Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Staff WriterAug 9, 2023, 10:43 AM ET Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith is retiring at the end of the 2023-24 academic year, he announced Wednesday morning. Smith, who has led the Buckeyes’ athletic department since March 2005, will step down effective June 30, 2024. “I have always believed that a leader
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Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterAug 9, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Before we get on with the autumn win-loss business that is actual college football, let’s pause for a moment — no, make that a dozen
Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterAug 9, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. This summer’s college football blockbuster movie has been a disaster flick. Major football in the West, as we’ve come to define it over the past 100 years, will cease to exist in 2024, with the Pac-12
Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff WriterAug 8, 2023, 11:44 PM ET Close Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. STANFORD, Calif. — As Stanford grapples with the crumbling Pac-12 Conference, first-year football coach Troy Taylor said the school intends to remain at the Power 5 level. “I think the players that committed
Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterAug 8, 2023, 07:23 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said “there’s a little tinge of sadness – probably more than just a little tinge,” to see the Pac-12 on the verge of collapse after more than 100 years
Pete Thamel, ESPNAug 8, 2023, 05:20 PM ET The ACC presidents met Tuesday morning about the potential addition of Stanford and Cal but did not vote on the matter, sources told ESPN. Instead, the league will continue to explore the additions and is “still evaluating” the schools, sources said. No decisions are expected imminently, as
Associated Press Aug 8, 2023, 05:23 PM ET ATLANTA — The home of Georgia Tech football has been renamed Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field following a naming rights agreement between the school and the automaker. The Georgia Board of Regents announced a deal on Tuesday for Hyundai to pay Georgia Tech approximately $55 million
Associated Press Aug 8, 2023, 04:29 PM ET AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn fans will once again be able to celebrate victories by rolling the oak trees at Toomer’s Corner with toilet paper. Auburn had asked fans not to roll the new trees after their planting in February 2017 until they were established enough to avoid
Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Staff WriterAug 8, 2023, 01:51 PM ET Lincoln Riley’s focus since taking the USC job has been trying to nail down the state of California when it comes to recruiting. Rumblings about USC’s and UCLA‘s desires to be the only West Coast teams in the Big Ten have been out there, and
Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Staff WriterAug 8, 2023, 02:02 PM ET Close ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan The back-and-forth battling for recruits between Georgia and Alabama continued Tuesday with ESPN 300 safety Peyton Woodyard flipping his commitment from the Bulldogs to the Crimson Tide. Woodyard, a 6-foot-2, 190-pound defensive back