3:53 PM ET Ohio State football coach Ryan Day has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not travel with the No. 3 Buckeyes for Saturday’s game against Illinois, the school said in a statement. The university said Day is just “one of the individuals” with in the program that has tested positive for the coronavirus,
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2:37 PM ET Sarah Fuller is poised to become the first female to play in a Power 5 football game when Vanderbilt plays at Missouri in an SEC contest Saturday. A Vanderbilt official confirmed that Fuller made the trip to Missouri and will be dressed out for the game. If she sees action Saturday, Fuller
12:41 PM ET The SEC is shaking up its football schedule once again as it attempts to reschedule a previously postponed Alabama-LSU game. A source confirmed that No. 1 Alabama is expected to travel to LSU on Dec. 5 so long as this weekend’s slate of games goes off as planned. Yahoo Sports was first
12:00 PM ET Welcome to Week 13 of the college football season, also known as RIVALRY WEEK! There are the classics, like Oregon-Oregon State and Stanford-Cal. We’ll bear witness to an Iron Bowl without Nick Saban on the Alabama sideline after he tested positive for COVID-19 this week. 2 Related Mississippi State and Ole Miss
10:44 AM ET Texas unveiled a new 12½-foot statue of trailblazer Julius Whittier, the Longhorns’ first Black letterman, outside the north end of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Friday. Whittier, who died in September 2018, arrived at Texas as one of the school’s first Black scholarship athletes and played on the 1970 team that
10:15 AM ET The New Era Pinstripe Bowl, originally scheduled to be played Dec. 29 at Yankee Stadium in New York and broadcast by ESPN, has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns, officials announced Friday. “Due to the recent increase in coronavirus cases, which has led to the imposition of various travel restrictions and the
7:30 AM ET With just a few weeks remaining before College Football Playoff Selection Day, only a few programs truly control their own destiny. For everyone else, it’s a matter of degree. And the variance in those degrees can be large. The difference between what else needs to happen for Oklahoma to win out and
8:55 PM ET ESPN News Services No. 19 USC’s game against Colorado (2-0) that was scheduled for Saturday has been canceled, the Pac-12 announced Thursday. The conference said USC (3-0) did not have enough scholarship players available in a position group due to positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing. The position group is the offensive
4:33 PM ET USC football canceled in-person activities Thursday and will continue preparations for Saturday’s game against Colorado virtually after a player showed symptoms for COVID-19, the school announced Thursday. Two players tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week and another five are in quarantine for contact tracing. USC canceled practice and closed its facility
8:05 AM ET Like most things in 2020, college football’s rivalry week is a little askew. Conferences staggered their starts. Due to the truly regional nature of the sport, there’s no uniform approach. Some leagues played nonconference games, while others haven’t. An extremely nontraditional year means our hallowed traditions are upended: Florida isn’t playing Miami