The Houston Nutt era suffered its first true black eye Saturday, when Ole Miss inexplicably lost to Jacksonville State 49-48 in double overtime. It’s the first time the Rebels have lost to a Football Championship Subdivision team in school history.
Prominent Oklahoma State booster T. Boone Pickens says he’s pleased with the performance of football coach Mike Gundy and is predicting an eight-win season for the Cowboys.
A Boise State assistant football coach has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and won’t make the trip to the Broncos’ season opener in the Washington, D.C., area.
Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops suggests giving amnesty to college athletes who expose shady agents.
BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe says the Cougars’ move to independence in football has plenty of risks and, he hopes, even bigger rewards.
The Big Ten will announce its much-anticipated, two six-team divisional setup for the 2011-12 season later Wednesday, with traditional football powers Ohio State and Michigan in opposing divisions and new member Nebraska aligned with the Wolverines.
Alabama coach Nick Saban says Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram was playing the best football of his Crimson Tide career before his injury.
Miami has entered talks about playing a football game at Yankee Stadium in 2013.
BYU will leave the Mountain West Conference for the 2011-12 season, go independent in football and join the WCC in all other sports, notably men’s basketball, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation told ESPN.com.
ESPN college football analyst Lee Corso will receive the National College Football Awards Association 2010 Contributions to College Football award in December.
Former Ohio State star Maurice Clarett has signed a one-year contract with the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League.
SMU football coach June Jones signs two-year contract extension.
North Carolina expanded the inquiry into its football program to include allegations of academic impropriety involving a former tutor writing papers for players, sources said Thursday.
Texas Tech athletic director Gerald Myers is retiring after a 14-year tenure that included the firing of football coach Mike Leach and the final days of Bob Knight’s basketball coaching career.
Charlotte has scheduled its first football opponent.
The University of Southern California was stripped of its 2004 Grantland Rice Trophy and won’t be considered for the 2010 award following the season, the Football Writers Association of American announced Thursday.
A northwest Arkansas radio station has hired former Razorbacks running back Michael Smith to replace a reporter who was fired after she wore a Florida Gators hat to a Razorbacks’ football news conference.
Maurice Clarett received permission Wednesday to leave Ohio to try out for the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League.
Second-ranked Ohio State will be led by six captains this season for only the second time in 121 seasons of playing football.
An Oregon State University football player has been dismissed from the team after police say they found him naked and intoxicated in a stranger’s home and had to use stun guns to take him into custody.
A newly released NCAA report shows that just 14 of the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision schools made money from campus athletics in the 2009 fiscal year, down from 25 the year before.
Former Ohio State tailback Maurice Clarett is asking a judge to allow him to travel to try out with a football team.
The usual throng of reporters was back in the Nebraska football complex Saturday, marking an end to coach Bo Pelini’s three-day media lockout.
Ohio State sophomore offensive tackle Marcus Hall will redshirt the 2010 football season, due to academic problems.
BYU was so close to joining the WAC as an affiliate member and go independent in football that the league had done a mock 2011 football schedule with the Cougars before Fresno State and Nevada joined the MWC.
College football star and former NFL player Johnny Bailey has died.
Former University of Oregon football coach Mike Bellotti disputed a report in Friday’s Portland Oregonian that former Duck running back LeGarrette Blount punched him during a practice skirmish two years ago.
Texas and BYU have agreed have agreed to a home-and-home football series for the 2013 and 2014 seasons, the two schools announced Thursday.
Ara Parseghian knows a thing or two about winning football games at Notre Dame and the 87-year-old former Fighting Irish coach delivered a message to the current team Thursday.
Former Arkansas offensive lineman Brandon Burlsworth will be honored with a new national award handed out to a college football player who started his career as a walk-on.
The athletic directors are new at Marshall and West Virginia but the rhetoric remains the same over whether a series should continue between the state’s only Football Bowl Subdivision teams.
Brown, No. 7 in the ESPNU 150 and the nation’s No. 2 RB, picks Horns over Bama
Beating Florida for Wilder, Seminoles suddenly recruit like it’s the 1990s again
BYU is moving closer to leaving the Mountain West, becoming a football independent and re-joining the WAC in all other sports by a Sept. 1 deadline to withdraw from the MWC for the 2011 season, multiple sources said Wednesday.
Rival Utah’s move to the Pac-10 has given BYU the impetus to seriously explore the possibility of leaving the Mountain West, going independent in football and re-joining the WAC in all other sports, multiple sources told ESPN.com Tuesday.
The lawyer for a man accused of fatally stabbing University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard wants to take the case to trial this fall.
Former USC running backs coach Todd McNair, who was a key figure in the NCAA investigation that led to football sanctions against the Trojans, is appealing the NCAA’s findings and sanctions against him, claiming misconduct by the body’s investigators.
The 2010 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl will be played at SMU’s Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas because of renovations to TCU’s football stadium after this season, it was announced Tuesday.
Former Clemson quarterback Willy Korn’s attempt at playing at another Football Bowl Subdivision program was short lived.
Renovations to TCU’s football stadium will shift the 2010 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl from Fort Worth to Dallas for at least one year, a source said Monday.
