NCAA Football

6:42 PM ET Veteran defensive coordinator Kevin Steele, who has worked for some of the biggest names in the sport, is set to return to college football next season as Maryland’s defensive coordinator, sources told ESPN. Steele did not coach last season. He and Terps head coach Mike Locksley have a long-standing relationship, and the

Oklahoma quarterback Caleb Williams has been in the transfer portal for nearly four weeks without having made a decision yet. With several add/drop deadlines on the horizon throughout the schools, a choice should come soon.  Williams has some of the top programs in the country on the hook, as Oklahoma, USC, Wisconsin and LSU are

There are times in life when we’re living through history and we don’t appreciate the greatness of what we’re going through. The LSU 2019 football season might just be an example of that. The team went 15-0 and dominated their way to winning the national championship. Even that might not capture just how great that

USATSI It remains to be seen if Jim Harbaugh will leap back into the NFL ranks in 2022, but while the world continues to wonder about his status, his defensive coordinator has already made the decision. Mike Macdonald, the assistant coach who schemed a University of Michigan defense that helped lead the team to a

The headliner of the Bengals’ receiving group is rookie Ja’Marr Chase, who tallied 1,455 yards and 13 touchdowns this season. But It’s really a dynamic trio that also includes 2020 second-round pick Tee Higgins and veteran Tyler Boyd. Higgins finished his second season with 74 catches for 1,091 yards with six touchdowns in 14 games.

7:15 AM ET ESPN staff With our 2022 Way-Too-Early college football top 25 established, we asked our reporters what each team’s biggest strength will be in the coming season — in other words, what makes the best teams so good. Looking into a crystal ball more than six months before the start of the season

Getty Images The Big Ten is considering scheduling models that could eliminate divisions and reduce conference play to eight games, Iowa athletic director Gary Barta told The Athletic’s Scott Dochterman.  The Big Ten plays a nine-game conference schedule that features six divisional and three cross-divisional games. However, the league could reevaluate its positioning after its media

7:20 AM ET We’re just 16 days removed from the 2021 college football season, and after the exciting five months of football we just had, it’s hard to not look ahead to 2022. New faces in new places, rivalries renewed and rivalries intensified have us looking forward to plenty of nonconference matchups heading into next

Subscribe to The College Football Enquirer Did the CFP watch the NFL Divisional round? Dan Wetzel and SI’s Pat Forde sure hope so. What can the leaders in our sport take away from an all-time football weekend? Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports released an interesting article quoting a few leaders in the collegiate space who

2:40 PM ET Five-star linebacker Harold Perkins decommitted from Texas A&M on Monday. Perkins is the No. 4 prospect overall in the 2022 class and the top outside linebacker. He’s a 6-foot-3, 210-pound recruit from Cypress Park High School in Cypress, Texas, and had only recently committed to the Aggies on Jan. 2 at the

Getty The deadline for college football players to declare for the 2022 NFL Draft has passed, which means everyone who hasn’t declared is returning for at least one more season before possibly making the jump next year. But what about the players who weren’t eligible to declare for the 2022 draft but will have the

It looks like this recruiting weekend might soon lead to a commitment and eventual signing for Oklahoma. SoonerScoop co-publisher and recruiting editor Josh McCuistion of the Rivals network submitted a FutureCast for 2022 athlete and cornerback Jamarrien Burt to Oklahoma. Burt was one of several players across the 2022 and 2023 classes that visited OU

Former Georgia wide receiver Jermaine Burton will transfer to Alabama after finishing second on the Bulldogs in receiving yards (and first among wideouts) in 2021, the sophomore announced Sunday evening on Twitter.  Burton was a key cog during the Bulldogs’ national championship run, catching three passes for 85 yards and a touchdown during the two

9:51 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN The University of Hawai’i is turning to one of its own for its next head football coach. The school announced on Saturday night that former star quarterback Timmy Chang is returning to be the school’s next head coach. Chang, 40, was previously the wide receivers coach at Colorado State. But

Recruiting never stops. Less than two weeks after Georgia beat Alabama in the national championship game, both Georgia’s Kirby Smart and Alabama’s Nick Saban have continued their pursuit of prized 2023 quarterback Arch Manning by attending Manning’s basketball games. Saban was at Isidore Newman’s basketball game on Saturday along with Alabama defensive coordinator Pete Golding.

USA Today Sports Images The possibility of a reunion between Hawaii and former coach June Jones took a hit Friday when the two sides hit a snag in negotiations. Jones took to Twitter to blast the terms of Hawaii’s offer as the school seeks a replacement for Todd Graham, who resigned this month. “So I

4:06 PM ET USC has added running back transfer Travis Dye, who led Oregon in rushing and receptions this past season. Dye, who entered the transfer portal last week, joins the Trojans as a graduate transfer. He rushed for 1,271 yards and 16 touchdowns in 2021, and led Oregon with 46 receptions. The 5-foot-10, 190-pound

Getty Images College athletics, beyond just the NCAA, has been backed into a corner surrounded by barbed wire. There are few paths out. At this point, seemingly no amount of litigation or committees or legislation can deny what is inevitably coming down the tracks like a runaway train. In some way, shape or form, athletes