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7:05 PM ET The Pac-12 will allow voluntary, in-person workouts for all sports to begin on June 15, as long as the local governments and universities allow student-athletes to return to campus, the conference announced Tuesday. The Pac-12 joins the SEC and Big 12 in making conferencewide announcements allowing the return of student-athletes for voluntary

8:16 AM ET College football is the ultimate small-sample sport. We determine champions and all-time greats and hirings and firings and massive salaries based on incomplete impressions and only 12-15 games. Combine that with the size of the FBS itself — throughout its history, college football’s top-division roster has typically featured well over 100 teams

6:00 AM ET Brent Guy retired last year after more than three decades as a college football coach. At age 59, he retired because he had had enough. It wasn’t that he had had his fill of the long hours and short sleeps or that he didn’t enjoy competing or that he no longer enjoyed

5:15 PM ET Michigan landed its second ESPN 300 linebacker in as many days on Monday when Jaydon Hood announced his commitment to the Wolverines. Hood is the No. 191 ranked prospect overall and had been considering Miami, Kentucky, Minnesota, Louisville, South Carolina and a handful of other offers. He is now joining his teammate,

7:59 AM ET Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush voiced strong concerns over the NCAA’s recent support of a player endorsement plan, saying that paying college athletes for their names and likeness is “going to destroy some people.” Bush, whose outstanding career at USC was marred by his eventual forfeiture of the 2005 Heisman Trophy, touched

7:00 AM ET Kentucky coach Mark Stoops stood in the middle of a crowded visitors locker room on Sept. 8, 2018, and surveyed the postgame celebration. Coaches bear-hugged one another. Players grinned and bobbed their heads to the music thumping in the background. Everyone, it seemed, was screaming. It had taken them too long to

4:22 PM ET Ohio State added ESPN 300 cornerback Denzel Burke to the fold on Sunday, beefing up a recruiting class already ranked No. 1 in the country. Burke is the No. 262 ranked prospect overall out of Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. He had a top-five of Colorado, Ohio State, Oregon, USC and

4:42 PM ET ESPN 300 linebacker Junior Colson committed to Michigan on Sunday, choosing the Wolverines over offers from Tennessee, Oregon, Ole Miss and LSU among others. Colson is the No. 184 ranked prospect overall and is now the third highest ranked commit in Michigan’s class. He is a 6-foot-2, 220-pound outside linebacker out of

11:09 AM ET Patrick Mahomes advised graduating Texas Tech students to “go out and win your Super Bowl” at the university’s virtual commencement ceremony Saturday. “I know this isn’t the graduation ceremony that you and your families had envisioned, but that doesn’t change the outcome or all the hard work, long hours and sacrifices that

7:18 AM ET Kentucky linebacker Chris Oats has been hospitalized with an undisclosed medical issue, according to the school. A Kentucky spokesperson said Friday that Oats’ hospitalization is not related to the coronavirus. “Chris is expected to move to a physical rehabilitation center in the near future,” the spokesperson said. “The family requests that their

9:31 PM ET Caylin Newton is going to follow in the footsteps of his brother and play football at Auburn after all. Newton, whose older brother Cam won the Heisman Trophy and led Auburn to a national championship in 2010, announced Friday that he’ll be heading to The Plains as a graduate transfer. The 6-foot

9:50 PM ET The Big 12 announced Friday that football players can return to campuses for voluntary workouts on June 15 as part of a phased return to activities. The league’s board of directors approved a three-phase plan, with other fall sports athletes (cross country, soccer, volleyball) allowed to return for voluntary workouts July 1

3:56 PM ET ESPN News Services Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he thinks college football will return on schedule with some level of fans in the stands. Abbott has already issued new rules to allow youth sports leagues to resume in June and for some professional leagues to hold events without spectators. But the state

9:00 AM ET Multiple Contributors From postponements to cancellations, the coronavirus pandemic has thrown the sports landscape out of whack, and it isn’t just sports that were in session. The current NCAA restrictions have left college coaches, both new and old, and recruits in limbo, but they’re finding new ways to manage during the world

May 22, 2020 The Mark and Kym Hilinski who will appear on Outside the Lines on Friday (SportsCenter on ESPN at noon ET) have made a long journey since I profiled them in September 2018. They continue to grieve Tyler, their middle son, the Washington State quarterback who died by suicide in January of that

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7:31 AM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Paula Lavigne Close ESPN Staff Writer Data analyst and reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit. Winner, 2014 Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award; finalist, 2012 IRE broadcast award;

7:00 AM ET Multiple Contributors In a normal year, Thursday would be a day of celebration. College football returns in 100 days! It would be a time to debate Trevor Lawrence vs. Justin Fields, to ask whether Oregon offensive lineman Penei Sewell is actually the game’s best player and to wonder what Lane Kiffin will