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Eli Lederman Jun 4, 2024, 07:58 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Ohio State‘s loaded 2025 recruiting class gained another cornerstone Tuesday courtesy of an in-state commitment from … Bo Jackson. A four-star running back from Cleveland and the No. 136 recruit in the ESPN 300, Jackson announced his verbal pledge to Ryan Day & Co.,

Eli Lederman Jun 4, 2024, 06:37 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Alabama‘s future at the quarterback position became clearer Tuesday when dual-threat Keelon Russell, ESPN’s No. 81 recruit in the 2025 class and the No. 15 prospect from Texas, flipped from SMU and announced his commitment to the Crimson Tide. Russell’s commitment marks Alabama’s first

Associated Press Jun 4, 2024, 03:28 PM ET Open Extended Reactions COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M’s traditional bonfire, which tragically ended 25 years ago, will not return to campus for the renewal of the Aggies‘ annual football rivalry with Texas, school president Mark Welsh III announced Tuesday. A special committee had recommended bringing it

David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterJun 4, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions This is a strange year for quarterbacks in college football. In 2023, Caleb Williams and Drake Maye headlined our annual tiered rankings, which came as no surprise. One had

Jun 3, 2024, 11:15 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Nick Saban and Urban Meyer are up for election to the College Football Hall of Fame for the first time. The ballot for the Hall of Fame class to be announced in January was released by the National Football Foundation on Monday. It includes 77 players

Neil PaineJun 3, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Neil Paine writes about sports using data and analytics. Previously, he was Sports Editor at FiveThirtyEight. Open Extended Reactions The 2024 college football season will be all about big changes. Familiar programs are going to be in very different places. The Big Ten, for example, is welcoming

Jun 3, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ESPN has released its 2024 Football Power Index (FPI) ratings and projections, and our college football reporters are here to break them down. The ratings, for the uninitiated, include forecasts for every team’s record, its chances of winning a conference title and of course, its probability

Associated Press May 31, 2024, 07:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions IRVING, Texas — Big 12 schools will share in a record $470 million of revenue distribution, the conference announced Friday when wrapping up its first spring meetings as a 14-team league and before growing by two more teams. While the 10 full-share members will

Associated Press May 31, 2024, 03:40 PM ET CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players and wounded two other students, a lawyer representing some of the victims and their families said Friday. The school in Charlottesville will

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterMay 31, 2024, 01:54 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions Former Notre Dame starting quarterback Tyler Buchner, who joined the school’s lacrosse team this spring after playing football last fall at Alabama, will return to the Fighting Irish football team

Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterMay 31, 2024, 08:33 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions Let’s review. In 1996, Conference USA began sponsoring football with a lineup of Cincinnati, Houston, Louisville, Memphis, Southern Miss and Tulane. It added East Carolina in 1997, then Army in 1998 and UAB

Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterMay 30, 2024, 05:49 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Open Extended Reactions DESTIN, Fla. — As the SEC spring meetings concluded on Thursday, commissioner Greg Sankey acknowledged that while college athletics is in “uncharted waters,” he believes the NCAA Division I schools

Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterMay 30, 2024, 06:44 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Open Extended Reactions DESTIN, Fla. — ESPN on Thursday announced it will show approximately 1,000 college football games across all platforms this season starting in Week 0 of the regular season and concluding

Associated Press May 30, 2024, 04:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The NCAA and a coalition of states suing the organization announced a proposed settlement of a lawsuit Thursday that would allow athletes to be immediately eligible to play no matter how many times they transfer and would offer some who were

Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterMay 30, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Open Extended Reactions The 12-team College Football Playoff will be more inclusive and guarantee the country’s top conference champions have a chance to compete for the national title. You’re going to love it.

Paula Lavigne, ESPN Investigative ReporterMay 29, 2024, 11:25 PM ET Close Data analyst and reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit. Winner, 2014 Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award; finalist, 2012 IRE broadcast award; winner, 2011 Gannett Foundation Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism; Emmy nominated, 2009. Open Extended Reactions A jury Wednesday found in

Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterMay 29, 2024, 07:41 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Open Extended Reactions DESTIN, Fla. — Texas won’t face Arkansas and Texas A&M until November, but the excitement surrounding the return of the storied rivalries was already creating chatter this week at the

Pete Thamel, ESPNMay 29, 2024, 03:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Kansas athletic director Travis Goff has agreed to a new seven-year contract through 2031, sources told ESPN. The move includes a significant pay raise and is indicative of the work Goff has done to revive Kansas football to relevancy. From 1996 through 2022, KU