With the 2025 college football season less than 100 days away, the Georgia Bulldogs are expected to be near the top of the college football world again after winning the SEC championship in 2024. However, some predict that Georgia won’t get anywhere close. In fact, according to a recent ESPN article with a few hot takes and crazy predictions, ESPN doesn’t believe that Georgia will make the College Football Playoff.

The Williams Award honors the national coach of the year.

The five finalists are Bratton, Nick Clinard of Auburn, JC Deacon of Florida, Armen Kirakossian of UCLA, and Bowen Sargent of Virginia. The recipient will be announced on Tuesday, June 3.

This season, Bratton has led the second-ranked Cowboys to six wins, including victories in their last four starts.

OSU has not finished outside the top three this spring and has logged three runner-up finishes and a third-place showing. The Cowboys logged their first win of the year in the fall finale at the Jackson T. Stephens Cup.

Bratton’s squad won the program’s 12th Big 12 Championship last month at Southern Hills before capturing its nation-leading 17th regional title at the NCAA Urbana Regional. The Cowboys have been led on the course by 2025 Arnold Palmer Cup selections Ethan Fang and Preston Stout.

Stout has a pair of victories on the year and has been joined in the winner’s circle by Eric Lee.

Bratton won the award in 2018 after guiding the Cowboys to a historic season capped with the program’s 11th NCAA title. He was also a finalist for the distinction in 2021 and 2016.

Arizona State quarterback Sam Leavitt, who dazzled in his first season with the Sun Devils and projects as a potential first-round pick in next year’s NFL Draft, gave back to the community after his splendid debut in Tempe. Leavitt made a $15,000 personal donation to the Pat Tillman Foundation, which supports military service members and their families in honor of the former Arizona State and Arizona Cardinals safety who died by friendly fire in the War in Afghanistan.

The Pat Tillman Foundation awards academic scholarships, paves the way to leadership opportunities and fosters a community for active duty service members, veterans and their families. Each year, it selects up to 60 recipients from a pool of thousands of applicants. The foundation invested $37 million to date and supported more than 900 Tillman scholars.

“I just want to give back to the community and the people that support me and my programs,” said Leavitt. “Just to be able to do something like that in a way that’s super beneficial, I’m happy to be able to give back. It’s a big thing to me and my family. I’ve got a cousin who’s a Green Beret. It means a lot to me. It’s a big-time story at ASU. So to able to do that and give back in a situation where I’m helping kids out, at the same time, it just makes me feel like a better person.”

Arizona State retired Tillman’s No. 42 jersey, and the former Sun Devil is enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame. The Arizona Cardinals also retired his No. 40 NFL jersey and inducted him into their Ring of Honor. Tillman was a first-team All-American in 1997 and collected 374 tackles across four years in the NFL.

“It’s an incredible gift and an honor to see a young kid that really understands what we do here at the foundation and wants to invest in what we call the ‘ripple effect’ of Pat’s legacy,” Pat Tillman Foundation CEO Katherine Steele said. “And so for a young kid to recognize that and want to give back to the foundation and the mission of what we do — proud. Proud and honored and humbled, for sure.”

This is not the first time Leavitt used his college football fame for good. Late last season, he donated proceeds from his personal merchandise sales to Arizona State’s NIL collective and urged Arby’s to sign eight Sun Devil offensive linemen to NIL deals of their own.

Leavitt established himself as one of college football’s top quarterbacks last season and was one of the primary catalysts — along with running back Cam Skattebo — behind an unforeseen breakout Arizona State campaign. He guided the Sun Devils to a Big 12 title and College Football Playoff quarterfinals appearance with his 2,885 yards passing, 442 yards rushing and 29 combined touchdowns.

Leavitt joined the Arizona State program as a four-star transfer after he opened his career at Michigan State. He carries three years of eligibility into 2025 but will be draft eligible at the end of his upcoming redshirt sophomore season.

The next batch of college basketball stars is getting ready to step into the light. A lot of them have committed already and are locked in and ready to go ahead of the new season. AJ Dybantsa is one of the most popular names in the 2025 recruiting class.

Dybantsa is the number one recruit in the 2025 class, and he’s playing college ball at BYU next season. He visited the campus earlier this month in a bid to acclimatize with the environment where he’ll be showcasing his talents for at least the next year.

AJ Dybantsa Gets Honest During His BYU Visit

Dybantsa visited BYU campus and vlogged his experience, posting it on his YouTube channel. Through his lens, he took fans on a tour of the program’s facilities, and he introduced some of the staff he’ll be working with over the next few months. He even put in a few workout reps.

Dybantsa also revealed a part of his chill and laid-back personality as he attempted to do a dance on his vlog, but he did admit that he’s a terrible dancer.

