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Four-star running back Johnathan Thomas (Danvers, Mass./Saint John’s Prep) is expecting to see something he’s not been accustomed to growing up in the Northeast.

The No. 1 prospect in the state of Massachusetts is visiting Arkansas beginning Sunday, and he believes it will be an eye-opening trip south, where college football reigns supreme.

“It’s a whole new experience,” Thomas said. “It’s all about football down there; it’s life. Being up from Boston, people like football, but people down there love it. That’s something that really interests me.”

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Paramus (N.J.) Catholic lineman Juwann Bushell-Beatty was not guaranteed a starting spot entering his junior season. His football career began only two years prior, and there was only hope from the coaching staff he would lock down the left tackle spot during preseason camp.

A breakout junior campaign followed, and the ESPN 150 lineman now has double-digit offers.

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Basketball brought Thomas Holley (Brooklyn, N.Y./Abraham Lincoln) to California first. Football could bring him back.

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A top 10 has emerged for touted running back Jonathan Hilliman (Jersey City, N.J./St. Peter’s Prep), and now some separation is starting to take place among those schools.

“The top five has definitely broken apart but not severely far,” Hilliman said. “I’m not counting out the other schools, depending on what they bring to the table -- if it's academics or great environment or great coaching staff.”

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The list of offers for Gerald Owens (Westville, N.J./West Deptford) is certainly well-rounded. If a Pac-12 team offers soon, he can check the last conference off and complete the list.

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SUWANEE, Ga. -- With 14 offers to date, ESPN Watch List prospect Terry Googer (College Park, Ga./Woodward Academy) is one of the most coveted wideouts in Georgia for the 2014 class. At 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds, Googer also might be the most physically impressive receiver in the Peach State.

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Torrance Gibson (Plantation, Fla./American Heritage) is one of only two, and he knows just how special it is.

A class of 2015 quarterback, the 6-foot-4, 195-pound Gibson joined ESPN Watch List junior Deshaun Watson (Gainesville, Ga./Gainesville) as the only signal callers currently with offers from Ohio State.

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After a junior season that included 100 tackles, four sacks, seven tackles for loss and two forced fumbles, defensive tackle Lamont Gaillard (Fayetteville, N.C./Pine Forest) and his coach Bill Sochovka felt offers would eventually come.

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Class of 2014 defensive end Trent Harris (Winter Park, Fla./Winter Park) is legitimately on the radar, if he wasn't before, that is.

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Sometimes it takes a few years for high school prospects to be discovered by major college football programs, but for Brooklyn (N.Y.) Lincoln junior defensive tackle Thomas Holley, it took only eight games.

Holley began his high school career playing basketball at national powerhouse Christ the King in Middle Village, N.Y., but when he began to fill in to his 6-foot-4 frame, he realized his future might be in another sport.

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The Georgia coaching staff might have missed on signing an ESPN 150 offensive tackle in the Class of 2013, but instead of lamenting what could have been, offensive line coach Will Friend is aggressively searching for his next top target.

In the last 24 hours, Friend has extended three offers to talented juniors in the Southeast.

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Class of 2014 defensive end Trent Harris (Winter Park, Fla./Winter Park) went to Tallahassee this weekend for Florida State's junior day not knowing what to expect.

He got the normal tours, of course, seeing what the campus had to offer. He met with the coaches and got a sense of things.

But when he was called into coach Jimbo Fisher's office, he was surprised to hear an offer was coming.

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Class of 2014 wide receiver Garrett Johnson (Winter Gardens, Fla./West Orange) went down to USF on Sunday hoping to see more of the changes the program had made in the last several months.

With a staff overhaul, and a different-looking group in the in the athletic facilities, there were some things Johnson had yet to see despite his having visited before.

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