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7:00 AM ET Andrea Adelson Close ESPN Senior Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. David M. Hale Close ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. With spring football wrapped up and the start of another season just four months away,

7:00 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN LAS VEGAS — The last time North Carolina State won the ACC championship in football was 1979, long enough ago that Monte Kiffin became the Wolfpack’s head coach the next year. In more than four decades since, the school has long been regarded as one of the sport’s most vexing

6:57 PM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Georgia Bulldogs won the Southeastern Conference championship in December, they won the national championship in January and they now have won the NFL draft. The Bulldogs, powered by the nation’s top-scoring defense, set a record this weekend for players from one school selected in a seven-round draft. Georgia,

5:14 PM ET Defensive end Ochaun Mathis, an All-Big 12 performer, is transferring to Nebraska for the 2022 season. Mathis picked Nebraska over Texas during an announcement Saturday on Twitter Live. He earned second-team All-Big 12 honors last season for the Horned Frogs, recording four sacks and seven tackles for loss, to go with three

12:38 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Pittsburgh All-American Jordan Addison, who won the Biletnikoff Award as the country’s top wide receiver in 2021, is considering transferring, sources told ESPN. Addison is one of the top returning players in the sport for the 2022 season, and his potential transfer comes at a time when one-time transfer rules

10:23 AM ET Maryland football coach Michael Locksley has agreed to a new five-year contract that runs through the 2026 season. Locksley’s new deal includes incentives that could extend his contract two additional years. He has spent the past three seasons at Maryland and last fall guided the Terrapins (7-6) to their first winning season

9:00 AM ET IRVING, Texas — The sun was shining Wednesday afternoon at the sprawling Four Seasons resort as the 10 FBS commissioners and College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock gathered in person for the first time since their tense playoff expansion meetings at the national championship game in Indianapolis almost four months ago.

12:08 AM ET Brianna Williams With four first round picks, the Georgia Bulldogs flexed their muscles on night one of the NFL Draft — but it was just a continuation of a red-hot streak for UGA football. Just months after the Atlanta Braves won the World Series, The Bulldogs kicked off 2022 by winning the

11:54 PM ET The nation’s best defense from the nation’s best team was rewarded for its work in the opening round of the NFL draft. Five Georgia defensive players were selected in the first round Thursday night, a record from one defense in the common draft era. The total eclipsed the four Florida State defenders

7:21 PM ET AUBURN, Ala. — Bryan Harsin passionately doubled down on his commitment to being Auburn’s head football coach and to his players Thursday despite his future seemingly hanging in the balance nearly three months ago amid a university-directed inquiry into the program. “The simplest, strongest statement to come out of all this was

7:00 AM ET The 2022 NFL draft begins Thursday, with the final boards stacked and mock drafts being finished up before the clock starts ticking (8 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App). While there are many names on Mel Kiper Jr.’s big board that are familiar to recruiting fans, such as former No. 1 overall prospect Kayvon

12:02 PM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning has created a scholarship fund at Georgia Tech to honor his friend and former teammate Demaryius Thomas. Thomas, a former Georgia Tech wide receiver and Georgia native, died Dec. 9 at age 33. The Demaryius Thomas Scholarship Endowment, created through Manning’s PeyBack Foundation,

9:22 AM ET Blake Shapen is set to be named Baylor‘s starting quarterback over 2021 incumbent Gerry Bohanon, a source confirmed to ESPN. As a redshirt freshman last season, Shapen started two games, including the Bears’ 21-16 upset of Oklahoma State in the Big 12 championship game. In that contest, Shapen set a Big 12

7:00 AM ET USC coach Lincoln Riley is shouldering weighty expectations because of who he is and where he is, but there’s also a stark reality facing the coach taking over a once-storied program that won just four games last fall. “We’re double digits below the NCAA scholarship limit,” Riley told ESPN last week. A

7:00 AM ET During the winter, many big names entered the transfer portal and changed schools. After coach Lincoln Riley went from Oklahoma to USC, quarterbacks Jaxson Dart (Ole Miss) and Kedon Slovis (Pitt) transferred out, while Caleb Williams joined Riley out West. Bo Nix left Auburn to go to Oregon, while Quinn Ewers transferred

5:17 PM ET A grand jury on Tuesday indicted former Georgia linebacker Adam Anderson and charged with him raping a 21-year-old woman in a house in Athens, Georgia, on Oct. 29. Anderson, who was once considered a potential first-round choice in this week’s NFL draft, has an arraignment scheduled on June 13. Anderson, from Rome,

4:10 PM ET South Carolina has dipped back into the transfer portal to add another tight end, as former East Tennessee State standout Nate Adkins announced Tuesday that he will play his final season for the Gamecocks. Adkins, a two-time All-Southern Conference selection at ETSU, received interest from multiple SEC schools, including Alabama and LSU.

2:40 PM ET On a day he was celebrated by the Oklahoma Legislature, former Sooners coach Bob Stoops gave a campaign-like speech reassuring fans after the departure of coach Lincoln Riley. “Lincoln Riley didn’t invent OU football,” Bob Stoops said while being honored Tuesday with a resolution celebrating “a career of service to the Oklahoma