10:15 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Coastal Carolina has hired Tim Beck to replace the departing Jamey Chadwell, the school announced Sunday. Beck, the offensive coordinator at NC State, was finalizing a five-year contract that will pay him nearly $1 million per year, sources told ESPN. That contract will include strong incentives for performance, much like
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12:25 PM ET ESPN staff Nick Saban tried. Alabama‘s coach found whatever megaphone was available to him Saturday night to plead the Crimson Tide’s case to make the College Football Playoff. He suggested looking at the top four through the lens of, “How are they playing at the present?” He asked, “If we played these
12:24 PM ET ESPN News Services Georgia, Michigan, TCU and Ohio State will play for the national championship after being chosen for the College Football Playoff on Sunday. After not playing in a conference championship game, the Buckeyes (11-1) moved up one spot following USC‘s loss in the Pac-12 title game Friday to give the
11:35 AM ET Associated Press Georgia, Michigan, TCU and Ohio State were the top four in the final Associated Press college football poll of the regular season. The Bulldogs (13-0) are No. 1 for the ninth straight week and 12th time this season in the AP Top 25 presented by Regions Bank. Georgia received 62
9:49 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Liberty is hiring Jamey Chadwell as its new coach, with Chadwell agreeing to a seven-year deal that averages more than $4 million per year, sources told ESPN. An announcement is expected later Sunday morning. Chadwell has been one of the best coaches in the sport the past three years, going
11:35 PM ET ESPN staff It was all supposed to be so easy heading into conference championship week. USC beats Utah in the Pac-12 title game on Friday to clinch a spot in the College Football Playoff and TCU follows suit on Saturday in the Big 12 championship against Kansas State. Well, not so easy.
11:30 AM ET ESPN staff Deion Sanders’ coaching career has reached the highest level of college football — and a surprising destination in Colorado. Sanders, the Pro Football Hall of Famer who transformed Jackson State’s program the past few years, was named Colorado’s new coach Saturday night. After interviewing for several Power 5 jobs in
12:40 AM ET Two things have been true of the College Football Playoff committee’s first eight years of selections. First, the committee has almost certainly gotten the top four correct on every occasion. For any debates over Ohio State in 2014 or Alabama in 2017, the eventual results — a national championship for both —
12:34 AM ET ESPN News Services INDIANAPOLIS — Donovan Edwards ran for 185 yards and a score, J.J. McCarthy threw three touchdown passes and No. 2 Michigan beat Purdue 43-22 on Saturday night for its second straight Big Ten title and a likely No. 2 playoff seed. College football’s winningest program has the first 13-win
8:22 PM ET ATLANTA — No. 1 Georgia’s place in the College Football Playoff was secure even before it beat No. 14 LSU 50-30 to win the SEC championship game Saturday. But Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart and quarterback Stetson Bennett weren’t looking past the importance of a conference title — not after coming up short
10:42 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Clemson Tigers will move forward with quarterback Cade Klubnik after he came off the bench and lifted Clemson to a 39-10 win over North Carolina in the ACC championship game Saturday, the seventh conference title in eight years for the Tigers. DJ Uiagalelei started the first two drives and
6:52 PM ET ATLANTA — Georgia‘s top receiver this season, Ladd McConkey, was ruled out of the second half of the SEC championship game on Saturday after experiencing what coach Kirby Smart called tendinitis in his knees. Smart said it was a continuation of knee issues that have bothered McConkey through much of the season.
11:08 PM ET Tennessee offensive coordinator Alex Golesh has agreed to a deal to become the next head coach at South Florida, sources told ESPN, confirming reports. Golesh was the primary playcaller for the Volunteers, who led the country in scoring this season with an average of 47.3 points per game. He came to Tennessee
10:33 PM ET Colorado has named Deion Sanders as its next head coach, the school announced in a statement on Saturday. The announcement came minutes after Sanders led Jackson State to its second straight SWAC title. Sanders, 55, has gone 27-5 at Jackson State in three seasons. Jackson State defeated Southern 43-24 in the title
8:30 PM ET With Alabama’s College Football Playoff future in limbo, coach Nick Saban said on Saturday that there was an argument for his team to be included among the top four and framed the debate over who’s in and who’s out with a single question: How are they playing at present? The question lends
7:26 PM ET Mason Cobb, Oklahoma State‘s leading tackler this season, announced Saturday that he has entered the transfer portal. Cobb, a 6-foot junior from Provo, Utah, has two years of eligibility remaining. “I will always be a Cowboy at heart!” he wrote in a statement posted on his Twitter account. “It’s time for me
5:00 PM ET ESPN News Services Ty Zentner kicked a 31-yard field goal in overtime as 10th-ranked Kansas State beat No. 3 TCU 31-28 in the Big 12 championship game Saturday, leaving the Horned Frogs to wait another day to find out if they had done enough to get into the four-team College Football Playoff.
3:44 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Va. — Virginia Military Institute has hired Danny Rocco as its football coach. The school made the announcement Saturday. Rocco replaces Scott Wachenheim, who resigned after eight seasons last month. “He is clearly someone who believes in developing his players into leaders of character in perfect alignment with VMI’s