2:08 PM ET Ohio State will resume team activities Tuesday as it hopes to play later this week at Michigan State. The fourth-ranked Buckeyes paused activities Friday night and canceled Saturday’s game at Illinois after a rise in COVID-19 cases in the program. Ohio State hasn’t revealed specific numbers of those who have tested positive,
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2:30 PM ET The Stanford football team will spend at least the next two weeks on the road after Santa Clara County issued a health order over the weekend that temporarily prevents contact sports. Stanford will travel to Seattle on Tuesday ahead of Saturday’s game at Washington, then will travel to Corvallis, Oregon, where it
11:30 AM ET USC is cleared to resume workouts Tuesday as the team prepares for Sunday’s game against Washington State. Coach Clay Helton said USC’s latest round of COVID-19 tests all came back negative. The Washington State game was moved from Friday to Sunday, which allows both teams to get players back from coronavirus-related quarantine.
12:47 PM ET Sarah Fuller is expected to continue as Vanderbilt’s place-kicker on Saturday against Georgia. Last weekend Fuller became the first woman to participate in a Power 5 football game when she delivered the second-half kickoff against Missouri — a designed squib kick that was downed without a return at the 35-yard line. Fuller
9:37 AM ET Ohio State coach Ryan Day, one of several people within the Buckeyes program who tested positive for COVID-19 last week, won’t be out of isolation in time to coach in Saturday’s game at Michigan State if the Buckeyes are able to play, a school spokesman confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. Monday is
9:17 AM ET The Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, which has been played every year since its inception in 1935, has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. An official announcement is expected on Tuesday. Stadium first reported the Sun Bowl’s pending announcement. The game was scheduled for the
8:45 AM ET Welcome back to our weekly Heisman Watch for the 2020 college football season. Throughout the season, ESPN.com writers will vote on their top Heisman Trophy candidates. To get the final rankings, we use the following methodology: 14 voters, five votes each. Points system: five points for first-place votes, four points for second-place
8:32 PM ET Texas defensive back Caden Sterns is opting out to begin preparation for the NFL draft, he announced Monday. pic.twitter.com/XS1RLhbhGb — Caden Sterns (@CSterns_7) December 1, 2020 Sterns, the Big 12 freshman of the year in 2018, is tied for second on the team with 52 tackles in seven games, to go along
8:20 PM ET Five-star linebacker Terrence Lewis, the No. 10-ranked prospect overall in the 2021 class and the highest-ranked Tennessee commitment, decommitted from the Volunteers on Monday. Lewis, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound linebacker out of Miami Central (Fla). High, had been committed to Tennessee since April. He originally chose the Vols over Florida, LSU, Alabama, Texas
2:20 PM ET As the hours and then the minutes ticked down to the unlikeliest of Iron Bowls for Nick Saban, he couldn’t help but think about his late father, Nick Sr. — “Big Nick,” as he was called back in their Monongah, West Virginia, community. Saban, forced to watch Alabama’s 42-13 dismantling of Auburn
12:20 PM ET The Northwestern–Minnesota football game set for Saturday in Minneapolis has been canceled because of COVID-19 issues within the Minnesota program. Minnesota on Monday reported that 47 people — 21 athletes and 26 staff members — have tested positive for COVID-19 since Nov. 19. The team canceled last Saturday’s game at Wisconsin after
2:34 PM ET As LSU gets set to host No. 1 Alabama this week, coach Ed Orgeron remained upbeat on the future of his program that slipped to 3-4 after a frustrating 20-7 loss to Texas A&M last week. Just a year ago, the Tigers were on the brink of an SEC title en route
1:21 PM ET Alabama coach Nick Saban, who tested positive for COVID-19 last week, said he expects to return in time for Saturday’s game at LSU. Saban, 69, said that Alabama’s doctors will continue to evaluate him but that he doesn’t anticipate any issues. “I’m feeling fine, so you don’t need to worry about me,”
1:01 PM ET Georgia quarterback D’Wan Mathis, who started the season opener and played in three other games, has entered the NCAA transfer portal, Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart confirmed on Monday. Mathis, a redshirt freshman from Oak Park, Michigan, completed 8 of 17 passes for 55 yards with one interception in a 37-10 win at
12:55 PM ET Indiana starting quarterback Michael Penix Jr. will miss the remainder of the season after suffering a torn ACL in Saturday’s win against Maryland. Coach Tom Allen on Monday confirmed the injury, which is to the same ligament Penix tore as a true freshman in 2018. He ended up redshirting the season. Penix
1:11 PM ET Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller was named an SEC Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday after becoming the first woman to participate in a Power 5 football game over the weekend. Fuller, who was a goalkeeper on Vanderbilt’s conference championship soccer team, kicked off to start the second half against Missouri.
7:00 AM ET Soccer practice was dragging one morning last spring when Vanderbilt assistant coach Kelly Keelan tried something different to break up the monotony. While the rest of the team practiced on the football field in the indoor facility, she gathered goalkeepers Sarah Fuller and Sophie Guilmette near the end zone. 2 Related “Today,”
11:18 PM ET The USC-Washington State game set for Friday has been moved to Sunday to allow USC players to return from COVID-19 isolation and quarantine protocols, USC announced Sunday. USC was forced to cancel Saturday’s game against Colorado when positive cases for COVID-19 and related contract tracing left the Trojans with fewer than the