7:05 AM ET KYLE MCCORD CAME to Beaver Stadium to be impressed. A sophomore quarterback at St. Joseph’s Prep in Philadelphia, McCord was among a group of coveted recruits Penn State hosted on Sept. 30, 2018. A White Out crowd of 110,889 filled the stands as the No. 9 Nittany Lions took on No. 4
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10:55 AM ET Illinois quarterback Brandon Peters has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be out for 21 days, including Saturday’s game against Purdue, the school announced. Along with Peters, redshirt freshman tight end Griffin Moore also tested positive, while a number of other players will be out against Purdue and next week against Minnesota
10:40 AM ET In a matter of hours, the biggest question about Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence went from “Will he be back next year?” to “Will he be back next week?” It turns out, not even the leader of the “We Want To Play” movement could be protected from a highly contagious coronavirus, no matter
8:53 PM ET Clemson Tigers quarterback Trevor Lawrence has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss Saturday’s game against Boston College according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. Mike Garafolo of the NFL Network was the first to report the test result. Lawrence is a front-runner for the Heisman Trophy, and he has
2:00 PM ET The LSU-Auburn game that kicks off on Saturday afternoon (3:30 p.m. ET, CBS) will not be the most consequential in the history of the series. The teams are a combined 5-4 this season, and after beginning the season ranked sixth and 11th, respectively, in the AP poll, they are both currently unranked.
11:00 PM ET Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University David M. Hale Close ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Clemson superstar QB Trevor Lawrence has tested positive for the coronavirus and will miss Saturday’s game
8:30 AM ET It was Tuesday, July 30, 2002, when Coastal Carolina University dignitaries — the chancellor, the athletic director, the football coach, a couple of trustees — gathered beneath a pop-up tent in the sweltering Grand Strand, South Carolina, sun. They smiled from beneath their hard hats, stuck their ceremonial shovels into the sandy
10:52 PM ET Quarterback Quinn Ewers, the No. 1-ranked prospect in the 2022 recruiting class, announced Wednesday he had decommitted from Texas. Ewers is a 6-foot-3, 205-pound prospect from Carroll High School in Southlake, Texas, and had committed to the Longhorns in August. Ewers had been rethinking his decision, however, as more and more schools
11:34 AM ET Wisconsin’s football team has paused all team-related activities for at least seven days because of an increased number of COVID-19 cases, causing the No. 9 Badgers‘ game against Nebraska on Saturday to be canceled. The game will not be rescheduled. As of Wednesday morning, 12 people within the program had tested positive
1:00 PM ET Grant Morgan, Arkansas’ fifth-year senior linebacker, heard all the “flashy names” during the Razorbacks’ coaching search last December. As a former walk-on who had already played under two different coaching regimes at Arkansas, Morgan did his best to tune out the daily chatter. Then he got word that Arkansas was hiring Sam
2:18 PM ET ESPN News Services Clemson Tigers quarterback Trevor Lawrence is leaving the door open about his football future despite previously saying he planned on heading to the NFL after this, his junior season. The 6-foot-6 Lawrence, considered the likely No. 1 pick in next spring’s NFL draft, said he hasn’t ruled out returning
11:41 AM ET With only a small percentage of fans returning to college football games across the country, the financial impact is not only affecting the universities directly, but the businesses closely tied to these schools. The coronavirus has kept more and more people out of communities. As a result, smaller operations that once thrived
7:00 AM ET “The All-American Cuban Comet,” an SEC Storied documentary about Carlos Alvarez’s life and Hall of Fame career with the Florida Gators, debuts on SEC Network on Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. ET. Alvarez spoke with ESPN to discuss his story, his activism and the state of athlete empowerment ahead of the debut. “We’re
5:37 PM ET Saturday’s football game between New Mexico and San Jose State has been relocated to San Jose, California, as a result of public health orders in New Mexico related to the coronavirus pandemic. “We are thankful to everyone that worked behind the scenes to give our team an opportunity to compete,” New Mexico
7:00 AM ET Though it continues to serve as a reminder of college football’s embarrassingly disjointed and haphazard reaction to the challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic, the Royal Rumble-style introduction of one power conference at a time to the 2020 season — Here come the ACC and Big 12! Now here comes the SEC!
6:50 PM ET Alabama football added another ESPN 300 prospect to its No. 1-ranked recruiting class on Sunday when defensive back Ga’Quincy McKinstry announced his commitment to the Crimson Tide. McKinstry is a 6-foot, 175-pound prospect from Pinson Valley High School in Pinson, Alabama, and chose the Tide over Auburn and LSU. McKinstry is the
7:21 PM ET Wisconsin quarterback Graham Mertz, who had a record-setting first career start Friday, tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, according to the Wisconsin State Journal and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Both newspapers reported Sunday, citing sources, that Mertz had an antigen test come back positive. Mertz will take a polymerase chain reaction
2:19 PM ET Associated Press Indiana jumped into The Associated Press college football poll Sunday after pulling off the weekend’s most dramatic upset, and Ohio State moved up to No. 3 following a dominant season debut. Clemson remained a rock-solid No. 1, and Alabama was No. 2. The Tigers received 52 first-place votes and the