – TUSCALOOSA - The transfer portal opened on Friday. One of the first players for Alabama to go in the portal was wide receiver Jaylen Mbakwe. On Monday Mbokwe signed to play for Georgia Tech. Mbakwe was a five‑star recruit out of Clay‑Chalkville. He was recruited as an athlete who played quarterback and defensive back in high school. One recruiting service ranked him as the number two cornerback and number 12 overall coming out in the 2024 recruiting class. He spent his first...
January 6, 2026 - Auburn, Ala. - In a game filled with momentum swings, controversial calls, and last-second drama, the Auburn Tigers suffered a heartbreaking 90–88 loss to Texas A&M on Tuesday night, Jan. 6. The Tigers led by as many as 16 points in the second half, but a furious Aggie comeback and a waved-off buzzer-beater sealed Auburn's fate in its first SEC home game of the season. Auburn's Hot Start and Second-Half Collapse Auburn (9–6, 0–2 SEC) entered the second half with a 10-point lead...
Alabama walked into Memorial Gymnasium on Wednesday night knowing exactly what was at stake: a chance to hand undefeated No. 11 Vanderbilt its first loss and plant an early SEC championship flag. Instead, the Crimson Tide left Nashville with a 96–90 defeat, a game defined by foul trouble, cold second‑half shooting, and a furious late rally that came up just short. 🔥 A Breakout Night for Amari Allen Freshman forward Amari Allen delivered the best performance of his young career, pouring in 25 poi...
January 13, 2026 - AUBURN - Auburn entered the 2026 transfer portal window facing one of the most dramatic roster resets in program history. Nearly 30 players were expected to depart when the portal opened on January 2, including a wave of former blue‑chip recruits who once formed the backbone of Auburn's talent profile. For new head coach Alex Golesh, the challenge was immediate and unforgiving: rebuild a roster capable of competing in the SEC while stabilizing a program that had endured two c...
January 7, 2025 – TUSCALOOSA – University of Alabama starting Quarterback Ty Simpson announced that he will declare for the NFL draft. The decision comes after a week of speculation about Simpson's future. There was a possibility that the redshirt junior could return for another season at Alabama. Simpson reportedly met with Alabama offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb and head coach Kalen DeBoer over the weekend about the possibility of him returning for another year in Tuscaloosa. It is not kno...
January 18, 2026 – Former Auburn Quarterback Jarrett Stidham is in the spotlight as the AFC West Champion Denver Broncos have advanced to the AFC Championship game – one win away from a Super Bowl. Former Auburn Quarterback Bo Nix led the Broncos all season and Saturday night led them on a game winning drive in overtime to defeat the favored Buffalo Bills. Unfortunately Nix broke a bone in his right ankle on his next to last play of that drive that setup the game clinching field goal for the...
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - College football has seen its share of improbable champions, but nothing in the sport's long, winding history quite compares to what unfolded on a warm January night at Hard Rock Stadium. Indiana - yes, Indiana - finished a perfect 16‑0 season and captured the 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship with a 27–21 victory over Miami, sealing one of the greatest turnarounds the sport has ever witnessed. For a program that spent more than a century wandering thr...
The transfer portal has become the new battleground of roster building in college football, and in 2026, Alabama has attacked it with purpose. After a Rose Bowl loss that exposed depth issues in the trenches and at wide receiver, GM Courtney Morgan and head coach Kalen DeBoer moved quickly to secure proven talent from across the country. The result: a transfer class headlined by offensive line reinforcements, a potential WR1, and immediate-impact defenders who fit DeBoer's system. Below are the...
December 19, 2025 – NORMAN, OK – The Alabama Crimson Tide finally exorcised it's Oklahoma demons on Friday. The Tide had went and played a struggling Oklahoma team in Coach Kalen DeBoer's first season as Alabama head coach. That shocking 2024 loss cost Alabama a trip to the NCAA's first twelve- team playoff. This year Alabama was undefeated in conference play and appeared destined for a high seedtyt in the playoffs. Then Oklahoma came to Tuscaloosa. Alabama outgained Oklahoma nearly two to one...
MONTGOMERY - In a renewal of one of Alabama's oldest football rivalries, Jacksonville State delivered the final word Tuesday night at the Cramton Bowl, grinding out a 17–13 win over Troy in the IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl. It was a night defined by defensive stands, momentum swings, and a finish that kept the crowd in Montgomery on edge until the final play. The Gamecocks (9–5) leaned on timely offense and a resilient defense to snap Troy's six‑game winning streak in the series and claim their...
December 28, 2025 - Ann Arbor, Michigan - The University of Michigan has officially hired Kyle Whittingham, the longtime head coach of the Utah Utes, to lead its football program into a new era. The move comes just two weeks after Michigan fired Sherrone Moore for cause, following a scandal involving an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. Whittingham, 66, signed a five-year deal worth $8.2 million annually, making him one of the highest-paid coaches in college football. Whittingham b...
