NCAA Football

8:00 AM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — In Gary Patterson’s 21 years as head coach of TCU, his job has taken him to the biggest of stages, such as his 2011 Rose Bowl victory, when his little Mountain West-era Horned Frogs beat an undefeated Wisconsin team to make college football history. Patterson is a Hall

I’m really not sure what to say about this, but Ryan Day didn’t make Pro Football Focus’ list of top twenty college football coaches heading into 2021. If you read all nuts and bolts of what coaches Seth Galena puts on the list, it appears he puts more stock in the “opportunity to win games”

Getty Images Wide receiver is a huge concern for Auburn in Bryan Harsin’s first year at the helm, but the former Boise State coach got great news on Thursday in the form of Demetris Robertson. The former Georgia and California wide receiver announced in a Twitter post that he will spend his “super senior” year of eligibility

9:00 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 The

After Micah Riley-Ducker’s announcement to commit to Auburn, fortunes on the recruiting trail are starting to pivot in the right direction for Bryan Harsin’s program. The Tigers landed a commitment from Riley-Ducker, a coveted 3-star tight end from the midwest Wednesday night. The Bellevue, Nebraska native was being pursued by multiple regional schools, including Illinois,

USATSI If you wondered how long it would take for a college athletics booster to offer a six-figure name, image and likeness deal to an entire football team, the answer is officially “less than a week”. That figure is actually $540,000, and it’s coming courtesy of a South Florida businessman with the recipients being the

8:00 AM ET The Oregon-Washington rivalry doesn’t garner as much national attention as Michigan-Ohio State, Alabama-Auburn or Oklahoma-Texas, but the roots of hostility run just as deep. The bordering schools don’t like one another, and their series has featured plenty of flashpoints, as well as success on both sides. Since 1990, Washington and Oregon have

The name, image and likeness era of college athletics is not even a week old, and we’ve already seen some significant deals struck. One that emerged out of the University of Miami on Tuesday falls into that category, especially for its unique — and lucrative — structure. American Top Team, a South Florida-based MMA training

8:00 AM ET Back in 2019, I wrote a piece comparing some of soccer’s biggest leagues to American sports equivalents. The German Bundlesiga, with its wide-open offenses and high possession numbers, had an easy comp: college football’s Big 12 Conference. Granted, defensive play rose considerably in 2020 in the Big 12, but I’ll add one

Michigan football just added a pass-rusher to its 2022 recruiting class. Mario Eugenio, a four-star recruit according to the 247Sports Composite rankings, committed to the Wolverines on Monday night. Eugenio is the second recruit to join U-M’s 2022 class in the past 24 hours along with tight end Colston Loveland, who committed to the Wolverines

CBS Sports Graphic Last month, college football experts from CBS Sports and 247Sports participated in the voting process that powers our annual CBS Sports coach rankings. Those rankings, which take every Power Five coach and stacks them up from Nos. 1-65, give a glimpse not only into the hierarchy of coaches at the top of

247Sports The top player on the board in 2021 finally has a home. J.T. Tuimoloau, a five-star defensive lineman from Eastside Catholic in Sammamish, Washington, announced his commitment to Ohio State live Sunday on CBS Sports HQ. One of the few remaining uncommitted prospects in the 2021 class, Tuimoloau is ranked No. 1 overall by

8:45 AM ET College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock has made it clear — repeatedly — that the playoff isn’t changing this season or next, which means it’s still an exclusive club reserved for four. While the usual suspects remain at the top heading into this fall, the field of contenders runs deeper than

12:24 AM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Terry Donahue, the winningest coach in Pac-12 Conference and UCLA football history who later served as general manager of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers, died Sunday. He was 77. The school said he died at his home in Newport Beach after a two-year struggle with cancer. Donahue

The Oklahoma Sooners are having quite the 4th of July on the recruiting front. Over a two-day period, Lincoln Riley landed three commits with Jacob Sexton, Robert Spears-Jennings, and Xavion Brice. They weren’t done as four-star defensive lineman out of Maryland, Derrick Moore also committed to play for the Sooners. Moore was down to three

3:45 PM ET TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — McKenzie Milton and five Florida State teammates walked into Miller’s Ale House, sat at a long table, ordered some food and eagerly greeted the first fan to come up to them during their first paid event of the name, image and likeness era. During the hour-and-a-half long session, they

After months of anticipation, J.T. Tuimoloau’s recruitment is now less than 24 hours away from wrapping up. 247Sports announced Saturday that Tuimoloau, the wire-to-wire No. 1 recruit in the class of 2021, will announce his commitment exclusively with CBSSports HQ on Sunday, July 4 at 4 p.m. ET and 1 p.m. PT. Tuimoloau is slated

Brian Dohn/247Sports Penn State’s holiday weekend got off to a terrific start Saturday when three-star linebacker Keon Wylie announced his commitment to Penn State on CBSSports HQ. Wylie, a 6-2, 210-pound linebacker from Imhotep Institute in Philadelphia, chose his home-state school over Pitt and Kentucky. He had taken official visits to all three schools over