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4:50 PM ET With Auburn University last week mandating a Dec. 8 deadline for all university employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, head football coach Bryan Harsin on Monday declined to disclose whether or not he had received the vaccine or planned to receive it. Harsin has refused multiple times to discuss his vaccination

2:14 PM ET Texas Tech football coach Matt Wells has been fired after two-plus seasons in charge. The school announced Monday that it is relieving Wells of his duties effective immediately, and as a replacement named Sonny Cumbie, who played quarterback at Texas Tech for Mike Leach between 2000 and 2004, as the interim head

6:32 AM ET Week 8 of the college football season is in the books, and with a little more than a week until the initial College Football Playoff rankings, things are still pretty cloudy. Here’s what we learned in another entertaining weekend of action. Oregon is hanging on With ESPN College GameDay in Los Angeles

2:20 PM ET Associated Press Alabama inched up to No. 3 in The Associated Press college football Sunday behind top-ranked Georgia and No. 2 Cincinnati. The Bulldogs (63 first-place votes) are a unanimous No. 1 for the third straight week in the latest AP Top 25, and the Bearcats remain second. The Crimson Tide jumped

2:45 PM ET Associated Press Officials were wrong to wipe out what would have been a game-winning 2-point play in overtime by Harvard after a replay review awarded Princeton a timeout, the Ivy League said Sunday. Princeton won 18-16 in five overtimes. After Jack Smith hit Kym Wimberly with a pass to convert the 2-point

5:16 PM ET Associated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Casey Washington caught a 2-point conversion pass from Brandon Peters to end the first nine-overtime game in NCAA history and lift Illinois over No. 7 Penn State 20-18 Saturday. The teams were tied at 10 after regulation, exchanged field goals in the first two overtimes, then

1:00 AM ET The 2021 college football season has been a rollicking, chaotic mess so far, but until Week 8, something had been missing — something terrible and beautiful and ridiculous. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Kansas to the party. The Jayhawks brought a close game against Oklahoma and a bottle of cheap wine. They’re,

5:04 PM ET Oklahoma survived another slow start in a 35-23 win over Kansas, and Caleb Williams once again provided a spark, but in an unusual way. With Oklahoma clinging to a 28-23 lead in the fourth quarter with just over three minutes remaining, the Sooners went for it on fourth and 1 at their

6:58 PM ET Southern Miss is set to join the Sun Belt Conference, which could soon add several members, sources told ESPN. The Southern Miss move is a “done deal,” a source said, and the school probably will join the Sun Belt for the 2023 fall athletics season. Southern Miss is the latest school to

6:08 PM ET CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Miami Hurricanes athletic director Blake James was not ready to make any pronouncements for how this season would play out for coach Manny Diaz, who has come under fire for a 2-4 start. Asked whether Diaz was on the hot seat, James told ESPN.com, “I don’t know how

1:16 PM ET Oklahoma State and Mike Gundy have agreed to a new deal that will restore the football coach to a “perpetual five-year contract” with the Cowboys after the rollover had been decreased to four years in 2020, the university announced Friday. Last year, Gundy voluntarily took a $1 million pay cut and amended

7:00 AM ET NEW ORLEANS — When Texas coach Steve Sarkisian connected with one of the country’s most famous high school football players on FaceTime one afternoon in July, he couldn’t hear the prospect because of a pinging noise in the background. “Are you at an arcade?” Sarkisian asked. “Where are you?” “Coach, it’s kind

6:29 PM ET The family of Jake Ehlinger, a Texas linebacker who died in May, said Thursday that his death was caused by an accidental overdose of what was believed to be Xanax laced with Fentanyl. Ehlinger, the younger brother of former Texas and current Indianapolis Colts quarterback Sam Ehlinger, was found unresponsive on May

3:46 PM ET ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia coach Kirby Smart said Thursday that quarterback JT Daniels was as healthy as he’s been since the fourth game of the season, but that doesn’t mean Smart is necessarily going to make a quarterback change. Senior Stetson Bennett has started the past three games and four of the

6:00 AM ET Pittsburgh quarterback Kenny Pickett is off to an exceptional start to the season, and he’s worked his way into the Heisman conversation while putting the Panthers in the driver’s seat in the ACC Coastal. Still, this is just a good QB having a great season, right? Perhaps not, says Clemson defensive coordinator

11:09 AM ET Former Washington State coach Nick Rolovich will be suing the university for illegal termination, in part because of “discriminatory and vindictive behavior” by athletic director Pat Chun, an attorney representing Rolovich said Wednesday. Washington State fired Rolovich and four other assistant coaches Monday night after they refused to comply with a mandate

7:00 AM ET [Editor’s note: The number of winless teams keeps dwindling, which means changes at the top of the Bottom 10. Could a Power 5 team in Arizona win the whole thing? And what is Tennessee doing in here?] Inspirational thought of the week: Why be afraid if I’m not alone?Though life is never

7:00 AM ET A quarterback of one of the country’s leading quarterback factories, one of the nation’s top recruits, was yanked from the lineup and replaced with a young firebrand who rallied the team. “It’s uncomfortable, it’s awkward, it’s unfortunate,” he said on Monday. We’re not talking Spencer Rattler — at least not yet. But