11:41 AM ET ACC commissioner Jim Phillips says more than half the teams in the conference have exceeded the 85% vaccination threshold but added that there is still no decision on whether games affected by COVID-19 will be rescheduled or forfeited. “There’s no question that increasing the number of vaccinations will provide the best chance
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11:26 AM ET HOOVER, Ala. — Alabama coach Nick Saban was reticent on Wednesday to provide any sweeping predictions about how athletes being able to profit off their name, image and likeness will impact the sport of college football. “Anything that I say now, because there’s no precedent for it, you don’t really know how
6:44 AM ET In 2011, when Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin announced the Aggies were departing the Big 12 for the SEC in what he called a “100-year decision,” the Aggies were ridiculed, scorned and even threatened with legal action by Baylor president Ken Starr to block their departure. Now, a decade later, after
7:53 PM ET Deion Sanders has gone by many names during his Hall of Fame NFL career, but now he just wants to be called “Coach.” Sanders, entering his second season as head coach of Jackson State, made that clear at Tuesday’s Southwestern Athletic Conference media day event after the second time he was addressed
5:00 PM ET The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference on Tuesday became the first conference on record to mandate vaccinations. In a statement, the SIAC, which competes in Division II, said that all players and coaches must be fully vaccinated in order to compete. The policy also applies to staff and other auxiliary groups, including officials,
3:33 PM ET Alabama coach Nick Saban hasn’t officially named Bryce Young the Crimson Tide’s starting quarterback, and yet Saban says that Young is already approaching $1 million in endorsement deals. According to reports, Saban told the Texas High School Coaches Association’s convention on Tuesday that Young, a sophomore, is due to make “ungodly numbers.”
3:09 PM ET CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said Tuesday neither he nor his players are in favor of an expanded 12-team College Football Playoff, but he also knows that change is inevitably coming to the format. In his first news conference since the CFP board of managers authorized commissioners to move forward
11:46 AM ET Georgia head coach Kirby Smart said the Bulldogs are over the 85% threshold for vaccines, thus able to avoid regular COVID-19 testing and the team having to wear masks indoors, but he said he was still pushing for more vaccinations. “It’s not about a number,” Smart said. “It’s not about a threshold.
8:00 AM ET Former West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck still remembers, with vivid clarity, the day Pittsburgh and Syracuse officially announced they were bailing on the Big East to move to the ACC. He was headed east from Morgantown to the West Virginia-Maryland football game on Sept. 17, 2011, and made a plan to
6:33 AM ET Wisconsin plays Wisconsin football. Iowa is Iowa. Northwestern does Northwestern things. Minnesota is increasingly Minnesota. The Big Ten West might have more proven entities than any other division in college football. But for such a reliable division, the West has been pretty difficult to forecast of late. In 2018, defending champion Wisconsin