Sports Illustrated released its preseason All-American teams ahead of the 2025 campaign and included Florida's Austin Barber and Jake Slaughter.

LSU has operated with edge rushers Jack Pyburn and Gabriel Reliford as the first-team weapons, but Florida State Seminoles transfer Patrick Payton is poised to take on a critical role for the Tigers.

Across our Pigskin Peninsula, fans are dusting off their Tim Tebow and Dan Marino jerseys and convincing themselves — perhaps irrationally — that THIS is the year their team returns to the glory days. It’s a Sunshine State ritual, even when recent history offers little reason for optimism.

Florida football enters the 2025 campaign ranked among the top 25 but with a brutal schedule including SEC foes, the Gators might finish unranked.

Take a look at some Central Florida high school football highlights from this Friday, Aug. 22.

Florida high school football is back! Stay up to date with the latest scores from across Escambia and Santa Rosa county football.

Former Florida Gators star Anthony Richardson has been benched by the Colts, losing the QB job and raising questions about his NFL future.

The urgency is now. Bennett, who began coaching in Pensacola in 1985, hits a 40-year milestone on Aug. 22 when the 2025 high school football season has its traditional opening night among area teams. The Gators have one of the feature opening night matchups, facing West Florida High at Escambia’s Emmitt Smith Field.