11:18 AM ET College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock and his wife, Nicki, both tested positive for COVID-19 last month but did not have to be hospitalized and “are in good health again,” Hancock told ESPN on Friday. Hancock, who said he notified his staff and the 10 FBS commissioners on Friday, said he
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8:00 AM ET Outside the window of his office, new Appalachian State head coach Shawn Clark spent the summer watching construction crews hard at work on stadium renovations. There’s fresh turf going in, and a new complex in the end zone that Clark promises will be the class of the Group of 5. He’s pretty
9:42 AM ET Clemson is the overwhelming preseason choice to win the ACC, with Notre Dame picked to finish second, the league announced Friday. The Tigers received 132 of the media panel’s 134 first-place votes. Notre Dame received the other two. So if the preseason poll bears out, Clemson and Notre Dame would play in
7:00 AM ET I think referee Bob Johnson spoke for everyone last Saturday night when he uttered the first words heard from an official during a college football game in this godforsaken, expletive-not-deleted 2020 season. “God damn mask!” Johnson said. Nothing reverberates quite as loudly as a decidedly unsolemn oath over the loudspeaker of a
7:20 AM ET A week before IMG Academy’s first game of the season, Bobby Acosta slowly walked around the football field, thinking about how far he and his team had come the past few months. Alone with his thoughts, Acosta, IMG’s new head football coach, was moved to tears as he prodded across the turf,
11:39 PM ET North Texas quarterbacks coach Tate Wallis was arrested Thursday in Denton County on charges that he allegedly had an improper relationship with a student while he was coaching at a nearby high school last year. North Texas has placed Wallis on leave. Wallis was hired at North Texas in January. The incidents
7:46 PM ET Dabo Swinney said Thursday he’d be thrilled to see the Big Ten and Pac-12 get back on the field sooner rather than later, an option that seems to have at least some traction in recent days, but the Clemson coach doesn’t want to see the College Football Playoff wait on those leagues
8:09 PM ET The Football Oversight Committee on Thursday agreed to recommend a spring season model to the Division I Council that will give conferences that push their seasons to spring of 2021 15 practices in 29 days, and an eight-game season that must end by April 17th. Any other conferences that have postponed their
5:11 PM ET The Pac-12 will soon be able to provide its student-athletes with daily COVID-19 testing after entering into a deal with Quidel Corporation, a manufacturer of FDA-approved rapid tests for a number of medical conditions. Quidel’s Sofia 2 testing machine is expected to be available on each Pac-12 campus by the end of
3:32 PM ET Florida will reduce seating capacity to 17,000 fans to comply with physical distancing requirements inside Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, the school announced Thursday. The normal game day capacity is 88,548, so about 20% of the stadium will be filled as a result of coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Florida also said masks are required