1:18 PM ET North Carolina coach Mack Brown said Thursday that during a team discussion about the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff, his players were against the format and preferred six to eight teams. During a wide-ranging Zoom with reporters, Brown mentioned that ACC commissioner Jim Phillips had asked all coaches to get feedback from
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10:00 AM ET Editor’s Note: We recently discovered that our previous preseason release of the Football Power Index in April contained data and modeling errors. We have remedied the issues and are re-releasing FPI here ahead of the 2021 season. ESPN Analytics regrets the error. In five of the past six seasons, the top spot
9:00 AM ET Craig Haubert Close ESPN Staff Writer National recruiting analyst and analyst for ESPNU More than a decade of college and pro coaching experience. Graduated from Indiana and Nebraska-Omaha Tom Luginbill Close ESPN Analyst Senior National Recruiting Analyst for ESPN.com Coached in four professional football leagues Graduated from Eastern Kentucky and Marshall The
RK PLAYER POS HOMETOWN HT WT STARS GRADE SCHOOL 1 DE Milton, GAMilton High School 6’3” 265 93 2 QB-PP New Orleans, LAIsidore Newman School 6’3” 204 93 3 DT Thompson, ALThompson Public School 6’3” 275 90 4 CB Lakeland, FLLake Gibson High School 6’2” 165 89 5 OLB Denton, TXBilly Ryan High School 6’2”
2:14 PM ET Former coach Tyrone Willingham has been reappointed to the College Football Playoff selection committee, and will serve a one-year term in place of former Texas A&M coach R.C. Slocum, who is stepping down for health reasons after two years on the committee. Slocum, 76, was diagnosed last month with a form of
12:00 PM ET Oregon defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux, a potential No. 1 pick in the 2022 NFL draft, has struck his first known NIL deal on a non-fungible token (NFT) with Nike founder Phil Knight and celebrated sneaker designer Tinker Hatfield. Thibodeaux revealed the NFT on social media on Tuesday night. “Life is filled with
8:00 AM ET The Oregon-Washington rivalry doesn’t garner as much national attention as Michigan-Ohio State, Alabama-Auburn or Oklahoma-Texas, but the roots of hostility run just as deep. The bordering schools don’t like one another, and their series has featured plenty of flashpoints, as well as success on both sides. Since 1990, Washington and Oregon have
10:33 PM ET Oklahoma running back Mikey Henderson has been dismissed from the team, Sooners coach Lincoln Riley said Tuesday. Henderson was identified as the third member of an alleged robbery on April 15 along with then-OU players Seth McGowan and Trejan Bridges, according to public information officer Sarah Jensen of the Norman, Oklahoma, police
6:47 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Dicky Maegle, the Rice running back tackled in the 1954 Cotton Bowl by an Alabama player who came off the bench in one of the most legendary plays in college football history, has died. Rice University and the National Football Foundation said Tuesday that Maegle did Sunday. He
4:28 PM ET The owner of a Florida-based chain of mixed martial arts gyms unveiled big plans Tuesday to try to help Miami Hurricanes football players take advantage of new rules that allow them to make money. Dan Lambert is the owner of American Top Team, which is the home training facility for more than