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Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterJul 21, 2023, 07:00 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Courtesy Washington State University Athletics Ben Arbuckle isn’t the nervous type. He takes a straightforward approach to football and its outcomes. Either it’s going to work, or it won’t. Call the next play.

Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterJul 20, 2023, 07:55 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee players at SEC media days on Thursday weren’t shy about voicing their goal for the 2023 season, a year removed from the Vols winning 11 games

Associated Press Jul 20, 2023, 07:46 PM ET Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner Jim Phillips says he never “condoned or tolerated inappropriate conduct” against athletes as Northwestern’s athletic director in the wake of allegations of hazing at that school, which have led to at least three lawsuits and the firing of football coach Pat Fitzgerald. Phillips

Tom Luginbill, ESPN AnalystJul 20, 2023, 07:30 AM ET Close Senior National Recruiting Analyst for ESPN.com Coached in four professional football leagues Graduated from Eastern Kentucky and Marshall The 2024 college football recruits create excitement and optimism among fans, and a great tool to help introduce the future stars of Saturday is to compare them

Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Staff WriterJul 19, 2023, 07:53 PM ET Five-star athlete Mike Matthews committed to Tennessee on Wednesday. Matthews, a three-sport (football, basketball, track) and two-way star on the football field for Parkview High School (Georgia), adds to a burgeoning class for Josh Heupel and the Volunteers that ESPN has ranked 14th. The Volunteers

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterJul 19, 2023, 07:06 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Iowa defensive lineman Noah Shannon will not attend Big Ten media days next week because of his involvement in the NCAA investigation into sports gambling at the school. Senior linebacker Jay Higgins will

Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJul 19, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Over the past 20 years, three of its teams have combined to win 10 national titles. It has boasted one of the best dynasties the sport has ever seen (Bama) and almost no actual bad teams

Pete Thamel, ESPNJul 18, 2023, 10:35 PM ET San Diego State’s standing with the Mountain West has been crystallized. A source told ESPN on Tuesday night that the conference informed San Diego State that they’re a member in good standing. According to a source, this step in the recently complicated relationship between the Mountain West

Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJul 18, 2023, 07:30 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Florida won it for the first five years, then Tennessee and Florida split the next five. Georgia won three of four, then Florida did the same. Georgia won two of three, then Missouri came out of

Pete Thamel, ESPNJul 18, 2023, 08:00 AM ET NASHVILLE, Tenn. — If they issued Vegas odds on coaches most likely to dish a viral media day quote, Vanderbilt’s Clark Lea wouldn’t exactly be among the favorites. Lea is so defiantly pragmatic and generally thoughtful that his players have joked with him over the years that

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterJul 17, 2023, 06:52 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Northwestern freshman linebacker Nigel Glover entered the transfer portal Monday, the first Wildcats player to do so since the school fired coach Pat Fitzgerald on July 10. Glover, an Ohio native, was an

Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterJul 17, 2023, 06:26 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher told ESPN on Monday that his relinquishing play-calling duties to new offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino has been way overblown and that the transition

Chris Low Close Chris Low ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Alex Scarborough Close Alex Scarborough ESPN Staff Writer Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. Jul 17, 2023, 07:00 AM ET The SEC enters media days with its talk of

Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterJul 15, 2023, 05:44 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Tennessee’s football program must vacate all 11 wins from the 2019 and 2020 seasons under former coach Jeremy Pruitt as part of the penalties handed down by the NCAA stemming from

Chris Low Close Chris Low ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Pete Thamel Jul 14, 2023, 11:06 AM ET The Tennessee football program avoided a bowl ban but was fined more than $8 million by the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions, which announced its

Pete Thamel, ESPNJul 14, 2023, 04:48 PM ET Tennessee football coach Josh Heupel took the coaching job in Knoxville in January 2021 with the uncertainty of the severity of NCAA sanctions hanging over the program. Two and a half years later, he called it a “huge relief” for the punishment to not include a bowl

Pete Thamel, ESPNJul 13, 2023, 07:34 PM ET Northwestern defensive coordinator David Braun has been tabbed as the school’s interim head coach for the 2023 season, sources told ESPN. Braun will serve as the interim coach in the aftermath of the firing of coach Pat Fitzgerald amid allegations of hazing in the Northwestern program. Northwestern

Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Staff WriterJul 13, 2023, 12:22 PM ET Close ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan Michigan added its 13th ESPN 300 commit on Thursday, when edge rusher Jacob Smith committed to the Wolverines. Smith is the No. 97 prospect overall, a 6-foot-5, 235-pound recruit out of Connecticut. He