4:21 PM ET At least one player from every Power 5 conference has opted out of the 2020 college football fall season. Some have listed safety concerns while others have chosen to focus on the NFL Draft rather than risk injury or illness. Here are the athletes who have opted out of the 2020 season.

11:46 PM ET Oklahoma is pausing practice for a week after a change in its schedule. Sooners’ coach Lincoln Riley announced Saturday night that the team’s training camp — which began July 31 — will stop temporarily as a result of their Aug. 29 season opener vs. Missouri State being moved to September. “We decided

11:48 AM ET Big Ten football programs will remain in the “acclimatization period” of practices, allowed to use helmets as their only piece of protective equipment until further notice, the league announced Saturday. The Big Ten said football programs will remain in the initial phase based on advice from its COVID-19 advisory groups. Programs around

8:54 PM ET Colorado State athletic director Joe Parker suspended all football-related activities indefinitely and asked school president Joyce McConnell to expand a recently announced investigation into the athletic department to include allegations of racism and verbal abuse in the football program. Parker said in a statement Friday that he decided to pause all football

10:25 PM ET The Missouri Valley Conference will move its football season to the spring because of the coronavirus pandemic. The league’s presidents council announced Friday that it will not conduct conference play this fall, instead moving to an eight-game spring schedule, with the expectation that the season will culminate with a spring Football Championship

5:16 PM ET Colorado State University, following allegations that student-athletes have been threatened and intimidated to ignore COVID-19 protocols, has hired the same firm that Iowa consulted to handle its recent racial bias probe. Husch Blackwell, a law firm based in Kansas City, Missouri, started its CSU investigation on Thursday after multiple players, coaches and

3:56 PM ET Associated Press Middle Tennessee is making up for losing three games by scheduling a very rare for football home-and-home with Troy. Blue Raiders athletic director Chris Massaro announced the agreement Thursday. Under the deal, Troy will visit Middle Tennessee either Sept. 5 or Sept. 19, when the Blue Raiders would have either

12:39 AM ET The Big Sky Conference is moving forward with plans to play an eight-game conference schedule in the spring due to conditions from the coronavirus pandemic, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN, a move that would likely result in the cancellation of the 2020 FCS playoffs. Six other FCS football conference have already cancelled

4:43 PM ET Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he will push to get the annual football game between Florida State and the University of Florida rescheduled, saying Thursday that keeping the famed rivalry going will be good for the state. He made his effort known during a discussion on high

9:59 PM ET Formal discussions between leaders from the Pac-12’s #WeAreUnited campaign and representatives for the conference could be begin as soon as Thursday. In an email, obtained by ESPN, sent to 12 student leaders from the group Wednesday just after 4 p.m. PT, Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott proposed a video conference for 8 p.m.