7:00 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN MOBILE, Ala. — Former Army star Andre Carter II enters the NFL combine this week as a unicorn draft prospect. He’s poised to become the first Army player drafted higher than the seventh round in more than a half-century. Carter is a 6-foot-6, 255-pound rush end who led the nation
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5:04 PM ET Florida State athletic director Michael Alford told his board of trustees on Friday that “something has to change” when it comes to closing the growing revenue gap with other conferences — a sign that one of the biggest brands in the ACC is unhappy with the current structure. In a phone interview
8:00 AM ET Two levels of heat surround college football assistant coaches: The bad kind, for those facing pressure to keep their jobs; and the good kind, for those improving their chances of becoming head coaches. Every college football season produces a new group of hot assistants, who find themselves on the radar of athletic
8:00 AM ET Over the course of the 1970s and 1980s, the NCAA’s biggest schools spent years wrangling and arguing, primarily over television revenue, how much of it the more football-obsessed schools could make, and whether said schools could break apart from the riff-raff to some degree. Time is a flat circle in that regard.
1:24 PM ET Michigan star running back Blake Corum will miss spring practice, which began this week, but is on track to return at full strength in June, coach Jim Harbaugh said Thursday. Corum was a Heisman Trophy contender before injuring his left knee Nov. 19 against Illinois. He played briefly the following week against
8:00 AM ET ESPN staff Though we’re still quite a ways from the start of the 2023 college football season, we’re thinking about what will be stake for certain teams, players and coaches. Can Texas A&M contend for a spot in the playoff like it did just a couple of years ago? Can DJ Uiagalelei
11:59 PM ET Georgia All-SEC linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson was arrested Wednesday on misdemeanor charges of racing on highway/streets and reckless driving, according to Athens-Clarke County jail booking records. Sources confirmed multiple reports to ESPN that an incident involving Dumas-Johnson occurred on Jan. 10, the day after Georgia’s 65-7 victory over TCU in the College Football
Feb 22, 2023 ESPN News Services NEW ORLEANS — LSU wide receiver Malik Nabers won’t face a misdemeanor charge following his arrest in New Orleans on a count of carrying an illegal weapon, court records indicate. Nabers, 19, of Youngsville, was arrested Monday night on Bourbon Street on one count of illegal carrying of a
12:22 PM ET Florida co-defensive coordinator Patrick Toney is leaving for the Arizona Cardinals after just one season and being replaced by recently hired Alabama assistant Austin Armstrong, sources told ESPN. Toney, who called the Gators’ defensive plays last season, accepted a defensive secondary coaching position with the Cardinals. Toney, 32, came to Florida with
7:00 AM ET More than a month after finishing the season with back-to-back losses, including a convincing home loss to rival Michigan and a 42-41 loss to eventual national champion Georgia in the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl, Ohio State coach Ryan Day conceded both games still sting. “You’re talking about one or two plays, one or
4:25 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN LSU wide receiver Malik Nabers was arrested on Bourbon Street on Monday on a misdemeanor charge of illegal carrying of a weapon, according to Orleans Parish Magistrate court documents. Court documents show Nabers was released and not required to post bail. An LSU spokesperson told ESPN that coach Brian Kelly
3:53 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Authorities in Las Vegas are investigating the death of a 20-year-old UNLV football player from Chicago who was found unresponsive in bed in a studio apartment, officials said Tuesday. The Clark County coroner said the cause and manner of Rebels defensive lineman Ryan Keeler‘s death were pending
7:30 AM ET The 2022 college football season was plenty of things. It was the year of the burgeoning Georgia dynasty. It was the year of great playoff semifinals. Most of all, though, it was the year of the transfer. Thanks to the NCAA’s long-time-coming decision to allow first-time transfers to change schools without sitting
12:20 AM ET UNLV football player Ryan Keeler died Monday in Las Vegas, the school announced. Keeler, a 20-year-old defensive lineman from Chicago, spent last season with UNLV after starting his college career at Rutgers. UNLV did not provide a cause of death. “While I had the honor of knowing Ryan for only a couple
8:15 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN The looming changes to the structure of college football simultaneously highlight the strength of the SEC and Big Ten while exposing the fluidity of the rest of the major-conference landscape. With the Big Ten and SEC preparing to start 16-program versions in 2024 and the 12-team playoff looming the same
4:48 PM ET NC State football coach Dave Doeren received a one-year contract extension through the 2027 season, the school announced Friday. Financial terms remain the same; Doeren is scheduled to make $5 million annually. “We are very proud of the standard and culture that Dave has established for our football program,” athletic director Boo
3:58 PM ET BOULDER, Colo. — Deion Sanders strived for greatness throughout a Hall of Fame playing career, and he has set similar goals as coach of the Colorado Buffaloes, despite the team’s 1-11 season in 2022. Sanders told ESPN on Friday that he doesn’t cater his message to the team he inherited. Instead, he
1:53 PM ET Longtime NFL special teams coordinator and former Central Michigan head coach John Bonamego told ESPN on Friday he is retiring from coaching. Bonamego, 59, spent 19 years as a special teams assistant or coordinator in the NFL and another 16 as a college coach, including a four-year stint as the head coach