Kansas picks up a major transfer at WR
Kansas’ coaches know they need as much help as possible to fix an ailing passing game, and the Jayhawks are hoping they got a big, immediate boost Wednesday. From the Associated Press: Wide receiver Nick Harwell is transferring to Kansas after spending three seasons at Miami of Ohio, where he set the school record with [...]
Kentucky joins top 25 recruiting classes
Kentucky has entered the ranks of ESPN’s top 25 recruiting classes for 2014, giving the SEC 10 teams in the top 25. Keep in mind that these rankings are extremely fluid and will certainly change as we get closer to the 2014 signing day. Prospects will invariably change their minds, while other schools will move [...]
Video: Spring MVP — Clemson Tigers
Heather Dinich Dinich covered ACC and Big Ten football for five seasons before joining ESPN.com in November 2007. She’s an Indiana grad but somehow her favorite day of the week is Saturday. Send questions and comments » Andrea Adelson Adelson joined ESPN.com in 2010 after spending time as a college football columnist at The Orlando [...]
Video: One good thing — Stanford
Ted Miller Miller has been covering college football since 1997, starting with Auburn and then heading West to Washington and the Pac-12. His columns for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer won first place in the 2007 APSE Best Writing contest. The Atlanta native and University of Richmond graduate presently lives with his wife in Scottsdale, Ariz. Send [...]
Mailbag: Tackling top-10 player complaints
We just finished our list of the 10 best Big 12 players of all time, and I heard from plenty of you who disagreed. I’ll tackle them all right here this morning. Thanks for your emails. Here’s where you can reach me if you’ve got more to say. We’ll have a normal Friday mailbag, so [...]
Oregon (finally) releases NCAA notice
Oregon decided this week to release its formal notice of allegations from the NCAA concerning the Willie Lyles investigation, which it received Dec. 5. Yes, the school is notoriously tardy with releasing information to the media. The notice, released in response to public-records requests and first reported by The Register-Guard, follows reports that Oregon already [...]
QBs here today, QBs gone tomorrow
May, 22, 2013 May 22 7:00 PM ET By Kevin Gemmell | ESPN.com Quarterbacks come and go for a variety of reasons. Some simply aren’t happy in a new state or in another part of the country. Others decide football isn’t the sport for them. Many feel their talents are being wasted on the bench. [...]
RecruitingNation links: Big Ten edition
Adam Rittenberg Rittenberg joined ESPN.com in 2008 after four years at the Arlington Heights (Ill.) Daily Herald, where he covered sports at Notre Dame, Northwestern, DePaul and several other colleges. He lives in Chicago. Send questions and comments » Brian Bennett Bennett joined ESPN.com in August 2008 after nine years at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, [...]
Bowl schedule announced
Mark your calendars. The 2013-2014 bowl schedule has been announced (of course, participants are pending). Once again the Pac-12 will kick off the bowl season against a Mountain West team on Sat. Dec. 21 at 2 p.m. ET in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl in Albuquerque on ESPN. And settle in for what will be [...]
Accuracy of post-spring power rankings?
If you pay attention to this blog, you’ve surely seen our Big 12 post-spring power rankings for 2013. But seven months later at the end of the Big 12′s regular season, how accurate do they end up being? During the season, power rankings are more of an exercise in taking the temperature of every team [...]