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Mar 17, 2021 Part of the magic of the NCAA tournament is the little guy knocking off the big guy, especially in the early rounds and against all odds. But when you get to this point, talent usually wins out. We’re down to 16 teams in ESPN’s fictional NCAA football tournament. Here’s how we got

11:11 AM ET Tennessee football has paused all team activity as it deals with multiple positive COVID-19 tests among players and staff. The pause, which was announced by the university on Wednesday, comes less than a week before the Vols were scheduled to begin spring practice. The news release did not specify the total number

7:00 AM ET Why should basketball get to have all the fun in March? Better yet, why limit college football to a four-team playoff? 64 teams make it a lot more fun — and a lot more representative. Here’s the format for ESPN’s fictional 2021 NCAA football tournament: We’ve seeded the teams 1 through 64,

8:40 PM ET LSU began spring football practice Tuesday with sophomore Max Johnson taking the first-team reps at quarterback. But coach Ed Orgeron told reporters that there’s no favorite and that all the quarterbacks took equal reps. “The competition is open,” he said. “Let the best man win.” Myles Brennan, a junior, started the first

7:00 AM ET Matt Campbell and his assistants weren’t going to pitch their players on staying at Iowa State. When the NCAA in August approved a blanket waiver, allowing all 2020 fall sports seniors to return in 2021, Iowa State’s coaches took a hands-off approach. “There was not one ounce of us trying to say,

6:30 AM ET The MAC West did its best to pack a full season’s worth of MACtion and tight finishes into an abbreviated half-season. Five of Ball State’s six regular-season games were decided by one score, and CMU, WMU and EMU each played four such games. BSU won four of its five close games and

3:43 PM ET New Auburn football coach Bryan Harsin has signed a six-year contract with the school that will pay him an average of $5.25 million, according to documents released Monday. Harsin, who came to Auburn from Boise State in December, is signed through Dec. 31, 2026. His salary begins at $5 million and increases

9:45 AM ET The ACC eliminated its intraconference transfer rule on Monday in a unanimous decision by its board of directors. The intraconference transfer rule, created in 1996, required student-athletes without a degree to sit out one year if they were transferring from one ACC school to another. The move does not come as a

8:00 AM ET In August, the NCAA granted every fall student-athlete an extra year of eligibility if they want it, meaning the 2020-21 year doesn’t count against them. It’s a generous waiver that permits student-athletes an opportunity to reclaim this past season that was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The waiver applies to all student-athletes,

2:56 PM ET Running back Emmanuel Henderson announced his commitment to Alabama on Saturday, choosing the Crimson Tide over offers from some of the biggest programs in the country, including Auburn, Georgia, Clemson and others. Henderson, a 6-foot-1, 185-pound back out of Geneva County High School in Hartford, Alabama, is the No. 12-ranked recruit overall

8:02 PM ET After finishing his first week of spring practice at Florida State, quarterback McKenzie Milton said Friday he feels good physically and has had no setbacks in his quest to return to the field following a devastating knee injury two years ago. Milton transferred to the Seminoles from UCF in January and wrapped

4:11 PM ET Three Tennessee football players have been suspended indefinitely by the school after being arrested on drug charges in connection with an incident Tuesday night at a campus residence hall. Second-year linebacker Martavius French and incoming recruits Aaron Willis and Isaac Washington are among the five people arrested on charges of simple possession

5:57 PM ET If the NCAA Football Rules Committee gets its wish, college football teams will be required to run two-point plays after scoring a touchdown in the second overtime — and would run nothing but alternating two-point plays if the game goes three overtimes or longer. Under the proposed rules changes that would take

Mar 12, 2021 Nebraska said it plans to play Oklahoma as scheduled this season and won’t seek to replace the game with an eighth one at home, after reports surfaced that the school was trying to get out of the matchup. “Due to the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to Husker Athletics and

Mar 12, 2021 Miami Hurricanes coach Manny Diaz said Friday that quarterback D’Eriq King is “smashing every benchmark” in his rehab from a torn ACL in his right knee. Speaking to reporters on Zoom to preview the start of spring practice next week, Diaz gave an update on the Hurricanes’ starting quarterback, injured in the

8:00 AM ET Are you not entertained? What the FCS spring season lacks in length and quality, it makes up for in pure, magical nonsense. The best program in the country got blown out by an unranked opponent two weeks ago, and the new No. 1 has now been scared twice into the second half.

6:50 PM ET Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — Emmett Jones was picked as the interim football coach at Kansas on Thursday as the beleaguered school searches for a new athletic director and head football coach following a scandal-plagued week. Jones is entering his third season with the Jayhawks, serving first as the wide receivers coach

9:00 AM ET In 2020, during one of the strangest, most unpredictable seasons of college football, another twist occurred in the midst of the chaos of playing during the pandemic. Big 12 defenses were good. Yes, the Big 12 — the conference that produced Patrick Mahomes and earned a reputation as having high-flying offenses and