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Michigan State football lands commitment from 3-star Orchard Lake St. Mary’s LB Charles White

Michigan State lands commitment from 3-star Orchard Lake St. Mary’s LB Charles White

Michigan State football has landed their second commitment of the 2025 recruiting class. Just five days after securing their first commitment in quarterback Leo Hannan, the Spartans picked up another big recruiting win when 3-star linebacker Charles White announced his pledge to the Spartans.

White is the No. 14 ranked player in the state of Michigan by 247Sports, and their No. 605 ranked player overall in the 2025 class.

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Spartans pick up 247Sports’ crystal ball predictions for 3-star LB Charles White

MSU football is trending in the right direction for a three-star linebacker from their own backyard

Michigan State football is trending in the right direction for a three-star linebacker from their own backyard.

Three-star linebacker Charles White of Orchard Lake, Mich. is currently being projected to end up in green-and-white. Four recruiting insiders from 247Sports have entered crystal ball predictions in favor of the Spartans landing a commitment from White.

White ranks as the No. 66 linebacker and No. 10 player from Michigan in 247Sports’ composite rankings for the 2025 class. He’s also listed as the No. 592 overall prospect in the country for the class.

Michigan State has already extended him an offer and is one of nearly 20 schools to do so. According to 247Sports, he is also strongly considering Boston College and Kansas.

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Spartans target, 3-star LB Charles White to visit MSU on Thursday

One of the Spartans’ top linebacker targets in the 2025 class will visit campus on Thursday

One of the Spartans’ top linebacker targets in the 2025 class will visit campus on Thursday.

Three-star linebacker Charles White announced he’ll visit Michigan State for Thursday’s spring ball practice. White hails from Orchard Lake, Mich. and is reportedly heavily considering Michigan State.

White ranks as the No. 61 linebacker nationally and No. 10 player from Michigan in 247Sports’ composite rankings for the 2025 class. He holds offers from nearly 20 programs, according to 247Sports.

Michigan State, Kansas, Boston College and Purdue are considered to be the top contenders for White. He is also scheduled to take an official visit to Michigan State in June.

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MSU football makes top four for 3-star LB Charles White

Michigan State football has made the top four for a big-time in-state prospect in the 2025 class

Michigan State football has made the top four for a big-time in-state prospect in the 2025 class.

Three-star linebacker Charles White revealed his top four schools earlier this week, which included the Spartans. Kansas, Purdue and Boston College joined Michigan State on White’s top four list.

White ranks as the No. 64 linebacker and No. 581 overall prospect in 247Sports’ composite rankings for the 2025 class. He’s also listed as the No. 10 player from Michigan.

Michigan State is one of 15 programs to extend White an offer, according to 247Sports. He has an official visit set up with Michigan State later this year.

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3-star LB Charles White to take official visit to MSU in June

The Spartans will be reportedly hosting one of Michigan’s top linebacker prospects in the 2025 class in June

The Spartans will be reportedly hosting one of Michigan’s top linebacker prospects in the 2025 class in June.

Allen Trieu of 247Sports is reporting that three-star linebacker Charles White will take an official visit to Michigan State from June 7 – 9. White plays for Orchard Lake St. Mary’s.

White ranks as the No. 71 linebacker in 247Sports’ rankings for the 2025 class. He’s also listed as the No. 16 player from Michigan.

White holds offers from more than 10 programs currently, including Michigan State. Other notable programs to offer him includes Boston College, Kansas, Indiana, Nebraska, Penn State, Pitt, Purdue and Rutgers.

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What the experts are predicting: Notre Dame vs. USC

See who thinks the Irish have a chance.

Notre Dame really needs to find a way to beat USC. The national title hopes are gone, but this could be key in determining the direction of the program. Win, and everything will seem fine, at least for one night. Lose, and even more questions will be raised.

