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1:37 PM ET Associated Press Alabama was voted No. 1 in the preseason USA Today coaches’ poll released Monday, with Ohio State second and defending national champion Georgia third. The Associated Press preseason Top 25 will be released Aug. 15. The Crimson Tide received 54 first-place votes from a panel of 66 major college football

9:00 AM ET MADISON, Wis. — Braelon Allen had modest expectations for his first season at Wisconsin. “I didn’t really expect to play at all,” he told ESPN. His initial goal, like many true freshmen at a program that prides itself on player development, was to simply get on the field. Special teams provided the

7:00 AM ET Think your school has the best history of churning out star defensive backs? Elite receivers? The best QBs? Get in line, buddy. Every year, fans rage on social media, players wear branded shirts and schools promote their teams as the top producer of talent at a given position, and every year, another

12:50 AM ET Cale Gundy, a fixture on the Oklahoma sideline and the longest-tenured football coach in the Big 12, resigned Sunday night, saying that he read aloud “a word that I should never — under any circumstance — have uttered” off the screen of a player’s iPad during a film session last week. “The

4:46 PM ET Shelton Sampson Jr. is staying home. A wide receiver from Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Sampson committed to LSU on Saturday. “Baton Rouge is home for me,” he wrote in an email to ESPN. “I’ve been blessed to have my family close throughout this process and their support means everything

7:00 AM ET Over the past eight seasons of the College Football Playoff, a total of 13 different schools have reached the semifinals. No school has appeared more than Alabama (seven times), and no conference has qualified more than the SEC (10 times). (Insert yawn here.) While Alabama, Clemson (six), Ohio State (four) and Oklahoma

12:21 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Ed Stewart, one of the top officials in the Big 12, is leaving for a new job at USC, according to ESPN sources. Stewart, the Big 12’s executive associate commissioner, is being hired as USC’s executive senior associate athletic director. His job duties will include oversight of USC‘s football program,

11:00 AM ET While he was at the beach this summer, Missouri coach Eliah Drinkwitz spent a couple of days thinking about the future of college football. “Somebody has to run it,” he said, “because right now, we are running amok.” “Who’s the boss in college football?” asked West Virginia coach Neal Brown. “That’s a

7:00 AM ET Fifty years ago, the NCAA tied up a loose end. Having already ruled that college freshmen in other sports (and at other levels) would be eligible for varsity ball, it declared that the same rules would apply in major college football and basketball. In an effort to cut costs, it added an

7:32 PM ET Notre Dame football added to its top-ranked recruiting class on Thursday night with a commitment from linebacker Jaiden Ausberry, the No. 38 player in the 2023 ESPN 300. Ausberry, from University Lab School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, chose Notre Dame over Michigan and Texas A&M. He is the fourth-ranked linebacker in the

3:41 PM ET Auburn quarterback T.J. Finley was charged Thursday with attempting to elude police, the same day Auburn players were scheduled to report to campus for preseason camp. According to police officials, Finley was released Thursday from the Lee County Detention Center. An Auburn official told ESPN that the university was aware of Finley’s

3:25 PM ET Defending champion Georgia opened camp on Thursday with coach Kirby Smart telling reporters, “Our guys are ready to grind.” Smart didn’t dwell on any possible hangover from last season’s success or the need to make up for all the production the team lost to the NFL. The Bulldogs had 15 players drafted

9:30 AM ET IT WAS LATE November 1984, and Boston College had just made history. The play is iconic. Doug Flutie has one last shot to beat defending champion Miami at the old Orange Bowl. He drops back — zeroes on the clock — and launches a Hail Mary toward the end zone. The Hurricanes’

8:41 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — The Big 12 championship game will remain at the home of the Dallas Cowboys through at least 2025, the season after Texas and Oklahoma are set to leave for the Southeastern Conference. The contract extension announced Wednesday means the first nine games since the return of the

1:22 PM ET Clemson safety Lannden Zanders is stepping away from football because of injuries, he announced on social media Wednesday. Zanders was a starting safety for Clemson to open the 2021 season, but he suffered a season-ending shoulder injury in the opener against Georgia. He figured to be a key contributor in the secondary

12:23 PM ET Despite winning the SEC, beating Cincinnati in the Cotton Bowl and competing in the College Football Playoff National Championship game, Alabama coach Nick Saban looked back on last season Wednesday and called it “kind of a rebuilding year.” While it’s true that Alabama had to replace a number of starters last season

11:49 AM ET Eli Gold, who has called Alabama football games for more than three decades, will miss the start of the season next month as he deals with health issues, the school announced on Wednesday. While he is away, Chris Stewart will take over play-by-play duties in addition to hosting “The Nick Saban Show”

6:30 AM ET ESPN staff Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, and starting in 2020, the pandemic made a sport tethered to longstanding traditions and norms reconsider almost everything. From recruiting via video chat to scheduling games on a few days’ notice, decision-makers around college football were forced to be open-minded about new