1:45 PM ET Hawai’i defensive back Michael Graham, son of head coach Todd Graham, entered the transfer portal Thursday. Graham appeared in nine games and recorded two tackles as a freshman this season. Hawai’i’s season ended last week when it withdrew from the EasyPost Hawai’i Bowl against Memphis because of COVID-19 issues with the team.
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7:45 AM ET Mike Macdonald’s relationship with Xarvia Smith didn’t get off to a great start. Shortly after Smith was hired as the head coach at Centennial High School in Roswell, Georgia, Macdonald, a senior team captain, called him and invited him to lunch. “I laughed at him and said, ‘Mike, you and I will
11:30 AM ET The day began like any other in December for a college football program shut out of bowl season. Rutgers coach Greg Schiano sat in his home office, fully immersed in recruiting. Scarlet Knights quarterback Noah Vedral relaxed at home in Nebraska. Vedral and his teammates had scattered after exams, traveling to places
11:40 AM ET While Alabama might have taken a little longer to get on track this season than coach Nick Saban would have preferred, he said Thursday his patience wasn’t necessarily tested. “I don’t have any patience, so anything that happens is a test of my patience, including sitting in this chair right now,” Saban
11:08 AM ET MIAMI — When Michigan asked coach Jim Harbaugh to take a pay cut to return as head coach this past offseason, he didn’t have to think much about it. Harbaugh on Thursday said it was “no big deal” when asked how he reacted to the request, which cut his base salary from
9:57 AM ET Michigan defensive back Daxton Hill, an All-Big Ten selection, is not currently in Miami as the Wolverines prepare to play Georgia in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh left open the possibility that Hill could join the team in time for Friday’s game,
7:30 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN This is the way college football has worked. One minute, a wide receivers coach at Eastern Michigan is watching Jerome Ford rip off a 79-yard touchdown run in last year’s Peach Bowl between Cincinnati and Georgia. The next minute, that wide receivers coach is a running backs coach at Cincinnati,
7:45 AM ET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Velus Jones Jr., Tennessee’s do-it-all wide receiver and return specialist, hopped into an Uber one night this fall. The driver, at least initially, had no idea who was in the backseat. The conversation immediately turned to Tennessee football. The Vols had just lost a heartbreaker to nationally ranked Ole
7:02 AM ET William E. Ricks Mayonnaise is one of those condiments you either love or hate. But if it means your team wins the Duke’s Mayo Bowl and gets to make a $10,000 charitable donation, a coach might learn to tolerate the creamy spread. South Carolina Gamecocks coach Shane Beamer and North Carolina Tar
2:50 AM ET ESPN News Services SAN ANTONIO — Bob Stoops and Oklahoma were winners together again, just like old times. Kennedy Brooks ran for 142 yards and three touchdowns, Caleb Williams passed for three more scores and the 14th-ranked Sooners rode a dominant first half to a 47-32 win over No. 15 Oregon in