6:22 PM ET The NCAA has started an all-encompassing review of the guidelines it uses when granting immediate eligibility to athletes who transfer from one school to another before finishing their degree. The organization’s Committee for Legislative Relief started its review earlier this week during a meeting in Indianapolis and plans to solicit feedback from
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8:59 AM ET Nothing that will take place between now and the start of the season has a good chance to generate much enthusiasm about USC football. After collapsing to 5-7 in 2018, USC’s large fan base is quickly growing disinterested and offseason talk isn’t going to change that. Trojan fans are no longer buying
5:58 PM ET Zion Williamson might have a future in football if basketball doesn’t work out. But Clemson‘s Dabo Swinney believes he could use the 6-foot-7, 292-pound Duke star right now. In a conversation with Mike Krzyzewski on the latter’s radio show on Thursday, the football coach who led his team to a national title
5:21 PM ET Former college football coach Jerry Kill has been named athletic director at Southern Illinois. Kill, who twice had to retire from coaching because of health issues, joined Southern Illinois’ staff in February 2018 as special assistant to the university chancellor. He became acting athletic director in April 2018 before the school’s board
11:20 AM ET Oregon defensive coordinator Jim Leavitt is parting ways with the school after reaching a financial settlement, sources told ESPN. 247 Sports first reported Leavitt’s departure on Wednesday, although he attended a coaching staff meeting and was working in the football building as of Wednesday night, sources said. Leavitt had been under contract
8:32 AM ET Todd Grantham has decided to remain at Florida as defensive coordinator after mulling over a multimillion dollar offer to become the Cincinnati Bengals‘ defensive coordinator, sources confirmed to ESPN. Grantham interviewed with the Bengals on Tuesday and met with team owner Mike Brown on Wednesday morning. Sources said a major factor in
12:53 AM ET Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said Wednesday that the decision by former Sooners quarterback Kyler Murray to focus solely on an NFL career instead of professional baseball “made sense.” “I think he got to the point where he knew he had a good situation either way, and I think in the end he
8:40 PM ET Associated Press An attorney for Nebraska running back Maurice Washington said Wednesday he never told anyone at the university about the nature of potential charges against the player in a pornography case that cropped up just as last season was getting started. Washington was charged in California in December with possessing and
3:45 AM ET Whether you love the idea of Clemson and Alabama continuing their relationship in the College Football Playoff, or simply love to hate it, they’re together again at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, in ESPN’s first Football Power Index ranking of 2019. Remember, FPI is a predictive rating system. It measures how
2:22 PM ET Joel AndersonESPN Former San Diego State head coach Brady Hoke is returning to the Aztecs as a defensive line coach, the program announced Wednesday. Hoke most recently was the defensive line coach for the Carolina Panthers last fall, but he was fired in December with four games remaining in the regular season.