9:14 PM ET Former Incarnate Word star quarterback Cameron Ward announced on Monday that he will be transferring to Washington State. Top floor, didn’t take the elevator I climbed my way up!!#GoCougs pic.twitter.com/Vkbdp3NxfI — Cameron Ward ➐ (@Cameron7Ward) January 11, 2022 Ward won the Jerry Rice Award as the best freshman in FCS during the
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4:58 PM ET UCLA starting quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson will return for the 2022 season, he announced Monday. Thompson-Robinson is a three-year starter for the Bruins who will play his fifth season in the fall. He led the Pac-12 in passing efficiency (153.9) in 2021, passing for 2,409 yards with 21 touchdowns and six interceptions. UCLA
4:28 PM ET Former Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam of Colorado, and former Toledo and Missouri coach Gary Pinkel headline the 2022 College Football Hall of Fame class announced Monday. Penn State’s LaVar Arrington, Georgia’s Champ Bailey, Texas Tech’s Michael Crabtree, Alabama’s Sylvester Croom and Oklahoma’s Roy Williams were also selected.
2:53 PM ET West Virginia football has hired former Southern California and North Texas offensive coordinator Graham Harrell as its offensive coordinator. Harrell, who spent the past three seasons as USC’s offensive coordinator, also will coach WVU’s quarterbacks. Head coach Neal Brown, who had been handling offensive coordinator responsibilities, said in a statement, “We need
2:33 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The leaders of the College Football Playoff again failed to come to an agreement about expanding the current four-team field, but they didn’t entirely rule out the possibility it could still happen before the end of the current 12-year contract, which runs through the 2025 season. Big 12 commissioner
1:52 PM ET USC quarterback Jaxson Dart entered the NCAA’s transfer portal on Monday. Dart, who enrolled at USC in January 2021, appeared in six games for the Trojans, passing for 1,353 yards with nine touchdowns and five interceptions. He is the second prominent USC quarterback to enter the portal since the school hired coach
2:25 PM ET Oregon announced Monday that it had hired Jacksonville Jaguars defensive line coach Tosh Lupoi to be the Ducks’ defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. “I am incredibly excited to have Tosh Lupoi joining us here at Oregon,” Oregon head coach Dan Lanning said. “We want to play championship-level defense on a consistent basis,
10:55 AM ET Florida cornerback Kaiir Elam is entering the NFL draft, he announced Monday. Elam started 26 games for the Gators, including all 12 games in 2020, when he earned first-team All-SEC honors. ESPN’s Mel Kiper lists Elam as the No. 5 draft-eligible cornerback for 2022. “I will forever be a Gator,” Elam said
11:24 AM ET Indiana is hiring Minnesota assistant coach Chad Wilt as defensive coordinator, sources told ESPN. Wilt has been Minnesota’s defensive line coach the past two seasons after coaching the position at Cincinnati, Army and Maryland. He will replace Charlton Warren, who left after one season to become co-defensive coordinator at North Carolina, alongside
7:00 AM ET The college football season comes down to the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs squaring off in the College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T (Monday, 8 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App). The SEC rivals met last month in the conference championship game, with Alabama soundly beating the Dawgs, 41-24, to