12:54 PM ET Associated Press The NCAA says the number of enforced targeting penalties in the Football Bowl Subdivision this regular season was the same as in 2017, ending four straight years of increased calls. NCAA national coordinator of officials Rogers Redding reported 179 enforced calls in 817 games compared with 179 in 816 games
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9:00 AM ET At a high school football camp in Los Angeles last spring, the quarterbacks in attendance stood in two lines, throwing back-and-forth to warm up. Near the end of one of them, a 6-foot-1, 173-pound prospect wearing a red Oklahoma visor and gold cleats stood out. While the other quarterbacks looked around, sizing
12:02 PM ET NORMAN, Okla. — Not long after Bob Stoops won a national championship in his second season at Oklahoma, the Cleveland Browns tried to pry him away. In his words then, Stoops had “always been intrigued” by the NFL. And so he did listen to the Browns. But ultimately, Stoops opted to remain
1:02 PM ET Associated Press Kyler Murray is The Associated Press college football Player of the Year, the second straight Oklahoma quarterback and fifth overall to win the award since it was established in 1998. In personality and on-field ability, No. 1 dual-threat quarterback and Oklahoma commit Spencer Rattler is a mix of Baker Mayfield
10:24 PM ET Associated Press LSU‘s Devin White is the Butkus Award winner as the best linebacker in the country. The winner was announced Wednesday. White is the first LSU player to win the Butkus in its 34-year history and the third straight winner from a Southeastern Conference school. Roquan Smith of Georgia won it
10:33 PM ET Associated Press LANSING, Mich. — Former Michigan State football player Auston Robertson will spend up to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting a female student in her off-campus apartment. The Lansing State Journal reports that the 21-year-old Robertson was sentenced Wednesday to a minimum of three years and seven months behind
10:01 PM ET Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State running back LJ Scott says he will enter the NFL draft after this season. Scott, a senior, injured his ankle in September and has played in only four games this year. Coach Mark Dantonio said last month that Scott would redshirt, but Scott said
10:33 AM ET It’s time once again to hand out some hardware at The Home Depot College Football Awards show on Thursday night, when the best players in the nation will gather at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. We might get a first early clue at a tight Heisman race between Oklahoma
2:30 PM ET NEW YORK — The Big Ten has been left out of the College Football Playoff the past two years and hasn’t had its champion included since 2015, but commissioner Jim Delany isn’t panicking with the league’s schedule model. Delany said Wednesday that the Big Ten has no plans to decrease its league
1:18 PM ET The NCAA committee on infractions placed Oregon’s athletics department on two years’ probation on Wednesday for violations in its men’s and women’s basketball, football and women’s track and field programs. Additionally, the NCAA ruled that Oregon women’s basketball coach Kelly Graves failed to monitor his staff and promote an atmosphere of compliance