9:00 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: 14 voters, five votes each. Points system: five points for first-place votes, four points for second-place
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9:34 AM ET Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Defensive back Daraun McKinney became the fourth Iowa football player in two weeks to leave the program with the intention of transferring. Coach Kirk Ferentz announced McKinney’s departure on Tuesday. Running back Shadrick Byrd, linebacker Yahweh Jeudy and receiver Calvin Lockett also have left the team
7:05 AM ET Before Khalil Mack was a Pro Bowl linebacker in the NFL, he was a 2013 first-team All-American, a first-team All-MAC player three times and the 2013 conference Defensive Player of the Year. Perhaps the most impressive part was that Mack did all of this at Buffalo. Mack, who went from lightly recruited
3:23 PM ET Saturday’s game between Auburn and Mississippi State has been postponed due to COVID-19 issues within the Bulldogs’ program. “Based on positive tests and those considered as close contacts, along with non-COVID injuries, we do not have the minimum number of scholarship student-athletes available for Saturday’s game against Auburn,” MSU director of athletics
2:59 PM ET Texas A&M will not practice Monday because of multiple positive COVID-19 tests within the program, coach Jimbo Fisher said on Monday. The Aggies have two positive tests of individuals who traveled with the team for its win at South Carolina on Saturday — one player and one student worker — the team
2:04 PM ET LSU’s showdown against Alabama on Saturday is in jeopardy as the Tigers deal with multiple players in quarantine as a result of COVID-19 testing. Multiple players, including starters, will be unavailable, coach Ed Orgeron said on Monday. Some have tested positive while the majority are out as a result of contact tracing.
1:54 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Notre Dame has implemented mandatory coronavirus testing for students and strict penalties for those who don’t comply after students rushed the school’s football field to celebrate a double-overtime upset over Clemson and held numerous weekend parties. A crowded mass of students, players and coaches was on the field
2:22 PM ET Florida tight end Kyle Pitts is questionable to play Saturday against Arkansas after suffering a concussion in last weekend’s win over Georgia. Pitts took a vicious hit to the head from Lewis Cine in the second quarter of a 44-28 victory and did not return to the game. Cine was ejected for
1:26 PM ET Trevor Lawrence is ready to return to practice for Clemson — he’s just not ready to say how much longer he’ll be doing it. The Tigers star quarterback said Monday that he’s feeling good after a bout with COVID-19 and he expects to return to practice this week. Clemson has an open
12:58 PM ET Wisconsin expects to resume play this week at Michigan after the number of active COVID-19 cases in the program has dropped to five. The Badgers on Monday began their normal game preparations, and will practice every day this week while monitoring the daily COVID-19 testing results. Wisconsin canceled its last two games,