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7:00 AM ET Kyle Trask received a FaceTime call in the locker room last weekend from Danny Wuerffel, offering congratulations for breaking his single-season school touchdown record. Under a different circumstance, the call would have generated more attention, an unofficial welcome to the elite Florida quarterback club, if you will. But the Gators had just

7:12 AM ET People keep asking how Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence has changed in 2020. They ask because, on the surface, it’s tough to see, but logic suggests there must be a reason the likely future No. 1 NFL draft choice is still playing college football, and the assumption is, he’s refining some small flaw

7:07 AM ET For what feels like centuries, we have debated perhaps the greatest mystery in the known universe: What would happen if (gasp!) Notre Dame ever joined a conference? We finally have our answer. College football did not spin off its axis when the best-known independent football program in the country joined a conference

7:34 PM ET ESPN 300 quarterback Jake Garcia announced his commitment to Miami on Wednesday, choosing the Miami over Florida State and Arkansas. Garcia is the No. 18 ranked prospect overall in the ESPN 300. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound prospect gives Miami nine ESPN 300 commitments in the class, which is headlined by five-star defensive tackle

6:36 PM ET American Athletic Conference commissioner Michael Aresco strongly criticized the College Football Playoff selection committee for dropping undefeated Cincinnati another spot in its rankings — behind three two-loss teams. During an interview on the Paul Finebaum Show on Wednesday, Aresco said the CFP selection committee needed to do some “soul searching” and is

12:49 PM ET USC got off to a fast start in the college football early signing period with ESPN 300 quarterback Jaxson Dart committing to the Trojans on Wednesday. Dart is the No. 73-ranked recruit overall. The 6-foot-3, 210-pound signal-caller from Draper, Utah, is the second-highest-ranked commit in the Trojans’ class. He chose USC over

7:00 AM ET College football’s national signing day is here. Despite the NCAA enacting a recruiting dead period amid the COVID-19 pandemic since March, meaning recruits haven’t been able to take official visits, the early signing period has remained firm. The early signing period begins Wednesday and lasts until Friday. High school recruits are able

7:14 PM ET The top five teams in the penultimate College Football Playoff rankings, released Tuesday, remained unchanged, while Iowa State‘s playoff hopes received a boost and Cincinnati‘s absorbed another blow. Alabama continues to lead off the rankings at No. 1, followed by No. 2 Notre Dame, No. 3 Clemson, No. 4 Ohio State and

1:28 PM ET Virginia Tech coach Justin Fuente will return for his sixth season with the Hokies, athletic director Whit Babcock said Tuesday. The Hokies went 5-6 this season, and there was some question about whether Fuente would be given more time to get the program turned around. Babcock said he spent four hours meeting

8:48 PM ET Lane Kiffin has long credited Nick Saban for helping to re-energize Kiffin’s head coaching career, but that doesn’t mean Kiffin is opposed to poking fun at his old boss. In fact, Kiffin jokingly went into full Saban mode on Monday at his news conference when asked if he was a candidate for

8:44 PM ET Vanderbilt has hired Notre Dame defensive coordinator Clark Lea as its new head football coach, the school announced Monday night. Lea, a Nashville native who finished his college career as a fullback at Vanderbilt, will be introduced next week. He will continue working with No. 2 Notre Dame, which faces No. 3

11:00 AM ET There were a number of reasons Gus Malzahn was fired by Auburn on Sunday after eight up-and-down seasons, but none were as ironic or as frustrating as the regression of the offense. The struggle there represented the crumbling of the foundation of the program and the core of who Malzahn was as

12:51 AM ET Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips has emerged as the leading candidate to become the next ACC commissioner, sources told ESPN on Sunday night. Phillips, who has led Northwestern’s athletic department since April 2008, is expected to replace John Swofford, set to retire as ACC commissioner in June after 24 years leading the

6:47 PM ET Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said Sunday that he has “no doubt” his Tigers and Notre Dame are both among the four best teams in the country, shrugging off complaints by SEC commissioner Greg Sankey that the ACC was protecting its prized programs by giving them Dec. 12 off. On Saturday, Sankey was

2:30 PM ET Auburn fired head football coach Gus Malzahn, the school announced Sunday. The decision comes less than 24 hours after the Tigers finished the regular season with a 6-4 record after beating Mississippi State 24-10 on Saturday. “After evaluating the state of the Auburn football program, we’ve decided that it was time to

12:13 AM ET As college football limped toward the finish of its fraught 2020 regular season, it was fitting its final full-slate Saturday was saved by a guy throwing a shoe. And for a team with a leading Heisman Trophy contender in quarterback Kyle Trask, it was ironic the season’s biggest throw came from cornerback

5:33 PM ET Arizona fired coach Kevin Sumlin on Saturday, a day after the Wildcats‘ 70-7 loss to rival Arizona State. The Wildcats are 0-5 this season after dropping their final seven games in 2019. Sumlin finishes 9-20 (6-17 in Pac-12 play) in three seasons at the school. He had two years left on his

2:24 PM ET Oklahoma State‘s Chuba Hubbard, the leading rusher in the FBS in 2019, has opted out of the remainder of the season and is preparing for the 2021 NFL draft, Cowboys coach Mike Gundy announced Saturday. Hubbard, a junior from Alberta, Canada, won’t play in Saturday’s game at Baylor (3:30 p.m. ET/ESPN) or