2:22 PM ET The Michigan–Iowa game set for Saturday in Iowa City has been canceled because of COVID-19 concerns with the Michigan program. Michigan announced the cancellation Tuesday afternoon. Michigan’s COVID situation has not improved since last week, when the school was forced to cancel its annual rivalry game against Ohio State. The Wolverines, who
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10:00 AM ET Welcome back to our weekly Heisman Watch for the 2020 college football season. Throughout the season, ESPN.com writers will vote on their top Heisman Trophy candidates. To get the final rankings, we use the following methodology: 13 voters, five votes each. Points system: five points for first-place votes, four points for second-place
9:10 AM ET For the first time in more than a century, Indiana and Purdue won’t play for the Old Oaken Bucket. In a joint statement Tuesday, the Hoosiers and Boilermakers announced that they’ve canceled Friday’s scheduled game in Bloomington, Indiana, because of COVID-19 concerns in both programs. The game was originally scheduled for Dec.
7:00 AM ET HE WAS BURIED on the Alabama depth chart, way down deep where the sun never reached, so Mac Jones‘ most urgent reason for existing in this moment was to make Nick Saban’s defense better, more fearsome, the ilk of defense that wins championships five times in nine seasons. Jones knew well his
10:29 PM ET SMU will have to bow out of this weekend’s Tropical Smoothie Frisco Bowl against UTSA because of COVID-19 issues, a source confirmed to ESPN on Monday. The news was first reported by 247Sports. The status of the bowl game, scheduled to be played Saturday at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, has not
8:44 PM ET Vanderbilt has hired Notre Dame defensive coordinator Clark Lea as its new head football coach, the school announced Monday night. Lea, a Nashville native who finished his college career as a fullback at Vanderbilt, will be introduced next week. He will continue working with No. 2 Notre Dame, which faces No. 3
8:48 PM ET Lane Kiffin has long credited Nick Saban for helping to re-energize Kiffin’s head coaching career, but that doesn’t mean Kiffin is opposed to poking fun at his old boss. In fact, Kiffin jokingly went into full Saban mode on Monday at his news conference when asked if he was a candidate for
5:28 PM ET For the second time in 10 days, Georgia’s scheduled game against Vanderbilt has been called off because the Commodores couldn’t meet the SEC’s minimum roster and position requirements, the SEC announced on Monday. The No. 9 Bulldogs were scheduled to play the winless Commodores at home in their final regular-season game at
4:43 PM ET South Carolina defensive back Shilo Sanders, the son of NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, has entered the NCAA’s transfer portal. Shilo Sanders’ name appeared Monday morning. The redshirt freshman from Cedar Hill, Texas, had 32 tackles and a pass deflection in nine games for the Gamecocks this season. He appeared in
3:57 PM ET ACC commissioner John Swofford pushed back against the notion that it had given Clemson and Notre Dame last weekend off as a way to protect their College Football Playoff chances, telling ESPN the complaint “rings pretty hollow.” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has been critical of the ACC’s decision to give both teams