7:13 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN BATON ROUGE, La. — There’s a black Model X Tesla with falcon doors parked in the head coach’s spot outside the LSU football facility. Walk into Brian Kelly’s new office and there’s an electric purple carpet that assaults the senses. Throw Kelly’s name into a search engine and the critiques

6:51 PM ET NC State athletic director Boo Corrigan has received a one-year contract extension that takes him through 2027, the school announced on Friday. The new agreement includes increased compensation to slightly more than $1.2 million annually and a potential bonus of $300,000, according to a school spokesman. “Under Boo’s leadership, NC State Athletics

5:16 PM ET Rutgers athletic director Pat Hobbs has received a contract extension through June 2028. Hobbs, who has led Rutgers athletics for the past seven years, previously received a contract extension in 2017. His new agreement, approved Friday by Rutgers’ board, increases the cap on Hobbs’ potential bonus payments from $100,000 to $200,000. The

6:55 AM ET Jordan Reid Matt Miller Welcome to the final 2022 NFL draft notebook of the season. Analysts Jordan Reid and Matt Miller spill all the latest news and rumors from around the league surrounding what’s sure to be one of the most exciting draft classes in quite some time. With less than one

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The last big batch of college football spring games for 2022 will give us our first look at the seismic shifts wrought by the coaching carousel this offseason. Lincoln Riley at USC, Brian Kelly at LSU, Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame — not to mention Dan Lanning at Oregon and

7:00 AM ET For most college football teams across the FBS, spring practice is either over or will be winding down during the next couple of weeks. But the transfer portal, into which more than 3,600 FBS players have entered this year already, never stops churning. Coaches around the country will look to address weaknesses

10:41 AM ET One week before the NFL draft, two pass-rushers have distanced themselves from other prospects and emerged as the betting favorites to be the No. 1 overall pick at U.S. sportsbooks: Michigan’s Aidan Hutchinson and Georgia’s Travon Walker. Hutchinson has been the consensus favorite for the past two months and is currently listed

7:20 AM ET Jordan ReidESPN The best time of the year is officially upon us. With the 2022 NFL draft live from Las Vegas in just one week, I have finished looking over game tape and slotting my positional rankings. The Jacksonville Jaguars will be on the clock with the No. 1 overall pick for

7:37 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Nevada is in the market for a new athletic director. Athletic director Doug Knuth is out at the Mountain West Conference school, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The university was expected to make the change official later in the day. Knuth has been at Nevada since 2013, and his hires

6:35 AM ET Matt MillerESPN The 2022 NFL draft class has been called weak, but to the 262 players who will have their names called and lives changed next week, that doesn’t matter. And to the 32 general managers who will draft those players, it doesn’t matter either as they comb the country for impact