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11:34 AM ET Wide receiver Ainias Smith will return to Texas A&M for a fifth season, he announced Thursday. Smith missed the majority of the 2022 season after suffering a leg fracture during a game against Arkansas in September. He had been the Aggies’ leading receiver before the injury, including a 164-yard, two-touchdown performance in

Feb 1, 2023 Associated Press GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida coach Billy Napier provided little insight Wednesday into how and why the Gators lost four-star quarterback Jaden Rashada, but said he doesn’t expect it to prompt an NCAA investigation. Napier sidestepped several questions about Rashada, who signed with Florida in December only to be granted his

Feb 2, 2023 College football’s 2023 recruiting cycle is all but completed after national signing day on Wednesday. Coaches have already moved on to the next cycle and the new prospects to fill their 2024 recruiting classes. The entire landscape of the next cycle is already starting to take shape with 78 ESPN Junior 300

Feb 1, 2023 Multiple Contributors College football‘s 2023 recruiting cycle has all but come to an end after February’s national signing day. Alabama finished with the No. 1-ranked recruiting class for the eighth time since Nick Saban took over as head coach, and this class could be his biggest yet: five five-star recruits, 13 prospects

Feb 1, 2023 Kenny Dillingham got his first big commitment as Arizona State head coach on Wednesday when ESPN 300 quarterback Jaden Rashada committed to the Sun Devils. Rashada is the No. 31 prospect out of Pittsburg High School in Pittsburg, California. He had signed with Florida in the early signing period with the help

8:13 PM ET ESPN News Services BOULDER, Colo. — Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders proudly recited the numbers from his first recruiting class at Colorado. Two five-star recruits. A No. 23 overall class ranking, which was the highest in 15 years, he pointed out, while starting to reshape his team in the transfer portal. Then a

2:09 PM ET Five-star junior cornerback Ellis Robinson IV committed to two-time defending national champion Georgia on Wednesday, adding to the program’s burgeoning 2024 class. Robinson made the announcement on “College Football Live” on ESPN2. “They told me I’m the best DB in the 2024 class and one of the best in the 2023 class,”

6:30 AM ET ESPN staff College football‘s 2023 recruiting cycle is nearing its end with national signing day. Wednesday is the final day that high school recruits are able to sign their national letters of intent to lock them into the schools they choose. The early signing period in December brought plenty of chaos. Three

3:09 PM ET The Big 12 released its 2023 football schedule on Tuesday, giving fans their road map for the new-look league after a little bit of a delay added mystery to the reveal. The Big 12 welcomes in BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF to the club this year while Texas and Oklahoma are on

4:38 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by nine former University of Minnesota football players who were accused of sexual assault in 2016 in a case that roiled the school’s football program. The lawsuit against the school claimed that the players faced emotional distress and financial damage

6:50 AM ET National signing day is Wednesday, which will be the last official day when college football recruits in the 2023 class can sign their national letters of intent. Between the early signing period in December and the transfer windows that closed on Jan. 18, there isn’t much left on the board for the

8:29 PM ET ESPN staff The ACC is ditching divisions for 2023, and that has set up a schedule that looks a good bit different from years past. The league released its 2023 schedule for all 14 teams Monday, highlighted by a showdown between defending champion Clemson and upstart Duke on Labor Day and a

11:46 AM ET Former Washington quarterback Sam Huard, ESPN’s highest-rated quarterback prospect in the 2021 recruiting class, will transfer to Cal Poly and reunite with his high school coach. Huard, who entered the transfer portal Jan. 10, announced his destination Monday on KIRO radio in Seattle, during a show co-hosted by his uncle the former

8:56 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Former Tennessee and Colorado quarterback J.T. Shrout is transferring to Arkansas State, sources told ESPN. Shrout visited Arkansas State over the weekend and his commitment looms as a significant win for Butch Jones, who is entering his third season as Arkansas State’s head coach. Shrout will graduate from Colorado this

11:39 AM ET Former Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett, who led the Bulldogs to their second straight CFP National Championship earlier this month, was arrested on a misdemeanor public intoxication charge in Dallas on Sunday morning. In a statement to ESPN, a Dallas Police Department spokesperson said officers responded to a report of a man banging

Jan 28, 2023 Broncos owner Greg Penner and University of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh met last week in Ann Arbor to discuss Denver’s head-coaching position without any deal materializing, league sources told ESPN. Although Harbaugh two weeks ago announced he was staying at Michigan, Penner did his due diligence and still traveled to Ann

11:11 AM ET Associated Press University of Georgia athletic department officials say the vehicle involved in a crash that killed a football player and an employee on Jan. 15 was to be used only for recruiting activities, not personal use. The University of Georgia athletic association provided that information in a statement to The Associated

5:18 PM ET Ohio State is adding James Laurinaitis, one of the most decorated defensive players in program history, to its coaching staff as a defensive graduate assistant for the 2023 college football season. Laurinaitis, a former Buckeyes linebacker, is one of only eight players in team history to earn All-America honors three times. A