4:39 PM ET Associated Press Reggie Bush, whose Heisman Trophy victory for Southern California in 2005 was vacated because of NCAA violations, is among 18 players in the latest College Football Hall of Fame class announced Monday. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, who won the Heisman in 2007, was also elected to the Hall by the
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5:56 PM ET ESPN’s Lee Corso has been elected to the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame, and college football insider Pete Thamel is one of two national sportswriters of the year, the NSMA announced Monday. Corso has been part of ESPN’s “College GameDay” since 1987 and his “helmet pick” of the winner of
4:04 PM ET A surge of big bets on heavily favored Georgia began showing up at sportsbooks Monday in the hours leading up to the College Football Playoff National Championship game against underdog TCU. Georgia was a 13-point favorite over TCU on Monday afternoon at Caesars Sportsbook. The line had grown to Georgia -13.5 at
2:52 PM ET Michigan running back Blake Corum announced Monday that he is returning to play for the Wolverines for the 2023 season. Corum was Michigan’s leading running back and was ranked as the fifth-best draft eligible running back by ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay. The junior ran for 1,463 yards and 18
1:58 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN After leading Utah to back-to-back Pac-12 championships and two Rose Bowl appearances, starting quarterback Cam Rising announced on Monday that he will be returning to Salt Lake City for his senior season. “Let’s run it back,” Rising said on Twitter, with an accompanying video signaling his return. Let’s run it
10:34 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Star Stanford junior tight end Ben Yurosek, who earned second-team all-league honors in 2022, is returning to school, according to an ESPN source. Yurosek intends to come back to Stanford in 2023, where he’ll be one of the focal points of the Stanford offense. The news is a boon to
12:51 PM ET Northwestern is hiring North Dakota State defensive coordinator David Braun to the same position, sources told ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg. Braun, who had been the Bison’s defensive coordinator since 2019, replaces Jim O’Neil, who spent the past two seasons in Evanston. The Wildcats ended the 2022 season on an 11-game losing streak following
7:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — After all the anxiety-inducing finishes, after the Fiesta Bowl upset of Michigan, after making history as the longest of long shots to make the College Football Playoff National Championship, TCU has just one thing left to do. Its job. “Do your job” is the unsexy, unflashy mantra that coach
7:00 AM ET STETSON BENNETT WAS — shall we say — not himself when he sat down for an interview with “Good Morning America” just hours after beating Alabama and winning the national championship a year ago. The conquering hero of Georgia football, who was the game’s MVP and led the program to its first
8:45 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Michigan’s Luke Schoonmaker, one of the top tight ends in college football, told ESPN that he’s leaving school to declare for the 2023 NFL draft. Schoonmaker is a fifth-year senior with one year of eligibility remaining. Multiple NFL scouts told ESPN that he projects as a second-round pick, as his
5:24 PM ET ESPN News Services EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The College Football Playoff championship on Monday night is the biggest game of TCU coach Sonny Dykes’ career. But it didn’t have his full attention this week. “Look, we were preparing this week for a national championship game and we had six transfers on campus
5:36 PM ET Associated Press FRISCO, Texas — Mark Gronowski threw three touchdown passes and ran 51 yards for another score as South Dakota State won its first national championship with a 45-21 win Sunday over North Dakota State, which lost for the first time in its 10 FCS title game appearances. As a true
2:34 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Two recent high-profile coaching hires in the SEC have received public backlash and raised questions about the optics they present, but SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said Sunday the conference played a limited role in the processes, and the hiring decisions were made at the campus level. Auburn hired Hugh
1:01 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Washington State is finalizing a deal to make veteran coach Jeff Schmedding the school’s next defensive coordinator, sources told ESPN. Schmedding worked with Bryan Harsin at Auburn the past two years, including as the coordinator in 2022. He’s a veteran of the Pacific Northwest footprint, as he’s a graduate of
9:00 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN LOS ANGELES — Former Texas coach Tom Herman vividly remembers the muggy night back in the summer of 2019. A quiet wide receiver from nearby Temple, Texas, strolled onto an outdoor court at a slam dunk contest during the program’s Friday Night Lights recruiting event. Quentin Johnston had a big
9:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — There is no feeling in this world quite like reaching the pinnacle of your profession, whether that means hoisting a 35-pound College Football Playoff championship trophy on the floor of a Los Angeles stadium or being handed an 8½-pound Oscar in a nearby Hollywood auditorium. But no sooner has
8:00 AM ET Another 4-3-week last week and we are 24 over .500 sitting at 58% or so. This week really tests your faith in the approach because I gotta tell you — I don’t know who is playing for teams and I don’t care. The old something-to-play-for vs nothing-to-play-for… add in a little “this
4:44 PM ET After losing quarterback Devin Leary to transfer, NC State has found a replacement in Virginia quarterback Brennan Armstrong. The Wolfpack got a commitment on Saturday from Armstrong, who entered the transfer portal as a grad transfer Dec. 1. Leary decided to transfer after the 2022 season where he threw for 1,265 yards,