College football recruiting live updates: Rankings, commits, decommits and latest news

Georgia has flipped three-star receiver Yazeed Haynes, who decommitted from home-state Penn State earlier within the week. Haynes, who’s from Fort Washington, Penn., is a three-star and in the intervening time turns into the lowest-ranked non-kicker in Georgia’s upcoming class. (He’s rated No. 637, and Georgia has 18 commitments, together with a kicker.)

But the Bulldogs have prioritized velocity at receiver, and the defending nationwide champions see room for Haynes to develop.

For some time, it appeared as if Downs was an Ohio State lean. He was an integral piece on Ohio State’s remaining board, so the truth that Nick Saban was in a position to change the tide — pun meant — so shortly is simply one more instance of why he’s the very best nearer within the recreation.

The Tide’s class bought off to a gradual begin this cycle, however Alabama continues to be, properly, Alabama. Downs is now the third five-star prospect and the seventh top-100 participant within the Tide’s class. Given Alabama has 15 commitments, you may see that is properly on the best way to being a category that may compete for the recruiting crown.

Where do the Sunshine State groups stand within the 247Sports rankings?

Bryant, the No. 61 general participant and the No. 4 linebacker within the 2023 class, was initially scheduled to announce his dedication earlier this week. When he pushed it again, there was some noise that possibly Florida had gained some momentum on this big-time in-state battle. Mario Cristobal, who has been on as scorching of a recruiting tear as anybody in faculty football this previous month, closed once more.

These varieties of recruitments are going to be common for Florida and Miami shifting ahead, and who will get the very best of them can be an enormous figuring out issue as to which coach is extra profitable of their respective rebuilds — Cristobal or Billy Napier. Miami’s class now ranks No. 7 nationally and has seven prospects who rank within the prime 125 nationally.

Brent Venables was in his early 40s, a younger defensive coordinator at Oklahoma, when he confirmed up at Horn High School in Mesquite, Texas, on a spring day in 2011.

“College recruiters come, and they’ll show up and they’re gone. They might be there 10 minutes,” stated Rodney Webb, Horn’s head football coach on the time. “But I remember coach Venables showed up and stayed the entire spring practice. It was like, two hours.

“That was the coach Venables that I knew.”