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

Could Hugh Freeze and Brent Venables be on the chopping block in 2025?

College Football It’s a new era in college football, but here’s why big buyouts and an active coaching carousel await in 2025

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 17, 2025

College Football It’s a new era in college football, but here’s why big buyouts and an active coaching carousel await in 2025

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 17, 2025

Can Jackson Arnold lead Auburn to new offensive heights in 2025?

Oklahoma Sooners Football Oklahoma lost the Dillon Gabriel breakup, but here’s what it would look like to lose the Jackson Arnold breakup

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 16, 2025

Oklahoma Sooners Football Oklahoma lost the Dillon Gabriel breakup, but here’s what it would look like to lose the Jackson Arnold breakup

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 16, 2025

Can Nate Frazier become a star for Georgia in 2025?

Georgia Bulldogs Football Why I have a conservative 2025 outlook for Georgia running back Nate Frazier

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 15, 2025

Georgia Bulldogs Football Why I have a conservative 2025 outlook for Georgia running back Nate Frazier

Connor O'Gara

• Jun 15, 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

Can Ty Simpson hold down the QB1 job at Alabama?

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

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

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

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

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.

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