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9:30 AM ET The ESPN 300 has been updated for the 2022 cycle, and as is the case with every college football recruiting class, there are some unique storylines and recruitments to watch for. This class happens to be unique, as prospects are trying to navigate the process the best they can while being subject

5:19 PM ET Texas A&M quarterback Kellen Mond is considered an intriguing Day 2 option for teams out of reach of the top quarterbacks in April’s draft. “There’s upside there,” said one longtime NFC scout. “If anything I would have liked to see him let loose a little more.” And teams are doing their research

1:48 PM ET ESPN News Services Top-ranked James Madison will play Richmond on April 17 after each had to pull out of a scheduled matchup because of protocols in their programs, the Colonial Athletic Association said. Additionally, the Spiders’ game Saturday against William & Mary has been canceled because of coronavirus-related protocols within the Tribe

8:00 AM ET The seventh full week of the spring football season wasn’t the most stirring. We still saw our share of thrillers — ETSU and Austin Peay ended VMI’s and Murray State’s unbeaten runs, respectively. The Citadel came back to upset Wofford and Weber State pulled off its weekly survive-by-the-skin-of-your-teeth routine, etc. Of 28

5:58 AM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — The billboards started popping up across Florida one month after Gus Malzahn arrived at UCF. His picture is on them, mid fist-pump, along with a big UCF logo and this message: “The future of college football is in Orlando.” The campaign extends into Georgia, too, a not-so-subtle blitz intended

5:22 PM ET Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — In a $50 million federal racketeering lawsuit, an LSU associate athletic director has accused university officials of retaliating against her for reporting racist remarks and inappropriate sexual behavior by former Tigers football coach Les Miles. Sharon Lewis’ lawsuit says she was denied pay raises and subjected

9:15 AM ET Tom Luginbill Close ESPN Analyst Senior National Recruiting Analyst for ESPN.com Coached in four professional football leagues Graduated from Eastern Kentucky and Marshall Craig Haubert Close ESPN Staff Writer National recruiting analyst and analyst for ESPNU More than a decade of college and pro coaching experience. Graduated from Indiana and Nebraska-Omaha It’s

RK PLAYER POS HOMETOWN HT WT STARS GRADE SCHOOL 1 QB-PP Southlake, TXCarroll High School 6’3” 205 95 Ohio StateCommitted11/19/2020 2 DT Cordova, TNSaint Benedict School 6’3” 300 93 3 DE Miami, FLMonsignor Edward Pace High School 6’5” 255 92 4 CB Suwanee, GACollins Hill High School 6’0” 165 92 Florida StCommitted03/03/2020 5 CB Santa

5:11 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — The head of the search committee to pick a successor to retiring Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said the school hopes to make a hire “within a few months.” Peter Miller, the chair of Wisconsin’s athletic board, wouldn’t get more specific than that. Alvarez announced his retirement

7:28 PM ET ESPN News Services TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Bobby Bowden, the former Florida State football coach who led the Seminoles to two national titles, received the inaugural Florida Medal of Freedom at a ceremony Wednesday hosted by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Bowden, 91, is one of college football’s winningest coaches. He coached Florida State from

4:50 PM ET Associated Press Heisman Trophy winner DeVonta Smith of Alabama is scheduled to appear in person in Cleveland at the NFL draft later this month. Smith, the wide receiver projected to be a high first-round pick, is among a group of players who have accepted their invitations to attend the draft. The NFL

6:51 AM ET One benefit of all the days blurring together during the pandemic is that it’s already time for spring football, other than the spring football they’re playing over in the FCS, where they’re actually playing real games. But the FBS fellas are back on the field after the strangest, most trying year. We

5:05 PM ET LSU coach Ed Orgeron said in written statement submitted to a Louisiana state Senate committee on Tuesday that he considered former running back Derrius Guice‘s alleged sexual harassment of Gloria Scott in 2017 “utterly unacceptable” but denied ever speaking to Scott directly about the matter. Orgeron’s statement contradicts some of what Scott

10:30 AM ET College football recruiting can be a roller-coaster ride and a back-and-forth battle for coaches trying to fill their classes. The 2021 cycle was no exception, and there was plenty of movement in the class rankings from the first release last spring to the final signing period in February. It’s not about how

8:00 AM ET Before 2018, no Sun Belt team had ever finished in the SP+ top 35, but we’ve seen six do so in just the past three seasons. Appalachian State leads the way, having done so for three straight years, but Billy Napier’s Louisiana has done so twice in a row and now leads

9:58 PM ET Tennessee has indefinitely suspended junior linebacker Aaron Beasley after he was accused of animal abuse to a kitten. The Knoxville Police Department launched an investigation into a possible animal abuse case after a UT student said she came home last week and found her 6-month-old kitten seriously injured. She told police she

6:00 PM ET ESPN News Services Kansas is finalizing a deal to hire Northwestern administrator Travis Goff, a Sunflower State native who graduated from the school, to be its next athletic director, a source told ESPN, confirming multiple reports. Goff has been at Northwestern since 2012, most recently as deputy athletic director and assistant vice

8:00 AM ET North Carolina linebacker Jeremiah Gemmel, who was on the team when UNC won five total games over the span of two dreadful seasons, said he can still remember the lackluster energy around the football facility in 2017 and 2018. Whether he was walking into the weight room or the training table, he