1:31 PM ET The Oklahoma Sooners are hiring Ohio State assistant Alex Grinch to be their defensive coordinator, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday. From 2015 to 2017, Grinch was the defensive coordinator at Washington State. He was a semifinalist for the 2017 Broyles Award, given to the nation’s top assistant coach. The Athletic was
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12:54 PM ET Ohio State offensive lineman Michael Jordan plans to enter the NFL draft this spring after three seasons of starting with the Buckeyes. Jordan moved from offensive guard to center at the start of the 2018 season. He is considered the No. 3 center prospect in this year’s draft class, according to ESPN’s
12:32 PM ET The West Virginia Mountaineers have hired Troy‘s Neal Brown to a six-year deal to be their new football coach, sources told ESPN on Friday. The move comes only two days after former Mountaineers coach Dana Holgorsen was officially hired at Houston. Brown, 38, is one of only six FBS coaches with 10
8:43 PM ET Georgia quarterback Justin Fields will transfer to Ohio State, he announced Friday night in a statement posted on his Twitter account. “My time at the University of Georgia has given me the opportunity to refine my skills under great coaches and to play with incredibly talented teammates who’ve become like brothers to
11:59 AM ET Former Georgia quarterback Justin Fields is visiting Ohio State this weekend and all indications are that he plans on joining the Buckeyes and enrolling in classes at OSU next week, sources told ESPN. Sources told ESPN last month that Fields was leaning toward transferring to Ohio State, after deciding to leave Georgia,
Jan 2, 2019 CLEMSON, S.C. — In the beginning, there was the earth and the stars and Hunter Renfrow. Then, somewhere down the road, college football came to be. Renfrow holds the unique honor of having redshirted on Clemson’s 1981 national championship team as well as catching the winning touchdown for the 2016 champs. He
11:08 AM ET Former Virginia football coach George Welsh, who retired as the ACC’s winningest coach and was the league’s first coach to win 100 games, died on Wednesday, according to a release by the school. He was 85. After rebuilding Navy, his alma mater, into a consistent winner, Welsh took over a downtrodden Virginia
12:00 AM ET Over the past six weeks we’ve heard a lot about bowl games. We’ve heard there are too many. We’ve heard they mean less in the College Football Playoff era. We’ve heard that stars bailing early for the NFL have neutralized their importance. But an interesting thing happened while all of that online
7:43 AM ET Sam Khan Jr. HOUSTON — The University of Houston’s pursuit of Dana Holgorsen began with a call to Jake Spavital. When the newly minted Texas State coach’s phone rang on a mid-December day, Houston athletic director Chris Pezman — who he crossed paths with at Cal — was on the other end.
9:00 AM ET Joel AndersonESPN The narrative took shape from the moment Jalen Hurts hopped to his feet in the end zone in Mercedes-Benz Stadium, pounding his chest with his right fist as teammates swarmed him. Hurts had returned to the scene of his most-public failure — a performance in last year’s national championship game