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4:55 PM ET When coach Mack Brown said he wanted to keep the best players from the state of North Carolina home, he wasn’t playing around. On Friday, Brown and his staff got two commitments from ESPN Junior 300 prospects out of North Carolina, giving the Tar Heels 11 in-state recruits in the top 300.

4:21 PM ET Minnesota got a big boost to its 2021 recruiting class Friday when ESPN Junior 300 cornerback Avante Dickerson announced his commitment to the Golden Gophers. Dickerson is the No. 46 recruit overall and is Minnesota’s highest-ranked commitment since ESPN started its rankings in 2009. The next-highest-ranked prospects to commit to Minnesota were

12:06 PM ET The NCAA Eligibility Center is waiving the standardized test score requirement for incoming freshman student-athletes in both Division I and Division II for the 2020-21 academic year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the governing body announced Friday. Students who expect to graduate from high school in time to enroll in a Division

7:00 AM ET In the 1980s, television made stars — and money — all across the college football landscape. Jackie Sherrill landed the first million-dollar contract at Texas A&M in ’82. There was even more bombast, from Barry Switzer’s Oklahoma teams to the camo-clad Miami Hurricanes under Jimmy Johnson. And at SMU, those factors combined

5:52 PM ET Georgia football staff member Jeremy Klawsky, who was hospitalized for six weeks while fighting the coronavirus, was released from a hospital on Thursday. According to social media posts by family members, Klawsky, 32, was in critical condition at the ICU at Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital on March 18. He was intubated and

8:00 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

11:00 AM ET Every decade or so, we see landscape-altering conference realignment. Florida State to the ACC, Texas A&M to the SEC, Nebraska to the Big Ten. And when schools aren’t on the move, they’re rumored to be on the move. So let’s take a look at some conference realignment scenarios that almost happened and

8:00 AM ET Anthony Treash Although we are seeing an abundance of talented, athletic off-ball linebackers leave the college ranks for the NFL, there’s still a very gifted crop returning to college football this fall. Using a combination of Pro Football Focus grades and PFF’s wins above average (WAA) metric, we present the top 10

8:00 AM ET I understand the reflex. I’ve had it myself once or twice. “Oh look, the media is propping up [insert fallen blue blood here]. What a surprise.” My Twitter mentions got hit pretty hard when my 2020 SP+ projections declared Texas a top-15 college football team and Nebraska a top-25 team earlier this

2:30 PM ET When former LSU quarterback Joe Burrow won the Heisman Trophy last year, a trio of former Ohio State Buckeyes called each other to celebrate. Former quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator Tim Beck was in Texas at the time, driving home from dinner with his wife and daughter, when Cardale Jones called him.

8:00 AM ET College football coaches know recruiting isn’t complete until the player signs his national letter of intent on the dotted line, and losing out on the star player they covet can come back and haunt them. Whether it was that quarterback who decommitted, the silent commit who never went public or that game-changing

8:46 AM ET CFB betting experts It’s only April, but with no major sports currently being played, oddsmakers have had more time on their hands. And college football bettors have more options as a result. Caesars Sportsbook has released 2020 Heisman Trophy odds, and our esteemed panel of college football experts — Doug Kezirian, David

9:06 PM ET Associated Press Five FBS conference commissioners have asked the NCAA to relax some requirements to compete in Division I for four years, including the minimum number of sports a school must sponsor. The letter from the commissioners of the American Athletic Conference, Mountain West, Mid-American Conference, Sun Belt and Conference USA to

3:55 PM ET Wake Forest football coach Dave Clawson will voluntarily take a 10% pay cut to help the university amid the financial fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the school announced Tuesday. Clawson made $2,189,063 in 2019, according to USA Today’s salary database. Clawson joins Wake Forest president Nathan Hatch, athletic director John Currie

8:22 PM ET Mississippi State defensive lineman Fabien Lovett, who entered the NCAA transfer portal after criticizing Bulldogs coach Mike Leach’s tweet that showed a meme of a woman knitting a noose for her husband during self-quarantine, announced Monday that he’s transferring to Florida State. Lovett, a redshirt freshman from Olive Branch, Mississippi, will have

7:17 PM ET Associated Press Nebraska fans can scratch their football itch Saturday when the school’s athletic department streams a virtual spring game on its social media platforms. All 39 spring games scheduled this week have been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Nebraska spring game typically draws as many as 85,000 at Memorial

8:04 AM ET Just three months after losing the college football national championship, the Clemson Tigers are back on top. On top of our 2020 projections, anyway. Dabo Swinney will have a hard time spinning his Tigers as underdogs after this, because the numbers from our Football Power Index (FPI) and the Allstate Playoff Predictor

7:00 AM ET Rich Rodriguez was visiting an Alabama college football spring practice a couple of years ago and chatting on the sideline with one of the Crimson Tide’s big supporters. Gazing around at Alabama’s grandiose football digs, Rodriguez couldn’t help himself and quipped, “Where’s my statue?” The Alabama booster looked at him curiously and