8:59 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In the weeks since former Georgia and Miami football coach Mark Richt announced he had Parkinson’s disease, hundreds of former players, coaches, friends and colleagues have reached out to him with messages of love and support. That has not stopped in Charlotte, where Richt is working for ACC Network

3:30 PM ET While some coaches and players around college football have come out against an expanded 12-team playoff, Mississippi State coach Mike Leach wants even more participation. Asked if 12 teams is enough, Leach said Wednesday, “It’s never enough.” “But I’ll tell you what,” he said, “Mark Keenum, our president, is on that committee,

3:33 PM ET Alabama coach Nick Saban hasn’t officially named Bryce Young the Crimson Tide’s starting quarterback, and yet Saban says that Young is already approaching $1 million in endorsement deals. According to reports, Saban told the Texas High School Coaches Association’s convention on Tuesday that Young, a sophomore, is due to make “ungodly numbers.”

7:53 PM ET Deion Sanders has gone by many names during his Hall of Fame NFL career, but now he just wants to be called “Coach.” Sanders, entering his second season as head coach of Jackson State, made that clear at Tuesday’s Southwestern Athletic Conference media day event after the second time he was addressed

3:09 PM ET CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said Tuesday neither he nor his players are in favor of an expanded 12-team College Football Playoff, but he also knows that change is inevitably coming to the format. In his first news conference since the CFP board of managers authorized commissioners to move forward

6:33 AM ET Wisconsin plays Wisconsin football. Iowa is Iowa. Northwestern does Northwestern things. Minnesota is increasingly Minnesota. The Big Ten West might have more proven entities than any other division in college football. But for such a reliable division, the West has been pretty difficult to forecast of late. In 2018, defending champion Wisconsin

2:22 PM ET HOOVER, Ala. — SEC media days kicked off on Monday with commissioner Greg Sankey announcing that six of the conference’s 14 football teams have reached an 80% mark for vaccinations. “That number needs to grow and grow rapidly,” Sankey said. “We have learned how to manage through a COVID environment, but we

4:05 PM ET HOOVER, Ala. — LSU coach Ed Orgeron hasn’t made a decision between starting Myles Brennan or Max Johnson, but he said he believes in both players and sees them as “championship quarterbacks.” Brennan, a senior, started LSU’s first three games last season, throwing for 1,112 yards and 11 touchdowns, before an abdominal

7:32 AM ET On the 10th anniversary of Nebraska‘s entrance into the Big Ten, interim athletic director Garrett Klassy officially began his term overseeing the Huskers’ program. The irony isn’t lost on those who have lived through a jagged first decade in the conference. Athletic director Bill Moos’ abrupt retirement last month isn’t the most

6:37 PM ET Oklahoma added its second Top 300 prospect in as many days from the Class of 2023 on Sunday when ESPN Junior 300 quarterback Malachi Nelson announced his commitment to the Sooners. Nelson is a 6-foot-3, 180-pound signal-caller from Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California, and he chose Oklahoma over Alabama,