Brad Shepard
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Former Top CFB Recruits Running Out of Chances Ahead of 2022 Season
Top recruiting classes often turn into elite college football teams, but that doesn't mean every highly ranked prospect will hit it big. Some never do. Others need time or a change of scenery... → Read More
Transfer Portal 2022: Sleeper Picks for Biggest Impact Players Next Season
You can't read a spring football story without seeing names such as Caleb Williams, Quinn Ewers, Jahmyr Gibbs or Jaxson Dart... → Read More
College Football Teams Having the Most Success on the 2023 Recruiting Trail
If you're looking for new powerhouses in college football, spring is way too early to find out who those will be, but one thing is not debatable: Recruiting success is directly tied to on-field appearance... → Read More
Top CFB Storylines to Watch During Spring Practices
The transfer portal and NIL have completely changed college football, but the sport got yet another (unexpected) facelift this offseason thanks to coaching upheaval around the nation... → Read More
Building the Perfect College Football Offense in 2022
College football lost a ton of stars from an exciting 2021 season, but there is plenty of top-tier talent leading the charge into next year. Among those are some of the biggest offensive stars in the sport... → Read More
Long-Shot CFB Transfer Ideas for Big-Name QBs Who May Lose Key Position Battles
It's the time of year when you start looking ahead, projecting how your team will look and thinking up wild, outlandish scenarios where players bolt for clearer paths to playing time... → Read More
College Football True Freshmen We're Most Intrigued to See in 2022 Spring Games
With the vast majority of the high school prospects locked into their programs now that national signing day has come and gone, it's time to look forward to spring practice... → Read More
College Football Recruiting: Initial Top 25 Classes for 2023
National signing day 2022 came and went yesterday with considerable fanfare, even if it's nowhere near what it used to be before the early signing period... → Read More
The Biggest Offseason Priority for Every New Power 5 CFB Coach in 2022
If you only pay attention to what happens on the college football field, you're going to have a difficult time figuring out all of the new faces roaming the sidelines in 2022... → Read More
Predicting Every CFB Conference's Player of the Year in 2022
Every year, some of the top college football players leave to try their hand at the NFL, but there are a bunch of elite playmakers with eligibility remaining who will return in 2022... → Read More
Stetson Bennett and Other Top College Football "Cinderella" Stories
It took approximately one quarter of game action for Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett to change the narrative surrounding him... → Read More
Winners and Losers from the 2022 National Championship
The Georgia Bulldogs can rejoice for the first time in 41 years as a national champion football program. Riding a huge fourth-quarter performance from quarterback Stetson Bennett ... → Read More
Winners and Losers of the College Football New Year's Day Bowl Games
Welcome to 2022, college football fans. If the first day is any indication, buckle up because it's going to be a fun year. Saturday's bowl games gave us every reason in the world for College Football Playoff expansion... → Read More
Ranking the Best 2021 College Football Coaching Hires so Far
There has never been a more wacky "silly season" than what college football experienced this year. So much money has been thrown around that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing had to be working overtime pushing out the dollar bills just to keep up... → Read More
B/R Recruiting: Way-Too Early Look at Top 2023 Prospects
Recruiting never stops, and coaches rarely sleep. Yes, the early signing period for the 2022 recruiting class just ended, and several prospects are going to see the heat turn up in the late cycle as coaches try to earn their signature... → Read More
Early National Signing Day 2021: Ranking Top 25 Recruiting Classes
Who said Early Signing Period doesn't have its own spectacular storylines ? There was plenty of panic-inducing drama as the nation's top-ranked prospect Travis Hunter spurned Florida State and signed with Deion Sanders' Jackson State Tigers... → Read More
Top 2022 Uncommitted Recruits Heading into Early Signing Day
For those who think college football's early signing period has killed the excitement of recruiting, they aren't paying much attention this year... → Read More
B/R Recruiting: Top College Football Storylines Before Early Signing Period
For those of us who pine for the wild-and-wacky halcyon days of a college football national signing day in all its chaos and glory, well, 2021 is for us... → Read More
Winners and Losers from Week 14 of College Football
Championship week brought us feel good stories, newly minted title-holders and and Ol' Saint Nick (Saban) reasserting himself and his team as forces to be reckoned with this college football holiday season... → Read More
B/R Recruiting: Potential Impact CFB Players in the Transfer Portal, Part 2
Welcome to the college football silly SZN on steroids, thanks to the one-time transfer rule and this year's higher-volume-than-usual coaching carousel. On Monday alone, the transfer portal was smoking... → Read More