8:00 AM ET Anthony Treash Rounding out our series of college football’s top 10 players at every position for 2020, we finish with safeties. There are a couple of Power 5 teams lucky enough to have multiple players featured here. Using a combination of Pro Football Focus grades and PFF’s wins above average (WAA) metric,
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3:50 PM ET The Mountain West Conference announced Wednesday that its 2020 preseason football media days will be virtual instead of in-person and will be moved to a later date. The MWC is the first FBS conference to make such a move as college football deals with an uncertain future in the wake of the
4:30 PM ET ESPN staff The NCAA’s top governing body said Wednesday that it supports a proposal to allow college athletes to sign endorsement contracts and receive payment for other work, provided that the schools they attend are not involved in any of the payments. A working group assembled to evaluate potential ways to modernize
9:14 AM ET The NCAA’s top governing body said Wednesday that it supports a proposal to allow college athletes to sign endorsement contracts and receive payments for other work, provided that the schools they attend are not involved in any of the payments. A working group assembled to evaluate a way to modernize the NCAA’s
8:00 AM ET ESPN staff The sudden disappearance of sports will erase at least $12 billion in revenue and hundreds of thousands of jobs, an economic catastrophe that will more than double if the college football and NFL schedules are wiped out this fall by the coronavirus pandemic, an analysis conducted for ESPN shows. The
10:58 PM ET Former Michigan wide receiver Tarik Black intends to transfer to Texas, he announced Tuesday night. Black published an Instagram post with a picture of him in a Texas uniform and the caption, “i just flipped the switch,, flip flip #HookEm.” He entered the NCAA’s transfer portal in December and is on track
9:47 PM ET LSU added former Harvard offensive lineman Liam Shanahan to its football team on Tuesday. Head coach Ed Orgeron announced the addition of the All-Ivy selection less than a week after he saw three of his former starting offensive lineman, Lloyd Cushenberry, Damien Lewis and Saahdiq Charles, selected in the NFL draft. Shanahan,
9:09 PM ET Between video conferencing with players and staff, furiously planning for a multitude of possible college football scenarios, spending time with family and helping out in his community, TCU coach Gary Patterson is staying as busy as ever during this period of social distancing. But with practices and workouts on hold in the
5:45 PM ET Nebraska reserve quarterback Noah Vedral is transferring from the school. Vedral entered the NCAA’s transfer portal Tuesday as a graduate student and will have two years of eligibility left. He started two games last season for the Huskers, and also replaced injured starter Adrian Martinez during a win against Northwestern. Vedral followed
4:25 PM ET A working group studying the future of NCAA name, image and likeness rules plans to suggest during a Tuesday afternoon board meeting that college athletes be allowed to make money from a variety of endorsements, including advertisements and apparel contracts, according to a source familiar with the group’s recommendations. The NCAA Board