2:11 PM ET ESPN News Services Conference USA will add Liberty, Jacksonville State, New Mexico State and Sam Houston State, according to multiple reports, as the league tries to replenish its ranks after having nine schools announce plans to leave in the past month. All four schools have accepted invitations to Conference USA, a person
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7:42 AM ET Paula Lavigne Close ESPN Staff Writer Data analyst and reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit. Winner, 2014 Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award; finalist, 2012 IRE broadcast award; winner, 2011 Gannett Foundation Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism; Emmy nominated, 2009. Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer
9:00 AM ET ESPN Stats & Information Saturday Missouri Tigers at No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs (-38, 59.5), Noon ET on ESPN This would be the 4th-largest underdog Missouri has been in any game since the 1978 FBS/FCS split and the largest since 1996 (+50 at No. 5 Nebraska). This would be the largest favorite Georgia
Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson famously warned mammas to not let their babies grow up to be cowboys. The country music stars might have encouraged them to be fired college coaches instead. According to an ESPN analysis of financial records of athletics departments at public universities, FBS programs spent more than $533.6 million in dead
7:00 AM ET The only college football résumé that matters is the one on selection day. Don’t get me wrong: Current résumés are helpful for debate and analysis. But the ultimate goal is to get into the playoff, and the easiest way to do that is with a strong measure of accomplishment — once conference
7:00 AM ET It’s mid-October, Wake Forest is 6-0 entering its open date, and Dave Clawson is mad. Well, he’s not mad, exactly. In his seventh year coaching the Demon Deacons, Clawson doesn’t really get mad. This is part of his coaching ethos. There are no F-bombs, media tirades or wild swings of emotion. Clawson
7:59 PM ET Kyle Bonagura Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. In a filing this week appealing former Washington State football coach Nick Rolovich’s termination for failure to comply
7:37 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN Multiple California players will miss Saturday’s game against Arizona after entering COVID protocols, the school said Thursday. Citing student privacy laws, Cal did not specify which players would miss the game, or how many are in the protocols. It did disclose that 99% of its players are fully vaccinated, and
7:01 PM ET Georgia has indefinitely suspended starting linebacker Adam Anderson, who has been accused of raping a woman, sources told ESPN on Thursday. Anderson, a senior from Rome, Georgia, has not been arrested and denied the allegation through his attorney. According to an Athens-Clarke County Police Department incident report, a 21-year-old woman told police
6:05 PM ET The University of Tennessee has concluded its year-long internal investigation into rules violations within the football program that led to the firing of head football coach Jeremy Pruitt and will not self-impose a bowl ban, the university announced Thursday. In a statement, the university said it was “moving forward with our focus