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2023 college football team recruiting rankings following five-star’s commitment

How much will these change in the next two weeks?

We’re less than 10 days until college football’s early signing period begins. It certainly feels a bit different these days with the growth of the transfer portal in recent years but don’t get it confused. Recruiting is the lifeblood of a program, and if you’re not doing it well, chances are you aren’t going to win big.

Where will some of the teams that got off to fiery starts end up in the rankings? And who may have started slowly but is closing the gap in the final days?

Here is the up-to-date top 40 team recruiting rankings courtesy of 247Sports following the commitment of five-star edge rusher Keon Keeley to Alabama.

Report: Georgia QB Stetson Bennett to attend Manning Passing Academy

Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett has been invited to attend this year’s Manning Passing Academy.

Per Phil Kaplan of the Lafayette Daily Advertiser, Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett has been invited to attend this year’s Manning Passing Academy.

Bennett was one of 45 college quarterbacks invited to attend the event, which runs from Thursday–Sunday at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.

The camp is hosted annually by the Manning family for high school and junior high school quarterbacks. Elite college quarterbacks throughout the NCAA attend the camp as counselors yearly — this year’s event will have 1,350 campers, the most ever.

A few quarterbacks who also received an invitation this year include Alabama quarterback Bryce Young, Ohio State’s CJ Stroud, Tennessee’s Hendon Hooker and Arkansas’ KJ Jefferson.

Bennett, who helped Georgia to become college football national champions, threw for 29 touchdowns and only seven interceptions in 12 starts in 2021. He was named Offensive MVP of the national championship game against Alabama.

Watch Peyton Manning’s three Super Bowl commercials

How a product or service you want to sell to an NFL audience? Peyton Manning is your man!

Peyton Manning is in demand.

The free agent pitchman made plenty of commercials during his playing days, and that has continued after his retirement from the NFL.

Manning was featured in three commercials during Super Bowl LVI on Sunday (the Rams defeated the Bengals). Here’s a quick look at Manning’s three ads from the 2022 Super Bowl.

Notre Dame football: Book earns more hardware in win over BC

After another stellar showing against Boston College, Ian Book received national praise as Notre Dame’s starting quarterback

Notre Dame quarterback Ian Book continues his steady rise the last couple weeks after playing another great game at Boston College over the weekend.

Book has turned into a fringe Heisman Trophy candidate and although that appears incredibly unlikely for him to ultimately win, him being a finalist all of a sudden doesn’t seem so crazy.

Additionally, the Notre Dame signal caller was named a Manning Award Star of the Week after his efforts against Boston College, the third time Book has been named a winner during his career and first in 2020.

Notre Dame’s official release on Book’s award can be read below:

NOTRE DAME, Indiana — Adding to his honors following the 45-31 win over ACC rival Boston College Saturday, graduate student quarterback Ian Book was named a Manning Award Star of the Week for his performance.

Fans can vote for Book to be named the Manning Award Quarterback of the Week by visiting https://bit.ly/VoteIanWeek11 and “liking” Book’s photo. Voting closes Thursday at Noon ET.

It marks the third time in Book’s career that he has been named a Manning Star of the Week, and first time this season. The honor comes on the same day Book was named to the Davey O’Brien Award Great 8 List for Week 11 and recognized as honorable mention for the CFPA National Performer of the Week.

In Notre Dame’s eighth-consecutive win of 2020, and 14th-consecutive overall (the longest streak in the FBS), Book went 20-of-27 for 283 yards and three touchdowns, with zero interceptions and zero sacks for a 198.8 QB rating. He also added 10 rushes for 85 yards and a touchdown.

With a 74.1 completion percentage, Book led all ACC quarterbacks on the weekend. Book was also the only ACC quarterback not to take a sack this weekend (among eligible QBs), and his 10.48 yards/attempt were the second-most in the ACC for the week.

Book has now totaled 195-consecutive attempts without an interception, which is the third-longest active streak in college football, and the longest streak among all Power 5 players. It ranks second only to Brady Quinn’s 226 in 2006 (Michigan State to Army) in Notre Dame records.

Book was the only ACC quarterback on the weekend to throw three touchdowns and zero interceptions, while also avoiding any sacks. Ranking tied for eighth nationally in touchdown passes on the weekend, of the seven quarterbacks who threw more, three of them threw interceptions, and only one of those seven was not sacked. Book’s 198.8 passer rating Saturday ranked sixth on the weekend among all FBS quarterbacks.

Accounting for four touchdowns (three passing, one rushing), Book’s game marked the first time a Notre Dame player has been responsible for four or more touchdowns in a single game since he did it at Stanford in 2019. Book has led the Irish to score 45 or more points in two-consecutive games for the first time since 1996 (vs. Pitt 60-6, vs. Rutgers 62-0).

Entering Saturday, Boston College’s scoring defense ranked fourth in the ACC, allowing 24.6 points per game. Notre Dame surpassed that mark in the first half alone with 31 points in the first 30 minutes.

The Irish return to play Friday, November 27, when they travel to play North Carolina in Chapel Hill (3:30 p.m. ET on ABC).

Ranking 6 options for ESPN now that Tony Romo won’t be in the Monday Night Football booth

HOUSTON – NOVEMBER 23: ESPN Monday Night Football cameras point during the game between the Tennessee Titans and the Houston Texans on November 23, 2009 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. The Titans won 20-17. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images) …

All that speculation about Tony Romo leaving CBS for the greener pastures of Monday Night football was for naught. Romo is hanging around CBS for the foreseeable future — as anyone would if they were offered $17 million per year — and ESPN has to figure out what material changes — if any — will be made for their flagship football program.

Before we start all the speculating, here are the rules:

The potential color person must not be tied to another network for work on game day. Nate Burleson has shown some great personality and may be a good option but he’s tied to CBS on Sundays.

There will be a preference for ESPN personalities. See, it’s a lot cheaper to move people in-house than it would be to hire someone from the outside. Of course, there will be non-ESPN personalities on the list, but they will probably come at more of a cost.

We won’t be dealing with current players either. Tom Brady isn’t going to be in that booth. Greg Olsen is signed to a nice contract with the Seahawks. This is not a reverse Jay Cutler situation where Cutty signed on with Fox and then came back to the NFL.

Let’s get to it.

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