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Michigan State Football offers 4-Star 2022 WR Armani Winfield

4-Star 2022 wide receiver Armani Winfield announced he received an offer from Michigan State University on Friday vis Twitter.

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Michigan State is not afraid to take on bigger football schools at a chance to get a top prospect. 4-Star 2022 wide receiver Armani Winfield announced he received an offer from Michigan State University on Friday vis Twitter.

Winfield, who is 6’2 and 180 pounds, attends Lewisville High School in Lewisville, Texas. He is the No. 79 player in the nation and No. 12 wide receiver in the class of 2022 by 247sports.

The Spartans have had success with recruiting players from Texas, but are already in a big hole on this talented wide receiver. Crystal Ball predictions already have him committing to Ohio State, with Oklahoma also getting some love.

Countless other big name programs like Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Miami, Michigan, Texas, USC, and bountiful other schools have sent Winfield offers.

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Grading Notre Dame’s positional groups for the 2020 season

Letter grades for Notre Dame football during their 2020 season, which saw them go undefeated in regular season play, only to lose their final two games.

The season has now ended and we can start to look back on what was a very odd 2020 season of college football. Two of 247Sports analysts Brad Crawford and Bud Elliott, broke down each team in the ACC and gave out grades for their performances.

Both, Crawford and Elliott gave the Irish A’s for the 2020 season, but I wanted to dig a bit deeper and give grades out for each position group and coaching. So here it is, my grades for each Notre Dame unit from this past season.

Michigan State is latest power five program to offer 2023 CB/WR from Florida

Michigan State has handed out a scholarship offer to another recruit in SEC country — this time to Cormani McClain out of Lakeland, Fla.

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Michigan State has handed out a scholarship offer to another recruit in SEC country — this time to Cormani McClain, a 2023 cornerback and wide receiver prospect from Lakeland, Fla.

McClain, who is listed at 6-foot-1 and 170 pounds, has yet to be ranked by 247Sports but he’ll surely be a top recruit soon enough based on the number of schools already showing interest. Despite having two more seasons of high school ball ahead of him, McClain already has offers from Florida, Florida State, Tennessee, Penn State, Kentucky, South Carolina, West Virginia and Georgia Tech.

Check out highlights of McClain from his sophomore season below:

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Spartans make top 7 list for 3-star OT from Dearborn Fordson in 2022 class

Michigan State is joined on Ka’Marii Landers’ top seven list by Michigan, Nebraska, Oregon, West Virginia, Kentucky and Cincinnati.

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The Spartans remain in the running for one of Michigan’s top offensive line targets in the class of 2022.

Ka’Marii Landers, a three-star offensive tackle from Dearborn, Mich., included Michigan State in his top seven list that he released on New Year’s Day. Michigan State is joined on Landers’ top seven list by Michigan, Nebraska, Oregon, West Virginia, Kentucky and Cincinnati.

Landers is listed at 6-foot-4 and 290 pounds, and is the No. 599 overall prospect in the 2022 class by 247Sports. The recruiting outlet also has him ranked as the No. 25 OT nationally and No. 23 prospect in Michigan.

Landers is teammates at Fordson High with another highly-coveted Spartans target in Antonio Gates Jr. — who is still projected to end up in green-and-white, according to 247Sports. It would be very nice if MSU was able to land both of these local guys to help boost their 2022 class.

Check out highlights of Landers — courtesy of his Hudl page — below:

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Notre Dame’s Mayer recognized as an All-American

The talented true-freshman was recognized by 247Sports as one of the best true freshman in the country.

The hype for Michael Mayer out of high school has been warranted, as a former 5-Star out of Kentucky there were big expectations after Cole Kmet took his talents to the NFL a year early. Mayer showed not only Notre Dame fans but the country that the Irish have reloaded at the position, as he was named to the 247Sports True Freshman All-American team.

Mayer’s final stat line was impressive for a first-year player, finishing with 35 receptions for 388-yards and two scores. It was plays like this that have everyone in South Bend drooling about his future potential.

Over the course of the season, Mayer has become a security blanket for quarterback Ian Book, finding the talented freshman and watching him truck over defenders.

The future is extremely bring for Mayer and this is just the beginning of a Notre Dame career that should see more hardware being handed to him before he ultimately leaves early and becomes a star in the NFL. Tight End U is alive and well.

Early predictions for Notre Dame vs. Alabama in Rose Bowl are one-sided

Many early predictions for Notre Dame and Alabama in the Rose Bowl show one common theme.

