9:56 AM ET Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour, who has led the department since 2014, will retire this summer, it was announced Wednesday. Barbour, 62, arrived at Penn State in July 2014 after a 10-year tenure as athletic director at Cal. She also spent 1996 to 1999 as Tulane’s athletic director before a long

Mar 16, 2022 Now is when it gets good. With teams playing their third and fourth games of the tournament, depth and talent usually win out. We’re down to 16 teams (AKA the Sweet 16) in ESPN’s 2022 fictional NCAA football tournament. The early rounds have already provided some memorable moments, including game-winning field goals,

4:51 PM ET Michigan has hired Milan (Mimi) Bolden-Morris, who recently finished her basketball career at Georgetown, to serve as a graduate assistant working with the Wolverines quarterbacks. Bolden-Morris, the sister of Michigan senior defensive end Mike Morris, will begin her new job June 1. She is the first woman to be a graduate assistant

4:51 PM ET Michigan has hired Milan (Mimi) Bolden-Morris as the first woman to be a graduate assistant coach at a Power 5 program, according to a news release from the school Tuesday. Bolden-Morris, who recently finished her basketball career at Georgetown, will begin working with Michigan’s quarterbacks on June 1. She is the sister

3:37 PM ET Georgia opened spring practice Tuesday with coach Kirby Smart delivering a blunt assessment about the makeup of his team given all the attrition that took place after winning the national championship in January. “A lot of holes,” Smart said. “There are a lot of questions to be answered from our team for

7:00 AM ET Nobody in college football’s upper hierarchy can seem to agree on anything remotely related to playoff expansion, so we’ll do it for them. Truth is we’ve been way ahead of the curve for years. So once again, we’ll count it down from 64 teams (not just four), and that way, just about

Mar 15, 2022 There are plenty of obvious hazards to starting a full offseason preview series in February. Players get hurt, players transfer, things change. But at least coaching changes usually don’t play a role. Usually. When I wrote the MAC East preview last March, Lance Leipold’s Buffalo Bulls and Frank Solich’s Ohio Bobcats appeared

10:35 PM ET SMU running back Ulysses Bentley IV, who led the American Athletic Conference in rushing in 2020 and started 14 games during the past two seasons, is set to enter the transfer portal. First-year Mustangs coach Rhett Lashlee told ESPN on Monday that he met with Bentley on Friday and wishes the running

9:11 PM ET AUBURN, Ala. — While Auburn coach Bryan Harsin would have preferred to avoid an internal inquiry into his handling of the football program and the rampant speculation about his job security earlier this year, he said on Monday that he’s not bitter that it happened. “I wouldn’t say that anybody really wants

11:59 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Former Notre Dame tight end George Takacs has transferred to Boston College, sources told ESPN. He’s enrolled in school and will be eligible in 2022 as a graduate transfer. Takacs started five games for the Irish in 2021 and played 497 snaps. Takacs caught three passes for 36 yards and