2:53 PM ET Rutgers will replace Texas A&M as the opponent for Wake Forest in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl, sources confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. Rutgers posted a video to Twitter on Thursday saying the Scarlet Knights were “going BOWLING” without specifying the Gator Bowl, which is scheduled for Dec. 31 in Jacksonville, Florida. “Better
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2:23 PM ET As Miami continues to deal with COVID-19 protocols, the team will now arrive in El Paso, Texas, the day before the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl in an effort to play the game. Washington State remains set to arrive Dec. 26 for the Dec. 31 matchup. Sun Bowl executive director Bernie Olivas
11:58 AM ET Missouri sophomore quarterback Connor Bazelak, the SEC co-freshman of the year in 2020, is entering the college football transfer portal, he announced Thursday. Bazelak’s announcement on Twitter comes after he did not appear in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl on Wednesday night due to what the school said was a leg
8:00 AM ET And now, for a bowl matchup three years in the making, we take you to an elementary school in Orlando, Florida, for a brief glimpse at the game everyone is talking about in the state. (By everyone, we mean the tens of thousands of University of Florida and Central Florida alums across
10:30 PM ET Rutgers is expected to receive the first opportunity to replace Texas A&M and face Wake Forest in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee will meet Thursday and determine the policy for a bowl replacement opponent for Wake Forest among 5-7 teams. If
8:42 PM ET Western Michigan is set to hire Oregon State administrator Dan Bartholomae as its next athletic director, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. Bartholomae had served as Oregon State’s executive deputy athletic director and chief operating officer under athletic director Scott Barnes. He joined Oregon State in 2017 after 15 years as an administrator
5:38 PM ET Robbie Roper, a class of 2022 recruit and quarterback of Roswell High School in Georgia, died at the age of 18, his family announced Wednesday. “He was our biggest joy to our family,” the family said on his Twitter account. “We are proud of the young man he has become. He will
3:20 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Kenny Pickett walked into Pittsburgh coach Pat Narduzzi’s office last week and spent 30 minutes laughing about the 13th-ranked Panthers’ remarkable season, one that carried them to the program’s first ACC title and Pickett to a prime spot on NFL draft boards. Narduzzi knew what was coming, so
1:56 PM ET A new College Football Playoff policy written this week in response to the surging omicron variant allows for a team to advance to the national championship — and ultimately win it — by its opponents having to forfeit, according to an updated set of COVID-19 policies the CFP released on Wednesday. The
1:03 PM ET Alabama offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien and offensive line coach Doug Marrone have tested positive for COVID-19, the school announced Wednesday. Both are expected to return in time for the start of the College Football Playoff on Dec. 31, when No. 1 Alabama will play No. 4 Cincinnati in the CFP Semifinal at