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7:00 AM ET After false alarms at Michigan and Auburn, the 2021-22 college football coaching carousel has stopped spinning for good. The end to a wild cycle provides the opportunity to examine the coaching hires from the recent past. Borrowing an NFL idea from colleague Bill Barnwell, I will rank the top 10 college coaching

5:50 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Former Arizona State quarterback Jayden Daniels has committed to play at LSU, sources told ESPN on Sunday. The decision delivers LSU one of the most accomplished quarterbacks to enter the NCAA transfer portal this off-season, as Daniels threw for 6,025 yards and 32 touchdowns during his three seasons as Arizona

5:13 PM ET A proposed rule change would allow conferences to appeal targeting fouls that were called in the second half of games in order to avoid the carryover penalty of sitting out the first half of the next game, the NCAA Football Rules Committee announced on Friday. The committee, which began meeting on Wednesday,

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff On Aug. 24, the commissioners of the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 held a joint video conference to announce the Alliance, a new partnership between three of the five most powerful conferences in college athletics. The launch generated immediate reaction — and memes from “The Office” — and set expectations

7:00 AM ET Bryce Young finished his first season as Alabama‘s full-time starting quarterback with the second-most passing touchdowns (47) and yards (4,872) in the FBS en route to the 2021 Heisman Trophy. But will he repeat? Not if Ohio State standout C.J. Stroud has anything to say about it. Stroud is coming off a

10:36 PM ET MIAMI — A judge ruled Wednesday to grant bond and allow the release of former Miami player Rashaun Jones from custody pending his trial on charges that he murdered teammate Bryan Pata in 2006. Florida 11th Circuit Court Judge Cristina Miranda stated that after three days of witness testimony the state proved

5:09 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — Spencer Rattler is not sure how things went sideways when he was Oklahoma‘s quarterback, he just knows it was time for a reset and believes he’s found it at South Carolina. “I feel totally refreshed to be at a new university, a great university like this,” Rattler

6:11 PM ET Highly touted quarterback Cade Klubnik, the No. 28 recruit in the country in 2022, took his first official snaps for Clemson on Wednesday, as the Tigers opened spring practice with a potential quarterback battle looming. But head coach Dabo Swinney said incumbent D.J. Uiagalelei begins spring in far better shape — mentally

3:00 PM ET David Wilson Texas A&M wide receiver Demond Demas was arrested for assault/family violence after allegedly injuring his girlfriend Saturday, according to a probable cause affidavit from the Brazos County Sheriff’s office. According to the affidavit, Demas allegedly initiated a verbal argument with his girlfriend before it escalated into a physical altercation, with

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff Our college football reporters recently examined the biggest strength and the biggest question mark for every team in our 2022 Way-Too-Early Top 25. Now we turn our attention to spring practices and what to watch for as position battles get underway and teams try to fill some missing gaps and

9:24 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Kent Waldrep, a TCU running back who became an advocate for people with disabilities after a spinal injury during a game left him paralyzed, has died. He was 67. His mother, Denise Waldrep, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that her son had died Sunday in Natchitoches,

6:46 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Art Briles informed Grambling State University on Monday that he’ll no longer be the school’s offensive coordinator, saying in a statement obtained by ESPN that he did not want to be a “distraction” to the team. Briles’ decision comes after the hire by first-year coach Hue Jackson was met with

7:00 AM ET The American Athletic Conference has been the best of the Group of 5 conferences, on average, for a couple of reasons. It usually has the best teams, of course — six of the group’s eight New Year’s Six bowl bids have gone to AAC champions since the College Football Playoff and NY6

7:54 PM ET Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — Casey Thompson, who started 10 games and passed for 24 touchdowns for Texas last season, opened Nebraska‘s spring practice Monday as its No. 1 quarterback. “I think he’s the best one right now,” new offensive coordinator Mark Whipple said. “That might change tomorrow. There’s nothing set in

11:39 AM ET Grambling State football coach Hue Jackson defended his hiring of new offensive coordinator Art Briles on Monday, after the school received criticism for the move because of campus-wide sexual assault allegations that led to an independent investigation and Briles’ firing at Baylor in 2016. In a statement that was released on the

3:10 AM ET Associated Press The Big Ten plans to take a group of athletes from member schools on a summer trip to civil rights sites in Alabama as part of a conference-wide program exploring race relations and social justice. The July 15-17 trip will be funded by the Big Ten and is the first

8:36 PM ET Associated Press The NCAA has relaxed the amount of THC an athlete can have to trigger a positive test, and is recommending less-stringent penalties for athletes who do test positive for marijuana. The threshold levels for THC, which is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, will go from 35 nanograms per milliliter to

2:09 PM ET San Francisco 49ers assistant Rich Scangarello was named the new offensive coordinator for the Kentucky Wildcats, the school announced on Friday. Scangarello agreed to a three-year contract, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Scangarello, 49, spent last season as the 49ers’ quarterbacks coach — his second stint with the team — after stops