9:00 AM ET Football is back on ESPN this weekend, and it’s not just college football being played. The high school prospects are also going to be in the spotlight in the ESPN Geico High School Football Kickoff. It starts with two games Friday, including St. Paul’s (Alabama) taking on Spanish Fort (Alabama), followed by
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9:18 AM ET The University of Minnesota has reached a $500,000 settlement with a woman who said she was gang raped by several Gophers football players in September 2016, according to documents obtained by the St. Paul Pioneer Press through an open records request. Minnesota officials redacted the woman’s name in the settlement documents, according
5:48 PM ET Clemson will have a reduced seating capacity of 19,000 fans this season and require face coverings unless eating or drinking, the school said Thursday. Game-day traditions, including the pregame Tiger Walk and postgame Gathering at the Paw, will not take place this season. Fans are also being asked not to tailgate. The
4:01 PM ET Associated Press Notre Dame announced it will play South Florida on Sept. 19 as its lone nonconference game of the football season. The Fighting Irish will play as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference this season, a move made in response to the coronavirus pandemic altering schedules of the Power Five
1:59 PM ET Eight Nebraska football players on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Big Ten, seeking to invalidate the league’s postponement of the fall football season and to award damages. The suit, filed Thursday in Lancaster County District Court, alleges that the Big Ten is in breach of contract by not following its governing
2:36 PM ET East Carolina’s game against Marshall, scheduled for Sept. 12 in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, ECU announced on Thursday. The Pirates and Thundering Herd hope to reschedule later in 2020. The game held special significance this year because officials at both schools had hoped to use it
12:53 PM ET Boston College and South Florida on Thursday became the first college football teams to cancel preseason practice to participate in the national discussion about social injustice. Boston College coaches and players met and discussed recent events and how they can help unite communities and create positive change. South Florida, which also is
10:11 AM ET Virginia has named Brennan Armstrong its starting quarterback, coach Bronco Mendenhall said Thursday. Armstrong has been considered the front-runner to replace Bryce Perkins throughout the offseason. In his most recent media availability, Mendenhall gave the edge to Armstrong in the competition. Perkins was one of the biggest reasons Virginia won the ACC
9:56 AM ET Georgia receiver Dominick Blaylock, one of the team’s top wideouts last season, suffered a torn ACL in his left knee in practice this week and will miss the upcoming season, sources confirmed to ESPN. Blaylock, a sophomore from Marietta, Georgia, suffered the same injury to the same knee in the first quarter
9:41 PM ET UCLA sued Under Armour in federal court on Wednesday, alleging it terminated its $280 million sponsorship agreement with the Bruins not because of the coronavirus pandemic but because the record-setting deal was too expensive for the financially troubled apparel company. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, said the