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7:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Lincoln Riley’s meteoric rise has been a bit surreal, even for Riley himself. Not even 10 years ago, he was living in Greenville, North Carolina, and working as East Carolina‘s offensive coordinator. Fast forward to now, and the 38-year-old Riley makes his home in Hollywood (Palos Verdes, to be

7:08 PM ET Notre Dame and Michigan have had a rivalry for years on the field and now the Irish can claim a unique recruiting win against the Wolverines as 2024 quarterback C.J. Carr announced his commitment to them Thursday. Carr is the grandson of former Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr and the son of

7:15 AM ET Jordan ReidESPN Need a quarterback? Look no further than the 2023 NFL draft class. After we saw just one first-round passer — and no other QBs taken before pick No. 74 — in 2022, next year’s class promises to have more talent at the position. Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud and Alabama’s Bryce

10:23 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN One of the most prominent members of USC’s athletic department is leaving for the NFL. Brandon Sosna, USC’s chief of staff for athletics who oversees the football program, is taking a job with the Detroit Lions, sources told ESPN. Sosna began informing co-workers of his decision earlier this week, sources

8:00 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN NORMAN, Okla. — Perhaps no image better encapsulates the eye-popping intensity of Brent Venables than the pictures of Clemson’s get back coach struggling to tug the school’s longtime defensive coordinator back to the sideline. It’s fitting that in his first season as a head coach at Oklahoma, Venables’ go-to “Good

8:00 AM ET Many elite college football programs have been taken down by either key assistant coaching changes, a failure to keep up with the times, or both. In 2022, Dabo Swinney’s Clemson Tigers, the ruling power of the ACC Atlantic for more than a half-decade, has to fend off both. Swinney must replace longtime

10:57 AM ET Tim Tebow, Alex Smith and Ryan Leaf highlight the first-time candidates on the ballot for the College Football Hall of Fame, it was announced Monday. In all, there are 80 players and nine coaches from FBS, and 96 players and 33 coaches from the divisional ranks. The ballot was emailed Monday to

9:00 AM ET We have started to see some of the quarterback dominoes fall in college football’s 2023 recruiting class, with ESPN 300 quarterback Malachi Nelson already committed to USC, Nico Iamaleava committed to Tennessee and Eli Holstein flipping from Texas A&M to Alabama. With those prospects already committed, the uncommitted prospects have started to

1:12 PM ET Associated Press IRVING, Texas — The Big 12 Conference is distributing a record $426 million of revenue to its 10 schools for the 2021-22 school year, a nearly 25% increase over last year and 10% higher than its peak before the pandemic. Texas Tech president Lawrence Schovanec, chairman of the Big 12

10:14 AM ET Notre Dame’s storied fight song will now include recognition of the university’s female students. University president the Rev. John Jenkins announced Thursday night that the “Notre Dame Victory March” will change its lyrics to recognize the “daughters” of Notre Dame. The song, which has become synonymous with Fighting Irish football, included the

9:06 AM ET ESPN News Services Louisville’s athletic board has promoted Josh Heird to permanent athletic director after nearly six months leading the department on an interim basis. The University of Louisville Athletic Association’s board of directors and personnel committee approved Heird’s promotion in a special meeting Friday morning. He received a five-year contract through

6:47 PM ET Idaho State assistant football coach DaVonte’ Neal was arrested by police in Pocatello, Idaho, at the request of the Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff’s Office on a warrant that includes charges of first-degree murder, drive-by shooting and discharge of a firearm at a structure, according to Pocatello Police. The arrest occurred May 25

11:36 AM ET Arkansas football coach Sam Pittman, who last season guided the Razorbacks to their first Top 25 finish since 2011, has agreed to a new contract through 2026. The new agreement runs through December 2026, but it will be extended by a year if Arkansas wins seven or more games in any season

7:00 AM ET CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Over the past five years, every now and then, Mack Brown would ask Gene Chizik a version of the same question. “Are you ready to coach again?” Brown asked it four years ago, before he got back into coaching at North Carolina. At the time, Chizik told him

11:04 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN After running an extensive search for the school’s next athletic director, Louisville is turning to a familiar place. The school is expected to elevate interim athletic director Josh Heird to the full-time position, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. Heird’s appointment is not expected to become official until next week, as

3:20 PM ET DESTIN, Fla. — Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher said he and Alabama coach Nick Saban spoke before this week’s SEC spring meetings and set aside their differences after a public spat two weeks ago. “It’s over with,” Fisher said Wednesday. “We’re done talking about it. We’re moving on to try to fix

7:00 AM ET New college football coaches have a distinctively different way to rebuild rosters now, with the transfer portal’s emergence, than ever before. Combining the portal with traditional high school recruiting has afforded coaches more ability to bring in talent left by players who are off to the NFL, graduating or transferring out. Some

7:00 AM ET In December, Bryce Young won the Heisman Trophy. He’ll be back at Alabama this college football season with a good chance to win another. At the Rose Bowl, C.J. Stroud — playing without two future first-round NFL draft picks at receiver — threw for 573 yards and six touchdowns, setting himself up