9:29 AM ET Bill ConnellyESPN The Big 12 enters 2019 toeing a line between order and chaos. On one hand, Oklahoma, one of the conference’s two blue bloods, has won the past four conference titles and is favored to do the same in 2019. (FPI gives it a 70 percent chance, which is pretty insane
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6:57 PM ET HOOVER, Ala. — Florida quarterback Feleipe Franks is not ruling out a career in baseball after being drafted by the Boston Red Sox last month but remains committed to football. “My career is football,” he said Monday at SEC media days. “My main focus is football [in] college, then hopefully a career
4:25 PM ET Associated Press HOOVER, Ala. — Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey considers the mental health of athletes an important issue to be considered when it comes to legalized betting on college sports. Sankey opened the league’s media days Monday with plenty to say about sports gambling and continuing efforts to improve football officiating
4:02 PM ET Former Troy starting quarterback Sawyer Smith is transferring to Kentucky. The 6-foot-3 Florida native played in all 12 games for the Trojans last season and threw for a total of 1,669 yards, 14 touchdowns and six interceptions. Smith only started the final seven games, taking over for injured starter Kaleb Barker, and
3:20 PM ET Michael Rodak HOOVER, Ala. — Missouri quarterback Kelly Bryant said Monday he never considered transferring from the school despite a postseason ban that was imposed by the NCAA less than two months after his arrival. “I had already built a relationship with those guys within a couple of months,” he said. “I
3:19 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Jalen Hurts‘ arrival at Oklahoma is a major topic at Big 12 media days, but the quarterback transfer from Alabama still has work left to become the Sooners’ front man in 2019. “He’s gotta win the job first,” Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said when asked what sets Hurts apart.
2:13 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas – Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby defended his league’s reputation for playing defense in his opening remarks at Big 12 media days on Monday. In a long, winding opening address, Bowlsby emphasized that the league – which has often been associated with fast-paced, high-scoring offenses at the expense of its
8:00 AM ET Bill ConnellyESPN With LSU taking a step forward in Ed Orgeron’s second season, Texas A&M playing at a top-15 level in Jimbo Fisher’s first season and Mississippi State playing maybe the best defense in the country in Joe Moorhead’s debut, the SEC West enjoyed its best depth in years last fall. Better
7:00 AM ET Bill ConnellyESPN October 29, 2016: that’s the last time Georgia lost a game to an SEC East foe. Kirby Smart’s Bulldogs erupted in 2017, winning the conference and reaching the finals of the College Football Playoff, and with no one else ranking higher than 28th in S&P+ or 34th in FPI, it
6:52 PM ET Associated Press Ryan Leaf has been hired by ESPN to be a college football analyst, another step in the remarkable comeback of the former Washington State star who has battled drug addiction and served time in prison. Leaf will be paired with play-by-play announcer Clay Matvick and will mostly call games on