5:59 PM ET GRAPEVINE, Texas — College Football Playoff expansion talks have been tabled again until Dec. 1, but the CFP’s management committee needs to make a decision on eight or 12 teams by January if the format is going to expand in time for the 2024 season, CFP executive director Bill Hancock said on
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1:54 PM ET Eight games into his career as the head coach at Texas, Steve Sarkisian didn’t expect to be 4-4 and understands fans’ frustrations. But, he said on Thursday, he doesn’t think the Texas job is harder than he expected. “I knew what I signed up for,” said Sarkisian, who was 46-35 in two
10:09 AM ET Akron fired coach Tom Arth on Thursday, a day after the Zips fell to 2-7 on the season. Arth went just 3-24 in two-plus seasons at the school. Associate head coach and inside linebackers coach Oscar Rodriguez will serve as interim coach for the final three games. A star quarterback for John
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff Among the year’s most baffling storylines is the disappointing results from many of the preseason’s Heisman hopefuls. Spencer Rattler was benched. D.J. Uiagalelei has struggled mightily. D’Eriq King got hurt. JT Daniels has barely played. And North Carolina‘s Sam Howell — he’s disappointed, too, right? That seems to be the
7:00 AM ET SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST DR. Kevin Elko was sitting across from Alabama coach Nick Saban in 2019, relaying postgame gossip he’d seen online. Not only had LSU beaten the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa, apparently the Tigers had made a spectacle of it, toasting themselves as if they’d won the national championship in early November.
9:53 PM ET Notre Dame earned a commitment from ESPN Junior 300 linebacker Drayk Bowen on Wednesday, giving the Irish six in the 2023 class. Bowen, a 6-foot-2, 215-pound linebacker from Andrean High School in Merrillville, Indiana, chose the Irish over Auburn and Clemson. He is the No. 44-ranked prospect in the class of 2023,
7:00 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN UCLA defensive lineman Jay Toia practiced Wednesday after a video of him threatening a group of students inside an elevator during a party on October 31 surfaced online Tuesday. Bruins head coach Chip Kelly was asked repeatedly about Toia’s presence at practice Wednesday and while he acknowledged that he had
4:36 PM ET Associated Press GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida quarterback Anthony Richardson is recovering from a concussion, potentially opening the door for Emory Jones to start at South Carolina on Saturday. Richardson was knocked out of last Saturday’s loss to No. 1 Georgia following a hit to the head/neck area. He was diagnosed with a
1:13 PM ET Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck has agreed to a new seven-year contract that will keep him with the Golden Gophers through the 2028 season, it was announced Wednesday. The agreement between the university and Fleck, who is eight games into his fifth season as the Gophers’ head coach, is pending approval from the
9:12 AM ET Brianna Williams Arch Manning, the son of Cooper, grandson of Archie and nephew of Eli and Peyton, took a look beyond high school with his fall recruiting tour. As the next prospect from the first family of football, Arch is the No. 2-ranked recruit overall and the top quarterback in the 2023