9:51 PM ET ESPN News Services Washington State‘s football team will be part of a series with HBO this season, the team confirmed on its Twitter account on Saturday. No details about the show have been released, but representatives from HBO paid a visit to the Washington State campus on Thursday and sent a camera

5:37 PM ET Liberty coach Hugh Freeze is recovering from surgery he underwent Friday at the University of Virginia Medical Center after a potentially life-threatening strand of staph infection entered his bloodstream and complicated what was already severe pain he was experiencing from a herniated disc in his back. Freeze, in his first season as

5:26 PM ET Texas receiver Joshua Moore faces misdemeanor gun charges after police arrested him carrying a loaded pistol in downtown Austin in early July. Moore, a sophomore from Yoakum, Texas, did not have a license to carry the gun and was released on a $6,000 bond. He has a court date scheduled for Thursday.

6:30 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina tight end Kiel Pollard is giving up football after a cyst was found on his spinal cord. The Gamecocks announced Pollard’s decision Friday. The 6-foot-1, 235-pound Pollard sustained a small fracture in his neck last week and was expected to miss up to six weeks.

5:43 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former South Carolina athletic director Mike McGee, a former Outland Trophy winner at Duke who hired Lou Holtz and Steve Spurrier to lead Gamecocks football, died Friday. He was 80. The University of South Carolina announced McGee’s death Friday, saying he died “peacefully” at his home in

12:08 PM ET After saying earlier this week that it would be “mandatory from here on out” for all scholarship players to become dues-paying members of the school’s booster club at a minimum of $50, Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns coach Billy Napier clarified to ESPN on Friday that players would not be mandated to do so.

6:17 PM ET Ten of the 13 members of the College Football Playoff selection committee are recused from voting for certain schools this season, according to a release on Thursday from the CFP. The recusal policy remains the same as it has in the past five years, stating, “A recused member is permitted to answer

5:54 PM ET LOS ANGELES — After a disappointing 2018 season, USC Trojans athletic director Lynn Swann said the expectation is for the program and coach Clay Helton to win a conference championship in 2019. “The expectation is that we’re going to win the Pac-12 championship,” Swann said after Thursday’s ribbon ceremony for the recent

3:37 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Georgia Tech quarterback Lucas Johnson has been granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA. Johnson can play three more college seasons after the decision announced Thursday. The 6-foot-3, 215-pound quarterback was granted the additional year after seeing action in just one of his first three seasons.

10:00 AM ET There’s a star-studded cast of receivers returning to college football this season, including perhaps the most loaded draft class at the position in recent memory. Some of the top-tier names belong to the nation’s powerhouse teams in Clemson and Alabama, but it’s actually the Big Ten that returns the most talented group