Here are the prognostications from some college football experts:

WATCH: Anthony Munoz, Charles White explain why they came to USC

Every #USC fan will love this 3-minute video. Anthony Munoz joins @TrojanConquests and @LBCTrojan Sunday, June 4, at 8 ET, 5 PT.

A lot of college football fans spend the offseason rewatching classic college football games on YouTube. We’ve all done it (or at least, I certainly do). What college football fan doesn’t want to fire up the YouTube machine for Pete Carroll’s national championship, or the 2006 Michigan-Ohio State game if you’re a Buckeye fan, or the 2013 Auburn-Alabama “Kick Six” game if you’re an Auburn alumnus? Your favorite team lives forever on YouTube, and there are plenty of classic games to satisfy nearly every fan’s rooting interests.

Lost in the shuffle, however, are pregame segments. The game footage for a lot of college football classics is readily available. The commercials are edited out. Pregame shows, however, aren’t nearly as common on these archived broadcasts, so when a pregame show emerges, it can be quite a discovery.

We stumbled onto one such gem, the NBC Sports pregame show before the 1977 Rose Bowl between USC and Michigan. By all means, watch USC beat the Wolverines to finish No. 2 in the country in John Robinson’s first season as head coach. However, before you do that, catch the pregame show.

At the six-minute mark of this video, you’ll see a three-minute segment introduced by NBC’s Lee Leonard, who — two years later in 1979 — would utter the first words on a live ESPN broadcast when the cable network began. Bryant Gumbel reported this segment.

You’ll see Anthony Munoz and Charles White, as USC freshmen, explain why they came to USC to play college football. You’ll see head coach John Robinson and assistant coaches Marv Goux and Hudson Houck discuss USC’s recruiting prowess and philosophy. It’s great fun, and it recalls a wonderful time in the school’s storied football history.

Anthony Munoz joins Trojan Conquest Live — co-hosted by Tim Prangley and Rick Anaya — this Sunday, June 4, for a special one-hour conversation at 8 p.m. Eastern and 5 p.m. Pacific. If you want to go to YouTube on Sunday evening, the show will be named “Trojan Conquest Live 14.” That’s what you can type into the search field on YouTube. If you don’t go directly to YouTube, Tim Prangley — whom you can follow on Twitter — will tweet out the link.

Anthony Munoz joins Trojan Conquest Live at The Voice of College Football, Sunday at 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific. Don’t miss it!

Here’s the three-minute segment on USC football before the 1977 Rose Bowl, starting at 6:03 of the video:

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Anthony Munoz and Charles White are inseparable in USC football history

Charles White made his last #USC game his greatest one with Anthony Munoz’s help. Munoz joins @TrojanConquests & @LBCTrojan Sunday, June 4 at 8 ET, 5 PT.

The next USC football season will be the first USC football season following the death of Charles White this past January. White died on Jan. 11, 2023, less than 10 days after the 2022 USC season ended.

There will be tributes to Charles White at USC home games this season. The school and the 2023 team will remember White, a central part of USC’s glory days in the late 1970s. Another towering figure from those golden times was and is Anthony Munoz.

USC has had many great offensive linemen and many great running backs. If one was to associate one lineman with one running back in USC history, a few different pairings emerge: Ron Yary blocking for O.J. Simpson in 1967; Bruce Matthews blocking for Marcus Allen in 1981; and Munoz blocking for Charles White in the 1979 season.

One of the greatest drives in USC football history involved Munoz and White. It was their last shared game together as Trojans, and boy did they make the moment count. Munoz shrugged off an injury-riddled 1979 regular season to play in the 1980 Rose Bowl for No. 3 USC against No. 1 and unbeaten Ohio State. This would be Munoz’s last game before turning pro as a Cincinnati Bengal. This would be the final game of White’s epic 1979 Heisman Trophy-winning season at USC.

The Trojans, down 16-10 with nearly five minutes left in the fourth quarter, got the ball at their own 17. White ran for a combined 60 yards on the first two plays of that drive. He got a breather on the next two plays, which moved the ball from the Ohio State 23 to the 12. White then returned to the field and gained the last 12 yards of the drive, scoring from one yard out with just over 1:30 left.

