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8:00 AM ET HIS HIRING WAS viewed as a breakthrough, long overdue and something college football desperately needed. That was nearly two decades ago, and Sylvester Croom isn’t convinced that much, if anything, has changed for Black head coaches in college football, particularly those in the Deep South. “It’s not like anybody is asking for

12:31 AM ET ESPN News Services CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Without 25 ineligible players, and playing with just seven available offensive linemen, Florida A&M authored an impressive performance before succumbing to North Carolina, 56-24, on Saturday night. Quarterback Jeremy Moussa was 28-of-38 for 279 yards, two touchdowns and one interception and kept the Rattlers close

5:07 PM ET Nebraska coach Scott Frost accepted responsibility for a controversial onside kick decision in Saturday’s season-opening loss to Northwestern, while acknowledging he needs to do more to retain his job. Frost made the call to attempt an onside kick with Nebraska leading 28-17 midway through the third quarter at a game being played

6:53 PM ET Michigan has seen Cade McNamara, last season’s starter, and J.J. McCarthy locked in a quarterback battle all offseason. On Saturday, Jim Harbaugh announced that the battle has been settled, kind of. In a statement, Harbaugh said McNamara will start the first game of the season against Colorado State and McCarthy will start

6:56 PM ET Haynes King has won Texas A&M‘s starting quarterback job, sources told ESPN. King, a 6-3, 205-pound redshirt sophomore, started the first two games a year ago before suffering a season-ending injury when he broke his right tibia in the first quarter against Colorado in Week 2. TexAgs.com was the first to report

6:08 PM ET California defensive lineman Brett Johnson, a preseason All-Pac-12 selection, will miss his second straight season after suffering a lower-body injury in practice Thursday. The team didn’t specify the injury but said it’s unrelated to the fractured hip Johnson suffered during a car accident in the spring of 2021 that caused him to

5:07 PM ET ESPN News Service DUBLIN — Ryan Hilinski threw for 313 yards and two touchdowns to help Northwestern rally for a 31-28 victory over Nebraska in Saturday’s season opener in Ireland. Northwestern handed the Cornhuskers their seventh consecutive loss going back to last season — all coming by single digits — and added

first Quarter NEB NU TD 12:41 Isaiah Garcia-Castaneda 32 Yd pass from Casey Thompson (Timmy Bleekrode Kick) 8 plays, 75 yards, 2:19 7 0 FG 2:13 A. Stage 35 yd FG GOOD 9 plays, 35 yards, 4:28 7 3 second Quarter NEB NU TD 11:59 Casey Thompson 1 Yd Run (Timmy Bleekrode Kick) 14 plays,

8:57 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN The UConn Huskies will start Penn State transfer Ta’Quan Roberson at quarterback against Utah State on Saturday, sources told ESPN. Roberson is a redshirt sophomore from New Jersey who transferred to UConn in December after coach Jim Mora was hired. He has three seasons of eligibility remaining. Roberson beat out

2:51 PM ET ESPN News Services Florida A&M’s football season opener at North Carolina on Saturday is expected to be played despite reports that up to 20 Rattlers players may be ineligible or haven’t cleared their paperwork to transfer. A FAMU spokesman confirmed to ESPN on Friday that the team expects to play. North Carolina

3:28 PM ET Former USC wide receiver Bru McCoy is eligible to play for Tennessee this season after his waiver was approved by the NCAA on Friday. McCoy entered the transfer portal in January, committed to Tennessee in May and has been practicing with the team. An ESPN top-30 recruit in 2019, McCoy played just

3:01 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — Cleveland Browns defensive end Jadeveon Clowney will have his college jersey retired at South Carolina‘s season opener with Georgia State on Sept. 3. The school announced the retirement of Clowney’s No. 7 on Friday. “We are excited to honor one of our greatest Gamecock football players ever,”

12:53 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Ky. — Eastern Kentucky defensive back Marquae Kirkendoll has been charged with robbing a postal carrier in New Mexico and suspended from the team. According to documents filed in federal court in New Mexico this week, the 21-year-old Kirkendoll was also charged with stealing a key from the carrier

8:00 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN STORRS, Conn. — Jim Mora lives in a stately old building set upon three acres on a hill above campus at the University of Connecticut. He loves the location, the connection to the campus community and the six-minute walk of a commute. But there’s a spooky soundtrack of doors that

7:00 AM ET As much as college football has changed over the past few seasons through the transfer portal, conference realignment and NIL money, the lopsided nature of the sport has largely remained unchanged. Alabama, Clemson, Georgia and Ohio State are still the most dominant teams in the FBS, and it’s difficult to find any

6:40 PM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Fresh off a new $93.6 million contract extension that runs through the 2030 season and makes him college football’s highest-paid coach, Alabama‘s Nick Saban told ESPN on Thursday he plans on coaching for as long as the Crimson Tide will have him. Saban, who turns 71 in October, has

1:32 PM ET Illinois has named quarterback Tommy DeVito, a transfer from Syracuse, as its starter for this week’s opener against Wyoming. DeVito competed with Art Sitkowski for the top job throughout the offseason after transferring in December. The 6-foot-2, 210-pound DeVito started 15 games during three seasons for Syracuse, passing for 3,478 yards and

7:00 AM ET HONOLULU — Before he became a cult legend by setting the NCAA Division I-A career passing record as a quarterback at Hawai’i, Timmy Chang had a battle to win at home. He was the No. 1 football recruit in the state in the Class of 2000 which, to the delight of his