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Mississippi head coach Lane Kiffin said a lot of things about name, image and likeness, pay-for-play and the future of college football in a recent Sports Illustrated interview. It was a refreshingly honest, matter-of-fact look at how open money in the recruiting process is here to stay. It mercifully lacked the sanctimony and cries about

8:00 AM ET SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Every Tuesday this spring, Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman met with the team’s quarterbacks. Tuesdays with Marcus provided Freeman, a career defensive assistant, the chance to connect with those competing for the most important job on the field. “We just talk ball, we watch practice, I want

Confronted with Nick Saban claiming Texas A&M “bought” its entire 2022 recruiting class via name, image and likeness deals, Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher called a news conference with the sole purpose of blasting the Alabama coach. He called Saban’s comments “despicable” and the coach himself a “narcissist.” He insinuated that his old boss at

Getty Images Former Alabama golfer and die-hard Crimson Tide football fan Justin Thomas came from seven strokes back to win the PGA Championship via a three-hole playoff on Sunday. He wasted no time chiming in on what has become one of the top college football stories of the year during his post-tournament interview with SiriusXM. Asked

12:20 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN With all respect to the rapt attention that will be paid to the verbal donnybrook between Alabama’s Nick Saban and Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher, there are more pressing matters that will unfold when SEC officials meet in Destin, Fla., for their annual meetings next week. With the SEC poised to

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Coveted offensive lineman Chase Bisontis unveiled his top five programs on Saturday evening, the four-star offensive lineman making several surprising cuts to his final list. And it wasn’t so much the five programs that made the cut that is the storyline, it is the fact that Ohio State, Texas and Miami didn’t crack the top

USATSI When Nick Saban told a group of Alabama boosters that Texas A&M had “bought every player” in their No. 1-ranked recruiting class, it’s unlikely he knew the firestorm those comments would create. The back-and-forth between Saban and Jimbo Fisher put college football on the front page in May as two of the top coaches

9:08 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN The verbal haymakers exchanged by Alabama’s Nick Saban and Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher the past 24 hours can best be summed up as the most appropriate possible soundtrack for 2022. The joust centered around the year’s most volatile issue — ambiguity around Name, Image and Likeness rules and enforcement. They

USATSI The NCAA Division I Council announced earlier this week that it’s recommended relaxed restrictions on football conference championship games that, in previous years, mandated that any conference with 12 or more teams must be separated into divisions or play a round-robin schedule. The Mountain West has taken advantage of the change in a hurry

7:17 AM ET A contentious back-and-forth among college football’s coaching elite and more from our best quotes from around the sports world this week. “I mean, we were second in recruiting last year. A&M was first. A&M bought every player on their team — made a deal for name, image, likeness. We didn’t buy one

Getty Images Nick Saban and Jimbo Fisher are feuding. You might have heard … and read and watched. The invective is real, and it is spectacular. Power Five might be redefined as number of fingers the Texas A&M coach has curled up into fist waiting for Saban next week at the SEC spring meetings. Yes,

Last winter, a message board poster named “Sliced Bread” wrote that Texas A&M’s No. 1 ranked recruiting class was, at least in part, a product of the school doling out some $30 million to prospects via name, image and likeness deals. No proof was offered. No credibility existed. The actual figure was wildly outside the

7:00 AM ET Alex Scarborough Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. Dave Wilson Close ESPN Staff Writer Dave Wilson is an editor for ESPN.com since 2010. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. New TCU coach Sonny Dykes

It looks like divisions in college football could soon become a thing of the past. In an expected move following recommendations from the Football Oversight Committee, the NCAA’s Division I Council officially voted to eliminate a requirement for conferences to have divisions in order to hold a conference championship game. Previously, NCAA rules mandated that

247Sports Four-star cornerback Marcus Washington Jr. will skip his senior year of high school and enroll early at Georgia as a member of the Class of 2022.  Washington committed to the Bulldogs one year ago on May 15, 2021, right after his sophomore season of high school. He was rated the No. 69 overall player

7:00 AM ET One power-conference team, one that is soon to be the same, one service academy, two soon-to-be Conference USA rivals and two teams starting from scratch and looking for a future. College football’s independents are quite a mishmash in 2022, but with Notre Dame forever leading the way, let’s talk indie football. Every

247Sports USC added a big-time commitment on Monday as four-star safety Braxton Myers committed to the Trojans on CBS Sports HQ. Myers, the son of former Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Michael Myers and a junior at Coppell (Texas) High School, committed to USC over offers from Arkansas, Auburn, Clemson, LSU and Ole Miss.  Myers’ addition pushes USC