2:40 PM ET Florida coach Dan Mullen said whether his team can reach the College Football Playoff with two losses is ultimately out of his control, but that didn’t stop him from projecting confidence heading into a showdown with No. 1 Alabama in the SEC Championship Game. “We’ll think about that on Saturday night after
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2:41 PM ET Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas coach Les Miles got an unwavering vote of confidence from athletic director Jeff Long on Thursday, despite the long-suffering Jayhawks finishing just the second winless season since the 1950s and showing little sign of improvement. “We knew building this football program that this was a building
1:38 PM ET University of Oregon trustees on Thursday unanimously approved a new six-year, $27 million contract for Ducks football coach Mario Cristobal. The agreement extends Cristobal’s original contract by two years through the 2025 season. His salary will increase from $2.7 million to $4.3 million in January, and the coach will earn an average
1:56 PM ET Arizona starting quarterback Grant Gunnell entered the NCAA’s transfer portal on Thursday. Gunnell started Arizona’s first three games this season before sustaining a shoulder injury in a loss to UCLA. He passed for 625 yards and six touchdowns with two interceptions. The 6-foot-6, 225-pound Gunnell split time with Khalil Tate in 2019,
12:27 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Army and Air Force will play at a neutral site for the first time in more than a half-century when the rivalry game moves next year to the Texas Rangers baseball stadium that hosted the last World Series. The service academies said Thursday they plan to play
11:29 AM ET Boston College tight end Hunter Long will forgo his final season and enter the NFL draft, the school announced Thursday. Long leads all tight ends nationally in receptions (57) and yards (685) and finished just nine catches shy of BC’s record for catches in a season by a tight end. ESPN’s Mel
10:13 AM ET Purdue coach Jeff Brohm announced Thursday that defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Bob Diaco will not return to the Boilermakers next season. Diaco was hired to replace Nick Holt last December after serving as Louisiana Tech defensive coordinator for one season, and as Oklahoma linebackers coach for the 2018 season. Diaco was
7:07 AM ET For what feels like centuries, we have debated perhaps the greatest mystery in the known universe: What would happen if (gasp!) Notre Dame ever joined a conference? We finally have our answer. College football did not spin off its axis when the best-known independent football program in the country joined a conference
7:00 AM ET The most recent congressional proposal to reshape college sports aims to go far beyond codifying a college athlete’s ability to earn endorsement money. The College Athlete Bill of Rights, proposed Thursday by co-authors Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., would create sweeping changes for college sports, including provisions that
7:12 AM ET People keep asking how Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence has changed in 2020. They ask because, on the surface, it’s tough to see, but logic suggests there must be a reason the likely future No. 1 NFL draft choice is still playing college football, and the assumption is, he’s refining some small flaw