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4:45 PM ET For more than eight months, leaders of the College Football Playoff have been unable to unanimously agree on what the future format of the sport’s postseason should look like. This week, they finally agreed to disagree, recommitting to the four-team format for the next four years. Friday’s news ended all speculation about

11:00 AM ET After months of lengthy debates and multiple meetings about expansion, the College Football Playoff will remain at four teams through the end of its current 12-year contract, which expires following the 2025 season, CFP executive director Bill Hancock told ESPN on Friday. By choosing to remain at four teams for four more

9:14 AM ET Arizona State quarterback Jayden Daniels has entered the transfer portal only a few months after declaring he would return to play for the Sun Devils in 2022. Daniels, who posted a video on social media on Dec. 2 to announce he would return for his fourth season, has not publicly announced his

7:00 AM ET College football makes itself hard to love sometimes. The money has primarily gone to all the wrong places — coaches’ salaries and expensive locker room features have increased sharply during an era of skyrocketing revenues, and players weren’t allowed to profit off anything until about eight months ago. (And in the meantime,

5:19 PM ET Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — Injured Clemson starting offensive lineman Hunter Rayburn is moving to the Tigers coaching staff. Rayburn will become a student coach on Dabo Swinney’s staff this upcming season because of neck problems, school spokesman Ross Taylor said Thursday. Rayburn is a 6-foot-4, 320-pound junior from Pensacola, Florida. He

3:19 PM ET Ohio State kept one of the top in-state football prospects home on Thursday when ESPN Junior 300 offensive lineman Luke Montgomery committed to the Buckeyes. Montgomery had a top list that included Ohio State, Michigan, Clemson, Oklahoma and Notre Dame. He’s the No. 69 prospect overall and a 6-foot-5, 260-pound lineman from

11:45 AM ET Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh will receive a base salary of $7.05 million this fall and up to $7.6 million in the final year of his new contract, which runs through the 2026 season, according to a copy obtained by ESPN on Thursday. Harbaugh, 58, signed the five-year deal following his most successful

7:00 AM ET The transfer portal has become an everyday part of college football roster management as more players switch teams each season. With more and more players opting to transfer, we have seen quite a few schools lose key contributors this offseason. Looking at the schools that have seen the most transfers since the

11:20 PM ET UCLA is nearing an agreement to make veteran college and NFL assistant Bill McGovern as its next defensive coordinator, sources confirmed to ESPN. McGovern, who worked for Bruins coach Chip Kelly with the Philadelphia Eagles from 2013 to 2015, spent last season as inside linebackers coach for the Chicago Bears. He spent

9:57 PM ET Another former head coach is joining Nick Saban’s staff at Alabama. Former Tennessee coach Derek Dooley, who was the New York Giants‘ tight ends coach this past season, has been hired to serve as offensive analyst for the Crimson Tide, sources confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. Dooley was Tennessee’s head coach from

6:49 PM ET ESPN News Services IOWA CITY, Iowa — Ken O’Keefe will move from quarterbacks coach to an off-the-field role with the Iowa Hawkeyes, football coach Kirk Ferentz announced Wednesday. O’Keefe was a member of Ferentz’s first staff at Iowa, serving as offensive coordinator from 1999 to 2011 as well as receivers coach (1999)

6:52 PM ET Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith and his Big Ten colleagues prefer to keep a nine-game league schedule, even if it limits the number of contests against teams from their alliance with the ACC and Pac-12. Smith, speaking Wednesday with reporters in Columbus, Ohio, said the Big Ten athletic directors “walked away”

5:43 PM ET Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has agreed to a new five-year contract that runs through the 2026 season, the school announced on Wednesday. The new deal gives Harbaugh a one-year extension with new terms from the contract he signed last January. The renewed commitment comes exactly two weeks after Harbaugh’s highly publicized Feb.

7:00 AM ET The 2021 NFL season is over, after the Los Angeles Rams won Super Bowl LVI on Sunday night. The Rams don’t currently have a first-round pick in the 2022 NFL draft, dealing it away to help land quarterback Matthew Stafford. It will be the sixth straight draft in which they relax on

8:00 AM ET Now that college football’s February signing period is over, we have a clear view of how each program was able to fill needs with high school prospects. Texas A&M finished with the No. 1 class overall, but plenty of other teams recruited well across the board. To give a different look at

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff FOR MORE THAN a month, speculation swirled about Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s future. In the days leading up to his highly publicized interview with the Minnesota Vikings on Feb. 2, Harbaugh’s actions convinced many inside Michigan’s program he would leave if given the chance. “He’s gone!” one staffer said before

4:58 PM ET The ongoing dispute between Conference USA and three of its schools was heightened Tuesday when the league released its football schedule followed immediately by a pledge to “exhaust all necessary legal actions” to ensure outgoing members Marshall, Old Dominion and Southern Miss stick around long enough to participate in it this fall.

2:55 PM ET Missouri is set to promote Blake Baker to defensive coordinator, sources tell ESPN. Baker, 39, joined the staff last month as safeties coach after spending the 2021 season as LSU’s linebackers coach. He replaces Steve Wilks, the former Arizona Cardinals head coach, who left last week to join the Carolina Panthers as