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11:00 AM ET ESPN staff We’ve made it past the college football regular season and are heading full steam ahead into the 2021 bowl season, and there are surely going to be plenty of highlights over the next couple of weeks. From the MVP of bowl season to the best on-field plays to the hilarious

10:30 PM ET Rutgers is expected to receive the first opportunity to replace Texas A&M and face Wake Forest in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee will meet Thursday and determine the policy for a bowl replacement opponent for Wake Forest among 5-7 teams. If

1:56 PM ET A new College Football Playoff policy written this week in response to the surging omicron variant allows for a team to advance to the national championship — and ultimately win it — by its opponents having to forfeit, according to an updated set of COVID-19 policies the CFP released on Wednesday. The

7:00 AM ET THE JOURNEY BEGAN, like so many frustrating and ultimately fruitless quests, with the 2019 Florida State Seminoles. Florida State had opened that season by blowing a 31-13 lead to Boise State, and in the aftermath, offensive coordinator Kendal Briles pinned at least a portion of the blame on one of the most

9:50 PM ET Out of an abundance of caution in order to keep as many players on the field as possible in the College Football Playoff, Michigan‘s football players will get their COVID-19 booster shot on Wednesday as a team, according to offensive lineman Andrew Stueber. Stueber, speaking to the media on Tuesday, said the

8:03 PM ET Coastal Carolina starting quarterback Grayson McCall will return for the Chanticleers next season, he announced on social media Tuesday night. McCall, who has started the past two seasons for Coastal Carolina, is a draft-eligible redshirt sophomore who projects as an NFL prospect. He earned Sun Belt player of the year honors in

10:42 AM ET A Jackson State football player was arrested by federal authorities on Monday and is accused of devising a scheme to fraudulently obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars in COVID-related unemployment benefits, according to a release by the U.S. Department of Justice. Abdul-Malik McClain, 22, allegedly orchestrated the scheme with other players while

7:00 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN Just over a month ago, Lincoln Riley showed up to a practice at Los Alamitos High School in Cerritos, California, by himself. It was Oklahoma‘s bye week, and it was the first time he had been able to recruit on the road in nearly two years. He was there to

7:00 AM ET Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens walked into his house after a five-day, speed dating-like hiring process that began on Dec. 6 when football coach Mario Cristobal left for Miami. It was Dec. 11 and Mullens had just announced the hire of Georgia defensive coordinator Dan Lanning to be the Ducks’ replacement. Mullens

7:00 AM ET Wan’Dale Robinson went from favorite son to public enemy No. 1 on Dec. 5, 2018, when he announced that after a year of being committed to Kentucky he was flipping to Nebraska. Never mind that he had his reasons, wanting to play in a more wide-open offense when, at the time, the

12:33 AM ET Oregon wide receiver and returner Mycah Pittman is transferring to Florida State, he announced Sunday night. Pittman, who led Oregon with 15 punt returns for 151 yards and had 12 receptions this past season, entered the transfer portal in November. He was ESPN’s No. 144 overall recruit in the 2019 class and

6:34 PM ET Former Auburn starting quarterback Bo Nix announced on Sunday that he’s transferring to Oregon. The move will reunite Nix, who posted his decision on Instagram, with his former position coach and offensive coordinator during his freshman year at Auburn, Kenny Dillingham, who left after one season. Dillingham spent the last two seasons

12:23 PM ET Arkansas defensive lineman Tre Williams was arrested early Sunday morning in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and charged with driving with while intoxicated. The redshirt senior was booked at 1:50 a.m. ET and later released on $765 bond, according to a Washington County arrest database. Williams, 24, leads the Razorbacks with six sacks this season

7:39 PM ET Texas A&M added to its 2022 recruiting haul on Saturday when ESPN 300 cornerback Denver Harris announced his commitment to the Aggies. Harris, the No. 22 prospect overall, chose Texas A&M over Alabama, LSU and Texas. He’s a 6-foot-1, 185-pound defensive back from North Shore High School in Houston, and ranked as

2:35 PM ET Breece Hall, the first unanimous All-American in Iowa State football history, announced on Saturday that he is declaring for the NFL draft and will not play in the Cyclones’ Cheez-It Bowl matchup against Clemson. “Playing for Iowa State has been nothing short of a gift,” Hall wrote in an Instagram post. “The

1:24 PM ET Mid-American Conference commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said the call at the end of Friday’s Tailgreeter Cure Bowl that denied Northern Illinois a final play was “egregious” and “unacceptable.” Northern Illinois lost 47-41 to Coastal Carolina after time expired with the Huskies at the Chanticleers’ 4-yard line. NIU converted a fourth-and-1 play with a

8:56 PM ET Mississippi State All-American offensive tackle Charles Cross announced on Friday that he is opting out of the bowl game to begin preparing for the NFL draft. ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. lists Cross as the second highest-rated draft-eligible tackle behind Alabama’s Evan Neal. A redshirt sophomore, Cross was named to the All-SEC team

4:57 PM ET David Wilson Texas Longhorns quarterback Casey Thompson, who started 10 games in coach Steve Sarkisian’s first season, is in the transfer portal. Thompson began the season as the backup behind Hudson Card, eventually claiming the starting job. He threw for 2,113 yards and had 24 touchdown passes — tops in the Big