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Pete Thamel, Senior College Sports InsiderJan 14, 2025, 08:54 AM ET Close College Football Senior Writer for ESPN. Insider for College Gameday. Open Extended Reactions Texas wide receiver Isaiah Bond is leaving school early to enter the 2025 NFL draft, he told ESPN. Bond profiles as one of the fastest players in the upcoming draft,

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Rivals.com, the leader in college football and basketball recruiting coverage. Be the first to know and follow your teams by signing up here. SAN ANTONIO – Several of the nation’s best recruits from the 2025 and 2026 classes competed in the 2025 Navy All-American Bowl, a week-long event that featured

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterJan 13, 2025, 08:00 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Open Extended Reactions Mid-January is always a period of great adjustment. That icy time when we hopefully have finally started ending dates with ’25 instead

Photo: Isaiah Hole Michigan football already got one transfer portal commitment on Sunday with former UMass and Arizona wide receiver Anthony Simpson pledging to the maize and blue. But the Wolverines weren’t done getting transfer portal pledges on the day. Though Michigan had struck out with cornerback targets Tacario Davis and Emmanuel Karnley, the Wolverines

Former Michigan quarterback Alex Orji is headed to UNLV. (Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images) Former Michigan quarterback Alex Orji has committed to play at UNLV as a senior transfer. He will have two years of eligibility remaining. Orji is an exciting, dual-threat quarterback who is particularly good on the ground. But he could never quite find

Jan 10, 2025, 11:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The first 12-team College Football Playoff is down to the final two contenders: Notre Dame and Ohio State. The seventh-seed Fighting Irish and eighth-seed Buckeyes will meet Jan. 20 at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the CFP National Championship Presented by AT&T. Whichever team wins will end

ESPN News Services Jan 11, 2025, 12:10 AM ET Bill McCartney, a three-time coach of the year in the Big Eight Conference who led the Colorado Buffaloes to their only national football title in 1990, has died. He was 84. McCartney died Friday night “after a courageous journey with dementia,” according to a family statement.

ARLINGTON, Texas — Texas quarterback Arch Manning entered the Cotton Bowl on Friday on fourth-and-1 in the second quarter against Ohio State on Friday, and the crowd went wild. The five-star backup converted the run, although his star status has ascended beyond short-yardage situations despite not yet becoming Texas’ full-time starter as a redshirt freshman.

Associated Press Jan 9, 2025, 11:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — A diving interception off an ill-advised pass set up Notre Dame’s trip to play for the program’s 12th national title after a thrill-a-minute 27-24 victory over Penn State on Thursday night in the Orange Bowl. Defensive back Christian Gray snared

Notre Dame football saw its backup quarterback, Steve Angeli, enter the College Football Playoff semifinal game against Penn State Thursday. Angeli entered after starting quarterback Riley Leonard left late in the second quarter with an apparent concussion. Who is Steve Angeli? Here are three things to know about the Irish quarterback. More: Notre Dame vs.

Heather Dinich, Senior College Football InsiderJan 9, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Open Extended Reactions There’s no sugarcoating it: As Penn State‘s coach, James Franklin owns an abysmal 3-10 record against opponents ranked in the Associated Press Top 10. It’s a mark that saw

Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian makes his way off the team bus as they head into the locker room to get ready to match off against Oklahoma Sooners in an NCAA college football game at the Cotton Bowl on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023 in Dallas, Texas. This game makes up the119th rivalry match up.

Jan. 7—Northmont grad Markus Allen plans to play in the SEC next fall. The 6-foot-2, 212-pound receiver announced Tuesday he has committed to transfer to Mississippi State after spending last season at Eastern Michigan. Allen led the GWOC with 884 receiving yards and 60 catches as a senior in 2020, when he made the All-Ohio

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNJan 7, 2025, 05:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions After a historic season, Boise State running back and Heisman Trophy runner-up Ashton Jeanty is declaring for the 2025 NFL draft, he announced Tuesday. “The opportunity to play in the NFL is a dream of mine,” Jeanty wrote in social media post. “I’m proud

ESPN News Services Jan 6, 2025, 10:53 PM ET Open Extended Reactions FRISCO, Texas — Cam Miller ran for two touchdowns and threw for two more in his 54th consecutive start as North Dakota State’s quarterback, and the Bison won their record 10th Football Championship Subdivision title, beating top-seeded and previously undefeated Montana State 35-32

Photo: Isaiah Hole In the spring of 2020, Michigan football appeared to shooting a shot over the SEC’s bow with two commitments in short order from the state of Tennessee. One never made it to campus and the other never really saw the field. Taylor Groves ended up defecting to Ole Miss, before deciding to

ATLANTA, GEORGIA – DECEMBER 07: Anthony Evans III #5 of the Georgia Bulldogs fumbles and recovers the ball against Andrew Mukuba #4 of the Texas Longhorns during the fourth quarter of the 2024 SEC Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on December 07, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images) After Georgia’s loss to the

Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterJan 3, 2025, 08:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions On Dec. 15, 1984, Montana State completed a worst-to-first run for the ages. One season after going 1-10, Dave Arnold’s Bobcats began the season 2-2 but caught fire offensively, beat a top-10 Boise