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2:16 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Boston College has targeted former Miami athletic director Blake James to be the school’s next AD, sources told ESPN. An announcement of the hire is expected in the coming days. James spent nearly 10 years as the athletic director at Miami before being dismissed in November as part of an

7:00 AM ET Change is the watchword in the Pac-12. The conference was the first to drop divisions as part of its championship game determination when allowed to do so this month. It changed commissioners last season, bringing in George Kliavkoff in 2021. Its two biggest current brands — USC and Oregon — changed coaches

8:45 AM ET Samantha Steen often imagines what her father might say if he could meet her three sons. She wonders what it would be like to meet him, too. Steen was only 13 months old when her father, Sgt. Rodney M. Davis of the U.S. Marine Corps, was killed in action in Vietnam on

7:07 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Wide receiver Jordan Addison on Saturday described his decision to transfer from Pittsburgh to USC as a personal “gut move.” Speaking for the first time since his decision to pick USC over Texas and Alabama, Addison, who was at Steve Clarkson’s quarterback retreat on Saturday, said

7:05 PM ET David M. Hale Close ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Tonya Simpson Close Tonya Simpson is an award-winning writer for ESPN. She is based in Raleigh, N.C. and can be reached at Tonya.M.Simpson@espn.com. CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. — Former Virginia Tech football player Isimemen Etute

8:00 AM ET College football commitments are expected to heat up (along with the temperature) over the next two months, with plenty of movement in the class rankings to follow. There has, in the meantime, been some significant activity on the recruiting trail leading up to the busy summer, resulting in key changes and new

4:23 PM ET Associated Press The Sugar Bowl has been moved off its usual primetime spot to noon EST Dec. 31 to avoid a conflict with a Monday night NFL game. The bowl schedule for the upcoming season was released Thursday. The games begin on Dec. 16 with the Bahamas Bowl and The Cure Bowl

2:28 PM ET Georgia is close to finalizing a long-term contract extension with football coach Kirby Smart that will make him among the highest-paid coaches in the FBS. Last season, Smart guided the Bulldogs to their first national title in 41 years with a 33-18 victory over Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship.

8:00 AM ET Craig Haubert Close ESPN Staff Writer National recruiting analyst and analyst for ESPNU More than a decade of college and pro coaching experience. Graduated from Indiana and Nebraska-Omaha Tom Luginbill Close ESPN Analyst Senior National Recruiting Analyst for ESPN.com Coached in four professional football leagues Graduated from Eastern Kentucky and Marshall With

11:53 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN Seattle Seahawks scouting executive Alonzo Highsmith has accepted a position at his alma mater, the University of Miami, a source confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. Highsmith will be the Hurricanes‘ general manager of football operations, as was first reported by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The Miami native returns to the

8:00 AM ET SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Every Tuesday this spring, Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman met with the team’s quarterbacks. Tuesdays with Marcus provided Freeman, a career defensive assistant, the chance to connect with those competing for the most important job on the field. “We just talk ball, we watch practice, I want

12:46 PM ET Blake Baumgartner As the Nick Saban-Jimbo Fisher saga continues, Saban struck a blow on Tuesday with Eli Holstein’s commitment to Alabama on Tuesday. Holstein, a 6-foot-3, 215-pound quarterback out of Zachary High School in Zachary, La., is No. 59 on the ESPN 300. Holstein originally committed to Fisher and Texas A&M in

10:03 PM ET ESPN News Services Former Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker won Georgia’s GOP Senate primary on Tuesday. Walker defeated five fellow Republicans: Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black, former Trump administration official and Navy veteran Latham Saddler, retired brigadier general Jon McColumn, contractor and Air Force veteran Kelvin King, and former state Rep. Josh

9:00 AM ET ESPN staff After 10 FBS games (plus Howard–Alabama State in the MEAC/SWAC Challenge) kick things off in Week 0, everyone will start getting in on the action when Week 1 kicks off exactly 100 days from now, on Sept. 1. The arrival of the 100-day mark to the beginning of the college

9:00 AM ET The college football world is changing in quite a few overdue ways. The NIL saga has been made as sloppy and dramatic as possible, in part because of a complete lack of regulation at the NCAA level, but it still represents a huge step forward for the rights of athletes. The expansion

12:13 AM ET Nebraska will suspend its tradition of releasing red balloons after the first touchdown of home games due to a global helium shortage, athletic director Trev Alberts announced on his radio show Monday. Alberts said Nebraska will not hand out red balloons before home games at Memorial Stadium this fall. The tradition of

4:14 PM ET PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas, a former Alabama star and big Crimson Tide football fan, couldn’t help but weigh in on the Nick Saban-Jimbo Fisher feud after winning a second Wanamaker Trophy on Sunday. Thomas, who rallied from a 7-shot deficit in the final round at Southern Hills Country Club to win

12:20 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN With all respect to the rapt attention that will be paid to the verbal donnybrook between Alabama’s Nick Saban and Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher, there are more pressing matters that will unfold when SEC officials meet in Destin, Fla., for their annual meetings next week. With the SEC poised to