Associated Press Aug 8, 2023, 04:29 PM ET AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn fans will once again be able to celebrate victories by rolling the oak trees at Toomer’s Corner with toilet paper. Auburn had asked fans not to roll the new trees after their planting in February 2017 until they were established enough to avoid
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Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Staff WriterAug 8, 2023, 01:51 PM ET Lincoln Riley’s focus since taking the USC job has been trying to nail down the state of California when it comes to recruiting. Rumblings about USC’s and UCLA‘s desires to be the only West Coast teams in the Big Ten have been out there, and
Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Staff WriterAug 8, 2023, 02:02 PM ET Close ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan The back-and-forth battling for recruits between Georgia and Alabama continued Tuesday with ESPN 300 safety Peyton Woodyard flipping his commitment from the Bulldogs to the Crimson Tide. Woodyard, a 6-foot-2, 190-pound defensive back
Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterAug 8, 2023, 01:45 PM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. North Carolina receiver Devontez Walker had his waiver for immediate eligibility denied by the NCAA, a decision Walker described Tuesday as “extremely difficult on me and my family.” The school has filed
Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterAug 8, 2023, 12:49 PM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. Florida State coach Mike Norvell said the NCAA has denied a hardship waiver request that would have allowed Seminoles defensive tackle Darrell Jackson Jr. to play this season. Jackson began his college
Associated Press Aug 8, 2023, 11:23 AM ET ATHENS, Ga. — The University of Georgia has fired the football recruiting staffer who survived a January crash that killed player Devin Willock and another recruiting staffer, less than a month after she filed a lawsuit against the university’s athletic association. The school issued a statement saying
Alex Scarborough, ESPN Staff WriterAug 8, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Trent Dilfer stands in his office doorway in late July, a cheerful grin and a firm handshake obscuring the faint redness in the corners of his eyes. College football’s most
Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterAug 7, 2023, 09:23 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Washington State president Kirk Schulz, in a letter to “Cougar Nation” on Monday, said the recent decisions by Washington and Oregon to join the Big Ten “sealed the fate of the Pac-12,” noting
Associated Press Aug 7, 2023, 08:32 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham has dismissed linebacker Juwan Mitchell from the team. The school did not disclose the reason for Mitchell’s dismissal. “Juwan Mitchell is no longer with the team,” Dillingham said after practice Monday. “Culture wins. It is very, very simple, culture
Associated Press Aug 7, 2023, 04:43 PM ET LYNCHBURG, Va. — Liberty University said Monday that freshman football player Tajh Boyd, 19, has died. The school identified Boyd as an offensive lineman from Chesapeake, Virginia. It did not say when Boyd died or the cause, and calls and a text message were not returned. A
Pete Thamel, ESPNAug 7, 2023, 01:43 PM ET Utah State is expected to hire Big Ten deputy commissioner Diana Sabau as the school’s next athletic director, sources told ESPN on Monday. Sabau oversees all 28 sports for the Big Ten and was the former senior deputy to athletic director Gene Smith at Ohio State, where
Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterAug 7, 2023, 09:29 AM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. Wake Forest receiver Donavon Greene will miss three to five months with a knee injury he sustained on the first day of practice, the school announced Monday. Greene, who entered the season
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterAug 7, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Retaining the No. 1 spot in college football is normally a great thing. Not in these rankings. And not for Texas A&M. No team ever wants to be No. 1 in college football’s
ESPN News Services Aug 7, 2023, 12:04 AM ET Kevin Steele has been coaching for nearly a decade longer than Tommy Rees has been alive. Now Steele is embarking on his second stint as Alabama’s defensive coordinator and the 31-year-old Rees is approaching his first season as the Crimson Tide’s offensive coordinator. They’re at very
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterAug 6, 2023, 10:45 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Cal football coach Justin Wilcox, who played in the Pac-10 and has spent much of his career in the Pac-12, called Friday’s departures of five teams to other conferences “sad” and likely preventable.
Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Staff WriterAug 6, 2023, 04:19 PM ET Close ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan Georgia furthered its dominant recruiting run in the 2024 class on Sunday, when the Dawgs added ESPN 300 running back Nate Frazier. Frazier is the No. 73-ranked prospect overall and is a 5-foot-11,
Andrea Adelson Close Andrea Adelson ESPN Senior Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. David Hale Close David Hale ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Aug 6, 2023, 09:00 AM ET As Florida State president Richard McCullough began his remarks
Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterAug 6, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. It was always a marriage of geographic convenience out West. In the late 1950s, the Pacific Coast Conference disbanded because of a number of feuds and scandals among its members. Five of them (Cal, Stanford, UCLA,