10:07 PM ET Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione said Thursday that the school is unhappy with Fox’s decision to show this season’s game against Nebraska in Norman as the network’s early kickoff on Sept. 18. “We are bitterly disappointed that the great Oklahoma-Nebraska rivalry, on the 50th anniversary of the Game of the Century, will
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3:13 PM ET With less than 100 days until the start of the college football season, ESPN released its slate of games Thursday filled with rivalries, conference championship games and postseason action. More than 100 games will be featured all within the first three weeks of the season, including the previously announced games with Georgia–Clemson
7:00 AM ET College football coaching jobs are typically evaluated on a macro scale. Here at ESPN+, there have been rankings of every FBS job and, more recently, tiers for Power 5 and Group of 5 jobs. Rather than repeat those exercises, I thought it would be more fun to take two comparable jobs, ideally
1:16 AM ET Associated Press The president of Ohio State University asked athletic director Gene Smith if the Buckeyes could “go independent” in a text message sent the day after the Big Ten announced in August it would not play a fall football season. The text from Ohio State President Kristina Johnson to Smith, dated
11:34 AM ET Associated Press MOBILE, Ala. — The Senior Bowl and the NFL will hold a pre-draft combine for top prospects from historically Black colleges and universities next January. The inaugural HBCU combine, scheduled for Jan. 28-29 in 2022, will be similar to the NFL combine with interviews and on-field and medical evaluations. It
11:39 AM ET Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. — The former Penn State president who was forced out as the school’s top administrator when Jerry Sandusky was arrested a decade ago will soon have to report to jail, after a judge on Wednesday upheld a sentence issued four years ago. The judge ordered Graham Spanier to
7:00 AM ET Winning a national title in college football generally requires both greatness and a little bit of luck, and some of the greatest teams in the sport’s history haven’t gotten quite enough of the latter to emerge with a ring. As we slowly gear up for another season, let’s take a moment to
9:00 AM ET Multiple Contributors A perfect storm is brewing in college football that could fundamentally change the way recruiting works and affect thousands of high school players in the process. As coaching staffs are try to solve a roster management riddle that began with the COVID-19 pandemic and the return of “super seniors,” they’re
2:52 PM ET Associated Press AUBURN, Ala. — Former LSU quarterback TJ Finley is transferring to SEC Western Division rival Auburn. Finley announced his decision Monday with a video posted on social media. Finley started five games last season as a freshman. Finley passed for 941 yards with five touchdowns against five interceptions. It’s unclear
1:20 PM ET Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A committee proposed that the University of Michigan remove Fielding Yost’s name from the campus ice arena after a review of his work, including his refusal to let a Black football player play a Southern school in 1934. Yost spent about 40 years in Ann Arbor
1:18 PM ET Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The Indiana Hoosiers announced Monday that Texas A&M wide receiver Camron Buckley is transferring into the program. Buckley graduated from Texas A&M in December and will be eligible immediately. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound Texan played in 39 games, making four starts, and caught 62 passes for 877 yards
5:42 AM ET It was late December, not yet the end of the season, and already the wolves were circling. An assistant at a high-level Power 5 program knew two of his school’s best young players — one on offense and one on defense — were being actively recruited by other programs. In fact, he
11:48 AM ET Central Michigan quarterback John Keller has been released from the hospital nearly a month after he was shot in the chest near campus. Keller and another student, Tyler Bunting, were shot at a party on April 24 after a fight broke out at Deerfield Village apartment complex in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Keller
11:06 AM ET ESPN 300 running back Jaydon Blue, one of the top-ranked running backs in the 2022 class, said he will sit out his senior season of high school in 2021 to prepare for college. Blue is the No. 82 ranked recruit overall in the ESPN 300 out of Klein Cain High School in
9:45 AM ET Tom Luginbill Close ESPN Analyst Senior National Recruiting Analyst for ESPN.com Coached in four professional football leagues Graduated from Eastern Kentucky and Marshall Craig Haubert Close ESPN Staff Writer National recruiting analyst and analyst for ESPNU More than a decade of college and pro coaching experience. Graduated from Indiana and Nebraska-Omaha With
11:50 AM ET Northwestern and Nebraska will open the 2022 season in Dublin, Ireland, the schools announced Wednesday. The Wildcats will serve as the home team in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic, set to be played Aug. 27, 2022, at Aviva Stadium. Nebraska had been scheduled to open the 2021 season against Illinois in
6:30 AM ET Multiple Contributors It might be hard to believe, but Week 0 is just 100 days out. So we’re starting the countdown to that first kickoff, because we’re that excited about the 2021 college football season. We rounded up three of our college football writers to dig into the upcoming slate of games.
7:00 AM ET At Virginia Tech, senior associate athletic director Brad Wurthman is so excited for the possibility of football fans returning to Lane Stadium this fall, he says jokingly that he’ll pay to put a roof on it “just so we can blow the damn thing off on Sept. 3.” At USC, athletic director