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5 hot-seat college football coaches whose schedules could doom them

Malzahn? Sumlin? Butch Jones? Whose road is the treacherous?

11 must-watch non-conference games for the 2017 college football season

Oklahoma-Ohio State, Bama-FSU and others. Circle them on the calendar now!

Duke Athletics Graciously Offers Full-Time Job That Will Pay Exactly Nothing

Would you like to work in college athletics? Do you want to be around an elite college basketball team?? Do you have an aversion to earning currency in exchange for your labor??? Boy, do we have a job for you.

Liberty Was So Desperate For An FBS Home Opener, It Agreed To Pay Old Dominion $1.32 Million

Liberty University will stop at nothing, it seems, to raise the profile of its football program. Last fall, it hired disgraced former Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw, who resigned from Baylor when it came out that he took part in covering up reports of rapes that involved university football players. That didn’t…

College Football Playoff will have Super Bowl-style halftime show

The marching bands aren’t going anywhere.

Former University of Minnesota football star graduates at 57

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Star University of Minnesota running back Marion Barber Jr. left the university in 1981 for the NFL, but never earned his degree.

APNewsBreak: Critical audit another blow to Iowa athletics

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) Missing iPads. Unnecessary travel. Improper credit card purchases.

Investigators meet with woman at center of UNC probe

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) A woman at the center of North Carolina’s multi-year academic scandal interviewed with NCAA investigators after previously declining to cooperate in the probe.

2017-18 college football bowl schedule: Dates, times, TV info

Bowl season will kick off on Saturday, Dec. 16 this year.

Western Illinois to face Oklahoma State in 2020

(STATS) – Western Illinois and Oklahoma State will meet for the first time in a game scheduled for Sept. 19, 2020 in Stillwater.

USF Football Player Dismissed After Second Arrest For Sexual Battery And False Imprisonment

According to the Tampa Bay Times, former South Florida defensive end LaDarrius Jackson was arrested on Wednesday for sexual battery and false imprisonment. He was also arrested on May 1 and charged with sexual battery and false imprisonment following a separate alleged incident.

LSU Coach Ed Orgeron Drinks Enough Caffeine To Harm A Normal Man

LSU football coach Ed Orgeron is an intense, occasionally incomprehensible man. So when he was on Dan Le Batard show’s this morning, he was asked an important question: How many Monster energy drinks does he consume a day, on average?

Jim McElwain Elaborates On How He's Not The Nude Man Humping A Shark

The University of Florida told Deadspin Monday that head football coach Jim McElwain was not the nude man humping a shark in a photo that made its way around the internet over the weekend. The coach was asked again about it Tuesday at a speaking engagement.

8 teams that could ride favorable schedules to the 2017 College Football Playoff

No schedule is easy – but these are easier than most, and could lead to a playoff berth

New York town settles with family of slain college student

BOSTON (AP) The family of a college football player shot and killed by a suburban New York police officer in 2010 has received a formal apology.

Bucs Draft Pick Had To Live Out Of His Car Because Of Dumb NCAA Rule

Stevie Tu’ikolovatu was just drafted in the seventh round by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after playing a year at USC, where he was the school’s 2016 defensive MVP and the MVP of the Rose Bowl. He also spent two months living out of a car and an SUV after he transferred from Utah—with his wife joining him after the first…

9 College Football Playoff contenders that could be doomed by tough schedules

It’s never too early to look ahead to next season – these teams could already be in trouble

The Audible Podcast: Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema | The new redshirt rule proposal | Coaches on the hot seat

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Arkansas Running Back Rawleigh Williams III Retires From Football After Second Neck Injury

Arkansas sophomore running back Rawleigh Williams III, the reigning regular season SEC leader in rushing yards, is retiring from football after sustaining a second neck injury; Williams made the announcement in a first-person account posted to the school’s athletic website.

Michigan State kicker celebrates graduation in the best way possible

Michael Geiger dropped a very familiar celebration as he received his diploma.

Jim McElwain Says That's Not Him Nude And Humping A Shark

Over the weekend, a photo of a grinning, completely naked man hugging a shark on a boat made the rounds. U.K.-based wildlife TV presenter Anneka Svenska was one of the more notable people who shared the photo:

How the new redshirt proposal could save college bowl games

If passed, would allow redshirted freshmen to play in the bowl game, thus countering the McCaffrey/Fournette effect.

Cardale Jones mocks himself with brilliant cap at Ohio State graduation

Jones has come a long way since his freshman year at Ohio State.

Cardale Jones Graduates Today From Ohio State

Bills quarterback Cardale Jones, who as a Buckeyes freshman tweeted—and then deleted—that “we ain’t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS” will graduate today from Ohio State with a bachelor’s degree in African-American Studies.

Tennessee's Josh Smith arrested for alleged domestic assault of roommate

A Tennessee athletic department spokesman said “we are aware of the situation.”

Penn State Kicker Announces He Is Receiving Treatment Again For Eating Disorder

Penn State kicker Joey Julius did not take part in Penn State’s Blue and White spring scrimmage on April 22 and missed a portion of the spring semester while he received further treatment at the McCallum Place Eating Disorder Center in St. Louis, the redshirt junior announced on Friday.

Tennessee Receiver Josh Smith Arrested For Domestic Assault of Male Roommate

Tennessee wide receiver Josh Smith was arrested last night for domestic assault of his roommate.

Penn State kicker again undergoing treatment for eating disorder

Joey Julius has returned to a clinic in St. Louis

It's Been 20 Years Since Peyton Manning, The Jets, And The Draft That Might Have Been

Twenty years ago, the NFL draft was marked by one of the most fateful quarterback choices in league history: Peyton Manning’s decision to stay at the University of Tennessee for his senior year. The Jets, who had the No. 1 pick in 1997, are still reeling from the aftershocks. And it all may have been because Bill…

ACC Officials Reassure Schools That ESPN Is Still Giving Them Their Own Network

In the wake of the highly publicized layoffs taking place at ESPN, officials within the ACC have spent the past week assuaging the concerns of conference members, reassuring them that the network still plans to move forward with the ACC Network.