7:12 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — In 2020, Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren often looked at a picture on his desk. The photo showed his parents, Morrison and Margaret, with 9-month-old Kevin in 1964. Warren knows what mom and dad would have said to him if they had been alive last year: Two words you need
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8:59 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In the weeks since Mark Richt announced he had Parkinson’s disease, hundreds of former players, coaches, friends and colleagues have reached out with messages of love and support for him. That has not stopped in Charlotte, where Richt is working for ACC Network as part of coverage of ACC
7:24 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Miami quarterback D’Eriq King said Wednesday his right knee feels “100 percent” and he will be able to participate fully in fall practice when it begins next month. During media availability with ESPN during ACC Kickoff, King said he does not feel any limitations with his reconstructed meniscus and
6:46 PM ET Washington State coach Nick Rolovich announced Wednesday afternoon that he has chosen not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and that he will be joining Pac-12 media day remotely on Tuesday. “As the Pac-12 Conference has required that all in-person participants at next week’s Pac-12 Football Media Day be fully vaccinated, I will
6:38 PM ET Wake Forest will be without two key starters for the 2021 college football season, coach Dave Clawson said Wednesday. Receiver Donavon Greene and right tackle Je’Vionte’ Nash will both miss the season following summer injuries, Clawson said. Linebacker Chase Monroe is also expected to miss the year because of injury. Greene was
6:27 PM ET ESPN News Services IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa plans to name the field at Kinnick Stadium for Duke Slater, a trailblazing Black player who was an All-America tackle a century ago, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. The Iowa board of regents, which governs the university, is set to consider
4:42 PM ET HOOVER, Ala. — Texas A&M athletic director Ross Bjork is standing up for his school after a Houston Chronicle report that Texas and Oklahoma have reached out to the SEC about joining the conference. The newspaper cited an unnamed college official and said an announcement could come within a couple of weeks.
4:58 PM ET Before last season’s Orange Bowl, North Carolina quarterback Sam Howell made a stunning admission: He’s never eaten a steak. No cheeseburgers or seafood, either. His teammates teased him endlessly, he said, but he was a chicken-only man. On Wednesday, Howell turned that culinary hot take into a new marketing deal, partnering with
3:30 PM ET While some coaches and players around college football have come out against an expanded 12-team playoff, Mississippi State coach Mike Leach wants even more participation. Asked if 12 teams is enough, Leach said Wednesday, “It’s never enough.” “But I’ll tell you what,” he said, “Mark Keenum, our president, is on that committee,
2:08 PM ET Hall of Fame coach Bobby Bowden has been diagnosed with a terminal medical condition, he and his family announced in a statement to the Tallahassee Democrat on Wednesday. “I’ve always tried to serve God’s purpose for my life, on and off the field, and I am prepared for what is to come,”