10:01 PM ET Former Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury is slated to join USC‘s football staff in a role working with quarterbacks, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Monday. The timeline of Kingsbury joining USC and his specific role is expected to come together in the upcoming weeks, sources told Thamel. Editor’s Picks Kingsbury
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10:50 AM ET ESPN staff With an end in sight to spring practice and spring games on the horizon, it’s officially time to start forecasting the coming season. Our writers came together to cast their votes on the top 10 quarterbacks heading into the 2023 college football season. From a Heisman winner to fifth-year seniors
6:15 AM ET EVERY SO OFTEN, North Dakota State offensive tackle Cody Mauch will hear from Kendrick Lenzen, his childhood friend and former grade school teammate, via FaceTime. “He’ll be like, ‘Hey, give me a smile,'” Mauch said. “It’s like he’s admiring his work.” Lenzen is responsible for what might become the most recognizable gap-tooth
9:46 PM ET Ohio State has had no issues recruiting top-tier offensive players under Ryan Day, and the staff continued its success Saturday when quarterback Air Noland announced his commitment to the Buckeyes for the 2024 season. A 6-foot-3, 195-pound pocket passer from Fairburn, Georgia, Noland had a top seven of Alabama, Arkansas, Clemson, Miami,
6:28 PM ET Associated Press BOULDER, Colorado — New Colorado coach Deion Sanders can’t yet point to any on-field wins in Boulder, but signs of a massive shift in mood and expectation abound at this school and in this city around what has been a forlorn football program. Hired in December after a highly successful
8:19 PM ET Penn State recruiting has been picking up momentum since March, and the Nittany Lions coaches added to that success Friday with a commitment from ESPN 300 athlete Quinton Martin. Martin, the No. 27 prospect overall in the class of 2024 according to ESPN’s rankings, is an in-state recruit out of Belle Vernon
7:40 AM ET Appalachian State beat Texas A&M and hosted College GameDay for a game against Troy that it won via Hail Mary. Troy won 12 games and a conference title and finished ranked for the first time. South Alabama won 10 games for the first time. James Madison found itself ranked barely one month
7:00 AM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — A year ago at this time, Sonny Dykes sat in a sparsely decorated office and watched film during spring practice. He didn’t have a lot of time to worry about organizing his shelves when he was making a mad dash recruiting, hiring a staff and managing the transfer
12:01 PM ET Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — The felony assault case against former Nebraska interim head coach and assistant Mickey Joseph was dismissed Wednesday because the alleged victim refuses to testify. Joseph had faced a charge of assault by strangulation or suffocation in connection with a November domestic disturbance at the home where he
6:30 AM ET These are boom times for NFL-bound wide receivers. The past three NFL drafts have seen a total of 17 wideouts taken in the first round (the three drafts before that: seven), and nearly half of them (seven) have been picked 12th or higher. Each year the NFL collectively acknowledges the importance of
6:30 AM ET DUCE ROBINSON EARNED his first college football scholarship offer before he even knew how to buckle shoulder pads. Never having played tackle football, he attended a 7-on-7 tournament prior to his freshman year at Pinnacle (Arizona) High School. Despite his inexperience, his natural ability and massive size (6-foot-4, 200 pounds as a
9:57 PM ET Ohio State‘s run of success recruiting wide receivers continued on Tuesday, when ESPN 300 receiver Mylan Graham announced his commitment to the Buckeyes. Graham gives Ohio State two ESPN 300 receivers in the 2024 class, but he is the eighth wide out ranked in the top-300 to pick the Buckeyes over the
3:31 PM ET Simon Fraser University, the only NCAA football team in Canada, will disband its program, the university announced Tuesday. SFU found itself in a difficult spot after the Great Northwest Athletic Conference stopped sponsoring football after the 2021 season, forcing the Red Leafs to become a football-only member of the Lone Star Conference
6:55 AM ET The 2023 NFL draft is coming up fast, and the first-round picture is becoming clearer and clearer. But why stop there? I’m going two rounds deep in my newest mock draft, projecting selections for the opening 63 picks. There has already been a handful of trades involving picks in Round 1 or
7:00 AM ET The final memory seared into our brains from last season was No. 1 Georgia’s resounding, relentless, insert-your-ugly-adjective 65-7 beatdown of No. 3 TCU in the national championship game. It was the largest win by a team in any bowl game in major college football history. The Bulldogs finished 15-0 in 2022. They
7:20 PM ET Nick Saban and Alabama never rest on their collective laurels on the recruiting trail. On the heels of pulling in ESPN’s top class for 2023 and sitting fifth in ESPN’s initial 2024 class rankings, Saban secured a commitment from highly regarded 2025 offensive lineman Mason Short on Sunday. Short, a 6-foot-5, 302-pound
1:50 PM ET Michigan added a big piece to its 2024 recruiting class on Friday when ESPN 300 quarterback Jadyn Davis announced his commitment to the Wolverines. Davis is the No. 35 prospect overall and the No. 3 dual-threat quarterback in the class. He’s a 6-foot-1, 200-pound signal-caller from Charlotte, North Carolina, and chose the
1:25 PM ET UCLA has hired former Navy football coach Ken Niumatalolo as the Bruins’ director of leadership, the school announced Friday. Niumatalolo, Navy’s winningest head coach, was fired at his locker after the Midshipmen’s 20-17 double-overtime loss to rival Army in Philadelphia in December. In his new role, Niumatalolo — who had a reputation