9:13 AM ET Blake Baumgartner In an effort to clarify things regarding injuries, the NCAA playing rules oversight panel approved three measures Wednesday that will take effect in 2022. Targeting, faking injuries and blocking below the waist were at the center of the rule changes. Previously, anyone ejected for targeting during the second half of
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7:13 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN BATON ROUGE, La. — There’s a black Model X Tesla with falcon doors parked in the head coach’s spot outside the LSU football facility. Walk into Brian Kelly’s new office and there’s an electric purple carpet that assaults the senses. Throw Kelly’s name into a search engine and the critiques
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The last big batch of college football spring games for 2022 will give us our first look at the seismic shifts wrought by the coaching carousel this offseason. Lincoln Riley at USC, Brian Kelly at LSU, Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame — not to mention Dan Lanning at Oregon and
7:00 AM ET For most college football teams across the FBS, spring practice is either over or will be winding down during the next couple of weeks. But the transfer portal, into which more than 3,600 FBS players have entered this year already, never stops churning. Coaches around the country will look to address weaknesses
7:01 PM ET Associated Press Bob Babich, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame who played linebacker in the NFL for the Chargers and Browns, has died. He was 74. Babich died April 3 at his home in Clairemont, California. His death was reported by the National Football Foundation on Wednesday. A native
7:37 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Nevada is in the market for a new athletic director. Athletic director Doug Knuth is out at the Mountain West Conference school, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The university was expected to make the change official later in the day. Knuth has been at Nevada since 2013, and his hires
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The transfer portal has turned college football rosters inside out, with more than 2,000 FBS players entering the portal in 2021 and 2022 and allowing them a second (or third) chance to find the best fit for their playing and academic careers. The reasons for switching schools and reentering the
8:31 PM ET Former Alabama wide receiver Agiye Hall announced Tuesday that he has committed to Texas. The No. 3-ranked receiver in the 2021 class, Hall was one of the stars of last year’s spring game and appeared destined to make an instant impact as a freshman. But he never did break through the logjam
8:13 PM ET Notre Dame added its sixth ESPN 300 prospect to the 2023 class on Tuesday, when wide receiver Braylon James announced his commitment to the Irish. James is a 6-foot-2 and 175-pound prospect from Del Valle High School in Del Valle, Texas and is ranked No. 46 overall. He chose Notre Dame over
4:40 PM ET Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa linebackers coach Seth Wallace has been added as a defendant in lawsuit filed against the university and coaches by former football players who allege they faced discrimination and harassment because they are Black. The Cedar Rapids Gazette first reported the amended lawsuit filed this month