Carson Boyd, a three-star quarterback, loves his home state. Illini: “I think I can do really well in that program.”

Carson Boyd, a three-star quarterback, loves his home state. Illini: “I think I can do well in that program.”

Carson Boyd was the first player from Illinois’s Class of 2025 to commit to playing football there. Most people didn’t know about the three-star football prospect from O’Fallon, Illinois, for five weeks.

On Dec. 16, Boyd went to Illinois for an unofficial visit. He helped the Saint Louis (Mo.) Cardinal Ritter for back-to-back state titles. Robert Boyd, Boyd’s dad, met with Bret Bielema and asked Bielema about committing early.

Boyd said, “He was like, ‘Once you feel it, once you earned that feeling, just do it.'” “After that, I gave it some thought and decided to lock in.”

The Boyd family talked about their choice on the way back to O’Fallon and felt completely at ease with committing.

The next day, Boyd called Bielema to make his promise in person. Boyd wanted to use a professionally made video to announce his choice, and Bielema was fine with it as long as Boyd did it soon enough for him to help the Fighting Illini recruit the remainder of their Class for 2025 targets.

On Sunday, Boyd told everyone that he would be a quarterback at Illinois. He released the pledge video just minutes before going back to Smith Football Center for his junior day visit.

He is now the second openly committed player in Illinois’s Class of 2025, after three-star offensive lineman Michael McDonough from Tinley Park (Ill.).

Muhammad had a great year in Seattle after coming from Oklahoma State. As Washington’s No. 1 cornerback, he had 46 tackles, 20 passes defensed, and three interceptions, which helped the Huskies make it to the College Football Playoff championship game.

The All-Pac-12 second-team selection is the most well-known player to leave through the transfer portal since Jan. 12, when Washington athletic director DeBoer left for Alabama.

Rogers initially committed to Washington outside of the portal but returned to it after coach Kalen DeBoer left for Alabama.

He is now said to have dropped out of the portal and will remain with the Huskies. ESPN said Rogers told the school’s new coach Jedd Fisch about his choice on Tuesday and has since started going to class again.

Rogers played his first four years at Mississippi State. With 12,315 yards, he is the second-best passer in SEC history.

He chose to go to Washington to December and was on the team when they made it to the College Football Playoff. He is still eligible for one more year.

Arizona State was the very first college to offer Carson Cooney a scholarship. On Saturday, NS HW went back to Champaign for an Illinois junior day.

The 6-foot-3, 225-pound linebacker from Oswego, Illinois, has a lot of offers from Big Ten schools, but the Illini are still one of his top choices.

Since I got the job offer, Illinois has been very important to me, Cooney told the Illini Inquirer. “This visit, I got to talk to the coaching staff more and see a bit of everything.” What makes Illinois stand out is that the staff makes you feel like family.

The ACC is having another bad year, but this week’s AP Top 25 Poll has both of its perennial powers ranked in the top 10. On Saturday, they will play in a huge rivalry game.

Not only are Duke as well as North Carolina competing for the league title, but they are also competing for the top spot in the NCAA Tournament.

There is still a lot of season left, but this weekend’s game would help the winner reach their goals.

The Blue Devils and Tar Heels are the most well-known teams playing each other this week, but they aren’t the only big teams.

There could be a change near the top of the national rankings this weekend because of a top-10 matchup in four of the six power conferences.

The results could mean that CBS Sports’s Jerry Palm’s expected NCAA Tournament bracket needs to be changed even more.