9:14 PM ET Former Incarnate Word star quarterback Cameron Ward announced on Monday that he will be transferring to Washington State. Top floor, didn’t take the elevator I climbed my way up!!#GoCougs pic.twitter.com/Vkbdp3NxfI — Cameron Ward ➐ (@Cameron7Ward) January 11, 2022 Ward won the Jerry Rice Award as the best freshman in FCS during the
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4:58 PM ET UCLA starting quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson will return for the 2022 season, he announced Monday. Thompson-Robinson is a three-year starter for the Bruins who will play his fifth season in the fall. He led the Pac-12 in passing efficiency (153.9) in 2021, passing for 2,409 yards with 21 touchdowns and six interceptions. UCLA
2:25 PM ET Oregon announced Monday that it had hired Jacksonville Jaguars defensive line coach Tosh Lupoi to be the Ducks’ defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. “I am incredibly excited to have Tosh Lupoi joining us here at Oregon,” Oregon head coach Dan Lanning said. “We want to play championship-level defense on a consistent basis,
2:53 PM ET West Virginia football has hired former Southern California and North Texas offensive coordinator Graham Harrell as its offensive coordinator. Harrell, who spent the past three seasons as USC’s offensive coordinator, also will coach WVU’s quarterbacks. Head coach Neal Brown, who had been handling offensive coordinator responsibilities, said in a statement, “We need
4:28 PM ET Former Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam of Colorado, and former Toledo and Missouri coach Gary Pinkel headline the 2022 College Football Hall of Fame class announced Monday. Penn State’s LaVar Arrington, Georgia’s Champ Bailey, Texas Tech’s Michael Crabtree, Alabama’s Sylvester Croom and Oklahoma’s Roy Williams were also selected.
1:52 PM ET USC quarterback Jaxson Dart entered the NCAA’s transfer portal on Monday. Dart, who enrolled at USC in January 2021, appeared in six games for the Trojans, passing for 1,353 yards with nine touchdowns and five interceptions. He is the second prominent USC quarterback to enter the portal since the school hired coach
2:33 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The leaders of the College Football Playoff again failed to come to an agreement about expanding the current four-team field, but they didn’t entirely rule out the possibility it could still happen before the end of the current 12-year contract, which runs through the 2025 season. Big 12 commissioner
10:55 AM ET Florida cornerback Kaiir Elam is entering the NFL draft, he announced Monday. Elam started 26 games for the Gators, including all 12 games in 2020, when he earned first-team All-SEC honors. ESPN’s Mel Kiper lists Elam as the No. 5 draft-eligible cornerback for 2022. “I will forever be a Gator,” Elam said
11:24 AM ET Indiana is hiring Minnesota assistant coach Chad Wilt as defensive coordinator, sources told ESPN. Wilt has been Minnesota’s defensive line coach the past two seasons after coaching the position at Cincinnati, Army and Maryland. He will replace Charlton Warren, who left after one season to become co-defensive coordinator at North Carolina, alongside
7:00 AM ET The college football season comes down to the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs squaring off in the College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T (Monday, 8 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App). The SEC rivals met last month in the conference championship game, with Alabama soundly beating the Dawgs, 41-24, to
7:00 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Greg Sankey lives in Birmingham, Alabama. On any given day, he can be found in any one of the 14 cities and towns that are home to an SEC university. He also has a summer place in upstate New York, not far from where he grew up. He attended college
1:02 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Alabama football coach Nick Saban and Georgia coach Kirby Smart both called for increased regulation on name, image and likeness (NIL) deals for college athletes during their joint College Football Playoff news conferences Sunday. Without more regulation, Saban and Smart said the same teams are going to continue to dominate
11:37 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Georgia coach Kirby Smart saw enough of Alabama quarterback Bryce Young a month ago to know what the Bulldogs are up against Monday night in the College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T. “We talk about him as Houdini, because he can make people miss,” Smart said Sunday. “He
11:49 AM ET Ole Miss quarterback John Rhys Plumlee announced Sunday on social media he plans to transfer to UCF. Plumlee started his career with the Rebels as a quarterback in 2019, starting eight games, but eventually moved to receiver following the emergence of Matt Corral. In 2021, Plumlee had 19 receptions for 201 yards
8:00 AM ET As thunderstorms rolled into the Tuscaloosa area one August afternoon in 2007 with Nick Saban just a few days into his first preseason practice as Alabama’s coach, Jeff Allen alerted his boss that the team needed to move to the indoor facility. Allen had only been on the job as Alabama’s head
8:00 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — As Alabama and Georgia prepare to play each other again (8 p.m. ET Monday on ESPN/ESPN App), it is hard to forget what happened the last time they met in the national championship game. Because what happened was so unforgettable. Second-and-26 will always live in college football history, but especially
8:16 PM ET ESPN News Services HONOLULU — The University of Hawaii Board of Regents plans to address the issue of morale on the football team following testimony from former players at a legislative hearing the university system president criticized as one-sided. More than a dozen football players have said they are leaving the university
4:40 PM ET Jackson State and coach Deion Sanders added another ESPN 300 prospect to the 2022 class on Saturday when wide receiver Kevin Coleman announced his commitment at the All-American Bowl. Jackson is the No. 58-ranked prospect and the second ESPN 300 commit for Sanders in this class. Jackson State made waves on the