7:00 AM ET In a season filled with gaudy statistics and jaw-dropping plays, Alabama quarterback Bryce Young finally had his so-called “Heisman moment” last Saturday in the Iron Bowl. Trailing by seven points on the road at Auburn with 1:35 remaining in regulation, he took over with the ball backed up against his own goal
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6:56 AM ET Notre Dame is expected to announce defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman as its next head football coach early Friday morning, sources told ESPN. An introductory news conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET on Monday, per sources. 1 Related Freeman, 35, is completing his first season as Notre Dame’s defensive coordinator. He will
10:04 PM ET Troy has hire Kentucky co-defensive coordinator Jon Sumrall as its next head coach, the school announced Thursday night. Sumrall, 39, has spent the past three seasons on Kentucky’s staff, and added the co-defensive coordinator title in 2021. He coached at Troy from 2015 to 2018, working with the linebackers and serving as
7:59 PM ET Michigan will wear a special patch in the Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday to honor the victims in the Oxford High School shooting that took place this week. The shooting occurred on Tuesday when a 15-year-old student at Oxford High School shot and killed four students and injured seven others, including
6:43 PM ET A one-time replacement bowl game is expected to be developed this college football season after the Division I Football Oversight Committee on Thursday approved a request to waive the April 1 bowl game certification application deadline, according to a document obtained by ESPN. This summer, the San Francisco Bowl told the NCAA,
5:17 PM ET Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall announced Thursday he will step down after the team’s upcoming bowl game. Mendenhall, 55, said it was solely his decision to leave. “I would love to say there’s been this buildup and a long amount of epiphanies and thought, but clearly this week there was a sense
4:27 PM ET Lincoln Riley flipped another football recruit from Oklahoma on Thursday, when ESPN 300 running back Raleek Brown committed to USC. Brown is the No. 60-ranked recruit overall and the No. 6-ranked running back, out of Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California. He had been committed to Oklahoma, but decommitted from
1:32 PM ET East Carolina, which has secured a winning season for the first time in seven years, has locked up head coach Mike Houston with an extension through 2026 that averages $2.3 million annually, sources told ESPN on Thursday. The value of his new five-year deal is worth $11.5 million, sources told ESPN. Houston’s
1:48 PM ET Associated Press BLACKSBURG, Va. — Brent Pry’s voice cracked with emotion as he detailed the career journey he’s been on, one that has brought him back to Blacksburg as Virginia Tech‘s head football coach. “I’m honored and humbled,” he said Thursday at a news conference. “It’s very surreal for me.” After spending
12:24 PM ET Steve Addazio is out as Colorado State football coach after two seasons, the school announced Thursday. Colorado State finished 3-9 this season and lost its last six games. Addazio was ejected from the season-ending, 42-point loss to Nevada because of two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. “The decision we have made today is not