247sports Morning Blitz

Brendan Sonnone of Noles247 joins The Morning Blitz to preview FSU's first season under the direction of Willie Taggart. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Florida Gators are No. 24 in the 247Sports Summer Top 25. Thomas Goldkamp of Swamp247 joins The Morning Blitz to preview UF's 2018 season. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt Prehm of Duck Territory joins The Morning Blitz to preview the No. 25 Oregon Ducks. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Texas and Alabama have scheduled a home-and-home for the 2022 and 2023 seasons. What does this say about the Longhorns' non-conference scheduling ambitions and the likelihood of them ever rekindling their rivalry with Texas A&M? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joe Burrow announced his intention to transfer from Ohio State toward the beginning of last week, and by the end of it he had already taken a pair of visits, including one to LSU. Shea Dixon has his ear to the ground in Baton Rouge. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rising redshirt junior quarterback Joe Burrow announced on Monday that he intends to transfer from Ohio State to another school this fall where, as a graduate transfer, he would be eligible to play immediately. Some are calling Burrow the most coveted player on this offseason’s college football quarterback transfer market. What does this mean for Ohio State and whichever lucky school ends up with him? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2018 MLB Draft begins in less than a month, and Oklahoma football fans will be paying closer attention to it than they might have ever imagined. Just how much is there to the speculation about Kyler Murray leaving college in the MLB Draft? We talk to national college football writer Chris Hummer and OU Insider editor Joey Helmer. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The NFL Draft has come and gone, leaving behind a fresh set of data to help us size up the player development prowess of your favorite college football. But even as they watched their former stars go pro, college football coaches across the country were hard at work recruiting the first-round picks of 2021 and beyond. On that score, it was Ohio State who landed one of the 10 best prospects in the class of 2019 last weekend, making life difficult for Tom Herman and the Texas Longhorns in the process. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Michigan Insider reported on Thursday afternoon that the NCAA is expected to grant former five-star quarterback Shea Patterson’s appeal to be immediately eligible to play for the Wolverines in the 2018 season, with an announcement coming as early as Friday. What could that mean for Michigan's upcoming season? Steve Lorenz joins the podcast to explain. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After seven months of investigating the causes of corruption in college basketball, the Rice Commission released its 60-page report Wednesday. The Commission, led by former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, laid out a series of recommended policy changes with the goal of stamping out said corruption. Could this document lead to reforms that would expand over into other sports governed by the NCAA. Maybe even, I don’t know, the sport that serves as the exclusive subject matter for this podcast? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2018 NFL Draft begins on Thursday afternoon, and though for this crop of players the draft signifies the end of their college careers, the results of the draft will help shape how future college stars begin their college careers. Today we’re talking about the relationship between the NFL Draft and high school recruiting rankings with 247Sports director of scouting Barton Simmons. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are college football video games returning to a console near you? A new company says it’s picking up where EA Sports left off in 2013 — but can they deliver a product that college football fans will actually want to buy? 247Sports college football writer Brad Crawford joins the podcast to discuss. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It was the last big Saturday of spring games this weekend, which meant one more opportunity for coaching staffs around the country to simulate game-like conditions at their home stadiums for the nation’s top recruits. At the end of it all, there was a new No. 1 in the 247Sports Composite Team Rankings — well, for a few hours, anyway. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bleacher Report published an article on Thursday in which Averion Hurts, father of Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts, intimates that his son is not interested in changing positions to accommodate Tua Tagovailoa and would transfer to another school if he doesn’t win the starting job. What does this mean for the ongoing quarter back battle in Tuscaloosa? We talk to 247Sports national college football writer Chris Hummer and BamaOnLine reporter Charlie Potter. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alabama and Clemson both have to decide whether to replace their accomplished but limited quarterbacks with heralded but inexperienced ones. Clemson played its spring game last weekend, and the two front-runners for the QB job delivered performances of wildly contrasting quality. Meanwhile, Alabama’s spring game is this Saturday, but the favorite to win that job will be on the sideline. Today we’ll explore how recent developments have changed the dynamics of these two high-profile quarterback battles. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ohio State’s spring practice has concluded without anyone seizing control of the starting quarterback job, and the lack of clarity is making life complicated for one of the contenders, who would be eligible to play immediately at another school if he decided to transfer. And fresh reporting from AL.com sheds interesting new light on how Greg Sankey used the power of the commissioner’s office to keep Hugh Freeze from getting a job in the SEC in 2018. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is the kickoff on its way out? The NCAA passed a handful of new rules on Friday, and one change in particular has the college football world buzzing. Kipp Adams of Dawgs247 joins the podcast to give us Kirby Smart's reaction to the revised laws of the game. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As we head into what is, for many schools, the final week of spring practice, one of the major stories to follow through this weekend’s batch of spring games is the quarterback battle at Ohio State, where Dwayne Haskins and Joe Burrow have been fighting it out for the role of QB1 this March and April. And on Tuesday, Urban Meyer threw in a new twist to that tale. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Alabama football team visited with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday and their trip was noteworthy for just how un-noteworthy it was. Meanwhile, Ole Miss has filed a formal objection to the NCAA to try and keep its former star quarterback, Shea Patterson, from being able to play for Michigan in 2018. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Less than a year after Hugh Freeze resigned in disgrace, Ole Miss is —improbably — No. 1 in the 247Sports Composite Team Rankings for the class of 2019. David Johnson of OMSpirit.com joins The Morning Blitz to explain how the Rebels have gotten to this point, and 247Sports national college football writer Chris Hummer hops on the podcast to analyze a proposed change to the NCAA transfer policy. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices