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Wisconsin may be just days away from receiving their second commitment in the class of 2022. Three-star defensive tackle Curtis Neal, one of their top targets in the class, tweeted today that he will announce his commitment on June 27. The Badgers recently received a crystal ball prediction to land the defensive lineman, though he

7:00 AM ET You could make the case that the seeds of the modern football passing game, college and pro, were planted around 50 years ago. Bill Walsh was tweaking the Cincinnati Bengals‘ offense and crafting what would become the West Coast offense. Don Coryell took what would be known as his Air Coryell offense

11:21 AM ET As the College Football Playoff starts to consider a 12-team playoff, Georgia coach Kirby Smart says he believes college football is on track for its biggest change ever. “Most changes have been relatively small,” Smart told ESPN’s Marty & McGee on Saturday. “With the potential of what’s been proposed … [it’s] probably

Getty Images The College Football Playoff announced Thursday a proposed expansion of the size of its field from four teams to 12. There are a few surprising elements of the proposed new structure and the number of teams is only the beginning. The creation and expansion of the championship structure in college football traditionally happens

8:01 PM ET Associated Press CORVALLIS, Ore. — Former Colorado quarterback Sam Noyer will use his final year of eligibility at Oregon State. Noyer, who is from Beaverton, Oregon, announced his move on Twitter on Friday. I’m home 🧡🖤 #DAMRIGHT pic.twitter.com/2tGyh832VQ — Sam Noyer (@sam_noyer) June 11, 2021 Noyer threw for 1,101 yards and six

Associated Press Suns spoil Nikola Jokic’s MVP party, beat Nuggets 116-102 Deandre Ayton scrutinized the box score and couldn’t believe his eyes as he read Nikola Jokic’s stat line: 32 points, 20 rebounds, 10 assists. Following a raucous pregame ceremony celebrating his MVP award, Jokic joined Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the only players

Getty Images One of the Pac-12’s best quarterbacks has found a new home and is staying in-conference. Former Colorado quarterback Sam Noyer, a second team All-Pac-12 selection from last season, said on his Twitter account that he’s transferring to Oregon State. The announcement comes just four days after Noyer entered the transfer portal. A 6-foot-4, 220-pound

10:54 AM ET To see how a new development might affect the future, take a look at how it would have affected the past. That’s a go-to of mine — see: how larger playoffs would have worked in 2020 or how a much bigger, earlier playoff would have impacted things — and with the news

If there’s one headline that could have overshadowed Nick Saban’s extension at Alabama, it was College Football Playoff expansion news. My stars, June 7 feels like months ago.  But in a way, these are two compelling storylines that can be intertwined. College football is at a crossroads. A historically regional sport is now national, and

Coming off a 2021 NFL draft that quarterbacks dominated early, and with college and NFL people believing early QB runs will be more the norm going forward, we thought we’d start mapping out the 2021 college football season from a viewing standpoint. There are some terrific early matchups in the upcoming season from a team-vs.-team

Hello again everyone, it’s Shanna McCarriston wishing you all a glorious Friday.  I’ve been a bit sad these last few days because my Boston Bruins did not exactly have the game they needed on Wednesday night and were eliminated from the playoffs. It’s most definitely not how I saw it going, but alas, here we

5:00 PM ET Next week, the College Football Playoff management committee will consider a proposal to expand the CFP to 12 teams. The proposal calls for the bracket to include the six highest-ranked conference champions and the six remaining highest-ranked teams as determined by the CFP selection committee. So what happens now? First, the management

If you ask most college football fans — let alone coaches and players — they’ll tell you the best part of the sport is its pageantry-rich, on-campus gameday environments. The excitement of the action is amplified by everything surrounding it. This isn’t the NFL, where billion-dollar taxpayer stadiums are leveled and replaced every quarter century

Just 10 years old at the time, Matt Schembechler said that he summoned the courage to tell his new stepfather a horrific, uncomfortable and humiliating truth: During a physical examination he’d been fondled and digitally penetrated by a doctor, Robert Anderson. Anderson was the team doctor for the University of Michigan football team, which Matt’s

8:12 PM ET A jury in Houston took just a few hours on Wednesday to find Baylor University and three former football players not responsible for the alleged sexual assault of a former female student athlete in 2017. The trial, which started May 20, was presented as a test of whether Baylor had changed its

Prosecutors say suspended Virginia Tech linebacker Isimemen Etute beat a man to death after he discovered the victim was not a woman like he had been led to believe online.  Etute was charged with second-degree murder June 2 in the death of Blacksburg, Virginia, resident Jerry Smith. Etute, a member of Virginia Tech’s 2021 recruiting

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

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