2:28 PM ET Oregon will replace Washington as the Pac-12 North representative in the conference championship football game, the conference announced Monday. It was determined the Huskies would be unable to field the 53 scholarship players needed to play because of positive cases for COVID-19 and the related contact-tracing protocols, the conference said. The Huskies
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1:46 PM ET Former Baylor head coach Art Briles resigned as head coach at Mount Vernon (Texas) High School on Monday, the school announced. Briles, who was 20-6 at the small East Texas school in two seasons, led the Tigers to the state semifinals this year. It was his first coaching job back in the
1:04 PM ET With two days until the start of the early signing period, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh says he has had conversations with recruits about the status of his contract, which is without a resolution on an extension. Harbaugh has a year remaining on his current deal, but talks of an extension have been
1:51 PM ET Texas Tech head coach Matt Wells is expected to return in 2021, sources confirmed to ESPN, but with a new offensive coordinator. The school announced Monday that offensive coordinator David Yost has been fired after two seasons. But Wells is set to lead the program again in 2021, sources confirmed. He is
12:50 PM ET Georgia freshman quarterback D’Wan Mathis, who opened the season as the Bulldogs’ starter, announced Monday that he will be transferring to Temple. Mathis last week entered the NCAA’s transfer portal. He completed 8 of 17 passes for 55 yards with one interception in Georgia’s opener at Arkansas before being benched in favor
1:09 PM ET Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips was named the next ACC commissioner on Monday. Phillips, who has led Northwestern’s athletic department since April 2008, will replace John Swofford, who is set to retire as ACC commissioner in June after 24 years leading the conference. “Jim is well-respected throughout college athletics and knows the
11:00 AM ET There were a number of reasons Gus Malzahn was fired by Auburn on Sunday after eight up-and-down seasons, but none were as ironic or as frustrating as the regression of the offense. The struggle there represented the crumbling of the foundation of the program and the core of who Malzahn was as
11:00 AM ET Vanderbilt has zeroed in on Notre Dame defensive coordinator Clark Lea as its top target to become the Commodores’ next football coach and hopes to finalize a deal within the next day, sources told ESPN. Lea, 38, oversees a Notre Dame defense ranked 12th nationally in scoring defense (17.1 points per game)
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12:51 AM ET Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips has emerged as the leading candidate to become the next ACC commissioner, sources told ESPN on Sunday night. Phillips, who has led Northwestern’s athletic department since April 2008, is expected to replace John Swofford, set to retire as ACC commissioner in June after 24 years leading the