7:07 PM ET CHICAGO — University of Minnesota placeholder and four-time cancer survivor Casey O’Brien delivered the keynote speech at the Big Ten Football Kickoff Luncheon on Friday. O’Brien, a sophomore, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, an extremely rare form of bone cancer. It’s the same type of cancer that eventually claimed the life of Purdue

1:03 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Matt Millen will be back in a broadcast booth when the coming college football season begins, new heart and all. The former Penn State star who played on four Super Bowl championship teams says his heart transplant surgery hasn’t done much to disrupt his life or appetite to

12:49 PM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Defending SEC champion Alabama is the favorite to once again beat Georgia in the title game, according to a preseason media poll. The Crimson Tide were selected by 203 of 260 voters this week at SEC media days in results released Friday. Georgia, which lost to Alabama

12:01 PM ET CHICAGO — As Ryan Day prepares for his first season as coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes, he’s following advice from another young coach who entered a similar situation in 2017: Oklahoma‘s Lincoln Riley. Day called Riley “a great resource” during his preparation to succeed Urban Meyer with the Buckeyes, and the

11:06 AM ET CHICAGO — Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh stood by comments made Thursday in which he said controversy has followed former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer “everywhere he’s been.” “I don’t think it was anything that was new, or anything of a bombshell,” Harbaugh said during Day 2 of Big Ten media days on

10:20 AM ET Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former New York Giants offensive lineman Mitch Petrus has died in Arkansas of apparent heat stroke, officials said. He was 32. Pulaski County Coroner Gerone Hobbs says Petrus died Thursday night at a North Little Rock hospital. He says Petrus had worked outside all day at

6:40 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — UNLV offensive coordinator Barney Cotton is awaiting a heart transplant and will not coach on the field this season. Rebels coach Tony Sanchez said Thursday in a news release from the school that the 62-year-old Cotton is in Omaha, Nebraska, and on a waiting list to receive

5:38 PM ET Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh took a dig Thursday at former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer, who retired last season in the wake of a scandal involving domestic violence allegations against a former assistant. “Urban Meyer’s had a winning record. Really phenomenal record everywhere he’s been,” Harbaugh said on The Athletic’s “The TK

4:12 PM ET CHICAGO — Heading into his second year as Nebraska‘s coach, Scott Frost appears to be very happy with where sophomore quarterback Adrian Martinez is entering preseason camp. “I wouldn’t trade our guy for anybody in the country at that position, at the quarterback position,” Frost said at Big Ten media days Thursday.

12:15 AM ET Texas added one of the top in-state prospects to its recruiting class on Monday when ESPN 300 defensive end Vernon Broughton committed to the Longhorns. The No. 79-ranked recruit overall chose Texas over Texas A&M in what Broughton says was a back-and-forth recruitment between the two schools. “The coaches, getting to know