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12:36 PM ET Florida State‘s tumultuous 2020 season has officially come to an end, with the ACC announcing Saturday’s game against Wake Forest has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns on the Seminoles’ roster. FSU informed the league office Friday morning that a positive test and contact tracing would leave the team without enough offensive

11:24 AM ET Syracuse football coach Dino Babers will be back for 2021, despite a 1-10 season that led to some questions about his job security. During a Zoom call with reporters, Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack let it be known Babers does not enter next season on the hot seat and has the full

7:00 AM ET Kyle Trask received a FaceTime call in the locker room last weekend from Danny Wuerffel, offering congratulations for breaking his single-season school touchdown record. Under a different circumstance, the call would have generated more attention, an unofficial welcome to the elite Florida quarterback club, if you will. But the Gators had just

9:00 AM ET Championship weekend means one thing for the Allstate Playoff Predictor: It’s the last time to run scenarios. Two days before the College Football Playoff selection committee makes its final judgments on the 2020 playoff race, we’re taking our model out for a spin to answer this year’s pressing questions. Can Notre Dame

7:00 AM ET IT WAS THE middle of September, and Shaun Wade sat at his kitchen table in Jacksonville, Florida, in the wrong place at the wrong time. Again. He wasn’t at Ohio State, for one. He wasn’t playing football at all, for another. This being 2020, football in the Big Ten, like so much

11:01 PM ET The Sun Belt conference championship game between Louisiana and No. 12 Coastal Carolina has been canceled due to a positive COVID-19 test within the Coastal Carolina program, the conference announced Thursday evening. Because of contact tracing, an entire position group would not be available to play for the Chanticleers due to possible

8:09 PM ET Associated Press USC is undefeated and can win its second Pac-12 championship in four years with a victory over Oregon on Friday. It still may not be enough to get the Trojans into the College Football Playoff. USC is No. 13 in the latest CFP rankings and, barring a massive shakeup ahead

3:20 PM ET Virginia Tech quarterback Hendon Hooker announced Thursday that he will enter the transfer portal. “Upon December graduation, I have decided to enter the transfer portal,” Hooker tweeted. “This is one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make. Being a Hokie has been an unforgettable experience. To all of my brothers,

6:50 PM ET Aloha Stadium, the longtime home to the Hawai’i football team, announced a moratorium on new events at the stadium Thursday, prompting the Rainbow Warriors to begin a search for a new home for the 2021 season. “We are beyond disappointed of the news at today’s announcement from the Aloha Stadium Authority that

3:30 PM ET UCLA will not pursue the opportunity to play in a bowl game, the school announced Thursday. The Bruins join a growing list of college football teams to make the decision not to extend the season due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “We are a player-led team, and we listened to our players

1:56 PM ET Arizona starting quarterback Grant Gunnell entered the NCAA’s transfer portal on Thursday. Gunnell started Arizona’s first three games this season before sustaining a shoulder injury in a loss to UCLA. He passed for 625 yards and six touchdowns with two interceptions. The 6-foot-6, 225-pound Gunnell split time with Khalil Tate in 2019,

2:41 PM ET Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas coach Les Miles got an unwavering vote of confidence from athletic director Jeff Long on Thursday, despite the long-suffering Jayhawks finishing just the second winless season since the 1950s and showing little sign of improvement. “We knew building this football program that this was a building

2:40 PM ET Florida coach Dan Mullen said whether his team can reach the College Football Playoff with two losses is ultimately out of his control, but that didn’t stop him from projecting confidence heading into a showdown with No. 1 Alabama in the SEC Championship Game. “We’ll think about that on Saturday night after

11:29 AM ET Boston College tight end Hunter Long will forgo his final season and enter the NFL draft, the school announced Thursday. Long leads all tight ends nationally in receptions (57) and yards (685) and finished just nine catches shy of BC’s record for catches in a season by a tight end. ESPN’s Mel

12:27 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Army and Air Force will play at a neutral site for the first time in more than a half-century when the rivalry game moves next year to the Texas Rangers baseball stadium that hosted the last World Series. The service academies said Thursday they plan to play

10:13 AM ET Purdue coach Jeff Brohm announced Thursday that defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Bob Diaco will not return to the Boilermakers next season. Diaco was hired to replace Nick Holt last December after serving as Louisiana Tech defensive coordinator for one season, and as Oklahoma linebackers coach for the 2018 season. Diaco was

7:27 AM ET David M. Hale Close ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Harry Lyles Jr. It’s championship week, whatever that means in this wild year. Did Oregon win its division? No, but the Ducks are playing for a Pac-12 championship. Did Ohio State play enough

7:07 AM ET For what feels like centuries, we have debated perhaps the greatest mystery in the known universe: What would happen if (gasp!) Notre Dame ever joined a conference? We finally have our answer. College football did not spin off its axis when the best-known independent football program in the country joined a conference