1:38 PM ET CHICAGO — Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany thinks the College Football Playoff selection committee must remember its mission to value conference championships and schedule strength in determining the four participating teams. The Big Ten champion has missed the CFP in each of the past three years, and the league has been left
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3:13 PM ET Associated Press CANTON, Miss. — The NCAA and former Mississippi State University football coach Jackie Sherrill have settled a lawsuit in which Sherrill accused the college sports governing body of damaging his reputation. Sherrill also said the NCAA hurt his future coaching opportunities by publicly naming him in allegations of recruitment violations
1:30 PM ET HOOVER, Ala. — Alabama’s failure to give Clemson its proper credit at SEC media days on Wednesday was no accident. If you’ve followed Nick Saban’s time at Alabama and what happens in the aftermath of those few losses the Crimson Tide have had to endure, then you weren’t surprised when Saban questioned
8:29 AM ET Bill ConnellyESPN Now’s the time, right? It seems coach Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan Wolverines have never had a better chance to get over the hump than they do in 2019. Ohio State is finally not employing Harbaugh conqueror Urban Meyer anymore. Penn State has a new quarterback. Michigan State could still be hopeless
8:25 AM ET Bill ConnellyESPN Sometimes the most interesting divisions and conferences are not the most relevant from a national title perspective. The Big Ten West is a good example. Barring a(nother) second-year miracle from Scott Frost at Nebraska, it’s quite likely that there won’t be any division team involved in the CFP race come
12:15 AM ET Texas added one of the top in-state prospects to its recruiting class on Monday when ESPN 300 defensive end Vernon Broughton committed to the Longhorns. The No. 79-ranked recruit overall chose Texas over Texas A&M in what Broughton says was a back-and-forth recruitment between the two schools. “The coaches, getting to know
7:24 PM ET Class of 2021 heavily-sought quarterback Drake Maye is blazing his own trail. While many expected the 6-foot-4, 205-pound signal-caller to follow in the footsteps of his father, Mark, and brother, Luke, and suit up for the home-state North Carolina Tar Heels, Maye is headed to the SEC. The two-sport standout, who had
7:34 PM ET After taking nearly three weeks to make a decision, top-ranked dual-threat quarterback Haynes King committed to Texas A&M on Wednesday. King, the nation’s top uncommitted quarterback in the ESPN 300 and No. 19 prospect overall in the Class of 2020, made his intentions known in an interview with the Longview News-Journal. “[Coach]
10:30 AM ET HOOVER, Ala. — Even after a 28-point loss to the Clemson Tigers in the College Football Playoff National Championship, Alabama linebacker Dylan Moses still thinks the Crimson Tide are the better team. “During the game, we weren’t prepared for it. Clemson got the best of us that day,” Moses said during SEC
5:27 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Clemson coach Dabo Swinney took some heat for bringing an offensive guard to the annual ACC Kickoff event rather than his star quarterback, Trevor Lawrence, so on Wednesday, he offered an olive branch: The Trevor Lawrence stunt double. Guard John Simpson — all 325 pounds of him — arrived