Shocking: Days After USC Trojans Official Visit, 4-Star Offensive Tackle Decommits from Auburn, AU makes 5-star WR’s top six
Commitment silly season is in full swing as the nation’s top high schoolers players get ‘wined and dined.’ The USC Trojans are no exception, this time of year taketh away as much as it giveth. It has been taking away more often recently than the Trojans would like. But today they get some positive news; offensive tackle Carde Smith has de-committed from Auburn.
USC football is newly in the market for the Mobile, Alabama native. They didn’t extend a scholarship offer until a little over a month ago, nine months after Auburn first offered Smith. But Smith visited USC on June 21st and less than a week later he chose to withdraw his commitment to Auburn.
Will the USC Trojans Flip Carde Smith From Auburn?
“Talking with Coach [Josh] Henson and Lincoln Riley, they told me I’d like the place,” Smith told Jarrett Perez of 247 Sports. “So I came up there, and I checked it out and from everything they said… it was true.”
Smith, who measures 6-foot-5 and 293 pounds, ranks as the No. 15 prospect in the state of Alabama and the No. 26 offensive tackle in the class of 2025, according to 247Sports. He would be the Trojans’ first offensive tackle commitment from the 2025 class and the second lineman, joining iOL Willi Wascher.
On3’s Recruiting Prediction Machine gives the USC Trojans the edge (59.4%) in landing the Williamson High School junior and gives Auburn a 38.4 percent chance of winning him back.
Auburn Tigers News: Bruce Pearl plans tough non-con slate, AU makes 5-star WR’s top six
In today’s edition of Auburn Tigers News, the Auburn basketball program is gearing up for a tough non-conference schedule while Auburn football lands in 5-star wide receiver Caleb Cunningham’s top six.
Mar 21, 2024; Spokane, WA, USA; Auburn Tigers coach Bruce Pearl at a press conference at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports / Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
In today’s edition of Auburn Tigers News, the Auburn basketball program is gearing up for a tough non-conference schedule while Auburn football lands in 5-star wide receiver Caleb Cunningham’s top six
Auburn basketball head coach Bruce Pearl has not been one to shy away from scheduling tough games for his team, but the 2024-2025 season may bring the most formidable slate yet. Outside of the usual gauntlet of SEC play, Pearl is setting up some tough competition for the Tigers.
Auburn will participate in the Maui Invitational this November alongside Colorado, Dayton, Iowa State, Memphis, Michigan State, North Carolina, and UConn, and have scheduled Duke as its opponent in the annual SEC/ACC Challenge.
Now the Montgomery Advertiser reports that Pearl is trying to work out a big game to be played in Birmingham this December.
“I don’t think we’re in any position to make any kind of announcement about a game in Birmingham yet. But I can tell you, we’ve got potential for a big game in Birmingham in December,” Pearl said Tuesday at an AMBUSH event at the Finley Center. “We’re working on it. Contracts, I don’t think are quite done. It’ll be a game and an opponent that we could actually sell the building out.”
Auburn football lands in 5-star wide receiver Caleb Cunningham’s top six
Meanwhile, head coach Hugh Freeze and his staff are keeping the Auburn Tigers in the mix for 5-star wide receiver Caleb Cunningham. The Ackerman, Mississippi, native is ranked as the #2 wide receiver in the recruiting class of 2025 and is the #1 prospect out of his home state.
Cunningham’s top six programs include Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Auburn football. He has taken multiple visits to each school, but just finished his official visit to Alabama, after which he named the Tide the leaders in his recruitment.
Though it will be an uphill battle for the Tigers to keep Cunningham out of his home state and away from the Tide, it counts for something that Auburn football is a contender for the talented wide receiver.
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