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7:30 AM ET The college football season is kicking into high gear, the NFL season starts Sept. 9, and the baseball pennant races are heating up. For the first time since 2019, nearly all stadiums will be fully open to fans. In the so-called Before Times, sitting shoulder to shoulder inside a stadium with tens

11:18 AM ET Associated Press PISCATAWAY, N.J. — The season-opening game between Temple and Rutgers scheduled for Thursday night has been postponed until Saturday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped historic rain over the Northeastern U.S. Rutgers officials did not immediately announce a new starting time. Information on tickets, credentials and parking for the

11:28 AM ET Alabama is once again the consensus favorite to win the national championship at U.S. sportsbooks, and bettors are flocking to back the Crimson Tide. Alabama is the national-title favorite at +260 at Caesars Sportsbook, followed by Clemson (+400) and Ohio State (+600). Georgia and Oklahoma, who are each +750, round out the

7:00 AM ET Dave Wilson Close ESPN Staff Writer Dave Wilson is an editor for ESPN.com since 2010. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. Harry Lyles Jr. The waiting is over. After one of the most stressful, unusual and just plain weird seasons in college football

Aug 31, 2021 Departures by Trevor Lawrence, Mac Jones, Justin Fields and other NFL-bound quarterbacks have left massive holes for their old teams. Those respective exits have fans at prominent schools bracing for new faces to make a name for themselves while following in their predecessors’ footsteps. Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Texas A&M and Notre

8:00 AM ET ATHENS, Georgia — Quarterback JT Daniels remembers the first time his family made the drive from the Atlanta airport to the University of Georgia campus when he was in the process of transferring. “Seeing all the Georgia Bulldog flags flying everywhere, to experience what it’s like for football to be such a

2:01 PM ET Associated Press LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State named football alumnus and deputy athletic director Alan Haller as its 20th athletic director on Wednesday. Haller served as deputy athletic director since 2019, having been with the athletic department since 2010. He was a lieutenant for the university police department for 13 years. He

1:56 PM ET The Florida State Seminoles will honor late coach Bobby Bowden this season with various tributes, including on-field logos and his famous signature on the back of the football team’s helmets, the school announced Wednesday. Bowden, who coached for 34 years at Florida State and won 315 games with the Seminoles, died last

12:52 PM ET Jackson State quarterback Shedeur Sanders has signed a name, image and likeness deal with Beats by Dre as a brand ambassador. Sanders is the son of Jackson State coach Deion Sanders and is the first college athlete the brand has signed. “I remember getting my first pair of Beats, so this feels

12:12 PM ET LSU football coach Ed Orgeron said on Wednesday that all players and coaches, along with their families, are safe after Hurricane Ida tore through the Gulf Coast this week. However, he said, some families experienced severe damage to their homes and have been displaced by the storm that caused widespread flooding in

8:30 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Ala. — Nearly a year to the day after he thought his season was over, Jacksonville State linebacker Marshall Clark smiles as he sits inside a suite overlooking Burgess-Snow Field on campus. The junior from nearby Munford, Alabama, shakes his head, still unsure how they pulled it off, navigating all the

7:30 AM ET After a 2020 season and then an offseason like no other, college football is finally back. As much as things might have changed off the field with name, image and likeness, talk of an expanded College Football Playoff (we think), and Oklahoma and Texas jumping from the Big 12 to the SEC

9:33 PM ET BYU coach Kalani Sitake has received a contract extension through the 2025 season, the team announced Monday. Sitake led BYU to an 11-1 record and a No. 11 finish in the AP poll last season, the team’s best final ranking since 1996. A former BYU fullback, Sitake is 38-26 in five seasons

10:04 PM ET Texas A&M is finalizing a new contract extension for football coach Jimbo Fisher that will increase his average annual salary to more than $9 million, sources told ESPN. Fisher, entering his fourth season at Texas A&M, originally signed a 10-year, $75 million contract when he was hired away from Florida State after

7:45 PM ET Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. “The Alabama Crimson Tide can’t produce NFL quarterbacks,” they said. “They’re just a bunch of game-managers,” they

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

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