3:15 PM ET The SEC has released its opening week football schedule for Sept. 26, and the four first-year head coaches in the league all have daunting assignments. Mike Leach’s Mississippi State team goes on the road to face defending national champion LSU, which is ranked No. 5 in the Amway preseason coaches poll. The
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2:25 PM ET Syracuse‘s football team returned to practice over the weekend after addressing coronavirus concerns among the players, but coach Dino Babers on Monday described lingering uncertainty among some of them — using a military comparison to describe the choices that await them. “There’s never been anything like this, and you see some players,
1:31 PM ET LSU senior cornerback Kary Vincent Jr. announced on Monday that he is opting out of the college football season and will begin training for the NFL Combine. Vincent becomes the second player from the defending national champions to opt out. Neil Farrell Jr., a projected starter at defensive end, opted out last
1:49 PM ET The SWAC became the first conference to announce plans for a spring football season on Monday. The plan is for each team to play six conference and one non-conference game beginning February 27. Every team will take off the week of March 13 so fans can attend the men’s and women’s basketball
12:37 PM ET Associated Press Ole Miss starting center Eli Johnson says he won’t play football this season. Johnson tweeted that he will sit out the season and focus on completing his master’s degree in criminal justice in December. The SEC allows players to opt out of the season because of COVID-19 and still remain
8:00 AM ET Under a typical college football timeline, the season would be within arm’s reach right now. Games were originally scheduled to begin on Aug. 29’s Week 0, with Notre Dame vs. Navy in Dublin as the headliner. Under normal circumstances, we’d be excitedly pointing out, “That’s next week!” Instead, the coronavirus and its
9:10 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — FIU said Sunday night that wide receivers coach Aubrey Hill, a standout player at Florida before becoming a longtime coach at Miami and other places, has died after a lengthy cancer-related illness. He was 48. “Aubrey was loved and adored by so many who saw him not only
6:22 PM ET Texas freshman receiver Troy Omeire suffered a torn ACL in practice on Saturday and will be out for the season, Texas announced on Sunday. The 6-3, 230-pound Omeire was battling for playing time as the Longhorns look to replace Devin Duvernay, a first-round pick in this year’s NFL draft, as well as
6:17 PM ET Georgia will open preseason practices on Monday without one of its two high-profile quarterbacks, as USC transfer JT Daniels hasn’t been cleared from a torn ACL that he suffered with the Trojans in the 2019 season opener. In a teleconference with reporters on Sunday, Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart also said that Wake
2:22 PM ET All-Mountain West first-team wide receiver Warren Jackson is opting out of his senior season at Colorado State to begin preparing for the 2021 NFL draft, he announced Sunday. The decision comes less than a week after the Mountain West announced that it would postpone all fall sports and explore the possibility of