White gained 72 of the 83 yards on the touchdown drive which tied the game at 16. The extra point gave USC a 17-16 lead. The Trojans stopped Ohio State’s offense. White came in and gained 16 more yards to finish with 247 yards in the last game he ever played for the Trojans, with Munoz blocking for him.

Charles White created incredible memories for USC fans, and Anthony Munoz created the running lanes White used to great effect. Two men are impossible to separate in the long and storied history of Trojan football. Anthony Munoz has a special place not only in the story of USC, but in the career of the late, great Charles White, whose memory will be treasured forever … and will be honored this coming season at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Anthony Munoz will appear on this Sunday’s edition of Trojan Conquest Live at The Voice of College Football. Watch the show on YouTube on Sunday, June 4, at 8 p.m. Eastern time and 5 p.m. Pacific on the USC channel at The Voice of College Football. Co-hosts Tim Prangley and Rick Anaya will talk to Munoz for an hour. It’s a program you won’t want to miss.

Follow Tim Prangley on Twitter, where he will tweet out the YouTube link to his special Anthony Munoz interview before the show goes live on Sunday evening.

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Why do college football fans worry so much about SEC bias? History is long

People are afraid of Alabama losing twice and still winning a 12-team CFB playoff because of 1978 and 2003. #USC fans remember.

The fear of a 12-team College Football Playoff is specifically connected to the worry that Nick Saban and Alabama will go 10-2 yet still make — and win — the postseason tournament.

We wrote about this in January:

“Nick Saban and Alabama were so dominant for so long that when a season like this — the Crimson Tide losing twice and looking ordinary — comes along, people are still afraid Bama would win the playoff.

“Yes, it’s true that Bama would have gotten in, but here’s the other side of the coin: Bama would have had to win three games to win the national title beginning in the 2024 season. That makes life harder for Alabama and Saban compared to the BCS, when it just had to win one game to win the national title. In 2023, Bama will have to win two games.”

This long-seated distrust and fear of the SEC has its roots in the 1978 season, when USC beat Alabama in Birmingham and yet still didn’t win an outright championship. The two polls that season — AP and UPI — were split.

Fear and loathing of the SEC also flow from 2003, when USC didn’t get the chance to play LSU for the national title, and yet LSU fans were quick to proclaim how the BCS national championship was uniquely theirs, as though there was no possible comparison or debate.

USC had the high ground in each of these college football seasons, but SEC teams received more credit than they deserved.

We talked to Mark Rogers at The Voice of College Football:

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Former USC offensive coordinator might join Nick Saban at Alabama

Where will Kliff Kingsbury coach in 2023? How should USC honor Charles White? Let’s open up the Trojan football notebook and dive into several topics.

Kliff Kingsbury was the offensive coordinator for USC under Clay Helton and former athletic director Lynn Swann … for a few minutes.

Kingsbury flew to Arizona to don some red wings with the Cardinals before he ever called a play for the Trojans. The inability to actually retain Kingsbury after hiring him was a reflection of the extent to which the USC program suffered under the previous regime, before new AD Mike Bohn came to Los Angeles. Keep in mind that USC reached New Year’s Six bowls in 2016 and 2017 because of Sam Darnold. The Trojans won the Pac-12 championship in 2017. Even then — in spite of those accomplishments — Kingsbury didn’t view USC as a place he had to stay, not even for one year.

Now Kingsbury is a free agent in the coaching world. He will get a fat check from the Cardinals for the next several years, so he might just try to sit on a hammock and relax in 2023 and come back fresh for 2024. However, if he wants to coach somewhere, he will certainly have some options.

Let’s look at Kliff Kingsbury’s coaching options and then move to a discussion of various ways USC can honor Charles White this season. It’s a USC and college football offseason notebook.

Let’s dive in: