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8:00 AM ET Anthony Treash Last week, we ranked college football’s top 10 returning quarterbacks for 2020, and now it’s time to turn our attention to the backfield. A handful of running backs recently surprised us by announcing their intent to return to college football as opposed to declaring for the 2020 NFL draft, but

5:22 PM ET Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — As Clemson’s pro day unfolded, NFL head coaches like the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ Mike Tomlin and the Detroit Lions‘ Matt Patricia chatted with Clemson’s Dabo Swinney. And it never took long, Swinney said, before the Tigers’ versatile linebacker Isaiah Simmons came up in those conversations. Simmons, the All-American

8:30 AM ET Sure, the four-team College Football Playoff has been fun and made the chase for college football’s top prize more inclusive. But let’s liven up the party and expand the field to 64 teams. Here’s the format: We’ve seeded the teams 1 through 64, and the seeds are based on ESPN’s latest Football

2:48 PM ET ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan and Penn State became two of the first major football programs to cancel or postpone their pro days out of caution over the coronavirus. “Based on the daily and hourly developments surrounding COVID-19, the University of Michigan football program has decided to cancel its Pro Day scheduled

6:12 PM ET Michigan and Ohio State are among the programs that have canceled their annual spring games, as schools around the country continue to strategize around the coronavirus outbreak. In a broad press release, announcing several layers of cancellations and adjustments, Michigan announced it won’t play its scrimmage scheduled for April 18 in Ann

12:38 PM ET Famed SMU running back Eric Dickerson, Heisman Trophy winner Eric Crouch and late Alcorn State quarterback Steve McNair headline the 19 players and coaches who made the 2020 College Football Hall of Fame class, announced Wednesday. In all, the 17 first-team All-America players and two coaches were selected from a national ballot

8:04 AM ET During the conference realignment boom of the early-2010s, Conference USA lost half of its membership to the AAC and aimed to replace it with markets over proven commodities. It added programs from near Miami (FAU, FIU), Nashville (MTSU, with WKU not that far away) and Dallas (North Texas), plus startups from Charlotte,

12:45 AM ET In response to the coronavirus outbreak, USC is implementing attendance protocols that will ban fans from home athletic events starting Wednesday and running through March 29. According to the school, events will be limited to the following: participating student-athletes and their families, coaches, officials, other essential personnel as designated by USC Athletics

6:16 PM ET Nebraska is turning to its football team for some help in the Big Ten basketball tournament. The Cornhuskers have rounded out their roster by adding two football players — quarterback Noah Vedral and offensive tackle Brant Banks — for the conference tourney that begins Wednesday in Indianapolis, coach Fred Hoiberg said. Both

10:00 AM ET With both spring practice and draft season getting underway, it’s a good time to check on some of the most interesting on-field college football offseason storylines so far in 2020. (Obviously, the coronavirus has already started to impact college football, as programs like Ohio State, Michigan and TCU have already canceled their

11:04 PM ET A week before spring practice opens in Gainesville, Florida, Kyle Trask made it clear what the Gators are shooting for this season. Florida’s soon-to-be redshirt senior quarterback, who didn’t begin last season as the starter, greeted the media Monday at a pre-spring press conference with lofty expectations for a team that checks

7:50 AM ET ESPN News Services Former Ohio State Buckeyes players Amir Riep and Jahsen Wint entered not guilty pleas to rape and kidnapping charges on Friday. Riep posted a $100,000 surety bond and Wint posted a $75,000 bond during a hearing at Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in Columbus. A 19-year-old woman told

5:37 PM ET ESPN 300 quarterback Drake Maye flipped his commitment from Alabama to North Carolina on Friday. Maye is the No. 45-ranked prospect overall in the 2021 class and the No. 4-ranked recruit in the state of North Carolina. The 6-foot-4, 205-pound quarterback committed to Alabama in July 2019, but announced his decision to

8:00 AM ET For Oklahoma, winning Big 12 college football titles is becoming as predictable as Sooners quarterbacks ending up in New York as Heisman Trophy finalists. Yes, Oklahoma needs to get better on defense after the Sooners were waxed 63-28 by LSU in a College Football Playoff semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl last

2:31 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State reached an unspecified settlement with nearly half of the roughly 350 men alleging university officials ignored complaints and failed to stop a team doctor who they say sexually abused athletes and other students throughout his two decades there, the school revealed Friday. It is the

7:00 AM ET The ACC heads into spring practice facing the same question it has had the previous three seasons: Can anyone catch Clemson? Probably not. While the Tigers were humbled a bit by their 42-25 loss to LSU in the CFP National Championship Presented by AT&T, they’ll still probably be ranked No. 1 heading

7:45 AM ET College football’s spring practices are underway, and the 2020 season is just around the corner. While many of the top players in college football were ranked in the ESPN 300 and recruited by blue-blood programs, there are a small fraternity of players that didn’t receive high fanfare coming out of high school.

9:00 AM ET The past two years have seen a topsy-turvy existence in college football’s MAC West. Only one team enjoyed a winning record in conference play in both 2018 and 2019 (Western Michigan, which didn’t win the division either year), while a Central Michigan team that went 0-8 in 2018 won the West 12