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10:40 AM ET Texas A&M senior wide receiver Ainias Smith, who had been scheduled to appear at SEC media days Thursday, was arrested early Wednesday on charges of driving while intoxicated, unlawful carrying of a weapon and marijuana possession (less than 2 ounces). Smith, 21, was booked early Wednesday in the Brazos County Jail after

6:45 AM ET NORMAN, Okla. — The Oklahoma Sooners are in their second week of spring practice, and the football facility is buzzing with high school football players and their families ahead of a critical recruiting weekend, but head coach Brent Venables — just three months into the job after his December hire — wants

7:00 AM ET High school yearbooks for 2022 graduates have been handed out, with many of them including a section on class superlatives. While most include an award for best hair, we found it fitting to recognize college football’s 2022 recruiting class for its collective talent on the gridiron, singling out categories such as best

5:53 PM ET ATLANTA — Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea is undeterred by last season’s 2-10 record or the program’s eight consecutive seasons finishing below .500. At SEC Media Days on Tuesday, Lea made a bold proclamation about the future of Commodores football. “We know in time Vanderbilt football will be the best program in the

5:09 PM ET ATLANTA — Spencer Rattler became one of the most high-profile transfers of the offseason when he announced late last year that he was leaving Oklahoma for South Carolina, but Gamecocks coach Shane Beamer said Tuesday that he isn’t worried about how the quarterback will handle the burden of expectations with the season

4:28 PM ET ESPN News Services MADISON, Wis. — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging the University of Wisconsin System reinstated former Badgers receiver Quintez Cephus without seeking input from a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2018. A UW-Madison investigation found that Cephus likely assaulted her and the university

1:38 PM ET Georgia coach Kirby Smart on Tuesday raised concerns about the “reverse system” of name, image and likeness deals and his frustrations with the recruiting calendar. In a question-and-answer session with coaches at the Texas High School Coaches Association convention in San Antonio, Smart was asked whether he’s tired of answering questions about

10:02 AM ET ATLANTA — Alabama star outside linebacker Will Anderson said he has a new goal this season: to win the Heisman Trophy and change the perspective of the award. “I kind of feel like they love offense over there,” Anderson told ESPN on Tuesday at SEC media days. “They love touchdowns, they love

8:45 AM ET A pair of perennial powerhouses in Alabama and Ohio State are attracting the bulk of the betting action around the nation, but the story is a little different at one Las Vegas sportsbook, where more money has been bet on USC to win the College Football Playoff than any other team. “America’s

7:00 AM ET It took nearly 15 years, but former pupils finally got one over on the master. Alabama‘s Nick Saban had never lost to a former assistant until Jimbo Fisher’s Texas A&M squad did the deed with an early October upset; three months later, Saban lost to longtime protege Kirby Smart and Georgia in

7:00 AM ET IT’S A MONDAY afternoon in late May, and for the first time in more than 30 years, Bronco Mendenhall isn’t working the phones with recruits or planning staff meetings. Instead, he’s in his truck, boots and spurs on, waiting out a rainstorm. Mendenhall moved west this spring, a return to his roots

6:25 AM ET Matt MillerESPN As human beings, we all love to be first to like something that becomes popular, from new bands and songs to gadgets. NFL scouts are no different when it comes to discovering prospects. I’ll never forget an area scout for an NFL team calling in 2016 to tell me about

7:25 PM ET A week after announcing a $200 million facilities project, the Texas Tech football team got another boost Monday when the Matador Club, a local collective, told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that it will sign 100 Red Raiders players to one-year, $25,000 NIL contracts. The deal will be for all 85 scholarship players plus

5:34 PM ET ESPN News Services Jackson State football coach Deion Sanders will donate half of his salary to help complete the program’s football facility renovations, he announced on Instagram. Sanders signed a four-year deal worth an average of $300,000 per year in 2020. Sanders said he wanted to up his donation to half of

4:46 PM ET Despite incoming Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark saying he would be willing to seek out a “win-win scenario” for Texas and Oklahoma to depart the conference early, the two schools’ athletic directors said on Monday that nothing has changed on a potential exit date. The SEC has said Texas and Oklahoma will

4:36 PM ET ATLANTA — Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin believes that in an ideal world, there would be an NFL-style system for name, image and likeness in which a head coach or a general manager would have the ability to facilitate funds from collectives and donors, and every program would be held to

3:01 PM ET In his opening news conference at SEC media days, first-year LSU head coach Brian Kelly pushed back against the idea that the school is underfunded and said LSU is “as competitive as anybody else.” “I don’t feel like we’re being outbid by anybody,” Kelly said. “I don’t think that’s the place of

1:39 PM ET ATLANTA, Ga. — In his first public media appearance since USC and UCLA announced their intent to eventually join the Big Ten, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said on Monday his conference is in no rush to expand beyond 16 teams, but that the league will “be nimble” as it continues to monitor