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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Tampa Jesuit linebacker Vincent Jackson has plenty of scholarship offers from all over the country, but two schools he didn’t know as much about were Alabama and Auburn. He visited the two in-state rivals over the weekend.

Jackson arrived in Tuscaloosa on Friday with his friend and ESPN Watch List offensive lineman Isaiah Wynn. The two toured the school, the facilities, and watched the scrimmage before sitting down the with coaching staff.

When Jackson sat down with UA head coach Nick Saban, he received good news.

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With five days remaining in the regular signing period, ESPN Junior College 100 offensive tackle Aleon Calhoun (Navasota, Texas/Navarro College) has some quick decisions to make.

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Sophomore athlete Jaylin Hayward is undecided, which is normal for a prospect with two years of high school left. He has plenty of time to choose a school from among his impressive offer list, which includes programs like Alabama, LSU, Florida State, Florida, Miami and Tennessee. But before he picks a college, he has to pick a position -- which could be trickier.

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Plant City, Fla., offensive lineman Montel McBride took home offensive line MVP honors after his standout performance at the Orlando NFTC on Saturday. The 6-foot-4, 329-pound guard won all of his 1-on-1 matchups and made it look easy in the process.

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Jimmy Bayes (Immokalee, Fla./Immokalee) has a Big East school's 2014 class off and rolling.

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Three-star Matt Dayes (Weston, Fla./Cypress Bay) had been committed since last summer, but in December he decided to look around a bit.

On Wednesday night, he removed any doubt that his future.

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Josh Malone continues to rake in the scholarship offers.

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In a perfect world late-rising senior Justin Madison (Tampa, Fla./Robinson) would just take an official visit to Wake Forest this weekend and choose between the ACC program and Iowa State on signing day. However two in-state programs have made it hard for Madison to stick to the original plan.

Madison has received offers from Miami (Fla) and South Florida in the past week. The South Florida offer came on Tuesday and might have bumped Miami from contention.

“South Florida is coming in pretty late, but it’s a new staff and they are doing a whole new set of evaluations,” Madison said. “I think I’m going to go by the school and meet the staff tomorrow and we’ll see what happens.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Three-star Gainesville High School linebacker Keith Kelsey Jr. made his college commitment Monday morning.

The 6-foot-1, 213-pound athlete chose Louisville over USF and Kentucky.

Kelsey, who said he liked the fit at Louisville, said one thing stood out in choosing the Cardinals.

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Four-star running back Jojo Kemp (Deland, Fla./Deland) went back to where it all started this weekend. Kemp committed to South Florida in the spring but backed away from that commitment during the fall. Now the 5-foot-10, 190-pound running back was back on campus meeting a new staff.

Kemp decided to take the visit to South Florida because he felt like the school he was once committed to deserved another look

“I wanted South Florida to be my final visit,” Kemp said. “I wanted to meet the new staff and see what they were about. Now I can go home and shut this down. Everything just keeps getting crazier.

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After his trip to Memphis this past weekend, three-star running back Robert Davis (Tampa, Fla./Carrollwood Day) has taken official visits to his top three programs. Is the 5-foot-8, 175-pound senior ready to decide?

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While ‘Super Bowl Sunday’ isn’t for another couple of weeks, it was ‘Super Bull Sunday’ for South Florida after Willie Taggart and the Bulls staff received commitments from several top recruits.

The big news for South Florida started early when ESPN 300 defensive lineman Eric Mayes (Sarasota, Fla./Booker) committed to the program and when the day was over South Florida had four new commitments on the defensive side of the ball.

The commitment of Mayes and getting three-star defensive lineman Derrick Calloway (Bradenton, Fla./Manatee) to flip from Louisville to South Florida were the biggest stories and showed the pull that Taggart has in the Sarasota/Bradenton community.

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Fort Scott (Kan.) Community College defensive end Demetrius Hill changed his mind and canceled a Division I visit this weekend. He wants more.

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