5:54 PM ET The Pac-12 will consider having its teams forfeit games if they can’t play this fall because of COVID-19, new Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff told ESPN on Thursday, but the conference won’t make an official decision until August. “I will tell you that I’m leaning towards going back to the pre-COVID rules that
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6:13 PM ET Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said Thursday he’d like to see additional changes made to the college football schedule if the sport plans to expand its playoff. Swinney and North Carolina coach Mack Brown both came out against the proposed 12-team playoff this month after surveying their players for feedback, but after sitting
5:23 PM ET Boston College has vaccinated its entire football team and coaching staff for COVID-19, coach Jeff Hafley said Thursday, though the Eagles did help one player who was unwilling to get the shot to transfer. Boston College has instituted mandatory vaccinations starting with the fall semester, and Hafley said the buy-in from his
3:43 PM ET If Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC, it would break a long-standing “gentlemen’s agreement” between SEC schools that gives conference members “absolute veto power” over the addition of another school from their state, according to a former Texas A&M official. R. Bowen Loftin, who helped steer the Aggies into the SEC in
3:25 PM ET ESPN News Services Terry Bowden, son of Hall of Fame college football coach Bobby Bowden, said Thursday his father is suffering from pancreatic cancer and is “doing as good as expected” given the family’s recent announcement that his condition is terminal. “The news came out [Wednesday], but we’ve known for about 10
1:52 PM ET HOOVER, Ala. — Arkansas football coach Sam Pittman drew a line in the sand Thursday when it comes to his players entering the transfer portal. “Once you go to the transfer portal at the University of Arkansas, you sure ain’t transferring back in,” he said. Speaking at SEC media days, Pittman compared
12:20 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Coming off a 2-4 season in 2020, coaching changes and offseason questions about Jim Harbaugh’s future, Michigan linebacker Josh Ross says the culture of the football program is at the highest level he has seen since joining the Wolverines. The senior linebacker said that, in the past, there was negativity
10:25 AM ET Miami Hurricanes safety Avantae Williams has been suspended by the team after he was arrested Wednesday on domestic violence charges, a university spokesperson told multiple outlets. Williams, 20, is facing three counts of aggravated battery of a pregnant person, according to Miami-Dade County records. He is being held on $10,000 bond, according
7:12 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — In 2020, Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren often looked at a picture on his desk. The photo showed his parents, Morrison and Margaret, with 9-month-old Kevin in 1964. Warren knows what mom and dad would have said to him if they had been alive last year: Two words you need
6:27 PM ET ESPN News Services IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa plans to name the field at Kinnick Stadium for Duke Slater, a trailblazing Black player who was an All-America tackle a century ago, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. The Iowa board of regents, which governs the university, is set to consider
8:59 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In the weeks since Mark Richt announced he had Parkinson’s disease, hundreds of former players, coaches, friends and colleagues have reached out with messages of love and support for him. That has not stopped in Charlotte, where Richt is working for ACC Network as part of coverage of ACC
6:46 PM ET Washington State coach Nick Rolovich announced Wednesday afternoon that he has chosen not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and that he will be joining Pac-12 media day remotely on Tuesday. “As the Pac-12 Conference has required that all in-person participants at next week’s Pac-12 Football Media Day be fully vaccinated, I will
7:24 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Miami quarterback D’Eriq King said Wednesday his right knee feels “100 percent” and he will be able to participate fully in fall practice when it begins next month. During media availability with ESPN during ACC Kickoff, King said he does not feel any limitations with his reconstructed meniscus and
6:38 PM ET Wake Forest will be without two key starters for the 2021 college football season, coach Dave Clawson said Wednesday. Receiver Donavon Greene and right tackle Je’Vionte’ Nash will both miss the season following summer injuries, Clawson said. Linebacker Chase Monroe is also expected to miss the year because of injury. Greene was
4:42 PM ET HOOVER, Ala. — Texas A&M athletic director Ross Bjork is standing up for his school after a Houston Chronicle report that Texas and Oklahoma have reached out to the SEC about joining the conference. The newspaper cited an unnamed college official and said an announcement could come within a couple of weeks.
4:58 PM ET Before last season’s Orange Bowl, North Carolina quarterback Sam Howell made a stunning admission: He’s never eaten a steak. No cheeseburgers or seafood, either. His teammates teased him endlessly, he said, but he was a chicken-only man. On Wednesday, Howell turned that culinary hot take into a new marketing deal, partnering with
3:30 PM ET While some coaches and players around college football have come out against an expanded 12-team playoff, Mississippi State coach Mike Leach wants even more participation. Asked if 12 teams is enough, Leach said Wednesday, “It’s never enough.” “But I’ll tell you what,” he said, “Mark Keenum, our president, is on that committee,
2:08 PM ET Hall of Fame coach Bobby Bowden has been diagnosed with a terminal medical condition, he and his family announced in a statement to the Tallahassee Democrat on Wednesday. “I’ve always tried to serve God’s purpose for my life, on and off the field, and I am prepared for what is to come,”