2:49 PM ET SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly has heard the growing chatter about an expanded College Football Playoff and thinks his undefeated football team might be helping to speed up that conversation. “We have a way of doing that to things when Notre Dame is involved,” Kelly said Saturday
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9:00 AM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — It became apparent quickly that Alabama’s Josh Jacobs was not going to be contained by expectations. On a field full of blue-chip prospects, this nobody, this three-star throw-in from Oklahoma whom everyone saw as a way of filling out Alabama’s 2016 signing class, made a habit of standing out
7:23 AM ET Michigan State cornerback Justin Layne will forgo his senior season and enter the NFL draft. Layne announced his decision in a tweet Friday, thanking coach Mark Dantonio, the Spartans coaching staff and “all who have supported me on my journey.” 💚💚 pic.twitter.com/ZDBRTgPmoU — Justin Layne ™ (@_jlayne) December 14, 2018 “It has
12:05 AM ET Associated Press SHENANDOAH, Texas — After falling to Mount Union last year in the Division III championship game, Mary Hardin-Baylor not only wanted to get back to the title game — it wanted to beat the Purple Raiders. The Crusaders did that Friday night. Jase Hammack threw for 147 yards and two
6:22 PM ET Akron is hiring Chattanooga‘s Tom Arth as head coach, filling the final head-coaching vacancy in the FBS this year. Arth, a former quarterback in the NFL, CFL, Arena League and NFL Europe, takes over for Terry Bowden, who was fired earlier this month. The 37-year-old spent the past two seasons at Chattanooga,
5:46 PM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was present for the Crimson Tide‘s first bowl practice on Friday afternoon, less than two weeks after he had surgery to help repair a high-ankle sprain. Tagovailoa, who suffered the injury during the SEC Championship Game, did not take part in one footwork drill with
5:43 PM ET FIU Golden Panthers running back Shawndarrius Phillips was arrested earlier this week on a domestic battery charge, nearly four months after a warrant was issued for his arrest. According to the probable cause affidavit, Phillips’ ex-girlfriend called the Broward County (Florida) Sheriff’s Office in June and accused him of choking her after
10:50 AM ET Former Maryland coach D.J. Durkin has been at the Alabama football complex this week, meeting with defensive staff members and watching tape, something Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban has done routinely over the years with former head coaches, sources confirmed to ESPN. Durkin was fired at Maryland in October by the university
1:00 AM ET LOGAN, Utah — Standing on the sideline of Utah State football games, Steve Wiley is hard to miss. A massive human being with a white, flowing mullet and a long handlebar mustache, he could easily be cast as Santa Claus or a warlock. And he’s heard both comparisons. In the Cache Valley
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