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5:11 PM ET Marvin Wilson needed to find his position coach. Urgently. Odell Haggins sat in a defensive line meeting room, preparing for Florida State’s bowl game last December, when Wilson walked in. “I need to see you after this meeting, coach,” Wilson said. Haggins finished up and left the meeting early to find Wilson,

1:45 PM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren had a telephone call with President Donald

8:30 AM ET For obvious reasons, the thought of a fall college football season coming off without a hitch is a tenuous one. The number of coronavirus cases on campus is spiking with the return of (non-athlete) students, and practices throughout the country have been altered or stopped altogether because of it. We won’t completely

7:00 AM ET Every year, we here in the college football corner of ESPN.com calculate, compile and construct our college football player rankings. But this isn’t every year, is it? It’s 2020. So, as we were nearing completion of this fall’s rankings, suddenly half of those players disappeared. It made no sense. And it was

7:41 PM ET Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama coach Nick Saban led dozens of his football players and other athletes on a march to protest social injustice and recent incidents of police brutality against Black men and women. The group marched the short distance Monday on the school’s campus from the Mal M. Moore

5:37 PM ET Big Ten presidents and chancellors voted 11-3 to postpone the fall football season, the league confirmed Monday in a brief and two affidavits filed in response to a lawsuit from eight Nebraska players. The Big Ten’s brief targets “three incorrect and unsupportable assertions” in the players’ lawsuit, which focused on the vote

7:40 PM ET Memphis Tigers running back Kenneth Gainwell, one of the top all-purpose offensive players in college football, has decided to opt out for this season, sources at Memphis confirmed to ESPN. Gainwell, who would have been a redshirt sophomore, rushed for 1,459 yards last season and also had 610 receiving yards. He scored

9:51 PM ET Auburn, which cancelled multiple practices last week, will be without 16 players due to COVID-19 concerns when it resumes practice on Tuesday. Coach Gus Malzahn told reporters on Sunday night that the team currently has nine players who have tested positive for the coronavirus and seven others who are considered high risk.

9:00 AM ET MONTGOMERY, Ala. — College football in America returned at 8:07 p.m. local time on Saturday in Alabama and immediately went off the rails. After a nothing-to-see-here touchback to start the game, Austin Peay running back CJ Evans Jr. cradled an option pitch near the 20-yard line, split two would-be tacklers, raced down

1:15 AM ET Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Lujuan Winningham caught a 10-yard touchdown pass from Breylin Smith with 34 seconds left to lift Central Arkansas to a 24-17 victory over Austin Peay on Saturday night in college football’s first game of the COVID-19 pandemic. Austin Peay took the lead on quarterback Jeremiah Oatsvall‘s 1-yard

5:51 PM ET Alabama coach Nick Saban said he supports the march on campus that players have planned for Monday afternoon. “The players have made these choices and decisions about what they want to do, how they want to be heard, and we want to support them because we do support what they want to

1:35 PM ET A week after pausing all activities because of positive coronavirus cases, NC State will resume football practice Monday, athletics director Boo Corrigan said Saturday on social media. Last Monday, the entire athletic department temporarily paused after 27 positive cases were identified. NC State did not specify how many programs were directly affected.

8:00 AM ET Back in May, Clemson linebacker Mike Jones Jr. knew he had to do something after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police. After calling his grandfather, James, who recalled how he marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. decades ago, Jones had his answer. “After talking with him, I was just like,

11:56 AM ET Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia The Big Ten is discussing Thanksgiving weekend as one of several options

9:00 AM ET Football is back on ESPN this weekend, and it’s not just college football being played. The high school prospects are also going to be in the spotlight in the ESPN Geico High School Football Kickoff. It starts with two games Friday, including St. Paul’s (Alabama) taking on Spanish Fort (Alabama), followed by

5:48 PM ET Clemson will have a reduced seating capacity of 19,000 fans this season and require face coverings unless eating or drinking, the school said Thursday. Game-day traditions, including the pregame Tiger Walk and postgame Gathering at the Paw, will not take place this season. Fans are also being asked not to tailgate. The

4:01 PM ET Associated Press Notre Dame announced it will play South Florida on Sept. 19 as its lone nonconference game of the football season. The Fighting Irish will play as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference this season, a move made in response to the coronavirus pandemic altering schedules of the Power Five

9:56 AM ET Georgia receiver Dominick Blaylock, one of the team’s top wideouts last season, suffered a torn ACL in his left knee in practice this week and will miss the upcoming season, sources confirmed to ESPN. Blaylock, a sophomore from Marietta, Georgia, suffered the same injury to the same knee in the first quarter