December 30, 2025 - AUBURN. - The Alex Golesh era at Auburn is off to a really shaky start as dozens of players from across the depth chart have announced that they intend to enter the transfer portal when it open on Friday. The combination of a coaching change, shifting offensive and defensive philosophies, and the broader volatility of modern college football has led to an exodus of players from the troubled program. Auburn has had four head coaches and two interim coaches since 2020 when the...
January 1, 2026 – ROSE BOWL - Old coaches back in the 1970s and 80s used to always say that the key to winning was "to be able to run the ball and stop the run." Football in a lot of cases have gone away from that mindset with the four wide receiver sets and the pinpoint passing games that can throw it all over the field. The Rose Bowl however was an example of one team being able to run the ball and one team not being able to run the ball. Unfortunately for University of Alabama fans, they w...
January 2, 2026 – AUBURN – The transfer portal is open and Auburn has no tight ends. Parallelling the exodus that Auburn has had at wide receiver, the tight ends at Auburn will be elsewhere in 2026. Auburn's starting tight end did enter the transfer portal. Based on the latest reporting, Junior Preston Howard, who was Auburn's primary tight end contributor in 2025, entered the transfer portal as soon as it opened. He previously had transferred in from Maryland. Although he played sig...
January 2, 2026 – Birmingham – Standout UAB wide receiver Iverson Hooks announced that he was entering the portal in late December. 2025 was a disappointing year for the Blazers but it was a breakout season for Hooks – a Pike Road, Alabama produce - who recorded 72 catches for 927 yards and seven touchdowns for UAB on the year. That is an incredible average of 12.7 yards per catch, earning him All American Athletic Conference honors. Hooks has visits scheduled with Wisconsin, Indiana, Oklah...
January 5, 2026 - Tuscaloosa – The University of Alabama football team did a lot of things right. They won 11 games, they beat rivals Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama in the regular season, they earned a spot in the SEC Championship game, they beat Oklahoma in the first round of the playoffs. The 11 an 4 campaign was a marked improvement over the 9 and 4 performance in Coach Kalen DeBoer's first year. One area where the Tide was notably weak last year was in the running game. Star running back J...
January 6, 2025 - AUBURN, Ala. - University of South Florida Quarterback Byrum Brown has signed with Auburn Tigers football team, following former USF head coach Alex Golesh to the Plains. Brown led all FBS quarterbacks in 2025 with 42 total touchdowns while averaging 347.2 yards of offense per game. The 6-foot-3, 232-pound senior from Raleigh, North Carolina, dominated defenses through the air and on the ground in Golesh's high-powered attack. "Byrum is a true leader and competitor," Golesh...
January 7,2026 – AUBURN - Several Auburn players who pundits and self-proclaimed insiders had expected to transfer have instead decided to stay and play for the Tigers. The Auburn offense was pretty grim last year, and at this point it looks like that will be a new unit next year. 2026 will have an entirely new quarterbacks room for Auburn, just as the 2025 Auburn QB room retained anyone from the 2024 team – no great surprise there. That said multiple defensive players who were projected to hit...
December 4, 2025 - BIRMINGHAM - The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has officially promoted Alex Mortensen from interim head coach to permanent head coach, ending a two-month search following the dismissal of Trent Dilfer. Mortensen, who had served as UAB's offensive coordinator since 2023, stepped into the interim role midway through the 2025 season and quickly impressed with his leadership and results. Mortensen's Path to the Job • Background: Mortensen, 40, is the son of the late E...
December 3, 2025 – AUBURN – Auburn University announced that interim head coach/ defensive coordinator DJ Durkin will remain at Auburn as defensive coordinator. New Head Coach Alex Golesh made the announcement. "Choosing to keep DJ on our staff was an easy call," said Golesh. "Our relationship goes back more than 20 years to our roots in Ohio, we have worked with some of the same men, and we've competed against each other in this great league. We are fortunate to retain one of the top def...
December 5, 2025 - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – UAB Director of Athletics Mark Ingram has officially named Alex Mortensen the eighth head coach in UAB Football history, ushering in a new era for the Blazers with a leader already deeply embedded in the program's recent success. Mortensen, who has served as UAB's offensive coordinator since 2022, took over as interim head coach midway through the 2025 season. His leadership was immediately felt, guiding the Blazers to a stunning upset over No. 22 Memphis i...
Grass was named the 37th head coach in program history on December 3, 2025, following the dismissal of former coach Chris Hatcher. Grass brings a wealth of experience to the Bulldogs, having previously served as head coach at Jacksonville State University, where he compiled a 72–26 record and won six Ohio Valley Conference championships. Most recently, he was a senior offensive assistant and assistant quarterbacks coach at Clemson University. A native of Ashville, Alabama-just 40 miles from S...
