NCAA Football

USATSI Alabama has scheduled a future home-and-home series with Oklahoma State, adding to what is already an impressive and growing list of nonconference games over the next 10 years. A Tuesday announcement revealed the Crimson Tide will play the Cowboys during the 2028 and 2029 seasons. The first game of the series will take place

USATSi If you would have said 10 years ago that there are 15, 10 or even five transfer players who will have massive impacts in the SEC Championship Game race, you’d be called crazy. It simply didn’t happen.  This is a different era, though. The passing of the one-time transfer rule, relaxed transfer rules in

6:00 AM ET When splitting your conference into divisions, you can either let geography dictate the terms, or you can overthink. The ACC chose the latter when it broke into the Atlantic and Coastal divisions for football in 2005, presumably taking a stab at competitive balance (and, theoretically, annual Florida State–Miami title games). Competitive balance

The inevitability of the College Football Playoff expanding has been embraced around every corner of the sport. From the academic ivory towers to the athletic departments to the locker room, an evolution of some type has long been an expectation. The next three weeks offer a critical period in charting what the future of the

Getty Images One of the Pac-12’s best quarterbacks is looking for a new home as Colorado quarterback Sam Noyer, a second team All-Pac-12 selection from last season, has entered the transfer portal. Noyer, a 6-foot-4, 220-pound “super-senior” from Beaverton, Oregon, threw for 1,101 yards, six touchdowns and seven interceptions last season for the Buffaloes.  “From an

12:41 PM ET Nick Saban, who has led Alabama‘s football program to six national championships, has been rewarded with a contract extension that will take him through the Crimson Tide’s 2028 season. Saban is set to make $8.425 million this coming season, and his new deal will include annual increases in salary in addition to

Alabama has extended the contract of head coach Nick Saban through the 2028 football season. The new deal was announced by the university on Monday. It adds three seasons to his agreement, making it an eight-year contract in all. The updated contract extends through Feb. 28, 2029 — when Saban will be 77 years old.

9:09 PM ET Alabama secured its second ESPN 300 running back in the 2022 class on Sunday when Le’veon Moss committed to the Crimson Tide. Moss is the No. 49 ranked prospect overall and the No. 4 ranked recruit in the state of Louisiana. He’s a 6-foot, 190-pound back from Istrouma High in Baton Rouge,

Reuters Boxing-‘Weight don’t win fights’ says Mayweather as prepares to face Paul The “ceremonial” weigh-in on Saturday produced no surprises with the 6 feet, 2 inches (1.88 m) Paul always going to have an advantage on the scales coming in at 189.5 lbs with the 5-foot, 8-inch (1.73 m) Mayweather checking in at 155 lbs.

Northwestern hired NCAA executive Derrick Gragg as its athletic director Friday, the school’s second time filling the position in a little more than a month. Mike Polisky, a longtime deputy AD at Northwestern, was promoted to the job May 3 but stepped down amid backlash because he was named in a sexual harassment lawsuit against

USATSI The Pac-12 takes a beating nationally at times for its lack of recent football success, but the conference is at the top of the heap among its Power Five peers in at least one category entering the 2021 season: parity. No other league has more competition at the top in its preseason title odds

5:18 PM ET Associated Press HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Marshall athletic director Mike Hamrick is stepping down at the end of the month to take on a new role at the school. Hamrick will become special assistant to university president Jerome Gilbert for one year, the school said Friday. Hamrick was hired in 2009 and became

11:40 AM ET Associated Press Northwestern hired NCAA executive Derrick Gragg as its athletic director Friday, the Big Ten school’s second time filling the position in a little more than a month. Mike Polisky, a longtime deputy AD at Northwestern, was promoted to the job May 3 but stepped down amid backlash because he was

Joe Robbins, Getty Six football coaches at Canton McKinley High School in Ohio have been fired for allegedly forcing a player to eat pork — which goes against his religious beliefs — as punishment for missing a voluntary workout. According to a report fromThe Repository, the Canton City school board unanimously voted Thursday to not renew

USATSI College football is right around the corner, which means it’s time for the sportsbooks to unleash conference title odds to the masses. The ACC has been extremely predictable over the last six seasons with Clemson claiming the crown in every season since 2014. Not surprisingly, the Tigers are once again the favorites to win

The transfer portal opened up again for Mel Tucker, this time on his staff. Michigan State football made the hiring of new director of player personnel Saeed Khalif official Friday. Tucker pried away Khalif from Wisconsin to replace Scott Aligo, who left the Spartans for a similar position at his alma mater Kansas. “Saeed is

Getty Images The NCAA announced in April that it will now allow undergraduate student-athletes across all sports to transfer one time without having to sit out a year-in-residence, as had previously been the rule for revenue sports. Despite that, individual conferences were still bound to their existing rules that prevented players from playing immediately in

5:53 AM ET We generally talk about football players and positions in the simplest way possible. You’re a rushing quarterback (or maybe a “dual-threat”) or a pocket passer, a between-the-tackles runner or an all-purpose back, a wideout or a slot receiver, etc. Some of the most fun players in the sport, however, blur the lines,