The turnaround from conference championship weekend to the College Football Playoffs is going to be short. In less than two weeks we’ll see the Irish hit the field against the Crimson Tide in the second national semi-final. Even though there isn’t much turnaround time, plenty of experts have weighed in early with their predictions on how the games will play out.

Over at ESPN, Adam Rittenberg gave score predictions for all the bowl games (insider article) and Notre Dame fans won’t be happy with his prediction. Rittenberg believes that Alabama will soundly beat Notre Dame, guessing the score will be 45-20 in favor of the Tide.

At 247Sports, they polled more that just one analysts, a total of 7 of their experts gave an early prediction for this years Rose Bowl. Once again, the Irish are getting slighted, as each of their seven experts have Nick Saban’s squad topping Brian Kelly’s.

None of the 7 had the game close, two of them had the Irish playing within 21 points, while the rest of their predictions had margins larger than that.

The Crimson Tide with Saban at the helm have never been an easy-out for any team, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t beatable. Just this weekend Florida gave them a battle, but the Gators ultimately fell short of knocking off the No. 1 team in the country.

The Irish can use all of this media fodder as motivation, not many people will think that they stand a chance. That was the same thing that happened on the November 7th, and we all remember how that game turned out.

Georgia, Florida target 5-star LB Xavian Sorey commits, signs with UGA

Five-star 2021 outside linebacker Xavian Sorey has committed to the University of Georgia over Florida and Alabama.

Outside linebacker Xavian Sorey has committed to the University of Georgia and will now sign with the Bulldogs. Sorey is a five-star recruit, who plays football and basketball for IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Sorey previously played for Graceville High School in Graceville, Florida.

Georgia has already offered his younger brother, Daquayvious Sorey, a football scholarship. His brother, who plays for Graceville, plays wide receiver and is an elite 2023 recruit.

Sorey has good size for a linebacker at six-foot-three, and he weighs 214 pounds. He holds numerous scholarship offers, but picked Georgia over Florida and Alabama.

Sorey is rated as the No. 1 outside linebacker, the No. 6 prospect in Florida and the No. 20 prospect overall, according to the 247Sports composite rankings.

This is Georgia’s biggest recruiting win so far on signing day. Sorey gives Georgia a great group of 2021 linebacker recruits. Sorey joins fellow five-star UGA commitment Smael Mondon in Athens.

Sorey Jr. officially signed with Georgia today according to the Georgia football Twitter account:

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Four-star OL Micah Morris signs with Georgia Football

Micah Morris, from Camden County High School in Kingsland, Georgia, has signed his letter of intent to the University of Georgia. 

Georgia football’s signing day got off to a strong start when four-star offensive lineman Micah Morris, from Camden County High School in Kingsland, Georgia, signed his letter of intent to the University of Georgia.

Morris (six-foot-four, 316 pounds) is rated as the No. 10 offensive tackle, the No. 7 recruit in the state of Georgia and the No. 63 overall recruit in the 2021 recruiting class, according to 247sports.

Morris joins 4-star guard Dylan Fairchild and three-star guard Jared Wilson as the Bulldogs first 2021 offensive line signees.

Georgia currently has the No. 3 ranked class in the nation and the No. 2 class in the SEC behind Alabama.

Locked On Spartans: IT’S (early) SIGNING DAYYYYYYYYY

Wil and Matt are joined by Stephen Brooks of 247Sports to take a look at MSU’s 2021 recruiting class on early signing day.

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Wil and Matt are joined by Stephen Brooks of 247Sports and Spartan Tailgate to take a look at MSU’s 2021 recruiting class on early signing day. They talk about the class as a whole, Audric Estime and go through some superlatives including instant impact players and future pros.

You can find the episode on iTunes, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.

Fab Four: Selecting Michigan State football’s Mount Rushmore of all-time recruits

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Surging 4-star running back Audric Estime receives offer from Notre Dame

When you are making noise on the football field and you boost your ranking, its certain to draw a lot more attention.

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When you are making noise on the football field and boosting your stars and ranking, its certain to draw a lot more attention. That’s what Spartan commit Audric Estime has done. Today, Estime announced that he received an offer from Notre Dame via his Twitter.

Estime’s ranking on 247sports, went from No. 345 nationally on November 30 to No. 245 nationally on December 14. His ranking went up by .0172, which now puts him at .9095. That will happen after you win football player of the year in your state.

Estime committed to the Spartans on September 13, but now this offer from Notre Dame has experts flipping their Crystal Ball predictions. Five experts have all flipped their predictions from Michigan State to Notre Dame in one day. Will he remain committed to the Spartans or will he flip to South Bend and play for the Fighting Irish?

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