3:28 PM ET Wide receiver Charleston Rambo, who started 24 games the past two years for the Oklahoma Sooners, has joined the Miami Hurricanes as a transfer, he announced Tuesday on Twitter. Rambo, who caught 25 passes for 312 yards and three touchdowns in 10 starts for the Sooners this season, had entered the transfer
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6:57 PM ET Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Running back Ty Chandler is transferring to North Carolina for his final season of eligibility after graduating from Tennessee. North Carolina announced Chandler’s decision Tuesday. Chandler also announced his decision on Twitter, thanking Tennessee but saying he looks forward to a special season in Chapel Hill.
5:39 PM ET Louisiana-Monroe has hired Rich Rodriguez as its new associate head coach and offensive coordinator, the school announced Tuesday. Rodriguez, who most recently served as Ole Miss offensive coordinator in 2019, will be joining new Warhawks coach Terry Bowden. Rodriguez’s son, Rhett, a quarterback at Arizona the past four seasons, is transferring to
2:47 PM ET NCAA president Mark Emmert said he “couldn’t disagree more” with a proposal that the association should part ways with the most lucrative sports under its purview in an effort to preserve the education-based model of sports it espouses. Emmert delivered his annual state-of-the-union style address Tuesday afternoon at the NCAA convention, which
12:03 PM ET Tyson Summers is out as Colorado‘s defensive coordinator after two years with the Buffaloes, sources told ESPN. Summers came to Colorado with coach Mel Tucker in 2019 and remained the team’s coordinator under Karl Dorrell, who replaced Tucker in February after Tucker left for Michigan State. He’s the former head coach at
10:24 AM ET “I enjoyed the ride!” Alabama head coach Nick Saban, his 69-year-old face looking downright cherubic, was specifically talking about the lift he had just received, as he was carried him across the field of Hard Rock Stadium like a sack of potatoes on the right shoulder of 6-foot-6, 324-pound Landon Dickerson, celebrating
10:27 AM ET Alabama coach Nick Saban said Tuesday that it’s an “ongoing process” to find a replacement for offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian, who was named the head coach at Texas a week ago. Former Houston Texans head coach Bill O’Brien has been targeted by Saban and is considered a prime candidate for the vacant
12:21 PM ET Former Auburn defensive coordinator Kevin Steele has agreed to a deal to join the Tennessee football coaching staff, sources told ESPN. Steele, 62, was Auburn’s defensive coordinator the past five seasons but was not retained by new Auburn coach Bryan Harsin, who hired former Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason as his defensive coordinator.
10:37 AM ET RYAN DAY KEPT it together, because that’s what he does. There would be no outbursts or regrettable lines on this day. But the Ohio State head coach didn’t run from his emotions, either. “Sad, angry, frustrated, all of the above,” Day said Aug. 12 about the previous day’s decision by the Big
10:13 AM ET Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Thousands of excited football fans partied in streets around the University of Alabama after the Crimson Tide defeated Ohio State 52-24 for the national championship, ignoring pleas for common sense and safety at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Students and others poured out of jam-packed bars
2:59 AM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — At the end of a long, grueling, strange, uncomfortable season for college football, we finally got a small piece of normalcy as the final seconds ticked off the clock Monday night at Hard Rock Stadium: Alabama, hoisting yet another national championship trophy after winning in dominant, historic fashion.
2:18 AM ET Despite playing with a hip pointer injury, Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields wasn’t going to make any excuses for why the Buckeyes lost 52-24 to Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship. Fields was still on the mend from his injury sustained in the semifinal game against Clemson, but not hurt
8:39 PM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Ohio State running back Trey Sermon was taken to a local hospital for further diagnosis after suffering an apparent left collarbone injury on the first drive of the Buckeyes’ 52-24 loss to Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T on Monday night. Sermon was
12:22 AM ET Alabama’s dominance is expected to continue, as the Crimson Tide roll into the offseason as the favorites to win next season’s College Football National Championship. Alabama has been installed as the favorite for next season’s title at +300 at Caesars Sportsbook by William Hill. Clemson is next at +400, followed by Ohio
2:55 AM ET Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Alabama has finished the season No. 1 in the AP Top 25 for the 11th time, extending its record by finishing with the program’s first perfect season since 2009. The Crimson Tide were a unanimous No. 1 in the final poll, getting 61 first-place votes, after
2:27 AM ET Finishing the season undefeated and beating Ohio State 52-24 to win the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday night had some Alabama players feeling as if they’d made history. “I think we’re the best team to ever play,” Alabama quarterback Mac Jones said. Jones, who threw for more than 4,000 yards
12:00 AM ET Move over Paul “Bear” Bryant. Nick Saban now owns the most national championships by a head coach in college football history. Saban won his record seventh title when he led Alabama to a 52-24 win over Ohio State in the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday night. Saban said amid the
11:52 PM ET Nick Saban found himself in the unfamiliar position of walking through empty halls and past vacant offices at Alabama for much of the summer. His staff and players were forced to isolate in their homes, and Saban was doing his best to adapt to this new reality. The 69-year-old coach who grew