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3:45 PM ET Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — South Florida has been fined $10,000 and placed on three years’ probation for NCAA violations committed by the football and women’s basketball programs. The NCAA Committee on Infractions announced Friday its approval of a negotiated resolution with USF that ended an 18-month investigation. The school and NCAA

10:01 PM ET Jackson State coach Deion Sanders will miss his second consecutive game Saturday against rival Mississippi Valley State, the team confirmed to ESPN on Friday night. Sanders did not coach last week against Bethune-Cookman, tweeting that his doctors advised him not to work the game as he recovers from a recent foot surgery.

7:01 AM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Marty Smith Close ESPN ESPN NASCAR lead reporter Former NASCAR.com senior writer 15 years covering NASCAR ATHENS, Ga. — Shanee White was 14 years old when she became pregnant

11:05 AM ET Bowl Season executives who oversee the operation of 43 postseason bowl games sent a letter this week to hundreds of leaders in college football asking that any future College Football Playoff games in potential expansion models be held at bowl sites instead of on campus, according to a copy of the letter

7:58 PM ET Associated Press IRVING, Texas — Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford, Iowa State All-America tight end Charlie Kolar and Michigan star defensive end Aidan Hutchinson are among 13 finalists for the Campbell Trophy, which honors the top scholar-athlete in college football. The National Football Foundation chooses finalists from all levels of college football,

8:30 AM ET ESPN staff This week’s slate of games will be the final opportunity teams have to make an impression on the College Football Playoff committee before the first set of rankings come out. A number of teams are still in the hunt for those top four spots, but no game this weekend has

9:07 PM ET A lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and a hostile workplace environment against former Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez and the university was dismissed earlier this month, with both sides only paying their own costs and attorneys’ fees. The stipulated dismissal ends four years of legal issues involving Rodriguez, the university and a former administrative

5:52 PM ET The LSU Tigers have so few players available because of injuries that they will be unable to hold a full football practice Wednesday, coach Ed Orgeron told reporters during a conference call. Orgeron added that a previously scheduled scrimmage on Thursday won’t be able to take place either. LSU, which has the

12:54 PM ET Old Dominion will join the Sun Belt Conference no later than July 1, 2023, the conference announced on Wednesday, which will increase its membership to 14 schools. The Sun Belt presidents and chancellors voted unanimously to add ODU to the league, which includes current members Appalachian State, Little Rock, Arkansas State, Coastal

6:45 AM ET PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State student Katie Lane stood on the field at Martin Stadium and tried to keep it together. The last time she attended a Cougars game, she was with her dad. Now, she was accepting an honor on his behalf on Oct. 16, just weeks after he died at

2:16 PM ET Penn State coach James Franklin is aware of potential distractions about his future with the program but hasn’t seen them affect his team despite recent on-field struggles. Franklin’s name has been connected with the USC coaching vacancy since it opened in September. He also has been mentioned as a potential candidate at

1:16 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Steelers coach Mike Tomlin emphatically said Tuesday that he’s not contemplating a move to the college coaching ranks — not now, not ever. Tomlin shut down speculation he could be in the mix to fill college coaching vacancies at USC or LSU at the end of his weekly news conference

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

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

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

2:45 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

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