“No balance, terrible energy,” he said when attempting a dance routine.

Dybantsa also did a Q&A session with the fans where he mentioned he would be picking a business major at BYU. He also mentioned that he doesn’t like the cold at Provo.

Dybantsa, who will wear No. 3 at BYU, will be draft eligible next year and is currently projected to be the No. 1 overall pick.

Dybantsa grew up in Massachusetts and was named the Massachusetts Boys’ Basketball Gatorade Player of the Year following his freshman season for Saint Sebastian school after averaging 19.1 points, 9.6 rebounds, 2.9 assists, and 2.5 blocks per game.

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Dybantsa was recently invited to train with Team USA from June 14–16 in Colorado Springs as coaches try to select a roster that will represent the United States at the 2025 FIBA U19 World Cup in Switzerland.

Dybantsa is not new to the national team, as he was a gold medalist with the U17 National Team in Turkey last summer, and as well as with the U16 squad in Mexico in 2023.

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The first two teams in the Women’s College World Series are set, with Texas Tech and Oklahoma riding to victory in the NCAA softball super regionals.

Texas Tech, a 12-seed, became the first team to punch its ticket to the Women’s College World Series with a super-regional sweep of No. 5-seeded Florida State on Friday. Oklahoma, the seven-time NCAA champs, joined them on Saturday with a mercy-rule sweep over Alabama.

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NiJaree Canady, who transferred to Texas Tech from Stanford for the largest-ever softball NIL deal, led the way for the Red Raiders, pitching seven innings each in Games 1 and 2, allowing just one total run. Canady added a hit, RBI and a walk in Game 1. Texas Tech finished the regular season No. 11 in the USA Softball rankings.

After a 3-0 win over the Crimson Tide on Friday, the Sooners punched their ticket with a 13-2 win on Saturday, with the matchup ending after five innings due to the college softball mercy rule. Freshman shortstop Gabbie Garcia hit two two-run homers, including one that began a nine-run third inning for Oklahoma.

It will be Texas Tech’s first appearance in the WCWS. For Oklahoma, however, it’s familiar territory: The Sooners have appeared in the event 18 times since 2000, winning the past four championships.

South Carolina, which won Game 1 of its series against UCLA 9-2 thanks to catcher Lexi Winters’ 3-RBI performance, had a chance to clinch its spot on Saturday. But the Bruins had another idea, with junior Jordan Woolery slugging a two-run walk-off homer to keep UCLA’s title hopes alive. The Gamecocks and Bruins will now face off in Game 3 on Sunday.

Tennessee found itself in the spotlight — and in the NCAA’s crosshairs again — this month when Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill that would essentially allow Tennessee, Memphis, and Vanderbilt to not have to abide by the new revenue-sharing rules and ultimately continue NIL collective payments. That caused a response from the NCAA.

Tennessee has (essentially) responded to that response.

Conference leaders want their members to sign “membership agreement” contracts to eliminate future lawsuits and allow the new rules coming with the College Sports Commission to become enforceable. Tennessee athletic director Danny White went on record later in the week after the new leadership plan was leaked to state that he would rather see a different route taken in college athletics.

“It’s a real issue, we could go on and on about what we need,” White said. “But I’ll say it, we’ve got a camera on us (but) I don’t really care at this point: collective bargaining (CBA) is the only solution.”

That belief is in direct opposition of what the NCAA — and its leaders — have wanted to do. For months, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, NCAA President Charlie Baker, and multiple other administrators have made multiple trips to Capitol Hill to ask for antitrust support once the House v. NCAA settlement was passed and revenue-sharing would arrive in college athletics. However, eliminating blatant pay-for-play from collectives is seemingly a top goal along with not making athletes employees for the leaders in college athletics. Sankey has even publicly discussed wanting to specifically avoid making athletes employees of universities

White believes the opposite.

Throughout the entire NIL era, Tennessee has had some one-on-one battles with the NCAA after pay-for-play scandal that costed head football coach Jeremy Pruitt his job before NIL became legal in college athletics. The NCAA tried to make quarterback Nico Iamaleava ineligible before the 2024 season because Tennessee fought back with lawyers and state legislation to get the NCAA to back off. Now Tennessee is fighting back again.

Expect Danny White to be a popular figure at next week’s SEC Spring Meetings in Destin. We are still waiting on the settlement to pass so we can officially enter this new era, but Tennessee is already trying to change the rules before the rules are established.

It is possible that White might not be wrong here. The big antitrust problem that keeps putting college athletics in court could be eliminated with a negotiated CBA, but as with everything in this evolving world, it’s a bit complicated.