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Jul 16, 2021 A busy month of June that saw many visits and commitments, coupled with updated ESPN 300 player rankings, has led to a shakeup of the top 25 of the recruiting class rankings for the 2022 cycle. Ohio State continues to lead the pack, but the top 10 has a much different look.

NCAA President Mark Emmert said Thursday the time is right to consider a decentralized and deregulated version of college sports, shifting power to conferences and campuses and reconsidering how schools are aligned. Emmert said the recent Supreme Court ruling against the NCAA along with the lifting of restrictions on athletes monetizing their fame should be

6:36 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 There

Getty Images American Tanner Tessmann of FC Dallas completed a transfer to Serie A side Venezia FC on Thursday, the clubs announced on Thursday. The 19-year-old midfielder, who signed a homegrown deal with FC Dallas before the 2020 season, has played in 26 games in MLS. He was called up to the U.S. national team

How many college football games will be canceled due to COVID-19 in 2021? After dozens of games were canceled in 2020, college athletics administrators don’t want to have to cancel games again in 2021. That group includes Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby. Bowlsby strongly encouraged vaccinations while at Big 12 football media days on Wednesday.

USATSI Nebraska is turning to Trev Alberts, a former Cornhuskers football star, to be the university’s next athletic director after he served in the same position at Nebraska-Omaha for the past 12 years. Alberts will succeed the retired Bill Moos, who served in the position for nearly four years. Alberts played as a linebacker at

8:00 AM ET Organizing the roughly 75 recruits visiting each day last month (primarily on unofficial visits), could have been overwhelming for Georgia Tech coaches. Each recruit needed a tour, face time with coaches and, maybe most importantly in the age of social media, to have their picture taken. But because of the work done

Ohio State football barely squeaked by the Indiana Hoosiers last year when it barely won 42-35. And yeah, the Hoosiers return the majority of their studs that burnt the Bucks last season. Indiana is a dark-horse favorite to win the Big Ten and Tom Allen has done an incredible job building that Hoosier program. If

Getty Images Five former Ohio State football players involved in the 2010 “Tattoogate” scandal have asked the NCAA for their records to be restored after they were removed as punishment following the NCAA’s investigation. A statement released on the Twitter account of ex-Buckeyes quarterback Terrelle Pryor requests that the NCAA reinstate the team’s 12-1 record

8:00 AM ET We inevitably overreact to what we see in bowl season. It is the last real thing we see from teams for about eight months, and it’s really easy to get sucked into believing that whatever we saw then is what we’ll see for months on end when the next season begins. They

Arizona State Sun Devils athletic director Ray Anderson is among the targets of a federal civil lawsuit. (Photo by Jevone Moore/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) A former athletic official at Arizona State University has filed a federal civil lawsuit against the school, athletic director Ray Anderson and the Arizona Board of Regents tied to the

In just five seasons, Iowa State coach Matt Campbell has taken the Cyclones football program to its historical apex. Now the question entering the 2021 season is whether he can take it a bit further.  When William Hill Sportsbook released its win totals in June for the upcoming season, Iowa State came in at 9.5

7:30 AM ET June was the first time college football prospects could take visits in nearly a year because of the recruiting dead period from COVID-19, and it was as hectic as coaches thought it would be. With prospects visiting each week, the majority of coaches are now taking vacations during the dead period in

8:59 PM ET Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — A former Kansas football player says the university offered him more than $50,000 in benefits if he left the program and stayed quiet about harassment he experienced from four other players on the team. Caperton Humphrey told The Kansas City Star that he received little help from

The LSU Tigers received some more positive recruiting news on Sunday afternoon. Malachi Nelson, a 2023 five-star quarterback, named the Tigers among the top seven schools for his recruitment. The Tigers were among one of the first schools to offer the talented gunslinger from Los Alamitos, California. During the 2021 recruiting cycle, the Tigers were

Getty Images The family of former Kansas football player Caperton Humphrey is considering legal action against former Kansas football coach Les Miles, former athletic director Jeff Long and the KU athletic department following a 2019 dispute between Humphrey and a group of teammates that led to his separation from the program, according to the Kansas

After rapidly transforming a small Baltimore private school into a national power, Biff Poggi is returning to Michigan football to become Jim Harbaugh’s right-hand man. Poggi, the head coach at Saint Frances Academy, told the Free Press on Saturday he will work with the Wolverines’ assistants in his new role which starts July 21. The

10:00 AM ET Editor’s Note: We recently discovered that our previous preseason release of the Football Power Index in April contained data and modeling errors. We have remedied the issues and are re-releasing FPI here ahead of the 2021 season. ESPN Analytics regrets the error. In five of the past six seasons, the top spot