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7:00 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN CORAL GABLES, Fla. — In the middle of the toughest professional decision of his life, Mario Cristobal dialed a familiar phone number. Over 3,000 miles from Eugene, Oregon, in Stuart, Florida, Dennis Lavelle picked up. Cristobal wanted to know what his former high school coach at Christopher Columbus High thought

7:11 PM ET WASHINGTON — An overwhelming majority of Division I athletic directors at the annual fall LEAD1 meeting on Wednesday expressed a “strong preference” to keep FBS football under the NCAA if it can be more streamlined and less bureaucratic. Tom McMillen, the CEO and president of the organization representing the 131 athletic directors

8:00 AM ET In July, among the 16,452 attendees at the annual Texas High School Coaches’ Association convention in San Antonio, two college coaches drew a crowd wherever they went. Sure, Georgia coach Kirby Smart, continuing a tradition among national championship coaches, flew in for a few hours just to speak to the largest and

7:00 AM ET Inspirational thought of the week: If you can walk or crawl, let’s leave this hospitalAnd take this car far as it goesLost and kicked about, sun belt scars remove all doubtCover up, this chapter’s closed, no, this world ain’t all snow — “Sun Belt Scars,” by Banner Pilot Here at Bottom 10

1:17 PM ET Ohio State expects preseason All-America selection Jaxon Smith-Njigba and fellow wide receiver Julian Fleming to play this week against Toledo. Smith-Njigba, who led Ohio State with 1,606 receiving yards in 2021, suffered a hamstring injury early in the Sept. 3 opener against Notre Dame. He went through light warm-ups last week but

7:00 AM ET CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Like all the best mythology, Tyler Van Dyke‘s origin story is grounded in truth, but the details took on a life of their own. It was October 2021, and Miami was 2-4, teetering on the brink of a lost season, and Van Dyke — the starter at quarterback

9:00 AM ET SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Bobby Petrino knows what’s coming. He has been called many things over the years, but he is not naive. The job he’s done in resurrecting a moribund Missouri State program and turning the Bears into FCS title contenders speaks for itself. But this week, Petrino’s past, and not his

2:01 PM ET Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian channeled Nick Saban on Monday, issuing a warning to his Longhorns after their near upset of No. 1 Alabama on Saturday. “First of all, to quote my old boss, we’ve got to be careful of the rat poison of people telling us how good we are, which

8:30 AM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Nick Saban vacillated between pride and frustration as he met with the media following Alabama‘s heart-stopping 20-19 win over Texas on Saturday afternoon. In a cramped, windowless room inside Darrell K Royal Stadium, the Crimson Tide’s often crotchety coach smiled and offered to help a cameraman who was struggling

Sep 11, 2022 Pete ThamelESPN After Quinn Ewers‘ promising debut and one scintillating quarter against Alabama, there is going to be a pause before seeing what the Texas quarterback can do next. Ewers will miss at least a month with an SC sprain to his left shoulder, sources told ESPN. Ewers underwent an MRI confirming

2:17 PM ET Associated Press Georgia reclaimed the top spot in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday, and Kentucky, Oklahoma State and Arkansas moved into the top 10 after an upset-filled weekend across the country. The defending national champion Bulldogs, who started the season at No. 3 in the AP Top 25, took two

1:32 PM ET Nebraska fired football coach Scott Frost on Sunday, one day after a 45-42 home loss to Georgia Southern in what had become an untenable situation for the Huskers. Nebraska (1-2) had been a three-touchdown favorite. “Earlier today I met with Coach Frost and informed him we were making a change in the

10:00 AM ET In the past, any celebration of moral victories for the Texas Longhorns would be met with a syrupy “bless your heart,” in Austin, dripping with the kind of disdain generally reserved for a newly arrived Californian who complains about the heat. Not at Texas, the program with the fourth-most victories — and

2:25 AM ET Texas is not back. Not on Saturday, anyway. Not without its burgeoning star QB, Quinn Ewers. Not on Nick Saban’s watch. But for 59 minutes against Alabama, Texas seemed astonishingly close to turning the page on a decade of heartbreak, embarrassment and jokes before falling to the Tide 20-19. It was, it

7:27 PM ET ESPN News Services COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Chase Brice threw for 134 yards and a touchdown, and Appalachian State took advantage of two turnovers to stun No. 6 Texas A&M 17-14 on Saturday. Appalachian State won a week after scoring six touchdowns and 40 points in the fourth quarter in a 63-61

4:51 PM ET Kentucky will be without star running back Chris Rodriguez Jr. for the second straight game when the No. 20 Wildcats travel to No. 12 Florida on Saturday, sources told ESPN. Rodriguez, the SEC’s leading returning rusher with 1,379 yards a year ago, remains sidelined while awaiting a ruling on an NCAA matter,

3:13 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN BYU will be without the team’s two best wide receivers when the No. 21 Cougars host No. 9 Baylor on Saturday night, sources told ESPN. Junior Puka Nacua and senior Gunner Romney are expected to miss the game. BYU coach Kalani Sitake had said earlier in the week that they

7:30 AM ET What if? It’s the most powerful two-word question there has ever been. We ask it about our own lives and world history. As in “What if Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s car hadn’t stopped in front of that Sarajevo café in 1914?” or “What if I had married my high school sweetheart instead of