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11:00 AM ET After months of lengthy debates and multiple meetings about expansion, the College Football Playoff will remain at four teams through the end of its current 12-year contract, which expires following the 2025 season, CFP executive director Bill Hancock told ESPN on Friday. By choosing to remain at four teams for four more

6:31 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN After one season of college athletes being allowed to profit off their name, image and likeness, the NCAA announced Friday afternoon that it will begin a review of NIL policies. The Division I Board of Directors met virtually Friday and agreed to task the Division I Council with a review

4:30 PM ET A week after getting the green light to continue as Auburn‘s coach, Bryan Harsin has promoted two veteran assistants into coordinator roles. Eric Kiesau is Auburn’s new offensive coordinator after serving as the football program’s wide receivers coach for most of the 2021 season. Kiesau, who spent four seasons under Harsin at

4:45 PM ET For more than eight months, leaders of the College Football Playoff have been unable to unanimously agree on what the future format of the sport’s postseason should look like. This week, they finally agreed to disagree, recommitting to the four-team format for the next four years. Friday’s news ended all speculation about

7:00 AM ET College football makes itself hard to love sometimes. The money has primarily gone to all the wrong places — coaches’ salaries and expensive locker room features have increased sharply during an era of skyrocketing revenues, and players weren’t allowed to profit off anything until about eight months ago. (And in the meantime,

9:14 AM ET Arizona State quarterback Jayden Daniels has entered the transfer portal only a few months after declaring he would return to play for the Sun Devils in 2022. Daniels, who posted a video on social media on Dec. 2 to announce he would return for his fourth season, has not publicly announced his

5:19 PM ET Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — Injured Clemson starting offensive lineman Hunter Rayburn is moving to the Tigers coaching staff. Rayburn will become a student coach on Dabo Swinney’s staff this upcming season because of neck problems, school spokesman Ross Taylor said Thursday. Rayburn is a 6-foot-4, 320-pound junior from Pensacola, Florida. He

3:19 PM ET Ohio State kept one of the top in-state football prospects home on Thursday when ESPN Junior 300 offensive lineman Luke Montgomery committed to the Buckeyes. Montgomery had a top list that included Ohio State, Michigan, Clemson, Oklahoma and Notre Dame. He’s the No. 69 prospect overall and a 6-foot-5, 260-pound lineman from

7:00 AM ET The transfer portal has become an everyday part of college football roster management as more players switch teams each season. With more and more players opting to transfer, we have seen quite a few schools lose key contributors this offseason. Looking at the schools that have seen the most transfers since the

11:20 PM ET UCLA is nearing an agreement to make veteran college and NFL assistant Bill McGovern as its next defensive coordinator, sources confirmed to ESPN. McGovern, who worked for Bruins coach Chip Kelly with the Philadelphia Eagles from 2013 to 2015, spent last season as inside linebackers coach for the Chicago Bears. He spent

7:00 AM ET The 2021 NFL season is over, after the Los Angeles Rams won Super Bowl LVI on Sunday night. The Rams don’t currently have a first-round pick in the 2022 NFL draft, dealing it away to help land quarterback Matthew Stafford. It will be the sixth straight draft in which they relax on

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff FOR MORE THAN a month, speculation swirled about Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s future. In the days leading up to his highly publicized interview with the Minnesota Vikings on Feb. 2, Harbaugh’s actions convinced many inside Michigan’s program he would leave if given the chance. “He’s gone!” one staffer said before

4:58 PM ET The ongoing dispute between Conference USA and three of its schools was heightened Tuesday when the league released its football schedule followed immediately by a pledge to “exhaust all necessary legal actions” to ensure outgoing members Marshall, Old Dominion and Southern Miss stick around long enough to participate in it this fall.

12:24 PM ET After leading Baylor to a Big 12 title and a Sugar Bowl championship in his second season, coach Dave Aranda has finalized a new contract through the 2029 season. Aranda, 45, won AP Big 12 Coach of the Year honors in 2021, when Baylor went 12-2 and beat Ole Miss to win

11:20 AM ET Pete Thamel Chris Low Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Cincinnati Bengals assistant Al Golden has accepted the job to become Notre Dame’s new defensive coordinator, sources told ESPN. He’s agreed to a three-year deal, which sources say should be finalized

6:15 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN After a transformative year that saw Cincinnati crash the College Football Playoff and earn an invitation to the Big 12, the school is ramping up investment in coach Luke Fickell and his football staff. A source confirmed to ESPN on Monday that Fickell has agreed to a new contract through

4:07 PM ET In an “open letter to college football” on Monday, American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco pushed back against the Atlantic Coast Conference’s reasons for not wanting to expand the four-team College Football Playoff right now, and issued rebuttals for other key obstacles that have slowed down the approval process for a 12-team

12:13 PM ET The Denver Broncos are expected to hire Morgan State coach Tyrone Wheatley, a former Michigan and NFL running back, to coach running backs, sources told ESPN. Wheatley, 50, has led Morgan State, an HBCU program, the last three years, although the team did not play in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.