7:48 PM ET Ohio State running back TreVeyon Henderson will undergo surgery on his left foot on Friday and won’t play in the upcoming College Football Playoff, he told The Columbus Dispatch on Tuesday. Henderson, the No. 4 Buckeyes’ second-leading rusher with 571 yards and six touchdowns, missed three of the past four games because
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12:33 PM ET Before we knew Mike Leach was a first-ballot hall of fame interview, before the sideline dissertations about marriage or candy or anything in the world, really, there was Mike Leach, the football genius. Leach, who died Monday night at 61, likely would scoff at that notion, that anyone needed to be a
4:54 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Kent State is finalizing a five-year deal to make Minnesota associate head coach Kenni Burns the school’s next coach, sources told ESPN. A deal is expected to be formalized in the near future, according to sources. Burns has been a linchpin member of P.J. Fleck’s staff since taking the running
4:14 PM ET South Carolina has hired longtime NFL assistant Dowell Loggains as its offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, the school announced Tuesday. Loggains, 42, spent the past two seasons as the tight ends coach at Arkansas, where he went to school and was a walk-on quarterback. Before that, he was the New York Jets’
4:40 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — A judge has ordered Michigan State University to release donor agreements with two alumni who gave or pledged millions of dollars to the athletic department. Michigan State has acknowledged that some of the money will help pay for a 10-year, $95 million contract with football coach Mel Tucker,
2:59 PM ET STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mississippi State will play in its Jan. 2 ReliaQuest Bowl game against Illinois, Bulldogs interim athletic director Bracky Brett told ESPN on Tuesday. Mississippi State coach Mike Leach died Monday night after complications related to a heart condition. He was 61. “The players are 100% behind playing this bowl
2:37 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN North Texas has named Washington State offensive coordinator Eric Morris as the Mean Green’s new head coach, the school announced Tuesday afternoon. Morris has deep roots in the state, having been a star player for Mike Leach at Texas Tech, a successful head coach at the FCS’ Incarnate Word in
9:30 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Perhaps the highest compliment about the most improbable college coaching career of this generation is that as time marches on, and new eras of homogenized football coaches emerge, explaining the Mike Leach coaching experience will sound like fiction. A former rugby player with no college football playing experience? A Pepperdine
10:49 AM ET Purdue has named Illinois defensive coordinator Ryan Walters, who oversaw the nation’s No. 1 unit for much of the season, as its next head coach. Walters, 36, has spent the past two seasons at Illinois and was a finalist for the Broyles Award, which goes to the nation’s top assistant coach. He
8:59 AM ET ESPN News Services Mississippi State football coach Mike Leach died Monday night after complications related to a heart condition, the school announced. He was 61. Leach’s family said, in a statement released Tuesday by the school, that Leach participated in organ donation at the University of Mississippi Medical Center as “a final