8:30 AM ET If the old “Defense wins championships” adage were actually true, the Big Ten West would have won one by now. No division in major college football has collectively stuck to the “defense and a good run game” approach more religiously. On average, Big Ten West teams ran 64% of the time on
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7:33 AM ET Ny Carr, a prospective top prospect in the 2024 class, committed to Georgia late Tuesday night. “I would like to let the world know I’m committed to the University of Georgia!” he tweeted. “Go Dawgs.” Carr is a 6-foot, 170-pound wide receiver from Colquitt County High School in Colquitt County, Ga. He’s
5:48 PM ET Alabama offensive lineman Javion Cohen revealed in an Instagram post on Tuesday that he spent the past month at a rehabilitation facility in Massachusetts for mental health reasons. “[T]he pressure we feel as athletes is insurmountable and can be too much at times,” Cohen wrote. “[I] don’t want to focus on the
5:04 PM ET Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — The Pac-12 is pushing up negotiations for its next media rights agreements in the wake of the decision by UCLA and USC to leave for the Big Ten. The Pac-12 announced its board of directors authorized negotiations following a meeting Tuesday morning. The conference’s current media rights
4:16 PM ET Avery Johnson is a homebody at heart, which he fully demonstrated on Tuesday by committing to Kansas State. Johnson, a 6-foot-2, 170-pound quarterback from Maize High School in Maize, Kansas, is ranked No. 94 on the ESPN 300. He chose Kansas State over Oregon and Washington. “It was really just Kansas State
2:12 PM ET Associated Press EMPORIA, Kan. — Brexten Green, a wide receiver on the Emporia State football team, died over the weekend in a cliff-diving accident at Grand Lake in Oklahoma, the university announced. The Grand River Dam Authority received an emergency around 6:30 p.m. Saturday about a man who jumped into Grand Lake
10:00 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN The only certainty in conference realignment is uncertainty, much like the only constant in college athletics is change. Decisions can whipsaw on the whims of a board member or a president pressured into a ready-fire-aim strategy. When diagnosing the travails of modern college sports, the fact that university decision-makers have
8:00 AM ET Maybe the wildest semi-legitimate conference realignment rumor ever didn’t come when Texas, Oklahoma and half the Big 12 nearly joined the Pac-10 a decade or so ago. It was much earlier than that. For most of 1959 and 1960, it looked as if about half of the Pacific Coast Conference (Cal, Stanford,
5:55 PM ET LSU picked up a pair of defensive line recruits, Da’Shawn Womack and Darron Reed, on Monday. Womack, a defensive end from St. Frances Academy in Baltimore, is ranked No. 93 overall in the ESPN 300. “They were just telling me how much they really want me and I can help be a
4:35 PM ET Jonathan Echols, a prospective top prospect in the 2024 class, committed to Tennessee on Monday. The 6-foot-4, 220-pound Echols, who’s seen time at defensive end and tight end for IMG Academy, says he is going to play offense for the Volunteers. “It’s really both of them, kind of about the same,” Echols