12:20 AM ET UNLV football player Ryan Keeler died Monday in Las Vegas, the school announced. Keeler, a 20-year-old defensive lineman from Chicago, spent last season with UNLV after starting his college career at Rutgers. UNLV did not provide a cause of death. “While I had the honor of knowing Ryan for only a couple
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8:15 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN The looming changes to the structure of college football simultaneously highlight the strength of the SEC and Big Ten while exposing the fluidity of the rest of the major-conference landscape. With the Big Ten and SEC preparing to start 16-program versions in 2024 and the 12-team playoff looming the same
4:48 PM ET NC State football coach Dave Doeren received a one-year contract extension through the 2027 season, the school announced Friday. Financial terms remain the same; Doeren is scheduled to make $5 million annually. “We are very proud of the standard and culture that Dave has established for our football program,” athletic director Boo
3:58 PM ET BOULDER, Colo. — Deion Sanders strived for greatness throughout a Hall of Fame playing career, and he set similar goals as coach of the Colorado Buffaloes, despite the team’s 1-11 season in 2022. Sanders told ESPN on Friday that he doesn’t cater his message to the team he inherited. Instead, he requires
8:00 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN High school freshman Julian Lewis has already made a Georgia state title game as a starting quarterback, has Ohio State, USC and Georgia among his 35 scholarship offers and has gone viral by wowing NFL stars with his skills. The 15-year-old profiles as the precocious prodigy in nearly every way,
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff Spring practice is only a few weeks away for most college football teams, so what better time than now to spring hope for teams across the country. Using Mark Schlabach’s Way-Too-Early Top 25, we look at 25 possible paths to the 2024 College Football Playoff. For teams like Georgia and
7:39 PM ET Notre Dame is expected to promote tight ends coach Gerad Parker to offensive coordinator, sources confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday, ending a roller-coaster search that initially targeted outside candidates to replace Tommy Rees, who was hired as Alabama‘s offensive coordinator. After talks with Kansas State offensive coordinator Collin Klein and Utah offensive
4:33 PM ET A jury in Indianapolis decided Wednesday that the NCAA is not responsible for the death of a former star college quarterback whose widow was suing the association for negligence. Cullen Finnerty won three Division II national championships as the starting quarterback for Grand Valley State in the early 2000s. He died in
4:52 PM ET Ohio State has canceled a home-and-home series with Washington that had been scheduled for the 2024 and ’25 seasons, the schools announced Wednesday. In a statement, Buckeyes athletic director Gene Smith said his school initiated the cancelation and will be responsible for a $500,000 penalty under terms of the contract that must
12:18 PM ET Kevin Sumlin is returning to college football, joining Mike Locksley’s staff at Maryland as associate head coach, co-offensive coordinator and tight ends coach, the school announced Wednesday. Sumlin was the head coach/general manager of the USFL’s Houston Gamblers last season and had three different stints as a college head coach at Houston,
7:00 AM ET The college football offseason is painfully long, and over the course of the 7.5 months between the national title game and Week 0, we can talk ourselves into quite a bit. The first time a potential Alabama starting quarterback throws an interception in spring ball, we’ll convince ourselves that Nick Saban’s Crimson
7:00 AM ET It’s official: The 2022 NFL season is over, and the offseason is here. And that means we’re getting closer and closer to the 2023 NFL draft. The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday night in Super Bowl LVII to clinch their second championship in four years. Will another team
12:08 PM ET Houston‘s Shannon Dawson is set to be named Miami‘s offensive coordinator, sources confirmed to ESPN, completing coach Mario Cristobal’s coordinator hires. Last week, the Hurricanes hired Lance Guidry to be their defensive coordinator after Kevin Steele left for Alabama. Dawson has spent the past four seasons at Houston under Dana Holgorsen and
7:00 AM ET The offseason is over! SP+ is here! With the 2023 recruiting class — both traditional signings and transfers — in the books for now, and with a reasonable feel for who’s returning and who isn’t, we can take our first step toward the 2023 college football season with the initial SP+ projections.
10:33 PM ET Utah offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig, who interviewed for the same position at Notre Dame, has informed the Irish that he’s staying with the Utes, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Monday night. Sources said that Ludwig’s buyout, around $2 million, proved an obstacle in discussions with Notre Dame. Ludwig, who has spent
6:08 PM ET Associated Press Michigan fired football co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss in January after he failed to attend a meeting to discuss whether he had gained access to computer accounts belonging to other people, according to documents released by the school. An athletic department official told Weiss that the university had evidence that he
1:30 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Akron has agreed to a contract extension with head football coach Joe Moorhead, sources told ESPN. The extension delivers an extra year to his contract through 2027. It also includes a retention bonus structure that puts his salary in the middle of the pack in the Mid-American Conference, per sources.
7:00 AM ET The 2022 head-coaching carousel went mostly as expected, at least with outright firings. Four coaches entered the college football season on the hottest seats — Nebraska’s Scott Frost, Auburn’s Bryan Harsin, Arizona State’s Herm Edwards and Georgia Tech’s Geoff Collins — and all four lost their jobs by November. There were other