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7:00 AM ET THERE ARE almost always a few sideways glances and awkward moments when players are asked about it. Even when they’ve left the college ranks, they aren’t comfortable saying anything unless granted anonymity. But once that’s a given, the floodgates start to open up. One player grins as if he’s been waiting all

12:07 PM ET Amid ongoing concern and escalating coronavirus infection rates in the United States, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said he remains optimistic that the college football season will start on time. Asked his preference for how the sport might adjust to potential scheduling issues due to the pandemic, Swinney said his only focus is

10:17 PM ET ESPN.com staff When it comes to classic college football games, it’s hard to top the 2006 Rose Bowl between Texas and USC. Former Longhorns and Trojans took to social media as they watched the rebroadcast of their classic showdown in Pasadena. The memories came flooding back as they relived Vince Young’s heroics

7:05 PM ET Former North Dakota State linebacker and two-time FCS All-American Jabril Cox has committed to transfer to LSU. Cox, who made the announcement on his Twitter page on Thursday afternoon, is a graduate transfer and will be immediately eligible to play. Here we Geaux!!📍🐯 pic.twitter.com/p2Q47VW8d6 — Jabril Cox (@_Brillo) April 2, 2020 The

8:00 AM ET Two years ago, the 10-team Sun Belt Conference broke into two divisions. This was a semi-pointless exercise considering each team plays eight of nine conference opponents every year, which nearly ruins the point of an inter-division rotation. It was also a bit unfair to the teams in the Sun Belt East —

Apr 8, 2020 There’s no doubt 2019 will go down as the year of the transfer in college football. The transfer portal dominated discussion around the sport, along with the debate about immediate-eligibility waivers; the approval of high-profile, non-graduate transfers to play right away; and a playoff field featuring three transfer quarterbacks, including Heisman Trophy

4:08 PM ET Mississippi State coach Mike Leach apologized Thursday for a since-deleted tweet that showed a meme of a woman knitting her husband a noose during quarantine. Leach removed the tweet, which was posted Wednesday night, and had the caption, “After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit him a

8:35 AM ET Tommy Hatton vividly remembers the day when University of North Carolina doctors told him he should end his football playing career. He had sustained four concussions, among other injuries, and what he thought were NFL aspirations had ended. But he has found a different journey to success — one that still has

1:30 PM ET Nick Saban said he’s the only football coach in the office on the University of Alabama campus as all sports remain shut down due to the coronavirus. “The whole world turned upside down so it’s a little bit different for everybody,” he said during a teleconference with reporters Thursday. “But I think

7:00 AM ET Editor’s note: This story originally ran in 2017. Watch a replay of the classic Texas-USC game tonight on ESPN and the ESPN App at 8 p.m. ET as part of Throwback Thursday: CFB Classics. We, as fans and consumers of sports, ask a lot of those we watch. We want them to

5:19 PM ET The Division I council coordination committee and the Division II administrative committee collectively announced Wednesday that the recruiting dead period will be extended through May 31. A dead period had initially been created on March 13 that would last through April 15 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the committees left the

8:00 AM ET Anthony Treash Chase Young might not be rejoining the college ranks in 2020, but there’s no shortage of talent among edge defenders as we look forward to the upcoming college football season. Using a combination of Pro Football Focus grades and PFF’s wins above average (WAA) metric, we present the top 10

7:00 AM ET With no spring football to keep us entertained, it’s time to look back at the classics. Tonight, we debut Throwback Thursday: CFB Classics with perhaps the greatest of them all, Texas vs. USC in the 2006 Rose Bowl (8 p.m. ET, ESPN and ESPN App). Before you watch Vince Young and Matt

8:50 PM ET New Mississippi State coach Mike Leach landed one of his first big commitments Tuesday when ESPN Junior 300 quarterback Sawyer Robertson chose the Bulldogs. Robertson is a 6-foot-3, 185-pound quarterback out of Coronado High School in Lubbock, Texas, and is one of the top pocket-passing quarterbacks in the class. Ranked No. 51

3:51 PM ET The SEC announced Tuesday that it was canceling its annual spring meetings scheduled for the last week of May in Destin, Florida, because of issues related to the spread of the coronavirus. “The SEC spring meetings represent one of our conference’s great traditions and provide an opportunity to celebrate the past year,

8:00 AM ET Part of the draw of college football is the endless supply of interesting topics to discuss. In an offseason that has seen sports come to a total stop due to the coronavirus, now’s the time to prove it. The world is full of uncertainty, but we’re going to distract and entertain ourselves

11:39 AM ET Student-athlete leaders from the Power 5 conferences are seeking an extra year of eligibility for college athletes who didn’t complete their seasons, as well as support for housing and food, as the NCAA Division I Council plans to vote Monday on eligibility relief in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. In a

9:19 PM ET The Big 12 will join other Power 5 conferences in allowing virtual meetings between athletes, coaches and staff, beginning Monday, the league said in a statement Sunday night. “All virtual group activities, including film study, are limited to two hours per week in all sports,” the statement said, adding that these policies