2:45 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN Former UCF quarterback Dillon Gabriel announced Thursday that he is transferring to UCLA. Gabriel entered the transfer portal on November 27. The junior missed the last nine games of the season after fracturing the left clavicle in his throwing arm on Sept. 17 against Louisville. In the three games he
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12:32 PM ET Quarterback Myles Brennan will stay at LSU for the 2022 college football season after entering the transfer portal in November, he announced Thursday. “There’s no place like home. Let’s ride tiger nation!” Brennan, who opened the 2020 season as LSU’s starter before being injured, tweeted Thursday. An LSU spokesman confirmed to ESPN
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff College football bowl season is here! Here are the key players and storylines you need to know for every team in every game, starting this week and running all the way through the College Football Playoff. Friday, Dec. 17 Bahamas BowlMiddle Tennessee vs. Toledo Thomas Robinson Stadium, Nassau, BahamasNoon, ESPN
9:24 PM ET Alabama might have saved the best for last on the first day of the early signing period on Wednesday. Hours after the Crimson Tide signed 22 players to their class of 2022, including a trio of five-star prospects, former LSU All-American cornerback Eli Ricks announced he will transfer to Alabama. A sophomore,
7:39 PM ET ESPN News Services PHILADELPHIA — Texas assistant coach Stan Drayton, who led the Longhorns’ run game under Tom Herman and Steve Sarkisian, has been named head coach at Temple, the school announced. The program will introduce Drayton, who will replace Rod Carey with the Owls, in a news conference on Thursday. “This
8:38 PM ET Florida quarterback Emory Jones plans to enter the transfer portal, he told ESPN’s Tom VanHaaren on Wednesday, confirming an earlier report. A redshirt junior, Jones had an up-and-down first season as the starter as the Gators struggled in Dan Mullen’s final season. He threw for 2,563 yards, 19 touchdowns and 13 interceptions.
6:05 PM ET ESPN 300 defensive end Enai White capped off a day to remember for Texas A&M recruiting when the No. 37 ranked recruit chose the Aggies over Alabama, Georgia and Ohio State on Wednesday. The Aggies now have the No. 1 class, ahead of the same programs White was considering. White is a
6:26 PM ET Alabama, Georgia and Texas A&M were all jockeying for the No. 1 recruiting class on Wednesday, but it was the Aggies who were able to pull ahead to claim the top class after the first day of the early signing period. Texas A&M has steadily risen in the class rankings over the
3:46 PM ET Michigan added a commitment from ESPN 300 defensive end Derrick Moore on Wednesday. Moore is the No. 23 ranked prospect overall and chose the Wolverines over Ole Miss. Moore is a 6-foot-4, 250-pound prospect from St. Frances Academy in Baltimore, who was committed to Oklahoma until he decommitted on Nov. 29 after
3:23 PM ET Five-star wide receiver Shazz Preston committed to Alabama on the first day of the early signing period Wednesday, choosing the Crimson Tide over LSU, Texas and Georgia. Preston, a 5-foot-11, 180-pound receiver from Saint James High School in St. James, Louisiana, is the No. 15 prospect overall in the Class of 2022,
1:47 PM ET Defensive tackle Khurtiss Perry, the No. 56 prospect in the ESPN 300, chose Alabama over Auburn on Wednesday. With Clemson, Texas and UCF also listed as finalists, this came down to a battle between Auburn and Alabama — one that Perry said was close during his recruitment. Perry, the eighth-ranked defensive tackle
12:21 PM ET Virginia Tech leading receiver Tayvion Robinson announced on Wednesday that he’s transferring to Kentucky. Robinson led the Hokies in receptions each of the past two seasons. The 5-foot-10 Virginia native made an immediate impact in Blacksburg, earning a spot on the Pro Football Focus College All-Freshman Team in 2019 as a punt
12:14 PM ET Cornerback Travis Hunter, the No. 2-ranked recruit in the country, flipped his commitment from Florida State to Jackson State on Wednesday to become the first five-star high school football prospect to sign with an FCS team since ESPN started its rankings in 2006. Jackson State coach Deion Sanders teased before the start
9:14 AM ET On the first day of the early signing period, Michigan State coach Mel Tucker announced Tate Myre, one of the four victims of the Oxford High School shooting, as an honorary member of the Spartans’ recruiting class. Myre was a Class of 2023 football player at Oxford High School and one of
8:11 AM ET Oregon is set to hire Florida State offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham for the same role under new coach Dan Lanning, sources told ESPN. An announcement is expected later Wednesday. Dillingham has been with FSU the past two seasons under coach Mike Norvell after spending a year as Auburn’s offensive coordinator. The move
7:00 AM ET National signing day is here. College football’s early signing period begins Wednesday and lasts until Friday. High school recruits are able to sign their national letters of intent to lock them into the colleges of their choice. This is the fifth year in which college football has held an early signing period,
8:40 PM ET Nevada quarterback Carson Strong, who was named the Mountain West Conference’s Offensive Player of the Year in each of the last two seasons, is skipping the Wolf Pack’s bowl game to begin preparations for the 2022 NFL draft. Strong, a junior from Vacaville, California, announced his intentions on his Twitter account on
5:55 PM ET Arkansas All-SEC safety Jalen Catalon announced on Tuesday that he will return for another season rather than enter the NFL draft. ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. listed Catalon as his sixth highest-rated draft-eligible safety. In a video message posted to Twitter, Catalon said in part, “My family always told me, ‘Follow your heart