3:50 PM ET Associated Press NCAA coordinator of football officials Rogers Redding will retire after this season after holding the position since 2011. Redding began his college officiating career in the Southwest Conference in 1988 and later served as coordinator of officials for the Southeastern Conference. He first moved into a national role in 2008

11:09 AM ET BOONE, N.C. — These are good days to be in Boone, North Carolina. Evenings are cool but not cold, the days warm but not hot. The Blue Ridge Mountains aren’t blue at all. They are in peak autumn Technicolor, splattered with orange, red and even a little purple. But during these finest

8:08 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Sam Jankovich, the Miami Hurricanes‘ athletic director when they won their first three national championships in football, has died. He was 85. Jankovich died Wednesday in his native Butte, Montana. He was the Hurricanes’ athletic director from 1983 to 1990 and hired coaches Jimmy Johnson and Dennis Erickson,

5:02 PM ET Associated Press OPELIKA, Ala. –The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University’s oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn’t paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn’t show up for a hearing before Lee

1:11 PM ET Auburn backup quarterback Joey Gatewood has left the team and entered the transfer portal, Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said Wednesday. Gatewood’s departure took place Tuesday after he met with Tigers coaches. “He’s just at a point now where he wants to be a starting quarterback and feels like he needs to start

8:44 PM ET Penn State starting defensive tackle Antonio Shelton will be suspended for the Nittany Lions’ Nov. 9 game against Minnesota, coach James Franklin announced Tuesday night. Shelton appeared to spit on a Michigan State player and was ejected at the 7:30 mark of the fourth quarter against the Spartans on Saturday. The Big

3:16 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — Starting tailback Rico Dowdle will miss his second straight game for South Carolina as he recovers from a sprained right knee. Gamecocks coach Will Muschamp says Dowdle won’t play Saturday against Vanderbilt after missing last week’s 41-21 loss at Tennessee. Dowdle, a senior from Asheville, North Carolina,

1:50 PM ET The NCAA’s top decision-makers voted unanimously Tuesday to allow college athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness “in a manner consistent with the collegiate model.” The board directed the three separate divisions of college sports to immediately begin figuring out how to update their rules in a way that maintains

5:14 PM ET The NCAA’s top decision makers meet Tuesday in Atlanta for their first formal discussion about modifying rules that currently prohibit college athletes from making money by selling the rights to their names, images or likenesses. The association’s long-held policy regarding that aspect of amateurism is under increasing pressure from state and federal

3:20 PM ET Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska coach Scott Frost said Monday he doesn’t know what prompted Indiana athletic director Fred Glass to say the Cornhuskers’ staff doesn’t respect the Hoosiers’ football program. Glass told the Indianapolis Star after the Hoosiers’ 38-31 win in Lincoln on Saturday the victory was “particularly gratifying, particularly