9:45 AM ET Despite a dead period created due to the restrictions from the coronavirus pandemic, college football recruiting has not stopped. There are currently 137 ESPN 300 prospects who have made their commitment, and 56 of those 137 have committed since March. We will likely see more of those commitments as we move toward
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8:00 AM ET We gathered ESPN’s college football writers to break down Mel Kiper’s initial 2021 NFL draft rankings. Who’s ranked too high and whose stock will rise by the time the draft rolls around? Which under-the-radar players should you keep an eye on? And how will the battle between Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields
3:04 PM ET Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh wants college football players to have the ability to enter the NFL draft whenever they want to. He also wants players who go unselected in the draft to be allowed to return to school. Harbaugh wrote an open letter Thursday addressed to the “College Football Community,” laying out
6:54 PM ET The Big 12 is canceling its preseason football media days, set for July 20-21 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and instead will hold the event virtually, the league confirmed to ESPN. The league proposed the change Wednesday to its football coaches and athletic directors, who agreed during a virtual meeting to
10:58 PM ET University of Minnesota board of regents chair Ken Powell said despite comments made by regent Michael Hsu on the Paul Finebaum show, the regents and university have made no decisions on the future of fall sports or in-person classes. While on the Finebaum show Tuesday, Hsu was asked where he was in
6:45 AM ET LSU’s adoption of, and success with, spread offense principles in 2019 signaled the end of the spread offense’s revolutionary life cycle. To commemorate the moment, let’s look back at the 25 most important and definitive games from the spread revolution. Dec. 19, 1980: BYU 46, SMU 45 In 1980, Hal Mumme was
7:45 AM ET We just saw six wide receivers picked in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft. Could the 2021 NFL draft offer a similar number? In my way-too-early evaluations of next year’s class, it’s not out of the question. Let’s get into my initial rankings of another interesting draft class, with my
5:53 PM ET LSU added ESPN 300 quarterback Garrett Nussmeier to its 2021 recruiting class Monday when the 6-foot-2, 185-pound signal-caller announced his decision to pick the Tigers over offers from the likes of Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor and others. Nussmeier is the No. 62-ranked prospect overall out of Marcus High School in Flower Mound,
8:58 PM ET Defensive end Najee Story, No. 250 in the ESPN’s Junior 300 rankings, committed to Northwestern, he announced on social media Sunday. Calling his recruiting process “a long journey full of twists and turns” in a tweet, Story, a 6-foot-4, 235-pound lineman from Solon High School (Ohio) chose the Wildcats over Ohio State,
2:07 PM ET Shaquill Griffin and Shaquem Griffin were used to hearing cheers from students while playing for the UCF Knights prior to their NFL careers. On Saturday, they returned the favor. The identical twins, who both play for the Seattle Seahawks, delivered an unscripted 8-minute commencement speech for the university’s virtual graduation ceremony that
10:00 AM ET USC finished with the 54th-ranked college football recruiting class in the country in 2020, the lowest it has finished since ESPN started its class rankings in 2009. In fact, 2020 marked the first time the Trojans had finished outside the top 20, a far fall from when they finished with the No.
1:40 PM ET ESPN News Services KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas and Missouri are resuming their football rivalry after the former Big 12 foes agreed to a four-game series in which each school will play two home games beginning in September 2025. The fourth-longest rivalry in college football dates to 1891, but it has been
7:37 AM ET Texas A&M quarterback Kellen Mond believes his team is on the verge of making a leap in 2020 like LSU did last season, when the Tigers went from 10-3 to a 15-0 national title campaign. “We really haven’t won the big-time games yet,” Mond told The Dallas Morning News for a story
8:50 PM ET Associated Press Widespread testing for the coronavirus will be crucial to having college sports in the fall, especially contact sports such as football and basketball, the NCAA’s chief medical officer said Friday. Dr. Brian Hainline expressed cautious optimism that college sports could be played during the fall semester, as long as leaders
4:20 PM ET Tennessee quarterback Brian Maurer, hoping to bring awareness to the importance of mental health, on Friday detailed in an Instagram post that he was planning to kill himself on Jan. 22 before receiving a phone call from his mother that day. “I thought I lost my battle with depression and my pain
7:45 AM ET It had to be LSU that landed the final blow. You knew the battle was almost over when Nick Saban’s Alabama changed its stripes, opened up its offense and kept winning. When the Los Angeles Rams nearly won the Super Bowl with a quarterback from an Air Raid offense, then the Kansas
9:00 AM ET Tom Luginbill Close ESPN Analyst Senior National Recruiting Analyst for ESPN.com Coached in four professional football leagues Graduated from Eastern Kentucky and Marshall Craig Haubert Close ESPN Staff Writer National recruiting analyst and analyst for ESPNU More than a decade of college and pro coaching experience. Graduated from Indiana and Nebraska-Omaha The
RK PLAYER POS HOMETOWN HT WT STARS GRADE SCHOOL 1 DE Pickerington, OHPickerington North High School 6’5” 230 91 Ohio StateCommitted02/03/2019 2 OT Fort Worth, TXAll Saints Episcopal School 6’6” 280 91 3 DE Corona, CACentennial High School 6’4” 265 91 4 DT Bellevue, WAEastside Catholic High School 6’5” 280 90 5 DT Miami, FLMiami