1:53 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Oregon coach Mario Cristobal confirmed the school has approached him with an enhanced contract but also acknowledged other programs likely will pursue him in the coming days. The Miami Herald and several other media outlets reported Friday that Miami is poised to make a push for Cristobal, a former
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8:59 PM ET LAS VEGAS — With negotiations regarding College Football Playoff expansion ongoing, Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff expressed some frustration with how the process has unfolded over the past several months. “I think one of the mistakes that was made in the expansion discussions was in June,” Kliavkoff said. “Before everybody needed to agree
9:28 PM ET For the third time, Lincoln Riley has flipped an Oklahoma commit to USC. ESPN Junior 300 wide receiver Makai Lemon, who had been committed to the Sooners since August, announced Friday that he has committed to the Trojans. Lemon, a 5-foot-11, 180-pound receiver out of Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos,
5:23 PM ET Kansas State will not retain offensive coordinator Courtney Messingham and tights ends coach Jason Ray for the team’s bowl game, head coach Chris Klieman said Friday. Contracts for the two assistant coaches were due to expire in February. Kansas State finished 7-5 and should learn its bowl destination on Sunday. Former Heisman
7:42 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN After taking only a handful of snaps and making over $1 million in name, image and likeness deals, Ohio State quarterback Quinn Ewers is set to enter the transfer portal and leave Columbus, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg. Ewers, who starred at Southlake Carroll High in Texas, was the
Dec 3, 2021 Oklahoma State‘s Malcolm Rodriguez, one of the country’s best linebackers, walked into his locker room after a game and had to make one last takedown. Picture this: Cowboys coach Mike Gundy is in there, working out right after a win. He sees Rodriguez, just shy of 32 years his junior, and gets
5:03 PM ET Oregon has offered football coach Mario Cristobal a contract extension in hopes of keeping him in Eugene, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday. There is increasing chatter that Cristobal would be the main target at Miami if the Hurricanes fire Manny Diaz. Cristobal, a Miami native, played and coached at Miami. As
4:27 PM ET Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson starting receiver Frank Ladson Jr. and backup quarterback Taisun Phommachanh are leaving the program after entering the transfer portal, the school announced Friday. Ladson, a 6-foot-3 junior from Miami, started the first four games but did not play the final seven games of the season and
2:14 PM ET Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — Mickey Joseph, who coached wide receivers the past five seasons at LSU, will return to Nebraska as receivers coach, passing game coordinator and associate head football coach under Scott Frost. Frost, who announced Joseph’s hiring Friday, still is looking to fill three other vacancies on his coaching
7:00 AM ET In a season filled with gaudy statistics and jaw-dropping plays, Alabama quarterback Bryce Young finally had his so-called “Heisman moment” last Saturday in the Iron Bowl. Trailing by seven points on the road at Auburn with 1:35 remaining in regulation, he took over with the ball backed up against his own goal
7:00 AM ET The Allstate Playoff Predictor is running scenarios for the final time in the 2021 college football season. With just conference championships ahead, there aren’t that many permutations of game outcomes remaining. But the College Football Playoff selection? That can still go a number of different ways. We’ll use our trusty model —
6:56 AM ET Notre Dame is expected to announce defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman as its next head football coach early Friday morning, sources told ESPN. An introductory news conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET on Monday, per sources. 1 Related Freeman, 35, is completing his first season as Notre Dame’s defensive coordinator. He will
10:04 PM ET Troy has hire Kentucky co-defensive coordinator Jon Sumrall as its next head coach, the school announced Thursday night. Sumrall, 39, has spent the past three seasons on Kentucky’s staff, and added the co-defensive coordinator title in 2021. He coached at Troy from 2015 to 2018, working with the linebackers and serving as
7:59 PM ET Michigan will wear a special patch in the Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday to honor the victims in the Oxford High School shooting that took place this week. The shooting occurred on Tuesday when a 15-year-old student at Oxford High School shot and killed four students and injured seven others, including
6:43 PM ET A one-time replacement bowl game is expected to be developed this college football season after the Division I Football Oversight Committee on Thursday approved a request to waive the April 1 bowl game certification application deadline, according to a document obtained by ESPN. This summer, the San Francisco Bowl told the NCAA,
5:17 PM ET Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall announced Thursday he will step down after the team’s upcoming bowl game. Mendenhall, 55, said it was solely his decision to leave. “I would love to say there’s been this buildup and a long amount of epiphanies and thought, but clearly this week there was a sense
4:27 PM ET Lincoln Riley flipped another football recruit from Oklahoma on Thursday, when ESPN 300 running back Raleek Brown committed to USC. Brown is the No. 60-ranked recruit overall and the No. 6-ranked running back, out of Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California. He had been committed to Oklahoma, but decommitted from
1:32 PM ET East Carolina, which has secured a winning season for the first time in seven years, has locked up head coach Mike Houston with an extension through 2026 that averages $2.3 million annually, sources told ESPN on Thursday. The value of his new five-year deal is worth $11.5 million, sources told ESPN. Houston’s