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Tom Luginbill ranks his 10 players most likely to become college football stars over the next three years.

Story | Conversation | June 17, 2013

Kanye and Jay-Z are about to seriously damage my eardrums with all this music they are churning out this summer! Jon Solomon of AL.com has a wealth of information on college football's new targeting rule. He starts by talking about where black an...

Everyone who knows anything about college football knows that one major thing that separates the SEC from all the other conferences is the play -- and talent -- along the defensive lines. Ask any coach out there to describe the biggest difference ...

The days of freshmen football players going through the motions are long gone, as every year true freshmen are asked to do more and more for their respective teams. Mo stars, mo problems. A few true freshmen really jumped onto the scene the rig...

With Twitter questions on the keys to the evals, how much difference there is between the players and what's up with players backing out of LOIs, Tom Luginbill answers them all.

Story | Conversation | June 06, 2013

OXFORD, Miss. -- For the past few years, Denzel Nkemdiche has fought to create his own name. When people saw or heard "Nkemdiche" he was barely an afterthought. The real excitement was reserved for his younger brother, Robert Nkemdiche, who was th...

One of the hardest working college football forecasters is back at it, and he's talking All-SEC teams. That's right, Phil Steele has debuted his all-conference teams and the SEC is the last one left. I mean, does he ever sleep? Steele has four ...

Last November, in the second round of the GHSA Class AAAAAA state football playoffs, defending Class AAAAAA champion Loganville (Ga.) Grayson took on Suwanee (Ga.) North Gwinnett. Coming into the game, all eyes were on defensive end Robert Nkemdiche,...

Blog | May 29, 2013

OXFORD, Miss. -- The longest hours of Chris Kiffin's coaching life began in January in a hotel room near Mobile, Ala., a week before national signing day, as a deadly outbreak of storms spawned tornadoes in Georgia, floods in Tennessee and wild weath...

Down here in Destin, Fla., for the SEC spring meetings, and the sand looks great. Georgia safety Josh Harvey-Clemons faces suspension for a marijuana incident. Jon Soloman of Al.com lists five things to watch at this week's SEC spring meetings....

A bug bit Urban Meyer hard in his days at Florida, a bug the two-time national championship coach can't shake. Meyer makes regular recruiting stops in Ohio, Florida, Texas and California, but that Georgia peach is just too hard to resist. In th...

Robert Nkemdiche was the highest rated prospect in Georgia since the start of online recruiting rankings and a consensus No. 1 prospect from wire-to-wire. But none of that will matter today, as the five-star defensive end prepares to enroll at Ole Mi...

Blog | May 27, 2013

For most of his life, Chris Kiffin was known as Monte's son and Lane's brother. After signing day 2013, he took on a new moniker of one of America's best college football recruiters.

With Twitter questions on the significance of the summer evaluation period and instant-impact recruits in 2013 and '14, Tom Luginbill answers them all.

Story | Conversation | May 24, 2013

ESPN's Tom Luginbill has selected five freshmen who are enrolling this summer that he thinks will make an immediate impact in the fall. Two of the players on his list will be playing in the SEC -- Ole Miss defensive end Robert Nkemdiche and Auburn...

Tom Luginbill breaks down five 2013 recruits who will have an immediate impact on their college teams. Not surprisingly, No. 1 recruit Robert Nkemdiche (Ole Miss) makes the list. But so does UW wide receiver signee Damore'ea Stringfellow. To read ...