Connor O'Gara

Connor O'Gara is the senior national columnist for Saturday Down South. He's a member of the Football Writers Association of America. After spending his entire life living in B1G country, he moved to the South in 2015.

Recent Stories

Can Ty Simpson hold down the QB1 job at Alabama?

Alabama Crimson Tide Football In 2025, Alabama is trying to avoid something that hasn’t happened since the Mike Shula era

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 14, 2025

Alabama Crimson Tide Football In 2025, Alabama is trying to avoid something that hasn’t happened since the Mike Shula era

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 14, 2025

Will the SEC fail to win the College World Series for the first time since 2018?

College Baseball It will be a tough look for the anti-SEC crowd if the College World Series still ends in familiar fashion

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 13, 2025

College Baseball It will be a tough look for the anti-SEC crowd if the College World Series still ends in familiar fashion

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 13, 2025

The latest Saturday Down South Podcast dug into the wild move by Vince Marrow.

College Football Watch: The wild Vince Marrow move & what the House settlement means for college football with Kristi Dosh

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 12, 2025

College Football Watch: The wild Vince Marrow move & what the House settlement means for college football with Kristi Dosh

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 12, 2025

College Football Why Steve Sarkisian and oddsmakers are exactly right about the new era of the SEC

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 12, 2025

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said the quiet part out loud about going undefeated in today's college football.

Kentucky Wildcats Football Vince Marrow leaving Kentucky for Louisville is a crazy, but telling development for the SEC’s longest-tenured coach

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 11, 2025

Mark Stoops will have to replace Vince Marrow after his stunning exit to Louisville.

College Football All college football fans should fear this potential scenario with the new College Sports Commission policing entity

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 10, 2025

Could this new era of college athletics yield a familiar fear?

Texas Longhorns Football A decade after Tom Herman was the “can’t miss” coaching candidate, he’s a cautionary tale

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 9, 2025

Tom Herman was one of the stranger coaching arcs of the Playoff era.

College Football There’s a college football equivalent to what the Pacers are doing…we’ve just never seen it (yet)

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 8, 2025

The Pacers are making us rethink what underdogs are capable of, including in college football.

SEC Football Ranking my top 5 SEC pass-catching groups for 2025

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 7, 2025

LSU wide receiver Aaron Anderson is in for a monster year.

Missouri Tigers Football Why Mizzou might have the 2025 version of Indiana’s schedule

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 6, 2025

Eli Drinkwitz has a favorable draw for 2025.

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