NCAA Football

Getty Images Justin Fields is turning out to be this draft season’s piñata to smash. That’s all but official now. The Ohio State quarterback who led his team to a pair of Big Ten titles and College Football Playoff berths has done nothing but drop lately in the eyes of pundits and perhaps the NFL

247Sports LSU already has the commitments of five-star quarterback Walker Howard and five-star offensive tackle Will Campbell, and another now another five-star prospect is headed to Baton Rouge. Safety Jacoby Mathews, the No. 30 overall player in the Class of 2022, announced that he will play for coach Ed Orgeron and the Tigers in a

How many ways can you expand a four-team playoff? There are apparently over 60. The College Football Playoff said Friday that it had discussed 63 different ways to expand the four-team playoff at its spring meeting. The four-team playoff has been around since 2014.  “In its analysis, the working group has reviewed some 63 possibilities

9:00 AM ET There are days new Tennessee athletic director Danny White looks around his office and thinks to himself, “I still can’t believe I left.” Before coming to Knoxville, White spent six years transforming UCF into a nationally recognized brand — thanks in part to his decision to self-declare a football national championship off

Getty Images The College Football Playoff is going to expand, it’s just a matter of when and how.  That isn’t terribly groundbreaking, in and of itself, but in a statement Friday, the playoff committee basically confirmed change was coming to its postseason format without coming out and explicitly saying so. Following two days of virtual

USATSI Saturday will mark the end of a two-week bonanza of spring football games across college football. While a few stragglers will conclude their spring drills over the coming weeks, most of the remaining top dogs will be wrapping up for the semester this weekend as the 2021 season draws closer. Among the most notable

Getty Images I can envision it now. A College Football Playoff National Championship for the ages sees the two best teams in the country head to overtime. Then, after neither team is able to separate itself from its counterpart in the first two overtimes, the two elite squads trade two-point conversion attempts. That’s when the

Getty Images Wide receiver Mike Woods announced earlier this week that he is transferring from Arkansas, and now we know where he will land. On Friday, the senior announced on Twitter that he will join Lincoln Riley’s Oklahoma Sooners for the 2021 college football season.  Woods, a 6-foot-1, 196-pounder from Magnolia, Texas, caught 32 passes

The Associated Press Raptors ride strong 3rd quarter to 114-103 win over Nets TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Pascal Siakam had 27 points and nine rebounds, OG Anunoby scored 25 points and the Toronto Raptors seized control in the third quarter in a 114-103 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday night, extending their winning streak to

USATSI One thing I love about spring ball — and the offseason content machine in general — is that you get to play with house money. Predictions are part of our job, and this is the time of year when you get to unapologetically go all in on a team, coach, player, etc. With spring

USATSI Spring college football is here after a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, a handful of teams have already completed their spring drills and games. But for most of the Power Five, drills are getting under way with April and May once again being busy months for spring games.  There’s rarely

7:00 AM ET The first-ever (and, most likely, the only) spring FCS playoffs are upon us, with eight games on Saturday, all on ESPN3. It has been a wild couple of months of wild finishes, ultracompetitive games, unexpected storylines — North Dakota State losing twice, VMI winning the Southern Conference, etc. — and, because this

7:30 AM ET ESPN staff With April nearing its close, this weekend will again feature a large collection of college football spring games across the country. For many fans this will be their first chance to see their favorite football teams in person following a 2020 season full of reduced capacity at stadiums and cancellations.

UCLA coach Chip Kelly looks on during the first half against the USC Trojans at the Rose Bowl on Dec. 12 in Pasadena. (Sean M. Haffey / Getty Images) While many college football programs are closing up shop after spring games, UCLA is just getting started. Two inexplicable losses to end 2020 dampened excitement about

Beavers Brian Lindgren impressed by young QBs in Tristan Gebbia’s absence originally appeared on NBC Sports Northwest Spring football is well underway in Corvallis and despite starting quarterback Tristan Gebbia being out, for the time being, the Beavers are getting a good look at the three men behind him: Chance Nolan, Ben Gulbranson, and Sam

While we wait for the NFL to tell us the full extent of the mistreatment of Washington Football Team’s cheerleaders (any day now, NFL), or for anyone to face consequences for the department-wide, toxic environment fostered by LSU athletics, we bring you a new story of young women being let down by the very adults

5:52 PM ET Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Missouri State coach Bobby Petrino, whose return to the sidelines was delayed until the spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was named Missouri Valley Football Conference coach of the year on Thursday. Petrino led the Bears to a 5-1 record, and they were co-champions in the spring

4:20 PM ET College football teams will be required to attempt 2-point conversions after touchdowns in the second overtime period of games rather than the third, according to a change approved Thursday by the NCAA’s Playing Rules Oversight Panel. The NCAA Football Rules Committee last month recommended the change, as part of an effort to