9:00 AM ET The college football world is changing in quite a few overdue ways. The NIL saga has been made as sloppy and dramatic as possible, in part because of a complete lack of regulation at the NCAA level, but it still represents a huge step forward for the rights of athletes. The expansion
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12:13 AM ET Nebraska will suspend its tradition of releasing red balloons after the first touchdown of home games due to a global helium shortage, athletic director Trev Alberts announced on his radio show Monday. Alberts said Nebraska will not hand out red balloons before home games at Memorial Stadium this fall. The tradition of
4:14 PM ET PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas, a former Alabama star and big Crimson Tide football fan, couldn’t help but weigh in on the Nick Saban-Jimbo Fisher feud after winning a second Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday. Thomas, who rallied from a 7-shot deficit in the final round at Southern Hills Country Club to win
12:20 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN With all respect to the rapt attention that will be paid to the verbal donnybrook between Alabama’s Nick Saban and Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher, there are more pressing matters that will unfold when SEC officials meet in Destin, Fla., for their annual meetings next week. With the SEC poised to
11:23 AM ET Jimbo Fisher doubled down on his defense of Texas A&M recruiting in an interview with a San Antonio, Texas TV station, saying just one of the 11 early enrollees in the Aggies’ No. 1 recruiting class has an NIL deal. Fisher fumed last week when Alabama coach Nick Saban spoke to an
7:00 AM ET The biggest names in the transfer portal have mostly made their decisions, and my weekly power conference previews begin this week. It sounds like a pretty good time to post some updated SP+ projections! Thus far, my preview series has leaned on numbers posted in February after the second national signing day
3:56 PM ET The Florida Gators bolstered their receiver corps Saturday with a commitment from Arizona State transfer Ricky Pearsall. Pearsall, a 6-foot-1 junior, led the Sun Devils with 48 receptions last season. He had 580 yards receiving and four touchdowns. He entered the transfer portal after spring practice in April and has two years
2:21 PM ET While the college football world is catching its collective breath in the aftermath of the Jimbo Fisher-Nick Saban public spat, there’s one Hall of Fame coach who isn’t ready to let it go. “I don’t know why he is mad at Saban,” former Florida and South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier told DawgNation.com.
3:40 PM ET The ACC and Pac-12 released their financial data for the 2020-21 season on Friday, and most notably, the conferences saw their revenues impacted in a different way during the coronavirus pandemic. While the ACC 990 form shows total revenue was more than $578.3 million, the highest gross revenue in league history, the
3:33 PM ET The Mountain West Conference will eliminate its divisions in football starting in 2023, pitting the two teams with the highest winning percentages against each other in its conference championship game, the league announced Friday. The MWC followed the Pac-12 this week in its move to scrap divisions after the NCAA Division I