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7:29 PM ET Boise State football is hiring Oregon defensive coordinator Andy Avalos, a former player and assistant at the school, as its next head coach, sources confirmed to ESPN. Avalos, 39, spent the past two seasons at Oregon, helping the Ducks to consecutive Pac-12 championships. He came to Oregon from Boise State, where he

4:14 PM ET Jim Harbaugh has signed a contract extension to remain Michigan‘s coach, he told 247 Sports on Friday. A source confirmed to ESPN that it is a five-year extension that includes a lower base salary and many performance incentives. Harbaugh had one year left on his initial contract at Michigan, which paid the

7:00 AM ET Jackson He’s adventure as a foreign exchange student started ordinarily enough. A native of Shaoguan, China, a city in the Guangdong Province about 175 miles north of Hong Kong in the south of China, he was sent by his parents to San Diego, where the plan was to have him spend a

4:22 PM ET Ohio State coach Ryan Day said Thursday that his team is on track to play in the College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T against No. 1 Alabama on Monday despite ongoing coronavirus issues. In his first comments since reports earlier in the week that there were discussions about possibly delaying

7:55 PM ET As Alabama prepares for Monday’s national championship game, multiple Crimson Tide players were honored with individual awards Thursday at the Home Depot College Football Awards. As expected, Heisman Trophy winner DeVonta Smith won the Fred Biletnikoff Award (best receiver), while quarterback Mac Jones (Davey O’Brien) and left tackle Alex Leatherwood (Outland) were

8:00 AM ET ESPN staff Complaining about the College Football Playoff has become its own form of sport for many fan bases around the country — usually those outside Tuscaloosa, Alabama, central Ohio and the southernmost Carolina. This year, those grievances grew louder, as a pandemic challenged the typical criteria for the committee, new rules

7:00 AM ET The most disjointed college football season in history, played amid a global pandemic, is nearly over. No. 1 Alabama plays No. 3 Ohio State in Monday night’s College Football Playoff National Championship Presented by AT&T at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida (8 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App). And while the 2020

1:12 PM ET Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith and offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian did their best to keep the focus off their own career-defining moments as they prepare for Monday’s matchup with Ohio State in the College Football Playoff National Championship. Smith on Wednesday chose not to revel in becoming the first wide receiver to

1:14 PM ET Trevor Lawrence departs Clemson as one of its greatest players: A national champion, a record setter, a winner through and through. That he is the best player available for the 2021 NFL draft has never been disputed — not this year, not the year before, and not the year before that, when

7:00 AM ET College football in 2020 was unlike any other season in the sport’s history, and it brought unfamiliar images to the game: athletes publicly campaigning for racial equality; game delays, postponements and cancellations around COVID-19 issues; stadiums largely empty, with few to no fans or school bands; and so many masks. But the

7:56 PM ET The nearly three-decade drought of wide receivers failing to win the Heisman Trophy ended when Alabama senior DeVonta Smith was presented the award during a virtual ceremony on Tuesday night. Smith is the third player from Alabama to claim college football’s most prestigious award and the first receiver to win it since

12:00 AM ET On Tuesday, the Alabama Crimson Tide will likely have three of the top five finishers in Heisman Trophy voting. Alabama QB Mac Jones, receiver DeVonta Smith and running back Najee Harris join Ohio State QB Justin Fields and Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence as the final five trying to take home college football’s

7:00 AM ET There is no better season than 2020 — a pandemic season that saw shortened and staggered schedules affect the Heisman résumés of many top players — to hand the trophy to a wide receiver. Alabama star DeVonta Smith just won’t be the one to say it. Fresh off seven receptions for 130

9:38 PM ET Former Wisconsin starting quarterback Jack Coan is transferring to Notre Dame, he announced Monday night. “Extremely thankful for the opportunity. Let’s get to work! @NDFootball,” Coan wrote on Twitter. He will have one season of eligibility left. Coan, who started 18 games for Wisconsin in 2018 and 2019, suffered a foot injury

2:30 PM ET Ohio State coach Ryan Day said Monday that he expects quarterback Justin Fields to play in the national title game against Alabama next Monday night. Fields took a hit to his side late in the first half against Clemson in the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl, but stayed

5:00 PM ET A day before Clemson took the field in what ultimately became its final game of a tumultuous season, Dabo Swinney tried to explain how his team fought to get to that point. The Tigers reached another College Football Playoff semifinal after players pushed for social justice reform and to play through a

6:02 PM ET Texas senior quarterback Sam Ehlinger is bypassing his extra year of eligibility to enter the 2021 NFL draft, he announced Sunday. Ehlinger, who was a four-year starter for the Longhorns, made the announcement with a video on Twitter. Dear Longhorn Family pic.twitter.com/JPLIfN7dix — Sam Ehlinger (@sehlinger3) January 3, 2021 He leaves ranked

10:36 PM ET Journalists, particularly those who work in television, often talk about “The Get,” an important, difficult-to-land and exclusive interview. ESPN’s “Backstory” was created with the idea that, through hard reporting, we could still tell important stories with new reporting and fresh insights when we don’t always get access to the principal subjects. The