Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJul 18, 2023, 07:30 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Florida won it for the first five years, then Tennessee and Florida split the next five. Georgia won three of four, then Florida did the same. Georgia won two of three, then Missouri came out of
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Pete Thamel, ESPNJul 18, 2023, 08:00 AM ET NASHVILLE, Tenn. — If they issued Vegas odds on coaches most likely to dish a viral media day quote, Vanderbilt’s Clark Lea wouldn’t exactly be among the favorites. Lea is so defiantly pragmatic and generally thoughtful that his players have joked with him over the years that
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterJul 17, 2023, 06:52 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Northwestern freshman linebacker Nigel Glover entered the transfer portal Monday, the first Wildcats player to do so since the school fired coach Pat Fitzgerald on July 10. Glover, an Ohio native, was an
Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterJul 17, 2023, 06:26 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher told ESPN on Monday that his relinquishing play-calling duties to new offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino has been way overblown and that the transition
Alex Scarborough, ESPN Staff WriterJul 17, 2023, 03:57 PM ET Close Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. NASHVILLE, Tenn. — LSU defensive lineman Mekhi Wingo and running back Josh Williams both delivered the same pointed message about the Tigers entering this season: “We’re coming.” But LSU coach Brian Kelly tamped
Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterJul 17, 2023, 02:27 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on Monday said there is an “urgent need” for Congress to enact a national standard for name, image and likeness and he was emphatic in his
Jul 17, 2023, 12:53 PM ET Vanderbilt has signed football coach Clark Lea to a contract extension, the school announced Monday. Terms were not disclosed, but sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel that Lea received a three-year extension that will carry him through the 2029 season. “Vanderbilt is home, it is such an honor for me
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterJul 17, 2023, 12:32 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Eight former Northwestern football players have retained noted civil rights attorney Ben Crump and a Chicago-based law firm to pursue legal action against the school for hazing incidents that took place within the
Dave Wilson, ESPN Staff WriterJul 17, 2023, 11:42 AM ET Close Dave Wilson is an editor for ESPN.com since 2010. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. The 119th Texas–Oklahoma game will return to a familiar name with a new sponsor in 2023, titled the Allstate Red
Chris Low Close Chris Low ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Alex Scarborough Close Alex Scarborough ESPN Staff Writer Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. Jul 17, 2023, 07:00 AM ET The SEC enters media days with its talk of
Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterJul 15, 2023, 05:44 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Tennessee’s football program must vacate all 11 wins from the 2019 and 2020 seasons under former coach Jeremy Pruitt as part of the penalties handed down by the NCAA stemming from
Pete Thamel, ESPNJul 14, 2023, 04:48 PM ET Tennessee football coach Josh Heupel took the coaching job in Knoxville in January 2021 with the uncertainty of the severity of NCAA sanctions hanging over the program. Two and a half years later, he called it a “huge relief” for the punishment to not include a bowl
Chris Low Close Chris Low ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Pete Thamel Jul 14, 2023, 11:06 AM ET The Tennessee football program avoided a bowl ban but was fined more than $8 million by the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions, which announced its
Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJul 14, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Aside from select ACC Atlantic members, there might not be anyone on the planet happier about the trend of ditching college football divisions than Penn State coach James Franklin. Over the last six full seasons (not
Pete Thamel, ESPNJul 13, 2023, 07:34 PM ET Northwestern defensive coordinator David Braun has been tabbed as the school’s interim head coach for the 2023 season, sources told ESPN. Braun will serve as the interim coach in the aftermath of the firing of coach Pat Fitzgerald amid allegations of hazing in the Northwestern program. Northwestern
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterJul 13, 2023, 07:50 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. The first vacancy of the 2023-24 college coaching carousel opened Monday in stunning fashion and at one of the unlikeliest places. Northwestern fired longtime coach Pat Fitzgerald, three days after releasing the results
Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Staff WriterJul 13, 2023, 07:22 PM ET Close ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan Miami added a huge piece to its 2024 recruiting class on Thursday, when five-star wide receiver Joshisa Trader committed to the Hurricanes. Trader is the No. 11 recruit overall, a 6-foot-1, 180-pound receiver
Dave Wilson, ESPN Staff WriterJul 13, 2023, 12:19 PM ET Close Dave Wilson is an editor for ESPN.com since 2010. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. ARLINGTON, Texas — Brent Venables’ first season at Oklahoma ended in disappointment with the Sooners finishing 6-7, breaking a string