Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze has said that the annual A-Day spring football game will look more like a traditional practice, set for April 12 and open to the public at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
Spring football practices are said to have been the brainchild of Harvard captain Arthur Cumnock, who led the team through drills in March 1889. It became common in that era for teams to scrimmage against each other in the spring. Michigan held the first open-to-the-public spring game, an intrasquad scrimmage on May 14, 1925.
College football spring games are starting to become a thing of the past. For now, many programs around the nation will still hold a traditional showcase to wrap their spring practice slates, but ...
College Football: Overall view of Memorial Stadium during Nebraska Red-White spring game. Lincoln, NE 4/17/2010 CREDIT: Bill Frakes (Photo by Bill Frakes /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images) (Set ...
In another sign of college football's transformation, Texas and USC have joined Nebraska in canceling their spring games. "No, we're not going to have a spring game," Texas coach Sarkisian told ...
The Trojans will have 15 early enrollees taking part in spring practice, headlined by the two crown jewels of their 2025 recruiting class, five-star quarterback Husan Longstreet and five-star ...
Plenty of college football teams won't play a spring game in 2025. But Memphis' Ryan Silverfield said he'd never considered canceling it. Here's why.
Some teams like Clemson and Alabama will still hold their spring games, emphasizing the varied approaches this season. By the Numbers. Clemson's spring game is scheduled for April 5 at 1 p.m. North Carolina's open practice event will take place on April 12 at 6:30 p.m. State of Play. Many teams have decided to scrap their formal spring games ...
For decades, the spring game has been an annual tradition for several college football programs. It is a great way to conclude spring training and gives fans a preview of football before the fall ...
The latest to change its spring game format is Auburn, which revealed new plans for the event on Tuesday. Instead of the typical A-Day spring game on April 12, the Tigers will hold an open ...
Via Sports Business Journal, both USC and Texas have ditched their spring games for 2025.Other Big Ten teams have canceled spring games, including Ohio State and Nebraska. And more programs are ...
Lincoln Riley and USC Trojans become the newest to join the ‘cancel spring games’ movement. The storied powerhouse from Los Angeles has opted to cancel its 2025 spring game, a move first reported by The Los Angeles Times and later confirmed by USC beat writer Ryan Kartje on X. Spring games had been held at USC since Pete Carroll strolled the sidelines of the Coliseum.
Spring game cancellation in college football became a major topic this offseason. Several teams, including Texas and USC, have canceled their spring games, and fans have expressed mixed opinions ...
Since college football seems to be increasingly focused on money and growth these days, let's speak their language for a second. If spring games are eliminated in favor of NFL-style OTAs -- an ...
More and more college football teams are cancelling their Spring Game and there is an easy explanation why it's happening. ... Say goodbye to the Spring Game. Well, say goodbye until College Football grows a leadership branch and takes care of many of the flaws in the transfer portal and NIL system.
The final game ended on Jan. 20 with Ohio State defeating Notre Dame, 34-23, to cap off the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff. The first game of the 2025 regular season won't start until ...
The elimination of spring games at prominent programs, with more cancellations sure to follow, gives everyone in college football the chance to dump the December transfer portal window and emphasize late-spring, early-summer practice in preparation for the long regular season.
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