7:00 AM ET In the 2008 SEC Championship game, Florida scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns — one on a short Jeff Demps run, the other on a pass from Tim Tebow to Riley Cooper — to ice a 31-20 win over Nick Saban’s upstart Alabama and clinch a spot in the BCS Championship game. It was
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7:30 AM ET ESPN staff From the Miami Hurricanes entering through smoke to Traveler, the live horse mascot of the USC Trojans, galloping the sidelines in Los Angeles, college football provides its fans with an experience that is completely its own. Each campus, stadium and fan base has something different to offer to the average
10:47 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — The Big 12 Conference could see the value of its television deal cut in half once Texas and Oklahoma bolt for the Southeastern Conference, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Monday at a hearing of Texas lawmakers. A committee of Texas senators heard testimony from university leaders
6:45 PM ET Quarterback prospect Quinn Ewers announced Monday that he is skipping his senior season of high school and will enroll at Ohio State, making him eligible this season. A main factor in his decision to leave school early was the fact that Texas prohibits high school athletes from profiting off of their name,
5:55 PM ET USC wide receiver Bru McCoy has been suspended from team activities following a felony domestic violence arrest July 24 in Los Angeles. “USC does not condone violence of any kind. We are aware of the situation, and USC’s Office for Equity, Equal Opportunity, and Title IX is reviewing it,” the school said
6:41 PM ET LSU quarterback Myles Brennan sustained a left arm injury that will require surgery, the school announced on Monday. Sources told ESPN that Brennan is believed to have a broken arm. A timeline for his return is unclear. Brennan began last season as the starter, throwing 11 touchdowns in three games before an
2:52 PM ET Alabama’s board of trustees on Monday approved a contract extension for football coach Nick Saban that will keep him in Tuscaloosa through the 2028 season. Saban, who turns 70 in October, will make $8.4 million this year, with his salary set to increase annually. He will be paid an average of $9.8
12:38 PM ET Quarterback Quinn Ewers, the No. 2 prospect in the 2022 class, is forgoing his senior season to enroll at Ohio State, a source confirmed to ESPN. Ewers is the top quarterback in the class and the No. 1 prospect in Texas out of Carroll High School in Southlake. He had initially committed
7:05 AM ET When the 2021 NFL season opens, three starting quarterbacks will be former Oklahoma Sooners. Spencer Rattler is the odds-on favorite to win this year’s Heisman Trophy, which would make him the fifth Sooners quarterback to do so in the past 19 years. Lincoln Riley and his staff just got a commitment from
7:30 AM ET Before Texas and Oklahoma upended the college football world last week, the ACC was already thinking about how it might secure a new, more lucrative TV deal. The only real answer, several athletic directors said at the time, was expansion. Other changes would be incremental, but adding a brand name to the
7:15 PM ET ESPN 300 cornerback Jaheim Singletary decommitted from Ohio State on Sunday. Singletary is the No. 15 prospect overall and was the second-highest ranked commit in the Buckeyes class behind quarterback Quinn Ewers, who is the No. 1 ranked recruit. Singletary is a 6-foot-1, 175-pound corner from Riverside High School in Jacksonville, Florida,
2:12 PM ET Clemson cornerback Fred Davis II surrendered to police Sunday after they charged him with misdemeanor reckless driving for allegedly driving 115 mph and causing a wreck that seriously injured a postal worker on July 21. Davis, 19, was released on bond. According to a release from the Clemson Police Department, Davis was
12:50 PM ET ESPN staff [Editor’s note: The news that Texas and Oklahoma were planning to leave the conference — which became official on Friday — was a reminder that in college football, the past is never really the past. ESPN reporters Heather Dinich, Mark Schlabach and Dave Wilson show how the roots of this
8:00 AM ET When Oklahoma and Texas formally announced their desire earlier this week to leave the Big 12 and join the SEC — a move that would create a seismic shift in the power structure of college athletics — college football was already on the precipice of historic change with the proposal of a
6:54 AM ET College football’s transfer portal received a lot of attention from coaches building and adding to their rosters this offseason. It’s not the transfer market of old with players who might not make an immediate impact or any impact at all. Nowadays, more high-end athletes are entering the portal, some of whom are
9:03 PM ET SEC commissioner Greg Sankey told ESPN on Thursday that the expected move of Big 12 co-founders Oklahoma and Texas to his league shouldn’t impact the consideration of a 12-team College Football Playoff. Sankey also expects to continue working with Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby on the CFP’s management committee in spite of
4:10 PM ET After finishing the 2021 recruiting cycle outside of the top 25 in the class rankings, Penn State football has had a massive turnaround in 2022 with the most ESPN 300 commitments of any FBS program. ESPN 300 safety Cristian Driver was the latest to commit to the Nittany Lions on Thursday, giving
4:14 PM ET ESPN News Services ESPN bolstered its response to a Big 12 conference letter that accused the network of trying to “destabilize” the league, writing in a letter of its own that ESPN has “engaged in no wrongful conduct” and that “there is nothing to ‘cease and desist.'” The letter from Magnus restated