10:54 AM ET The Virginia–Florida State football game was postponed on Saturday morning after positive coronavirus tests and contact trace quarantines with the Seminoles — the second straight week they had a game postponed hours before kickoff. ACC protocols state that teams must be tested the day before competition. Those tests are conducted by an
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10:42 PM ET Ohio State has canceled Saturday’s game at Illinois because of a COVID-19 outbreak within the No. 4 Buckeyes’ program, and they have paused all team-related activities indefinitely after additional positive tests were revealed Friday evening, the school announced. Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith, university president Kristina M. Johnson and head team
7:57 PM ET Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz took issue with Nebraska attributing center Cameron Jurgens‘ snapping issues during Friday’s game to clapping from the Hawkeyes’ sideline. After the Huskers’ 26-20 loss Saturday, Nebraska coach Scott Frost was asked about Jurgens, who had five snaps go awry in the first half. Frost told media members he
3:53 PM ET Ohio State football coach Ryan Day has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not travel with the No. 3 Buckeyes for Saturday’s game against Illinois, the school said in a statement. The university said Day is just “one of the individuals” with in the program that has tested positive for the coronavirus,
2:37 PM ET Sarah Fuller is poised to become the first female to play in a Power 5 football game when Vanderbilt plays at Missouri in an SEC contest Saturday. A Vanderbilt official confirmed that Fuller made the trip to Missouri and will be dressed out for the game. If she sees action Saturday, Fuller
12:41 PM ET The SEC is shaking up its football schedule once again as it attempts to reschedule a previously postponed Alabama-LSU game. A source confirmed that No. 1 Alabama is expected to travel to LSU on Dec. 5 so long as this weekend’s slate of games goes off as planned. Yahoo Sports was first
12:00 PM ET Welcome to Week 13 of the college football season, also known as RIVALRY WEEK! There are the classics, like Oregon-Oregon State and Stanford-Cal. We’ll bear witness to an Iron Bowl without Nick Saban on the Alabama sideline after he tested positive for COVID-19 this week. 2 Related Mississippi State and Ole Miss
10:15 AM ET The New Era Pinstripe Bowl, originally scheduled to be played Dec. 29 at Yankee Stadium in New York and broadcast by ESPN, has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns, officials announced Friday. “Due to the recent increase in coronavirus cases, which has led to the imposition of various travel restrictions and the
10:44 AM ET Texas unveiled a new 12½-foot statue of trailblazer Julius Whittier, the Longhorns’ first Black letterman, outside the north end of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Friday. Whittier, who died in September 2018, arrived at Texas as one of the school’s first Black scholarship athletes and played on the 1970 team that
7:30 AM ET With just a few weeks remaining before College Football Playoff Selection Day, only a few programs truly control their own destiny. For everyone else, it’s a matter of degree. And the variance in those degrees can be large. The difference between what else needs to happen for Oklahoma to win out and
8:55 PM ET ESPN News Services No. 19 USC’s game against Colorado (2-0) that was scheduled for Saturday has been canceled, the Pac-12 announced Thursday. The conference said USC (3-0) did not have enough scholarship players available in a position group due to positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing. The position group is the offensive
4:33 PM ET USC football canceled in-person activities Thursday and will continue preparations for Saturday’s game against Colorado virtually after a player showed symptoms for COVID-19, the school announced Thursday. Two players tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week and another five are in quarantine for contact tracing. USC canceled practice and closed its facility
8:05 AM ET Like most things in 2020, college football’s rivalry week is a little askew. Conferences staggered their starts. Due to the truly regional nature of the sport, there’s no uniform approach. Some leagues played nonconference games, while others haven’t. An extremely nontraditional year means our hallowed traditions are upended: Florida isn’t playing Miami
6:07 PM ET Kentucky is without 18 players because of COVID-19 and injury issues, as well as 10 staff members, as it prepares to visit No. 5 Florida on Saturday. Wildcats coach Mark Stoops on Wednesday said the team “can’t afford any more” personnel losses as it goes through another round of COVID-19 testing on
6:05 PM ET No. 18 USC will resume practice Wednesday, a day after one was canceled and its facility was closed after a player tested positive for COVID-19. Contact tracing was conducted and the players, coaches and staff underwent PCR tests in response to the positive case, the school said. One additional player tested positive
4:26 PM ET Minnesota wide receiver Rashod Bateman announced on Wednesday that he is ending his college career early to focus on preparation for the NFL draft. Bateman wrote on Twitter that after the most recent COVID-19 breakout at Minnesota and the cancellation of the school’s game against Wisconsin, he discussed his future with his
5:54 PM ET Backed by some big names, Oklahoma assistant head coach for offense Shane Beamer will interview for the South Carolina head coaching vacancy and is a strong candidate for the job, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. Beamer, the son of Hall of Fame coach Frank Beamer, was South Carolina’s recruiting coordinator in 2009
4:22 PM ET Oklahoma‘s game at West Virginia on Saturday has been postponed, the Big 12 announced on Wednesday. The No. 11 Sooners have temporarily paused organized team activities because of recent positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing within the program. The game with the Mountaineers, originally scheduled to be nationally televised by ABC on