7:30 AM ET College football is two things at once. At the top, it is as stolid and inflexible as it has been since the 1970s. Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Oklahoma have each finished in the AP top 10 for at least six straight years (Bama is at 13 straight) and have hogged 20
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6:06 PM ET Missouri has hired UNLV’s Desiree Reed-Francois as its next athletic director, the school announced on Sunday. Reed-Francois, who has led UNLV’s athletic department since 2017, will replace Jim Sterk, who announced last month that he would step down once a replacement is found. The 49-year-old Reed-Francois, a former rower at UCLA, will
6:26 PM ET Georgia special teams coordinator Scott Cochran is stepping away from the program because of health issues, coach Kirby Smart said Sunday. Former Florida and South Carolina head coach Will Muschamp, a senior defensive analyst with Georgia, will step in during Cochran’s absence, a source told ESPN’s Mark Schlabach. “Coach Cochran is currently
6:06 PM ET Missouri is set to hire UNLV’s Desiree Reed-Francois as its next athletic director, sources told ESPN on Sunday. Reed-Francois, who has led UNLV’s athletic department since 2017, will replace Jim Sterk, who announced last month that he would step down once a replacement is found. The 49-year-old Reed-Francois, a former rower at
4:46 PM ET When Lane Kiffin met with his team Saturday night prior to Ole Miss‘ first practice of the preseason on Sunday, he had a confession to make. Kiffin, now more than 30 pounds lighter than he was at the end of last season, said it was hypocritical to ask his players to be
1:40 PM ET On Nov. 30, 1986, Florida’s Ricky Nattiel beat broken coverage from a talented but young Florida State secondary and caught an 18-yard fourth-quarter touchdown. In a driving rainstorm, the Gators won their sixth straight game over Bobby Bowden’s Seminoles. It left a famously talkative coach without answers. “I thought maybe 8-3 would
10:54 AM ET As Ole Miss begins preseason football practice on Sunday, coach Lane Kiffin is heartened by the commitment he’s seen from the Rebels’ players and coaches on the vaccination front. Kiffin said there is a 100% vaccination rate among those players, coaches, staff members and everybody within the program who will be on
8:57 AM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com Legendary Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden died Sunday morning and the game lost one of its indelible icons. Bowden coached at Florida State from 1976-2009, building the Seminoles’ program into a national powerhouse. He won the 1993 and 1999 national championships and produced two Heisman trophy winners and scores
7:30 AM ET Longtime Florida State booster David Mobley, an accountant in Atlanta, remembers telling Bobby Bowden that he had picked up one of the legendary coach’s former players, Tom Pridemore, as a client. “Tommy Pridemore’s momma made the best rabbit and biscuits I’ve ever had,” Bowden told Mobley. Pridemore, now 65, had played safety
7:04 AM ET Bobby Bowden, the longtime Florida State football coach who ranks second all time in Division I wins, has died, the school announced Sunday morning. He was 91. Bowden was diagnosed with a terminal medical condition in July. He did not disclose what the condition was at the time, although his son Terry