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4:24 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Nebraska is hiring Syracuse defensive coordinator Tony White as the school’s new defensive coordinator, sources told ESPN. White has agreed to a three-year contract, according to sources, and picked the Huskers over multiple offers in this cycle. White oversaw back-to-back top-30 defenses at Syracuse and helped lead the Orange to

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff College football’s transfer portal officially opened Monday, and with it came all the storylines we’ve come to expect. QB1 is out at one blue blood program, while several Power 5 schools witnessed a mass exodus. The names filled the portal and college football fans were left to figure out what

LOS ANGELES — Southern California quarterback Caleb Williams is the Associated Press college football player of the year, becoming the school’s first winner of the award since 2005 with his stellar debut season for the Trojans. Williams received 32 of the 46 first-place votes and 117 total points from AP Top 25 poll voters to

7:17 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Western Michigan has targeted Louisville offensive coordinator Lance Taylor to be the school’s next head coach, sources told ESPN. A deal is expected to come together in the next 24 hours. Taylor, 41, is a veteran college and NFL assistant who left Notre Dame in January to be Louisville’s offensive

Minnesota signed coach P.J. Fleck to a contract extension, the school announced Wednesday. Fleck’s seven-year extension will keep him in the Twin Cities through the 2029 season. Financial terms of the extension weren’t disclosed. “This is all about cultural sustainability,” Fleck said in a statement. “We have talked about that from day one, and this

5:24 PM ET Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Chris Low Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee UNLV has hired Arkansas defensive coordinator Barry Odom to be its next head coach, the school

Republican challenger Herschel Walker, the former Heisman Trophy-winning running back, lost to Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday, ensuring Democrats an outright majority in the Senate for the rest of President Joe Biden’s term. Neither reached the general election majority required under state law last month, leading to Tuesday’s runoff. Warnock’s

Dec 5, 2022 Pete ThamelESPN The on-field identity of Deion Sanders’ Colorado program took form Monday, as sources told ESPN that the Buffaloes are hiring Kent State head coach Sean Lewis to be the team’s offensive coordinator. As Kent State’s head coach and playcaller, Lewis developed a distinct identity — whiplash tempo, quick snaps and

Offensive tackle Tommy Brockermeyer, the No. 2 prospect in the 2021 ESPN 300, was among the Alabama players who entered the transfer portal on Monday. Despite being the No. 1 offensive tackle prospect in that recruiting class, Brockermeyer was redshirted as a freshman and played sparingly in 2022. His twin brother, James Brockermeyer, apparently intends

6:48 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN Georgia’s Stetson Bennett, USC’s Caleb Williams, TCU’s Max Duggan and Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud were announced Monday as the Heisman Trophy finalists. The four quarterbacks, who play for four of the top 10 teams this season, including three that will play in the College Football Playoff, will be in New

8:52 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Louisville‘s Scott Satterfield has been hired to become the next football coach at the University of Cincinnati, the school announced Monday. Terms of Satterfield’s contract were not announced, but a source told ESPN that Satterfield received a six-year deal. The hire is a compelling one regionally, as the schools are

Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr., the nation’s leader in passing yards, will return to the Huskies for the 2023 season, he announced Sunday night. In a video posted to social media, Penix said, “As I look back on this special season we had, I realized there were so many great moments and things to celebrate,

6:47 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN USC starting quarterback and leading Heisman Trophy candidate Caleb Williams has a “significant” hamstring injury, and his status for the Trojans’ matchup against Tulane in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on Jan. 2 is yet to be determined, coach Lincoln Riley said Sunday. “Those things, hamstrings are different for everybody,

6:25 PM ET ESPN staff It’s Selection Day and that means bowl season is quickly upon us — arguably the most wonderful time of the year. With Georgia, Michigan, TCU and Ohio State slated for the College Football Playoff, the rest of the bowl schedule is set. Before we get into what we’re most looking

12:25 PM ET ESPN staff Nick Saban tried. Alabama‘s coach found whatever megaphone was available to him Saturday night to publicly plead the Crimson Tide’s case to make the College Football Playoff. He suggested looking at the top four through the lens of, “How are they playing at the present?” He asked, “If we played

Two things have been true of the College Football Playoff committee’s first eight years of selections. First, the committee has almost certainly gotten the top four correct on every occasion. For any debates over Ohio State in 2014 or Alabama in 2017, the eventual results — a national championship for both — served as the

The 2022-2023 college football bowl season is almost here. The bowl schedule will be released on Selection Day, Dec. 4 starting at 12 p.m. ET on ESPN. This year there are 43 bowl games, including the College Football Playoff and the national championship games. The bowl games will begin with the Miami (Ohio) Redhawks facing

Texas A&M quarterback Haynes King entered the transfer portal as a graduate transfer Friday, with freshman cornerback Denver Harris also announcing on Twitter that he will enter the portal. King threw for 1,220 yards, 7 touchdowns and 6 interceptions in six games this season for the Aggies. He was the No. 46 prospect in the