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8:54 PM ET Wisconsin athletic director Chris McIntosh tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and will not travel with the team for the Las Vegas Bowl against Arizona State, the school announced. “I would encourage everyone to follow the advice of medical professionals and get vaccinated, boosted, tested and wear a mask,” McIntosh said in

1:59 PM ET Most coaches prefer to navigate college football’s transfer market in private, but not Wyoming coach Craig Bohl. On Friday, less than 72 hours after ending their season with a win over Kent State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl and then losing their starting quarterback to the transfer portal, Bohl took the

4:32 PM ET Lincoln Riley landed a commitment from ESPN Junior 300 wide receiver Zachariah Branch on Friday, giving USC its third commitment in the 2023 class ranked inside the top 25. Branch is the No. 16 prospect overall in 2023, and is the younger brother of ESPN 300 safety Zion, who committed to the

12:04 PM ET Florida receiver Justin Shorter has been cleared to leave the hospital on Friday after being carted off the field in the Gators’ 29-17 loss to UCF in the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl. In a statement, the Shorter family said, “We are happy to share that Justin is doing well, is clear

7:00 AM ET TREVOR MOAWAD WAS always on the periphery. He wasn’t a coach, wasn’t on staff, wasn’t on campus every day of every season. But he was around — leading training exercises during the summer, on the phone to help coaches with messaging during inflection points in the season, on the sideline for pivotal

10:23 PM ET Hawaii announced Thursday night that it has pulled out of the EasyPost Hawai’i Bowl against Memphis, citing COVID-19 issues within the program in addition to injuries and transfers. The game was scheduled to be played Friday in Halawa, Hawaii, a suburb of Honolulu. “The health and safety of our student-athletes is the

2:53 PM ET Rutgers will replace Texas A&M as the opponent for Wake Forest in the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl, sources confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. Rutgers posted a video to Twitter on Thursday saying the Scarlet Knights were “going BOWLING” without specifying the Gator Bowl, which is scheduled for Dec. 31 in Jacksonville, Florida. “Better

8:00 AM ET And now, for a bowl matchup three years in the making, we take you to an elementary school in Orlando, Florida, for a brief glimpse at the game everyone is talking about in the state. (By everyone, we mean the tens of thousands of University of Florida and Central Florida alums across

11:00 AM ET ESPN staff We’ve made it past the college football regular season and are heading full steam ahead into the 2021 bowl season, and there are surely going to be plenty of highlights over the next couple of weeks. From the MVP of bowl season to the best on-field plays to the hilarious

1:56 PM ET A new College Football Playoff policy written this week in response to the surging omicron variant allows for a team to advance to the national championship — and ultimately win it — by its opponents having to forfeit, according to an updated set of COVID-19 policies the CFP released on Wednesday. The

7:00 AM ET THE JOURNEY BEGAN, like so many frustrating and ultimately fruitless quests, with the 2019 Florida State Seminoles. Florida State had opened that season by blowing a 31-13 lead to Boise State, and in the aftermath, offensive coordinator Kendal Briles pinned at least a portion of the blame on one of the most

8:03 PM ET Coastal Carolina starting quarterback Grayson McCall will return for the Chanticleers next season, he announced on social media Tuesday night. McCall, who has started the past two seasons for Coastal Carolina, is a draft-eligible redshirt sophomore who projects as an NFL prospect. He earned Sun Belt player of the year honors in

3:24 PM ET Alabama landed its second high-profile transfer in a week on Tuesday when former Georgia Tech running back Jahmyr Gibbs announced that he’ll play for the Crimson Tide in 2022. A sophomore, Gibbs ran for 746 yards and four touchdowns this season, earning a spot on the All-ACC team. He also caught 35

10:42 AM ET A Jackson State football player was arrested by federal authorities on Monday and is accused of devising a scheme to fraudulently obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars in COVID-related unemployment benefits, according to a release by the U.S. Department of Justice. Abdul-Malik McClain, 22, allegedly orchestrated the scheme with other players while

7:00 AM ET Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens walked into his house after a five-day, speed dating-like hiring process that began on Dec. 6 when football coach Mario Cristobal left for Miami. It was Dec. 11 and Mullens had just announced the hire of Georgia defensive coordinator Dan Lanning to be the Ducks’ replacement. Mullens

7:00 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN Just over a month ago, Lincoln Riley showed up to a practice at Los Alamitos High School in Cerritos, California, by himself. It was Oklahoma‘s bye week, and it was the first time he had been able to recruit on the road in nearly two years. He was there to

7:00 AM ET Wan’Dale Robinson went from favorite son to public enemy No. 1 on Dec. 5, 2018, when he announced that after a year of being committed to Kentucky he was flipping to Nebraska. Never mind that he had his reasons, wanting to play in a more wide-open offense when, at the time, the

12:33 AM ET Oregon wide receiver and returner Mycah Pittman is transferring to Florida State, he announced Sunday night. Pittman, who led Oregon with 15 punt returns for 151 yards and had 12 receptions this past season, entered the transfer portal in November. He was ESPN’s No. 144 overall recruit in the 2019 class and