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7:00 AM ET NORMAN, Okla. — Karen Walker, her husband, Josh, and their 7-year-old son, Cannon, arrived at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium ready to celebrate on Saturday. It had been 151 days since Lincoln Riley shocked Oklahoma football fans by announcing he was leaving for USC. Karen marked the occasion by wearing an “IT

11:53 AM ET Blake Baumgartner Texas landed a pair of recruits following their spring game Saturday, as wide receiver Ryan Niblett and running back Tre Wisner both pledged to join coach Steve Sarkisian’s program. Niblett is ranked No. 96 in the ESPN 300 for the 2023 class. The 5-foot-10, 170-pound wide receiver out of Eisenhower

8:56 PM ET NORMAN, Okla. — After a tumultuous offseason for both Oklahoma and favorite son Baker Mayfield, the Sooners faithful showed up to welcome new coach Brent Venables and see the unveiling of Mayfield’s statue in OU’s Heisman Park. An announced record crowd of 75,360 — more than 20,000 more than the previous spring-game

7:12 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN The Lincoln Riley era at USC began with a record. Saturday’s spring game saw 33,427 fans assembled at the Los Angeles Coliseum to watch Riley and Co. reinject the program with some much-needed energy. It’s the biggest crowd for a Trojans spring game since the 1990s, when the school started

5:34 PM ET BATON ROUGE, La. — New LSU coach Brian Kelly said he was pleased with the way his team progressed during the spring, talking up the toughness of the running backs and the skill of the receivers. But at the most important position — quarterback — a three-man race is far from finished.

6:51 PM ET NC State athletic director Boo Corrigan has received a one-year contract extension that takes him through 2027, the school announced on Friday. The new agreement includes increased compensation to slightly more than $1.2 million annually and a potential bonus of $300,000, according to a school spokesman. “Under Boo’s leadership, NC State Athletics

5:16 PM ET Rutgers athletic director Pat Hobbs has received a contract extension through June 2028. Hobbs, who has led Rutgers athletics for the past seven years, previously received a contract extension in 2017. His new agreement, approved Friday by Rutgers’ board, increases the cap on Hobbs’ potential bonus payments from $100,000 to $200,000. The

9:13 AM ET Blake Baumgartner In an effort to clarify things regarding injuries, the NCAA playing rules oversight panel approved three measures Wednesday that will take effect in 2022. Targeting, faking injuries and blocking below the waist were at the center of the rule changes. Previously, anyone ejected for targeting during the second half of

7:13 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN BATON ROUGE, La. — There’s a black Model X Tesla with falcon doors parked in the head coach’s spot outside the LSU football facility. Walk into Brian Kelly’s new office and there’s an electric purple carpet that assaults the senses. Throw Kelly’s name into a search engine and the critiques

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The last big batch of college football spring games for 2022 will give us our first look at the seismic shifts wrought by the coaching carousel this offseason. Lincoln Riley at USC, Brian Kelly at LSU, Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame — not to mention Dan Lanning at Oregon and

10:41 AM ET One week before the NFL draft, two pass-rushers have distanced themselves from other prospects and emerged as the betting favorites to be the No. 1 overall pick at U.S. sportsbooks: Michigan’s Aidan Hutchinson and Georgia’s Travon Walker. Hutchinson has been the consensus favorite for the past two months and is currently listed

7:00 AM ET For most college football teams across the FBS, spring practice is either over or will be winding down during the next couple of weeks. But the transfer portal, into which more than 3,600 FBS players have entered this year already, never stops churning. Coaches around the country will look to address weaknesses

7:01 PM ET Associated Press Bob Babich, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame who played linebacker in the NFL for the Chargers and Browns, has died. He was 74. Babich died April 3 at his home in Clairemont, California. His death was reported by the National Football Foundation on Wednesday. A native

7:37 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Nevada is in the market for a new athletic director. Athletic director Doug Knuth is out at the Mountain West Conference school, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The university was expected to make the change official later in the day. Knuth has been at Nevada since 2013, and his hires

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The transfer portal has turned college football rosters inside out, with more than 2,000 FBS players entering the portal in 2021 and 2022 and allowing them a second (or third) chance to find the best fit for their playing and academic careers. The reasons for switching schools and reentering the

8:31 PM ET Former Alabama wide receiver Agiye Hall announced Tuesday that he has committed to Texas. The No. 3-ranked receiver in the 2021 class, Hall was one of the stars of last year’s spring game and appeared destined to make an instant impact as a freshman. But he never did break through the logjam

8:13 PM ET Notre Dame added its sixth ESPN 300 prospect to the 2023 class on Tuesday, when wide receiver Braylon James announced his commitment to the Irish. James is a 6-foot-2 and 175-pound prospect from Del Valle High School in Del Valle, Texas and is ranked No. 46 overall. He chose Notre Dame over

7:00 AM ET “Game’s gone.” It’s a thing that soccer fans say anytime their sport lurches even more toward the service of money (not an infrequent occurrence) or, alternately, in reaction to the way some of the sport’s physicality has been tamped down more than old-schoolers would prefer. While fans of both American and European