NCAA Football

USATSI The dog days of summer are arriving in earnest, but college football scheduling announcements are here to at least whet our appetite in the meantime. And, as is tradition, Week 1 of the 2021 slate has some monster games that could shape the sport’s landscape in the fall. With kickoff still more than three

CLINTON, S.C. – The windowless bunker that doubles as the Presbyterian College football staff meeting room appears decorated from the Shawshank Collection. The gray concrete walls lack any color or adornment, other than a depth chart that lacks names. Kevin Kelley, the most colorful new coach in all of college football, struggles with the setting.

6:36 AM ET When Tim DeRuyter arrived at Texas A&M as the Aggies’ new defensive coordinator in 2010, he had an unusual idea. He wanted his pass-rusher, a hybrid linebacker/defensive end, to have a bit of an edge to him out there on, well, the edge. He looked to Batman for inspiration. “I think it

FRISCO, Texas – The way Sam Houston handled everything in the longest and most unusual college football season, coach K.C. Keeler felt it was fitting that the Bearkats got their first FCS national title with a last-minute touchdown after waiting out a lengthy weather delay. Eric Schmid‘s third touchdown pass was a 10-yarder to Ife

The Pac-12 became the third of the Power Five football conferences to clear the way for transfers to receive immediate eligibility when transferring between league schools on Monday. The conference’s CEO group approved the measure during its annual spring meeting. By approving the new rule, the Pac-12 joins the ACC and Big 12 in allowing

7:00 AM ET Kyle Bonagura Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University When word began circulating Thursday that the Pac-12 was set to hire George Kliavkoff as its new commissioner,

Sam Houston State beat South Dakota State to win the FCS title. (AP Photo/Michael Ainsworth) Sam Houston State won the delayed 2020 FCS national title in the last minute. The Bearkats got a game-winning TD with 16 seconds left when Eric Schmid found Ife Adeyi for what turned out to be a 23-21 win. Sam

USATSI The experience of watching an FCS college football season play out in the spring has been a unique one, to say the least. On Sunday, however, it’s time to put a cap on the exciting campaign by crowning a new national champion as No. 1 seed South Dakota State and No. 2 seed Sam

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Four-time Super Bowl champion, and Arizona alumni, Rob Gronkowski sat down with Pac-12 Networks’ Yogi Roth to chat about his record breaking catch at the 2021 Arizona Football Spring Game. To pump up the Wildcats, Gronk caught a pass dropped from a helicopter at 600 feet to make his way into the Guinness Book of

USATSI The FCS college football season experienced the biggest disruption in 2020 due to COVID-19, eventually transitioning the entire campaign to the spring. It wasn’t ideal for anyone, but credit to all the schools involved for actually making it happen. Now the time has come to crown a national champion here in mid-May as No.

USATSI The final Power Five hire on the 2021 coaching carousel (so far, anyway) came in late April when Kansas hired Lance Leipold away from Buffalo after abruptly parting ways with Les Miles. A six-time Division III champion at Wisconsin-Whitewater, Leipold oversaw a complete transformation of the Buffalo program, leading the Bulls to 10 wins

South Dakota State (8-1) vs. Sam Houston State (9-0) Frisco, Texas Sunday, May 16, 2 p.m. ET, ABC South Dakota State -5, O/U 47 The spring football season is almost over. The FCS division of college football moved its season to the spring of 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The season ends with a

7:00 AM ET The last game of a bumpy, difficult and fun-as-hell spring FCS season kicks off in Frisco, Texas, on Sunday afternoon. Top-seeded South Dakota State will meet No. 2 seed Sam Houston for the first time (2 p.m. ET on ABC and the ESPN App), and the storylines overflow. Let’s lay out everything

Incoming Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff introduced himself to the world of college sports by taking one particularly notable position. The College Football Playoff needs to be expand beyond its current four-team format, he said. ”I was not expecting to make news,” Kliavkoff told AP in a phone interview after his introductory new conference Thursday. ”But

5:54 PM ET ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said Thursday he wants a “thorough assessment” of College Football Playoff expansion before making any decisions about the current four-team format. During a conference call with reporters following the league’s virtual spring meetings, Phillips said he isn’t against expansion, but he doesn’t want to rush into making a

1:26 PM ET George Kliavkoff, the president of entertainment and sports for MGM Resorts International, has been hired as the next commissioner of the Pac-12 Conference, a source confirmed to ESPN. Kliavkoff replaces Larry Scott, who had been the commissioner since 2009. The Pac-12 announced in January that Scott’s tenure would end in June, with

4:34 PM ET An independent massage therapist has been barred from Ohio State’s campus and from having any interaction with Ohio State athletics members after an independent investigation found she had engaged in inappropriate and exploitative behavior targeting members of the Buckeyes football team. The university released statements and a full report on the investigation,