Fan attendance has been a point of contention across the country amid high temperatures and uncompetitive buy games.
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Benchmark aims to streamline college athletics contracts, vendor agreements and game guarantees, helping programs maximize revenue amid evolving industry challenges.
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With six games between teams in the US LBM Coaches Poll, the schedule represents a shift to serious business.
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Several leaders of college athletes' rights organizations questioned if the Colorado football coach knew the details of the bill.
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The Duke Brotherhood struck once again this summer, landing Kager Knueppel, a top-15 prospect from the class of 2027 and the younger brother of former Blue Devil Kon Knueppel.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of South Carolina’s Social Media Insights Lab has created an analytics tool that measures in real time the social-media impact of major sports figures. You want to guess who is so far showing up shockingly well in those measurements? It’s new Kentucky football…
Mike Bianchi: ESPN’s ‘14 Days in Gainesville’ took me back to a time when fear and football collided
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ORLANDO, Fla. — There are certain moments from your life that don’t feel like memories. They feel like places. You can go years without visiting them, and then something happens — a picture, a voice, a song, an old newspaper article or piece of television footage — and suddenly you are right…
DALLAS — President Donald Trump will attend the first regular season meet up between No. 1 Texas and No. 14 Tennessee on Saturday, the White House told multiple news outlets Wednesday. The game kicks off at noon ET at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville as the marquee game following ESPN's "College Gameday." Both teams dubbed UT in their respective states are 3-0 this season, with Tennessee winning ...
STORRS, Conn. — The Protect College Sports Act has drawn passionate support, and just as passionate opposition as it works its way through congress. The bipartisan bill is meant to create unified standards for college athletics and end the perceived chaos of recent years. UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley weighed in after the Huskies’ practice Tuesday, offering support for the legislation. ...
To think you can avoid a date in the USA TODAY Sports court is foolish thinking. It’s just a matter of when you’ll have to show up.
N.C. State’s stunning loss to Vanderbilt was the kind of loss where people look at each other and don’t know what to say.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky’s third-quarter performance in a 31-21 road upset of then-No. 9 Texas A&M last Saturday left ESPN’s Greg McElroy marvelling. “For one quarter, Kentucky played football at a level that only two, maybe three programs in the SEC have played at in the last 10 years,” McElroy said on the “Always College Football” podcast. In breaking away from a 7-7 halftime tie, UK ...
FORT WORTH, Texas — Just in case, the excuses are in place, so it will not be Deion’s fault. Colorado is a hard job. They are not committed. We don’t have enough NIL money. Kids these days are different. Not enough support. The fourth year of one of college football’s great experiments is morphing into the self-serving money grab that it always was; the University of Colorado can only hope and ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — After waiting three years for his opportunity to start a college football game, quarterback Kenny Minchey’s first step into the national spotlight could not have gone much worse. In front of a sellout crowd at Kroger Field, Minchey threw a pick-6 and lost a fumble in a loss to Alabama. He completed 18 of 31 passes for 146 yards and one touchdown. He netted minus-19 rushing ...
IU football coach Curt Cignetti came equipped with stats on Northwestern, which comes to Memorial Stadium for a Big Ten opener.
Some fates are predestined. After all, there's a reason the so-called "Lane Kiffin Rule" found its way into the nearly 200-page Protect College Sports Act. It wasn't a pork-barrel project.
Mars Hill outgained Lenoir-Rhyne on the ground 127 yards to 16. The Lions also registered seven sacks and eight tackles for loss.
Duke football opened ACC play in the win column with a 35-7 victory over Stanford on Saturday, Sept. 19, at Wallace Wade Stadium. With the win, Duke moves to 3-0 on the year.
The North Carolina Tar Heels had every opportunity to win Saturday's football game at Clemson.
EVANSTON, Ill. — Northwestern University touts its new Ryan Field as “by far the nicest stadium or arena ever built in the Chicago area.” Zachary Taylor Davis, architect of Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park, would like a word. Hype is hype. But it’s not every day that we see a new sports arena in Chicago, and the new Ryan Field is the most architecturally distinguished sports facility since ...
College Football Power Rankings after Week 3 are starting to separate - but the top of the board still looks very different from the AP poll. Cam Mellor and Oliver Hodgkinson run through all 25, from SMU at No. 25 to Miami sitting alone at No. 1. Miami stays on top behind a loaded roster and…
All CJ Bailey had to do was waste six seconds and run out of the back of the end zone, or take a knee.
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Trinidad Chambliss kept looking toward the LSU sideline after Mississippi touchdowns.
Football still reigns supreme as the most popular sport in the U.S., but its grip might be loosening.
SAN DIEGO — Imagine an industry generating billions of dollars, powered by a specialized workforce whose employment status remains fiercely contested. Under mounting legal pressure, its powerful institutions begin making concessions. Workers receive a share of the revenue, and management establishes multimillion-dollar retention funds to discourage them from leaving. Then the institutions turn ...
LSU coach Lane Kiffin booed as he takes the field for Ole Miss vs LSU
Kevin Walsh and David Bearman discuss Indiana's football tactics with head coach Curt Cignetti and quarterback Josh Hoover to assess their 2026 potential.
Several general managers, FBS head coaches and agents told USA Today Sports that requests often begin before a player officially enters the NCAA transfer portal.
LUBBOCK, Texas — On a Friday night when one head coach may have one-upped the other in the eyes of the Texas High School Coaches Association, at least Houston and Texas Tech didn’t offend college football fans with their play on high school football’s holy night. Both put on a show in 13th-ranked Texas Tech’s 28-26 win over 22nd-ranked Houston before 60,229 at Galaxy Stadium, which, before a ...
If Dabo Swinney loses to Bill Belichick, we’ll be asking for the second time in three weeks: Can Clemson find a suitable offramp with a once-fantastic, but now failing, coach?