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7:02 PM ET Clemson‘s football team now has 23 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since its return to campus two weeks ago, according to a source, after the school announced 28 new positive tests among student-athletes and staff on Friday. The school performed a total of 315 tests in the past week with 28 people testing

6:38 PM ET Associated Press LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech is adding Alabama graduate transfer Chadarius Townsend, who was used sparingly at running back by the Crimson Tide and has two years of eligibility remaining. Townsend was a standout high school quarterback in Alabama before joining the Crimson Tide in 2017. After a redshirt season,

5:30 PM ET Former Florida State linebacker Kendrick Scott has started a petition to rename Doak Campbell Stadium over Campbell’s pro-segregation views while serving as university president. Campbell transitioned the school from Florida State College for Women to Florida State, serving as president from 1941-57. He also spearheaded the construction and completion of the football

8:00 AM ET The 2020 college football season has already been the strangest and most unique season since the end of World War II, and it hasn’t even officially begun yet. The threat of the coronavirus brought a stop to all spring practices in March, and teams have only recently begun to resume voluntary workouts

8:25 PM ET SEC commissioner Greg Sankey threatened not to host any future conference championship events in Mississippi until the state changes its flag. Mississippi is the only state that has the Confederate symbol — a blue cross with the 13 stars — still on its flag. “It is past time for change to be

12:53 PM ET Texas says that 13 football players have confirmed positive coronavirus test results or are presumed positive, according to Allen Hardin, the school’s senior associate athletics director for sports medicine and performance. Texas says all 13 players are now self-isolating and 10 more identified through contact tracing are in self-quarantine but asymptomatic at

7:55 AM ET College football recruiting isn’t an exact science. Whether it’s from coaches evaluating prospects or recruiting services ranking and hyping up players based on their potential, sometimes the projections are right and sometimes they’re wrong. We went back to the 2007 class to look at some of the most-hyped prospects for each program

12:18 AM ET The Georgia Redcoat Band’s traditional postgame concert after Bulldog football games will have a new ending this fall. Acting director Brett Bawcum said he notified music school officials that “we are ending performances of ‘Tara’s Theme,’ effective immediately, and replacing it as our signature with “Georgia on My Mind.” Please see a

8:29 PM ET Several former South Carolina football stars, including Marcus Lattimore and Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Alshon Jeffrey, are leading a campaign to rename the Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center on the school’s campus. The former Gamecocks — who also included Carolina Panthers running back Mike Davis and Shaq Wilson, now on the

11:04 AM ET Joe Burrow was the runaway Heisman winner last year, and it was pretty clear he was the country’s most exciting player. But even with Burrow gone to the NFL, college football is still crowded with stars capable of delivering edge-of-your-seat excitement on any given play. Here’s the most exciting player on each

1:02 AM ET Alabama landed its third ESPN 300 commitment in June on Tuesday, when wide receiver Christian Leary announced his decision to join the Tide. Leary is a 5-foot-9, 180-pound receiver out of Edgewater High School in Orlando, Florida. He chose Alabama over Auburn, Florida, Ohio State, Oklahoma and West Virginia. He is the

8:30 PM ET Oklahoma State running back Chuba Hubbard found himself in an unenviable position Monday afternoon when he appeared in a video alongside head coach Mike Gundy. On one side was the burgeoning empowerment movement, where black student-athletes are standing up and speaking out in numbers rarely seen before. On the other was the

11:26 AM ET Oklahoma State running back Chuba Hubbard said Tuesday he was not wrong for speaking out against Mike Gundy, because he felt he had to hold his coach accountable. In a Twitter post Tuesday morning, Hubbard once again seemed to respond to backlash he received for a video he and Gundy posted Monday

3:43 PM ET Oklahoma State’s Chuba Hubbard, the nation’s leading rusher last season, tweeted Monday that he “won’t be doing anything for Oklahoma State until things CHANGE” in response to a photo of coach Mike Gundy wearing an OAN T-shirt. “I will not stand for this,” Hubbard posted. “This is completely insensitive to everything going

6:33 PM ET Associated Press WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Morgan Burke, the longest serving athletic director in Purdue history, died at his home Monday after battling a rare disease for the past year. He was 68. University officials said in a statement Burke had been diagnosed with amyloidosis, an ailment caused by the buildup of

8:20 AM ET Mack Brown knew it was time to step away. When he was head coach at Texas, the Longhorns went 13-1 in 2009, losing only to Alabama in the national championship game. That loss devastated him, and he dwelled on it endlessly. Rather than focusing on the 13 wins and celebrating his players

5:56 PM ET Penn State quarterback Michael Johnson Jr. has entered his name in the transfer portal. The redshirt freshman was an ESPN 300 quarterback in the 2019 class, ranked No. 199 overall when he signed with the Nittany Lions. He was one of two ESPN 300 quarterbacks in that class for Penn State, along

9:08 PM ET Ohio State football players and their parents were asked to sign an acknowledgement of risk waiver regarding COVID-19 before returning to campus for voluntary workouts on June 8, athletic director Gene Smith confirmed to ESPN on Sunday. The “Buckeye Pledge,” obtained and reported by the Columbus Dispatch, asks players to “help stop