East Carolina Football Announces 2025 Early Signees… East Carolina Hosts Winthrop Thursday Evening In NIVC First Round Bout

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Pirates put together signing day haul

ecupirates.com

• East Carolina Football Announces 2025 Early Signees
• East Carolina Hosts Winthrop Thursday Evening In NIVC First Round Bout

3-Star Havelock WR Johnny Williams flips back to ECU, decommitting from JMU, as part of 21-player 2025 class WITN 7

247 Sports

• Blake Harrell’s brief thoughts on all 19 ECU class of 2025 signees
• Three-star CB Derrion Horsley inks with ECU on Signing Day
• College football bowl projections: Latest intel, playoff picks ahead of conference championships

ECU football: Pirates sign 21 players in 2025 recruiting class Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• One-On-One With Tulane Head Coach Jon Sumrall
• One-On-One With Tulane’s Josh Remetich
• One-On-One With Tulane’s Patrick Jenkins
• Memphis To Face West Virginia In Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl
• Tulane Sweeps American Cross Country Runners of the Year

No. 24 Army looks to win first AAC title vs. Tulane CBS Sports

What channel is Army football vs. Tulane? Time, TV for Black Knights vs. Green Wave Times Herald-Record

In an NIL-era oddity, a quarterback was promised nothing but earned everything The Washington Post

Seven Navy football players receive All-American Athletic Conference recognition The Baltimore Sun

Sports Illustrated

• Six Navy Midshipmen Named to American Athletic All-Conference Team
• Tulane Green Wave’s Tyler Grubbs Praised by Army Coach Jeff Monken
• Navy Quarterback Blake Horvath Semifinalist for Comeback Player of Year
• Army West Point Black Knights Offensive Stars To Watch Against Tulane
• Army West Point Black Knights Coach Nate Woody Broyles Award Semifinalist
• Best College Football Prop Bets for Tulane vs. Army in American Athletic Championship Game

The Associated Press

• No. 25 Memphis, West Virginia to meet in Frisco Bowl on Dec. 17
• UAB retains coach Trent Dilfer for 2025 after 2 losing seasons
• PJ Haggerty scores 23 points as No. 16 Memphis holds off Louisiana Tech 81-71
• Thompson, Ousmane pace Oklahoma State to blowout win over Tulsa
• Oklahoma State to visit Tulsa Wednesday
• Mercer Bears play the Charlotte 49ers in non-conference play

Alabama-Birmingham retains coach Trent Dilfer for 2025 after 2 losing seasons The Tribune-Democrat

USF Bulls’ signing class rife with players from prep dynasties YAHOO!

Hosted

• Update on Neal Brown/Charlotte
• Tulsa Football Players Say Fired Coach Promised NIL Cash That Never Materialized

NOLA.com

• Sources: Tulane’s Jon Sumrall sought by multiple Power 4 conference suitors
• Jeff Duncan: With North Carolina lurking, Tulane needs to step up to keep Jon Sumrall
• Tulane lands groundbreaking early signing day class thanks to quality over quantity

FAU’s first football class under new coach Zach Kittley has many South Florida recruits Palm Beach Post

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• Tried and tested: How Cooper Flagg and No. 9 Duke basketball stood firm to beat Auburn
• Home, away or Hawaii, these Tar Heels haven’t measured up against tough competition
• ‘Winning and losing is a thin line’: Small mistakes, poor free throw shooting cost NC State
• Duke makes late-game statement: 3 takeaways from the Blue Devils’ big win over Auburn
• No challenge in Chapel Hill: Three takeaways from UNC basketball’s home loss to Alabama
• NC State falls short in ACC-SEC Challenge: 3 takeaways from the Pack’s loss to Texas

WRAL

• Flagg leads the way as No. 9 Duke holds off Broome and No. 2 Auburn for an 84-78 win
• No. 10 Alabama beats No. 20 North Carolina 94-79 in the ACC-SEC Challenge
• Johnson’s big 3-pointer late helps carry Texas past North Carolina State
• NC State signs recruiting class heavy in offensive, defensive lineman
• Duke football signs 27 players as part of its highest-rated recruiting class ever
• Amid coaching search, UNC signs three, including Cary High offensive lineman

Winston Salem Journal

• Wake Forest lands 20 players for incoming football recruiting class
• Mac Engel: Eric Dickerson on SMU’s playoff hopes: ‘They can go as far as they want to go.’ Wrong.
• Greg Cote: Ranking 9-3 Alabama over 10-2 Miami shows flaws in 12-team College Football Playoff

Charleston Post & Courier

• Gamecocks expected to announce TCU’s Jeremiah Donati as new athletic director
• Recruit picked Clemson over rich NIL offers. Swinney says he’ll ‘do well’ financially with Tigers.
• Gamecocks add 11 in-state prospects to 25-player haul on early signing day
• Hamilton: Flag planting shouldn’t have its own bandwagon
• Clemson proves staying power with win over No. 4 Kentucky in SEC-ACC Challenge
• Murray-Boyles records double-double in South Carolina’s blowout of Boston College

Roanoke Times

• Hokies put in extra effort to land a pair of multi-sport standouts
• Vanderbilt hands Virginia Tech 5th straight double-digit loss
• Hokies’ Mines on recruiting class
• In the region: Virginia Tech women’s basketball team wins at Georgia
• Virginia football in need of veteran transfer QB in wake of Colandrea’s exit
• Ezeiruaku tops Hokies’ Powell-Ryland for ACC defensive player of the year

UMass to hire Joe Harasymiak as its next head coach The Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Wilks, Satterfield, and More: Possible Head Coach Candidates for Appalachian State Hosted

The Associated Press

• Creighton makes it 2 wins in less than a year against No. 1s, with Jayhawks latest to lose in Omaha
• Flagg leads the way as No. 9 Duke holds off Broome and No. 2 Auburn for an 84-78 win
• The CFP rankings — and ‘data points’ — have left Miami, Ole Miss and South Carolina puzzled
• Stage is set for college football’s conference championship games this weekend
• Ball State makes Mike Uremovich football coach as early signing period opens
• SEC and Big Ten powers lead the way on signing day as prospects finalize their college selections
• Miami’s playoff hopes nosedive as Alabama rises in the latest College Football Playoff rankings
• Big 12 commissioner insists his league’s champion should have playoff bye over any G5 champ