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Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJun 7, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions The American Athletic Conference may have forever rebelled against the idea of a Group of 5, but it also spent most of the past decade ruling that universe. It nabbed seven of the

Associated Press Jun 6, 2024, 11:20 PM ET GRAMBLING, La. — Doug Porter, the longtime football coach at historically Black colleges who was the oldest living member of the College Football Hall of Fame, has died. He was 94. Porter died Wednesday. Miller Funeral Home said a funeral service is set for June 15 at

Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterJun 6, 2024, 05:49 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Open Extended Reactions Starting this season, the NCAA will allow commercial sponsor advertisements on football fields for regular-season games in all three divisions, the organization announced Thursday. The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel

Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterJun 6, 2024, 04:22 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Open Extended Reactions This year’s bowl season will begin on the second Saturday in December, a spot on the calendar typically reserved for the Army-Navy game, which for the first time will be

Associated Press Jun 5, 2024, 04:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff will kick off with a first-round game on Dec. 20 and conclude with the title game one month later in Atlanta, it was announced Wednesday. The four first-round CFP games will be Dec. 20 and

Eli Lederman Jun 5, 2024, 03:22 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Kirby Smart and Georgia secured their highest-ranked commitment in the class of 2025 on Wednesday afternoon when in-state linebacker Zayden Walker, the No. 15 overall prospect and No. 2 outside linebacker in the 2025 ESPN 300, picked the Bulldogs over Miami and South Carolina,

Harry Lyles Jr., ESPN Staff WriterJun 6, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The lasting image of West Virginia‘s 2023 season, which ended with a 30-10 Duke’s Mayo Bowl victory over North Carolina, is that of coach Neal Brown covered in celebratory mayonnaise. So, what happened to the clothes Brown wore that evening? “Threw

Eli Lederman Jun 4, 2024, 07:58 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Ohio State‘s loaded 2025 recruiting class gained another cornerstone Tuesday courtesy of an in-state commitment from … Bo Jackson. A four-star running back from Cleveland and the No. 136 recruit in the ESPN 300, Jackson announced his verbal pledge to Ryan Day & Co.,

Eli Lederman Jun 4, 2024, 06:37 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Alabama‘s future at the quarterback position became clearer Tuesday when dual-threat Keelon Russell, ESPN’s No. 81 recruit in the 2025 class and the No. 15 prospect from Texas, flipped from SMU and announced his commitment to the Crimson Tide. Russell’s commitment marks Alabama’s first

Associated Press Jun 4, 2024, 03:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M’s traditional bonfire, which tragically ended 25 years ago, will not return to campus for the renewal of the Aggies‘ annual football rivalry with Texas, school president Mark Welsh III announced Tuesday. A special committee had recommended bringing it

David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterJun 4, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions This is a strange year for quarterbacks in college football. In 2023, Caleb Williams and Drake Maye headlined our annual tiered rankings, which came as no surprise. One had

Jun 3, 2024, 11:15 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Nick Saban and Urban Meyer are up for election to the College Football Hall of Fame for the first time. The ballot for the Hall of Fame class to be announced in January was released by the National Football Foundation on Monday. It includes 77 players

Neil PaineJun 3, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Neil Paine writes about sports using data and analytics. Previously, he was Sports Editor at FiveThirtyEight. Open Extended Reactions The 2024 college football season will be all about big changes. Familiar programs are going to be in very different places. The Big Ten, for example, is welcoming

Jun 3, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ESPN has released its 2024 Football Power Index (FPI) ratings and projections, and our college football reporters are here to break them down. The ratings, for the uninitiated, include forecasts for every team’s record, its chances of winning a conference title and of course, its probability

Associated Press May 31, 2024, 07:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions IRVING, Texas — Big 12 schools will share in a record $470 million of revenue distribution, the conference announced Friday when wrapping up its first spring meetings as a 14-team league and before growing by two more teams. While the 10 full-share members will

Associated Press May 31, 2024, 03:40 PM ET CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players and wounded two other students, a lawyer representing some of the victims and their families said Friday. The school in Charlottesville will

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterMay 31, 2024, 01:54 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions Former Notre Dame starting quarterback Tyler Buchner, who joined the school’s lacrosse team this spring after playing football last fall at Alabama, will return to the Fighting Irish football team

Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterMay 31, 2024, 08:33 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions Let’s review. In 1996, Conference USA began sponsoring football with a lineup of Cincinnati, Houston, Louisville, Memphis, Southern Miss and Tulane. It added East Carolina in 1997, then Army in 1998 and UAB