2/25: The Impact Football Can Make

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Campbell Trophy semifinalists at the NFL Scouting Combine

Campbell Trophy semifinalists will be all over the place this week at the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis — a total of 25 from the past two seasons will participate!

The invitees include nine 2024 Campbell Trophy finalists, among them Alabama QB and Campbell Trophy winner Jalen Milroe. The Campbell Trophy has been awarded since 1990, honoring the top football player in the nation for his combined academic, athletic, and leadership accomplishments.

CLICK HERE to read more about the Campbell Trophy semifinalists who are set to participate at this week’s NFL Scouting Combine.

“The town was shut down. There were signs in the street.”

“When it clicked on our team, it then clicked in the community. When it clicked in the community, it clicked in our heads like, ‘Whoa, this is something unique.’ And then our hearts exploded.”

College football analyst Yogi Roth shared with the NFF’s Future For Football his story of growing up playing the sport in Pennsylvania, in the shadows of Pennsylvania prep legends like Joe Montana and Jim Kelly and teams like the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles.

Join us to celebrate all that is good in college football at one of the sport's grandest traditions — the 67th NFF Annual Awards Dinner Presented by Las Vegas — Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, at the iconic Bellagio Hotel & Casino.

The highlight of the Awards Dinner will be the induction of the 2025 College Football Hall of Fame Class, where 18 legendary players and four acclaimed coaches take their place amongst the greatest of all time. The inductees proudly represent every region of the country, 28 collegiate institutions, 11 conferences, and seven decades.

2024 NFF Hall of Fame inductee Tim Couch sat down with LaVar Arrington in the most recent episode of the Good in the Game Podcast to discuss his work ethic on and off the field, sacrificing for the good of the team, and what the game of football means to him. You won’t want to miss their conversation!

The University of North Florida has never played football before — until this spring.

The Jacksonville Sharks, members of the Indoor Football League, will rebrand as the “North Florida Ospreys” on April 19, wearing custom jerseys with the school’s colors in an effort to build support for a football team on campus.

📰: Get ready for North Florida Ospreys ‘first football game,’ courtesy of Jacksonville Sharks
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📰: Mack Brown back in Texas and at peace after Hall of Fame coach’s North Carolina departure
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📰: HBCU pro prospect using coaches’ battle with cancer as motivation
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Wayne Harris, an All-SEC and All-American guard at Mississippi State from 1979-82 who twice won the SEC’s Jacobs Blocking Trophy, has passed away. He was 63.

Robert Giblin, who played collegiately at Houston before spending three seasons in the NFL and later becoming an attorney at a prominent Southeast Texas law firm, has passed away. He was 72.

Jerry Latin, a running back at Northern Illinois in the 1970s and a draft pick of the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1975 NFL Draft, has passed away. He was 71.

Jim Koetter, who played wide receiver at Idaho State from 1958-59 before becoming the head coach of his alma mater from 1983-87, has passed away. Koetter, the father of former Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Dirk Koetter, was 87.

Mike Collier, a running back at Morgan State in the early 1970s and Super Bowl champion with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1976, has passed away. He was 71.

Bill Demory, who started at quarterback for three years at Arizona in the early 1970s before playing for the New York Jets and later becoming a professor of economics at Central Arizona College, has passed away. He was 73.

Marshall Crawford, a three-year letterwinner and team captain at Rice from 1953-55, has passed away. He was 91.

Jon Burnett, who played defensive end at Tennessee before starting a career in television as an anchor and weather man in Pittsburgh, has passed away. He was 71.

Would Chris Harris be here today if it weren’t for football? He says no.

“I will always care about the sport beyond anything else, because I would not be here if I didn’t love it so much.”

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