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7:00 PM ET Tennessee has dismissed starting outside linebacker Kivon Bennett from the team following his arrest on gun and drug charges near campus on Tuesday, Volunteers football coach Jeremy Pruitt said in a statement. Bennett, a junior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, led the Volunteers with 7½ tackles for loss and was tied for the

8:23 PM ET Associated Press Arkansas running back Rakeem Boyd has opted out of the rest of this season to focus on preparing for the NFL draft. Boyd made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday. Boyd, a senior, rushed for 2,176 yards and 13 touchdowns and caught 52 passes for 358 yards in his career

7:03 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — TCU has added a nonconference home game against Louisiana Tech on Dec. 12, giving the Horned Frogs a 10th scheduled game this season. The Horned Frogs had to postpone their only scheduled nonconference game against SMU in September after positive COVID-19 tests in the TCU program.

7:12 PM ET The top seven teams in the College Football Playoff rankings remained unchanged Tuesday night, as Alabama, Notre Dame, Clemson and Ohio State continue to occupy the top four spots. The Buckeyes stayed at No. 4 despite canceling last Saturday’s game at Illinois following an increase of COVID-19 cases in the program, which

5:28 PM ET The ACC announced a series of scheduling changes Tuesday that allowed Notre Dame to clinch a spot in the ACC championship game Dec. 19. In addition, the ACC has changed its testing procedures, requiring teams now to have a PCR test administered on Thursdays so they can receive their results before traveling

2:46 PM ET Retired Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops made a brief return to the field on Tuesday, coach Lincoln Riley said. “We brought Coach Stoops out of retirement today,” Riley said at his weekly news conference. “He was out on the field and coached with us today. It was great to have him out there.”

2:08 PM ET Ohio State will resume team activities Tuesday as it hopes to play later this week at Michigan State. The fourth-ranked Buckeyes paused activities Friday night and canceled Saturday’s game at Illinois after a rise in COVID-19 cases in the program. Ohio State hasn’t revealed specific numbers of those who have tested positive,

2:30 PM ET The Stanford football team will spend at least the next two weeks on the road after Santa Clara County issued a health order over the weekend that temporarily prevents contact sports. Stanford will travel to Seattle on Tuesday ahead of Saturday’s game at Washington, then will travel to Corvallis, Oregon, where it

11:30 AM ET USC is cleared to resume workouts Tuesday as the team prepares for Sunday’s game against Washington State. Coach Clay Helton said USC’s latest round of COVID-19 tests all came back negative. The Washington State game was moved from Friday to Sunday, which allows both teams to get players back from coronavirus-related quarantine.

12:47 PM ET Sarah Fuller is expected to continue as Vanderbilt’s place-kicker on Saturday against Georgia. Last weekend Fuller became the first woman to participate in a Power 5 football game when she delivered the second-half kickoff against Missouri — a designed squib kick that was downed without a return at the 35-yard line. Fuller

8:45 AM ET Welcome back to our weekly Heisman Watch for the 2020 college football season. Throughout the season, ESPN.com writers will vote on their top Heisman Trophy candidates. To get the final rankings, we use the following methodology: 14 voters, five votes each. Points system: five points for first-place votes, four points for second-place

9:37 AM ET Ohio State coach Ryan Day, one of several people within the Buckeyes program who tested positive for COVID-19 last week, won’t be out of isolation in time to coach in Saturday’s game at Michigan State if the Buckeyes are able to play, a school spokesman confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. Monday is

9:17 AM ET The Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, which has been played every year since its inception in 1935, has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. An official announcement is expected on Tuesday. Stadium first reported the Sun Bowl’s pending announcement. The game was scheduled for the

8:32 PM ET Texas defensive back Caden Sterns is opting out to begin preparation for the NFL draft, he announced Monday. pic.twitter.com/XS1RLhbhGb — Caden Sterns (@CSterns_7) December 1, 2020 Sterns, the Big 12 freshman of the year in 2018, is tied for second on the team with 52 tackles in seven games, to go along

8:20 PM ET Five-star linebacker Terrence Lewis, the No. 10-ranked prospect overall in the 2021 class and the highest-ranked Tennessee commitment, decommitted from the Volunteers on Monday. Lewis, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound linebacker out of Miami Central (Fla). High, had been committed to Tennessee since April. He originally chose the Vols over Florida, LSU, Alabama, Texas

2:20 PM ET As the hours and then the minutes ticked down to the unlikeliest of Iron Bowls for Nick Saban, he couldn’t help but think about his late father, Nick Sr. — “Big Nick,” as he was called back in their Monongah, West Virginia, community. Saban, forced to watch Alabama’s 42-13 dismantling of Auburn

12:20 PM ET The Northwestern–Minnesota football game set for Saturday in Minneapolis has been canceled because of COVID-19 issues within the Minnesota program. Minnesota on Monday reported that 47 people — 21 athletes and 26 staff members — have tested positive for COVID-19 since Nov. 19. The team canceled last Saturday’s game at Wisconsin after

2:34 PM ET As LSU gets set to host No. 1 Alabama this week, coach Ed Orgeron remained upbeat on the future of his program that slipped to 3-4 after a frustrating 20-7 loss to Texas A&M last week. Just a year ago, the Tigers were on the brink of an SEC title en route