5:51 PM ET Tennessee defensive lineman Emmit Gooden will miss the 2019 season after suffering a torn ACL in his knee during Tuesday’s practice. Vols coach Jeremy Pruitt on Wednesday confirmed the injury to Gooden, a candidate to start at nose tackle this season. Gooden started one game in 2018, his first season at Tennessee,
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4:00 PM ET All month, we’ll be checking in on the nation’s top teams as they prepare for the 2019 season. We’ll be visiting Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma and Ohio State. But up first? Dabo Swinney and the defending champion Clemson Tigers, where the expectations are higher than ever. Stop one: Clemson CLEMSON, S.C. — Dabo
1:13 PM ET CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson coach Dabo Swinney isn’t buying the narrative he has heard mostly in media circles that Alabama was worn out from the grind of a more rigorous schedule and wasn’t as well-rested as Clemson a year ago in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. Clemson routed Alabama 44-16,
10:48 AM ET The NCAA has ruled that freshman cornerback Chris Steele, who transferred from Florida in early June, will be eligible to play for the USC Trojans this coming season. USC coach Clay Helton confirmed the NCAA’s decision to reporters after Tuesday’s practice. Steele, from St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California, committed
10:52 AM ET Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Former Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus has filed a petition to be readmitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison after he was found not guilty of sexually assaulting two female students. The Wisconsin State Journal reports Wednesday that Cephus directed his attorneys on Tuesday to file the
9:18 AM ET Oklahoma defensive back Tre Norwood suffered a knee injury in the No. 4 Sooners’ practice on Monday and it’s unclear whether he’ll be able to return to the field this coming season, sources told ESPN. SoonerScoop.com reported that Norwood didn’t practice Tuesday night and left the team’s facility on crutches with a
7:00 AM ET Bill ConnellyESPN A head coaching hire is terrifying. You can do all the research in the world, talk to tons of people, pay search firms hundreds of thousands of dollars, and you could still end up replacing a Steve Spurrier with a Ron Zook. Of course, it’s also an opportunity to replace
1:20 AM ET In 2017, Clay Helton led USC to its first Pac-12 championship in nearly a decade. That same year, Gus Malzahn coached Auburn to the SEC championship game, beating both Georgia and Alabama along the way and ending Alabama’s run of three consecutive outright West division titles. Two years later, Helton and Malzahn
8:02 AM ET Editor’s note: This article was adapted from Phil Steele’s college football preview magazine, which is available here. Who will come out of the Atlantic and Coastal divisions in the ACC? Clemson looks like an obvious choice to be one team to make the conference title game. We rank where each team is
Aug 6, 2019 Editor’s note: This article was adapted from Phil Steele’s college football preview magazine, which is available here. Alabama and Georgia both have national title aspirations, but there are plenty of talented teams in the SEC. Here is how I project each team in the conference will finish. West The Tide rolled through