12:00 AM ET A day unlike any other in college football history started at 12:01 a.m. ET Monday when the game’s biggest star, Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence, was among the dozens of players to tweet a statement that expressed their desire to play the 2020 season and shared items they feel need to be addressed
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11:00 PM ET The Big Ten is expected to make another decision on its college football season on Tuesday, but the impact of it could vary widely, as league presidents are considering pushing back the start of the season to Sept. 26 or postponing it to the spring, a conference source told ESPN. The presidents
8:52 PM ET The first goal of the #WeAreUnited and #WeWantToPlay movement, Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence said Monday, is to ensure that college football is played in 2020, but he envisions a future in which players have a seat at the table on other issues, too. Lawrence and teammate Darien Rencher worked with nearly a
5:51 PM ET The Mountain West is postponing its fall sports season because of concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, sources told ESPN. League presidents met Monday afternoon to finalize the decision. Stadium first reported the move. The Mountain West is the second FBS conference to postpone football and other fall sports, joining the Mid-American Conference,
4:55 PM ET Paula Lavigne Close ESPN Staff Writer Data analyst and reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit. Winner, 2014 Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award; finalist, 2012 IRE broadcast award; winner, 2011 Gannett Foundation Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism; Emmy nominated, 2009. Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer
4:30 PM ET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee offensive lineman Trey Smith, who fought back from blood clots in his lungs to earn first-team All-SEC honors a year ago, said the voices of those players wanting to play should be strongly taken into account before any decision is made to cancel the 2020 college football season.
3:03 PM ET Alabama coach Nick Saban, along with two of his star players, pushed back Monday on the narrative that players are more at risk of contracting the coronavirus if the college football season is played this fall. “I want to play, but I want to play for the players’ sake, the value they
3:13 PM ET The Pac-12 CEO group, made up of one president or chancellor from each of the conference’s 12 universities, will meet Tuesday and is expected to discuss and vote on how to proceed with the 2020 football season, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN. The growing sense around the conference is that it is
3:45 PM ET Nebraska football coach Scott Frost said Monday that the Cornhuskers are prepared to play this upcoming season — even if it’s outside the Big Ten. “We’re a proud member of the Big Ten,” Frost said during a Zoom teleconference with reporters. “We want to play a Big Ten schedule. I think the
12:49 PM ET Old Dominion announced on Monday that it is postponing all fall sports, including football, due to the coronavirus pandemic. ODU is the first Conference USA team to announce it will not play this fall. “We concluded that the season — including travel and competition — posed too great a risk for our