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7:42 PM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Southwestern Athletic Conference is moving its championship game to a neutral site. The league announced Wednesday that the May 1 game between Alabama A&M and Arkansas Pine-Bluff will be played at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Mississippi. It was initially scheduled to be played on the

3:15 PM ET Washington outside linebacker Zion Tupuola-Fetui suffered a torn Achilles and will miss six to 10 months, coach Jimmy Lake announced Wednesday. In Washington’s four-game 2020 season, Tupuola-Fetui recorded seven sacks and was named a third-team AP All-American. He is expected to have surgery to repair the injury later this week and the

12:47 PM ET Former Pittsburgh Steelers and Georgia wide receiver Hines Ward is set to join Florida Atlantic’s coaching staff, sources told ESPN. Ward, a four-time Pro Bowl selection and two-time Super Bowl champion with the Steelers, entered coaching with the New York Jets in 2019 and remained there in 2020. Florida Atlantic does not

8:00 AM ET Tom Luginbill Close ESPN Analyst Senior National Recruiting Analyst for ESPN.com Coached in four professional football leagues Graduated from Eastern Kentucky and Marshall Craig Haubert Close ESPN Staff Writer National recruiting analyst and analyst for ESPNU More than a decade of college and pro coaching experience. Graduated from Indiana and Nebraska-Omaha The

4:42 PM ET Associated Press EL PASO, Texas — UTEP football coach Dana Dimel and former softball coach Tobin Echo-Hawk received one-year show-cause restrictions and the athletic department was placed on a year’s probation Tuesday over NCAA violations in both programs. The NCAA said the football team exceeded limits on the size of the coaching

4:36 PM ET Associated Press YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Youngstown State football on Tuesday was placed on probation for two years and hit with recruiting sanctions by the NCAA after the school and the association agreed several rules violations were committed under former coach Bo Pelini. Using the NCAA’s negotiated resolution process, the school agreed it

10:00 AM ET Tom Luginbill Close ESPN Analyst Senior National Recruiting Analyst for ESPN.com Coached in four professional football leagues Graduated from Eastern Kentucky and Marshall Craig Haubert Close ESPN Staff Writer National recruiting analyst and analyst for ESPNU More than a decade of college and pro coaching experience. Graduated from Indiana and Nebraska-Omaha Trevor

7:00 AM ET As the globe comes to terms with the inevitably of a Super League upending the structure of European soccer, it’s not hard to imagine a series of events that leads to a similar shift in an American sport similarly steeped in more than a century’s worth of tradition. With its best teams

7:30 AM ET The AAC has been, per SP+, the best conference in the Group of 5 for six of the seven years of the College Football Playoff era. For the past two years, it has graded out closer to the worst power conference than any other G5 entity. The star power of the best

4:02 PM ET Former Michigan quarterback Joe Milton plans to transfer to Tennessee, sources told ESPN on Monday. Milton entered the transfer portal in February and is scheduled to graduate in May, which would make him eligible to play for the Vols this season. 2 Related The Vols are looking for a starting quarterback as

1:27 PM ET Indiana and Notre Dame have scheduled a home-and-home series in football for 2030 and 2031, marking the first time the in-state teams will meet since 1991. The Hoosiers and Fighting Irish will open the 2030 season at Notre Dame Stadium on Aug. 31 and then meet Sept. 27, 2031, in Bloomington. The

10:02 AM ET A North Texas football signee was among three people shot and killed at an apartment complex in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, the Elgin (Texas) Independent School District confirmed in a statement. Willie Simmons III, a senior at Elgin High School, signed with the Mean Green in December and was set to join

7:00 AM ET While history doesn’t favor the odds, it is possible for teams other than Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Oklahoma to compete in the College Football Playoff. Oregon and Washington have done it. LSU won it all in 2020. So why not USC? Iowa State? Texas A&M? It’s not complicated, at least for

6:00 PM ET South Dakota State (5-1), winner of the Missouri Valley Football Conference, earned the top seed in the 16-team field for spring FCS playoffs, which was announced Sunday. South Dakota State, which is making its 10th appearance in the championship, will open play April 24 against Holy Cross (3-0), the Patriot League champion.

6:23 PM ET Former USC offensive lineman Chris Brown has died at age 24, according to Trojans coach Clay Helton. “Heartbroken to hear the news that we lost Chris Brown today. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the entire Brown family. Chris meant so much to so many. Great person, player, teammate, and Trojan.

4:45 PM ET Bryce Young stepped into the first-team quarterback role and shined during Alabama‘s spring game on Saturday, winning most valuable player honors after completing 25 of 44 passes for 333 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions. Young, a former five-star prospect, was Mac Jones‘ primary backup as a freshman last season. He appeared

4:29 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — With spring practice in the books, Ohio State‘s quarterback derby will carry over into fall workouts. That’s not a surprise, considering the candidates to succeed star Justin Fields are two second-year players and a true freshman. Neither has thrown a pass in a college game. C.J. Stroud,

8:00 AM ET FCS’ 2021 spring season continues to make us say, “Wait, WHAT?” The season’s eighth full week was no exception. Kennesaw State was favored over Monmouth in the de facto Big South title game, and Monmouth won, 42-17. In Sunday’s Northeast Conference Championship, road underdog Sacred Heart lost a two-score lead in the