7:00 AM ET New college football coaches have a distinctively different way to rebuild rosters now, with the transfer portal’s emergence, than ever before. Combining the portal with traditional high school recruiting has afforded coaches more ability to bring in talent left by players who are off to the NFL, graduating or transferring out. Some
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1:29 PM ET DESTIN, Fla. — Alabama football coach Nick Saban said on Tuesday that he never should have singled out Texas A&M when he accused the Aggies of using name, image and likeness deals to buy its top-ranked recruiting class during public comments he made two weeks ago. But Saban was quick to add
2:16 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Boston College has targeted former Miami athletic director Blake James to be the school’s next AD, sources told ESPN. An announcement of the hire is expected in the coming days. James spent nearly 10 years as the athletic director at Miami before being dismissed in November as part of an
10:47 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN The Louisville football recruiting class for 2023, already ranked among the best in the country, got a seismic jolt Tuesday, as wide receiver DeAndre Moore Jr. told ESPN that he is committing to the Cardinals. Moore is ranked as the No. 17 overall player and No. 2 wide receiver in
7:00 AM ET Change is the watchword in the Pac-12. The conference was the first to drop divisions as part of its championship game determination when allowed to do so this month. It changed commissioners last season, bringing in George Kliavkoff in 2021. Its two biggest current brands — USC and Oregon — changed coaches
7:00 AM ET Five-stars Arch Manning, Malachi Nelson and Dante Moore headline the quarterbacks in college football’s 2023 recruiting class. The three pocket passers form as talented a top three as we have seen in years. However, the 17 quarterbacks in the ESPN 300 mark the fewest since ESPN expanded its recruiting rankings from 150
8:45 AM ET Samantha Steen often imagines what her father might say if he could meet her three sons. She wonders what it would be like to meet him, too. Steen was only 13 months old when her father, Sgt. Rodney M. Davis of the U.S. Marine Corps, was killed in action in Vietnam on
7:07 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Wide receiver Jordan Addison on Saturday described his decision to transfer from Pittsburgh to USC as a personal “gut move.” Speaking for the first time since his decision to pick USC over Texas and Alabama, Addison, who was at Steve Clarkson’s quarterback retreat on Saturday, said
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8:00 AM ET College football commitments are expected to heat up (along with the temperature) over the next two months, with plenty of movement in the class rankings to follow. There has, in the meantime, been some significant activity on the recruiting trail leading up to the busy summer, resulting in key changes and new