5:16 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin has dismissed freshman running back Loyal Crawford from the team. Badgers coach Paul Chryst announced the dismissal Tuesday and said freshman running back Antwan Roberts had been suspended. School officials didn’t specify the reasons for the disciplinary measures and said they would have no additional comment
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3:40 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea has named Ken Seals the Commodores’ starting quarterback for the opener against East Tennessee State on Saturday night. Lea said Tuesday that Seals will be the starter. Mike Wright is the backup quarterback, but Lea said Wright also will play as one of
4:38 PM ET Nebraska’s proud sellout streak will survive another week. The Cornhuskers announced on Tuesday that the Fordham game on Saturday will be its 376th consecutive sellout, continuing a streak that dates to the Bob Devaney era in 1962. The remaining tickets that were purchased will go to a new program Nebraska started called
2:22 PM ET Ohio State quarterback Quinn Ewers has signed a name, image and likeness deal with GT Sports Marketing for $1.4 million, a source told ESPN on Tuesday. The contract with GT Sports Marketing is for three years and is in exchange for autographs. The deal, according to a source, was negotiated by Ewers’
9:55 AM ET Zeb Noland is going from coach to starting quarterback at South Carolina. Noland, who came to South Carolina as a graduate assistant on Shane Beamer’s coaching staff, will be the Gamecocks‘ starter at quarterback when they open the season Saturday against Eastern Illinois, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. Noland thought he had
2:55 PM ET Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said redshirt freshman quarterback Hudson Card will start the Longhorns’ season opener against No. 23 Louisiana, but Casey Thompson will also play in the game. Sarkisian added that he will re-evaluate the competition for Texas’ permanent starting job after Week 1. “Neither guy’s ever started a game in
2:39 PM ET Associated Press CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Miami safety Avantae Williams is back on the roster following the dropping of battery charges, though the Hurricanes say the second-year freshman will not make his on-field debut until the second half of the season at the earliest. Williams was dismissed from the team earlier this
3:36 PM ET SEC teams that can’t play in a game because of COVID-19, injuries or other reasons will forfeit and have a loss in the conference standings, while the opponent that is ready to play will be credited with a win, the conference announced on Monday. If both teams can’t play because of COVID-19
12:34 PM ET Saturday’s Oklahoma–Tulane college football game has been moved from New Orleans to Oklahoma because of the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, both schools announced on Monday. Tulane was set to host No. 2 Oklahoma on campus at Yulman Stadium. A shelter-in-place order for Tulane’s campus remained Monday morning as the university’s damage assessment
12:51 PM ET Michigan will start junior Cade McNamara at quarterback for Saturday’s season opener against Western Michigan, coach Jim Harbaugh said Monday. Harbaugh labeled McNamara as the Wolverines’ starter before preseason camp opened, and the junior has only strengthened his position during the past month. McNamara appeared in four games last season and started
12:34 PM ET The Oklahoma–Tulane game set for Saturday will not be played in New Orleans due to the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, sources told ESPN. Tulane was set to host No. 2 Oklahoma on campus at Yulman Stadium. A shelter-in-place order for Tulane’s campus remained Monday morning as the university’s damage assessment and recovery
1:12 PM ET The inevitable became official Monday as top-ranked Alabama named Bryce Young its starting quarterback for Saturday’s game against No. 14 Miami. Young, a sophomore and former five-star prospect, spent last season as the back-up to Mac Jones, who was selected by the New England Patriots in the first round of this year’s
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff Week 1 is finally here. So let’s get right into the thick of it. What coaches are already under pressure? Which players do we think are going to become stars this season? Is there any chance of an underdog reaching the College Football Playoffs? Our college football reporters break down
9:14 PM ET Oklahoma transfer Tanner Mordecai will be SMU‘s starting quarterback, a source confirmed to ESPN. Mordecai, who backed up Kyler Murray, Jalen Hurts and Spencer Rattler at OU, beat out highly touted freshman Preston Stone, a four-star recruit who was ranked No. 121 in the ESPN 300 and chose SMU over LSU, Penn
7:00 AM ET LAFAYETTE, La. — Billy Napier isn’t in a hurry. The football coach sits in his office at the University of Louisiana on a Friday morning earlier this month, leans back in a red leather chair and waits patiently for the question he knows is coming: What’s he still doing here? It’s blunt,
6:42 PM ET CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The most frustrating thing about Nebraska’s 30-22 season-opening loss at Illinois is that the mistakes that have hamstrung the Huskers in recent years all seemed to show up. The scariest thing is that coach Scott Frost and his players don’t know why the same things keep happening to them.
7:36 PM ET With Hurricane Ida approaching the Louisiana coast and expected to make landfall on Sunday, LSU announced that the football team would be moving to Houston on Saturday for next week’s practice. The Tigers play at UCLA on Sept. 4. The school says the team will leave from Houston for Los Angeles on
3:51 PM ET CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Illinois starting quarterback Brandon Peters left Saturday’s season opener with a left arm/shoulder injury suffered late in the first quarter. Peters, a sixth-year senior, remained down after being sacked by Nebraska‘s Deontre Thomas on Illinois’ final series of the opening quarter. He immediately went into Illinois’ injury tent, and