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5:01 PM ET Pat Narduzzi emphatically said Wednesday he plans to stay at Pittsburgh, and wants any speculation tying him to the opening at Michigan State to be squashed. Narduzzi reiterated his commitment to the Panthers on national signing day, saying, “I came here to get a job done. We couldn’t be in a better

8:00 AM ET It’s only February, but who’s kidding whom here? It has been a month since the CFP National Championship and we’re already looking ahead to the start of the 2020 season, circling the most compelling games on the calendar. The criteria here is more games of interest than of importance. That’s why you

2:51 PM ET Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio announced he is stepping down. “After much reflection and discussion with my family, I feel that it is now time for a change as we enter into a new decade of Michigan State Football,” Dantonio said in a statement. A two-time Big Ten coach of the year,

4:03 PM ET Mark Dantonio brought stability to Michigan State and made the Spartans an annual contender for the first time since the mid-1960s. He led MSU to the College Football Playoff in 2015 and set the team’s coaching wins record. But his time has come to an end. Dantonio’s post-playoff struggles on the field,

8:56 PM ET ESPN News Services CORAL GABLES, Fla. — For Miami Hurricanes coach Manny Diaz, the end of 2019 was a disaster. So far, 2020 has gone much more to his liking. His list of offseason accomplishments include landing a new big-name offensive coordinator in Rhett Lashlee, bringing Pro Football Hall of Famer Ed

8:00 AM ET The transfer portal has added even more intrigue to the most talked about position in college football. Three of the four starting quarterbacks in last season’s College Football Playoff joined their teams as transfers. The fourth, Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence, rose so rapidly as a true freshman that he forced incumbent Kelly Bryant,

8:00 AM ET Anthony Treash Recruiting is the biggest piece of the puzzle in building a college football dynasty. If you win the recruiting battle, you can get a clear head start over other dominant programs. Some programs are forced to rely on their true freshmen more than others. Sometimes that pays off, and sometimes

8:00 AM ET Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Tom VanHaaren Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan College football teams are turning the page to the 2020 season. For several of the sport’s historic programs,

5:13 PM ET Big Ten Conference athletic directors are supporting a one-time transfer exemption for all sports, which would allow college athletes to move from one Division I school to another without sitting out a year, Oho State AD Gene Smith told ESPN. The league last year formally introduced a proposal for a one-time transfer

8:06 AM ET ESPN staff Every college football team — even those in the Top 25 — turns over its roster every year with graduations or transfers. So those changes are offseason question marks, especially this time of year. What’s the biggest question for each of the nation’s top teams? The Tigers will be loaded

5:51 PM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Southeastern Conference schools each received more than $44.6 million in total revenue distributed by the league, a seven-figure increase from the previous fiscal year. SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said Thursday that the league handed out just over $651 million of total revenue among the 14 members

5:26 PM ET ESPN News Services CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Pro Football Hall of Famer Ed Reed is going back to his roots and rejoining the Miami Hurricanes. Reed has been hired as the new chief of staff for the Hurricanes’ football program, a deal that was announced Thursday and will be finalized when the

4:27 PM ET Three days after he was suspended for expressing a desire to dine with Adolf Hitler in an interview, Morris Berger resigned as the offensive coordinator at Grand Valley State, the school announced Thursday. Berger’s resignation is effective immediately, according to the school. “Over the last 11 years I have taken great pride

4:03 PM ET Utah wide receiver Terrell Perriman has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old girl. Perriman, a redshirt freshman from Miami, has not been charged but was booked Thursday at Salt Lake County jail for suspicion of rape, kidnapping, enticing a minor by internet or text and dealing in material

3:03 PM ET Associated Press SALISBURY, N.C. — Ryan Williams, a junior quarterback at Livingstone College in North Carolina, was paralyzed after a shooting in which at least six people were wounded during a party at a restaurant, police said. Williams of Jacksonville, Florida, was among the victims shot at a Salisbury restaurant early Sunday,

7:55 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Michael Wright, a former Minnesota football star who led grocery wholesaler Supervalu Inc. for 20 years, has died. He was 81. Wright died Monday at his home in Wayzata of complications from pneumonia, Wright’s son, Adam Wright, told the Star Tribune. A Minneapolis native, Wright excelled in both

7:00 AM ET If, for some reason, someone wanted to put together a list of the most insignificant San Francisco 49ers games over the past 40 years, the team’s loss at New England to close out the 2004 season would be a strong candidate to top the list. The 49ers had already clinched the league’s

2:30 PM ET Associated Press BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A judge flatly rejected Jerry Sandusky’s latest request to have his 30- to 60-year child molestation sentence reduced during a brief hearing Tuesday. Judge Maureen Skerda said she purposely fashioned the prison term to have an impact on the former Penn State assistant football coach and noted