11:03 AM ET Like many Big Ten coaches, Purdue’s Jeff Brohm was disappointed and angry upon learning the league had postponed the fall football season. He channeled those emotions into crafting a detailed plan for a spring season. Brohm’s proposal outlines an eight-game season beginning Feb. 27 and finishing April 17, with postseason play wrapping
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10:29 AM ET Nebraska ended speculation about breaking from the Big Ten’s plan to postpone fall football on Thursday morning. “The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a fully committed member of the Big Ten Conference,” chancellor Ronnie Green and president Ted Carter said in a statement. “It is an unparalleled athletic and academic alliance.” A joint
7:00 AM ET Multiple Contributors College football has remained a strange, leaderless, regionalized sport even as it has become a multibillion-dollar business. This works out fine most of the time, but it has made planning in the middle of a pandemic almost impossible. How impossible? “Some of the power conferences might start their season in
8:23 PM ET Even though two of the five power conferences won’t be playing football this fall, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said he doesn’t believe it will diminish the meaning that comes with a national championship. Asked on Wednesday about whether the absence of the Big Ten or Pac-12 “damages” the meaning of a title,
7:33 PM ET The NCAA Division I Council recommended Wednesday that the Division I Board of Directors give student-athletes impacted by the coronavirus pandemic an extension of their five-year period of eligibility and an additional season of competition if they participate in 50% or less of the maximum number of competitions allowed in each sport
3:45 PM ET Sam Khan Jr. Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers Texas A&M and the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Houston. Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University A day after his league decided to proceed toward a fall football
4:27 PM ET Sportsbooks around the United States have halted betting on college football, as bookmakers try to determine the best approach to a season in flux. On Tuesday, the Big Ten and Pac-12 announced they were postponing their seasons due to safety concerns regarding the coronavirus pandemic and are looking at the possibility of
2:04 PM ET Ohio State coach Ryan Day said he’s exploring ways to get his football team on the field as quickly as possible, including a spring season that begins in early January and wraps up before the NFL draft in late April. Day, speaking to reporters just one day after the Big Ten postponed
3:40 PM ET Bill Yeoman, a standout lineman and teammate of Heisman Trophy winners Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis at Army, who would go on to shepherd the University of Houston into the top tier of college football as the Cougars’ coach for 25 years, died Wednesday at the age of 92. His son, Bill
11:30 AM ET Dave Wilson Oklahoma defensive lineman Jalen Redmond was arrested early Wednesday morning and charged with driving under the influence. According to Cleveland County jail records, Redmond was booked at 3:34 a.m. Despite starting just four games last season, Redmond led the Sooners in sacks (6.5) and finished third on the team with