NCAA Football

8:00 AM ET ESPN staff From navigating a tricky conference to a complete program overhaul, every new coach has challenges in college football. The hurdles new hires have to face in their maiden season can be seemingly endless in the ever-evolving sport but each job provides its own unique set of obstacles. Between the end

As fall camp begins across the country for college football teams, there are dozens of teams who will need to decide on a starting quarterback ahead of the start of the season in September. Here’s a quick look at 10 of the biggest QB competitions entering the 2021 season including a competition at Ohio State

7:45 PM ET ESPN staff The college football season will look plenty different in 2021. The college football power rankings? Not quite as much. Despite new quarterbacks at Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State, those three perennial powers find themselves in the top five. They are joined by Oklahoma and Georgia, which both return quarterbacks in

Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby and first-year Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff will meet Tuesday to discuss whether an alignment between the two conferences makes sense going forward, sources tell CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd. There are a number of options up for discussion between the two Power Five big-wigs ranging from a simple scheduling alliance to

LSU quarterback Myles Brennan suffered a left arm injury, putting his availability for the 2021 season in doubt, the Tigers announced Monday. Brennan, the program’s top passer from last season — despite playing in only three games — was competing for the starting job alongside sophomore Max Johnson.  “Myles Brennan suffered a severe injury that

Quinn Ewers, the top-ranked high school football player in America for the Class of 2022, is skipping his senior year to enroll early at Ohio State. His father, Curtis Ewers, informed Yahoo Sports of his son’s decision. Ewers’ move to college marks one of the first major reverberations – and unintended consequences – of the

7:05 AM ET When the 2021 NFL season opens, three starting quarterbacks will be former Oklahoma Sooners. Spencer Rattler is the odds-on favorite to win this year’s Heisman Trophy, which would make him the fifth Sooners quarterback to do so in the past 19 years. Lincoln Riley and his staff just got a commitment from

Watch list season continues. Another Oklahoma Sooner was recognized. Senior safety Pat Fields was named to the Wuerffel Trophy watch list earlier this week and was honored for his contributions not only on the field but off it. He is one of 93 players in the running for the Wuerffel Trophy entering 2021. The winner

12:50 PM ET ESPN staff [Editor’s note: The news that Texas and Oklahoma were planning to leave the conference — which became official on Friday — was a reminder that in college football, the past is never really the past. ESPN reporters Heather Dinich, Mark Schlabach and Dave Wilson show how the roots of this

The chances of the College Football Playoff growing to 12 teams in 2023, the first year officials have stated it could expand, appear to be diminishing. The combination of uncertainty in the environment and a building skepticism over the power being collected by ESPN and the SEC after recent realignment moves have prompted a more

USATSI The bureaucratic wheels of the NCAA are officially in motion toward a massive change in the governance of college sports as the NCAA’s Board of Governors announced Friday it will hold a “special constitutional convention in November” amid calls for a reduction in the NCAA’s role by its own president, Mark Emmert.  “As the

Getty Images Just nine days after word leaked that Texas and Oklahoma were in talks regarding a landscape-changing move from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference, the seismic shift is officially complete. Following Thursday’s unanimous vote by the SEC’s chancellors and presidents to invite the schools for membership starting in 2025, the Texas Board

6:54 AM ET College football’s transfer portal received a lot of attention from coaches building and adding to their rosters this offseason. It’s not the transfer market of old with players who might not make an immediate impact or any impact at all. Nowadays, more high-end athletes are entering the portal, some of whom are

USATSI The Big 12 is concerned that the American Athletic Conference (AAC) is actively attempting to assume all eight remaining league members once Texas and Oklahoma are formally accepted into the SEC, league sources tell CBS Sports. This comes as Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby told CBS Sports that ESPN is leading an attempt to

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9:00 AM ET The words “college football” and “stability” don’t go together all that well. Such is life when your livelihood is based on the whims of a pointy ball, eccentric boosters and a bunch of 18- to 22-year-old players. In this sport, drama is never far from the surface and a conference realignment earthquake

USATSI New Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff laid out a clear set of priorities for the conference Tuesday that emphasizes success in football and men’s basketball amid the shifting dynamics of college sports. Speaking before the league’s football Media Days event, Kliavkoff said the Pac-12 “will make all of our football-related decisions with the combined goals

2:15 PM ET How do you gauge your own success when you’re living in a division with a college football monolith? Penn State and Michigan both built themselves into top-10 level programs in the late stages of the 2010s, Indiana just fielded its best team in 30 years, and Michigan State isn’t that far removed