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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

8:00 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN High school freshman Julian Lewis has already made a Georgia state title game as a starting quarterback, has Ohio State, USC and Georgia among his 35 scholarship offers and has gone viral by wowing NFL stars with his skills. The 15-year-old profiles as the precocious prodigy in nearly every way,

12:11 PM ET The state of Florida updated its NIL legislation on Thursday, pulling back on restrictions while allowing universities to provide additional entrepreneurial workshops to their players. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 7B: Intercollegiate Athlete Compensation and Rights into law with Florida State football coach Mike Norvell, Florida football coach Billy Napier and

Feb 15, 2023 A jury in Indianapolis decided Wednesday that the NCAA is not responsible for the death of a former star college quarterback whose widow was suing the association for negligence. Cullen Finnerty won three Division II national championships as the starting quarterback for Grand Valley State in the early 2000s. He died in

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff Spring practice is only a few weeks away for most college football teams, so what better time than now to spring hope for teams across the country. Using Mark Schlabach’s Way-Too-Early Top 25, we look at 25 possible paths to the 2024 College Football Playoff. For teams like Georgia and

Feb 15, 2023 Notre Dame is expected to promote tight ends coach Gerad Parker to offensive coordinator, sources confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday, ending a roller-coaster search that initially targeted outside candidates to replace Tommy Rees, who was hired as Alabama‘s offensive coordinator. After talks with Kansas State offensive coordinator Collin Klein and Utah offensive

11:53 PM ET Former NFL coach Ken Whisenhunt has joined Alabama‘s football staff as the special assistant to head coach Nick Saban. Whisenhunt’s name appeared in Alabama’s staff directory Wednesday night. He spent the past two seasons as an offensive analyst at Penn State. The former Arizona Cardinals and Tennessee Titans head coach last held

7:00 AM ET The college football offseason is painfully long, and over the course of the 7½ months between the national title game and Week 0, we can talk ourselves into quite a bit. The first time a potential Alabama starting quarterback throws an interception in spring ball, we’ll convince ourselves that Nick Saban’s Crimson

7:00 AM ET It’s official: The 2022 NFL season is over, and the offseason is here. And that means we’re getting closer and closer to the 2023 NFL draft. The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday night in Super Bowl LVII to clinch their second championship in four years. Will another team

12:08 PM ET Houston‘s Shannon Dawson is set to be named Miami‘s offensive coordinator, sources confirmed to ESPN, completing coach Mario Cristobal’s coordinator hires. Last week, the Hurricanes hired Lance Guidry to be their defensive coordinator after Kevin Steele left for Alabama. Dawson has spent the past four seasons at Houston under Dana Holgorsen and

7:00 AM ET The offseason is over! SP+ is here! With the 2023 recruiting class — both traditional signings and transfers — in the books for now, and with a reasonable feel for who’s returning and who isn’t, we can take our first step toward the 2023 college football season with the initial SP+ projections.

6:30 AM ET The NCAA returns to a federal courtroom Wednesday to continue its fight against one of the many current challenges to its amateurism-based business model. If this slow march toward something more akin to professional sports is starting to feel to you like the equivalent of an 18-play, 14-minute drive engineered by a

10:33 PM ET Utah offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig, who interviewed for the same position at Notre Dame, has informed the Irish that he’s staying with the Utes, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Monday night. Sources said that Ludwig’s buyout — of at least $2 million, the exact number depending on how the buyout impact

6:08 PM ET Associated Press Michigan fired football co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss in January after he failed to attend a meeting to discuss whether he had gained access to computer accounts belonging to other people, according to documents released by the school. An athletic department official told Weiss that the university had evidence that he

7:00 AM ET The 2022 head-coaching carousel went mostly as expected, at least with outright firings. Four coaches entered the college football season on the hottest seats — Nebraska’s Scott Frost, Auburn’s Bryan Harsin, Arizona State’s Herm Edwards and Georgia Tech’s Geoff Collins — and all four lost their jobs by November. There were other

Feb 10, 2023 At 89, Willie Nelson is already entrenched as an American music icon. Just last week, he was revealed as a nominee for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, before winning his 11th Grammy this past Sunday for “Live Forever,” his tribute album to his good friend, the late singer-songwriter Billy Joe

5:32 PM ET Utah offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Andy Ludwig is the leading candidate for the same position at Notre Dame, a source told ESPN on Friday. Ludwig arrived on campus Friday afternoon as part of a weeklong nationwide search to replace former coordinator Tommy Rees, who was hired at Alabama. Ludwig, who spent

Feb 10, 2023 With Oklahoma and Texas now scheduled to leave the Big 12 and join the SEC in 2024, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey told ESPN on Friday he’s looking forward to seeing some rivalries renewed, but also acknowledged that building the schedule for a 16-team conference needs to be done over the next three