3:41 AM ET Associated Press JUPITER, Fla. — For a few hours at spring training, Dabo Swinney became the Kyler Murray of coaching. Swinney slipped away from Clemson’s spring football practice to speak to the St. Louis Cardinals and take a little batting practice Sunday. “Kyler Murray’s not the only guy with conflicts,” Swinney said,

6:24 PM ET Georgia secured a commitment from ESPN Junior 300 quarterback Carson Beck on Sunday, when Beck chose the Dawgs over Florida. Ranked No. 83 overall in the 2020 class, he is the No. 4-ranked pocket-passer and the No. 12-ranked recruit from the state of Florida. Beating out the Gators for a top recruit

10:32 AM ET Wake Forest has hired John Currie as athletic director to replace longtime AD Ron Wellman, who is retiring, the school announced Sunday. Wellman’s retirement is effective May 1, when Currie will take over the position. Currie, a Wake Forest alumnus, served as athletic director at Kansas State from 2009 to 2017 and

1:16 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley was asked at the NFL’s scouting combine to also work out with the defensive backs, but has declined to do that, telling all involved he is concentrating on being a quarterback as he heads into next month’s draft, sources told ESPN. McSorley, who is working

11:19 AM ET ESPN News Services Former Baylor football player Shawn Oakman says he wants to try to enter the NFL after being acquitted of sexual assault. “I want to play football at the highest level and just really finally get my chance,” Oakman told KWTX-TV on Friday. Now 26, Oakman says he has been

4:23 PM ET The NCAA Football Rules Committee announced a few small rule-change proposals for the 2019 season on Friday, aimed mostly at improving player safety. If one of the proposals is adopted, which is expected, players who commit a second targeting penalty in a season will be forced to miss the rest of that

2:55 PM ET Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina quarterback Nathan Elliott is leaving the school to become a graduate assistant at Arkansas State. In a statement Friday, Elliott called it a difficult decision. He thanked North Carolina fans and former coach Larry Fedora for “giving this kid from a small Texas town

6:43 PM ET ESPN news services A Texas jury has found former Baylor defensive end Shawn Oakman not guilty of raping another student in 2016. The McLennan County jury deliberated about two hours in Waco on Thursday before acquitting the 26-year-old Oakman of sexual assault. Oakman is the Bears’ career leader in sacks. The woman

9:54 AM ET Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Kyler Murray might have silenced some critics without running or throwing a ball — measuring 5-foot-10 1/8 inches at the NFL combine in Indianapolis. There had been rumblings that he was shorter than the 5-10 he had been listed at, but he’s actually a little bit taller. He weighed

9:12 AM ET Sitting inside the visitor’s locker room at AT&T Stadium on the heels of a 30-3 blowout loss this past December, Notre Dame’s players and coaches said they had no doubts about the program’s ability to compete for national championships in the future. The Fighting Irish have lost by a combined 55 points