3:11 PM ET Multiple Vanderbilt football players, including senior linebacker and leading tackler Dimitri Moore, have informed coach Derek Mason that they plan to opt out this season over concerns about the coronavirus. The 14 SEC schools, including Vanderbilt, are scheduled to begin practice on Monday. “We’ve had five or six opt out, and I

5:52 PM ET Quarterback Quinn Ewers, the No. 1-ranked prospect in the 2022 ESPN Junior 300, is staying home for college. The Southlake Carroll quarterback committed to Texas over Oklahoma and Ohio State on Friday, becoming by far the biggest recruiting win for the Longhorns in the Tom Herman era. “Playing for Texas has been

5:24 PM ET Frustrated parents of football players at Ohio State and Iowa are speaking out against the Big Ten’s decision to postpone the football season to the spring, questioning the process and the conference leadership, and are asking the league for further consideration and input. Iowa parents on Friday hand-delivered a letter to the

6:22 PM ET The entirety of NCAA FCS will not compete in conference sports this fall, as the Ohio Valley Conference board of presidents made its decision official via a Friday vote, sources told ESPN. However, the OVC did leave the door open for its teams to play as many as four nonconference football games

2:44 PM ET With the status of high school football in Ohio still up in the air, the top-ranked prospect in the country has decided he will forgo his senior season and train for early enrollment at Ohio State. Jack Sawyer, a 6-foot-5, 230-pound defensive end at Pickerington North High School, has been committed to

Aug 13, 2020 Nebraska has ended speculation about breaking from the Big Ten’s plan to postpone fall football. “The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a fully committed member of the Big Ten Conference,” chancellor Ronnie Green and president Ted Carter said in a statement. “It is an unparalleled athletic and academic alliance.” A joint statement from

8:44 PM ET For the third time in little more than a week, Syracuse football players opted not to practice because of concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. Syracuse.com reported that players want the school to perform more routine testing during fall camp. A Syracuse spokesman confirmed the team did not hold its scheduled practice Thursday.

4:00 PM ET As it typically does each summer, the College Football Playoff on Thursday announced recusals for 10 of its 13 selection committee members. However, in a preseason that continues to be unlike any other, four of them have asterisks by their names because their affiliated schools aren’t playing this fall — including committee

11:03 AM ET Like many Big Ten coaches, Purdue’s Jeff Brohm was disappointed and angry upon learning the league had postponed the fall football season. He channeled those emotions into crafting a detailed plan for a spring season. Brohm’s proposal outlines an eight-game season beginning Feb. 27 and finishing April 17, with postseason play wrapping

3:45 PM ET Sam Khan Jr. Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers Texas A&M and the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Houston. Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University A day after his league decided to proceed toward a fall football