LSU's backup quarterback Colin Hurley was injured in an on-campus crash around 2:45 a.m. Thursday and found unresponsive.

[Dellenger] Significant news out today from the US Dept. of Ed, which classifies future revenue distributions from a school to an athlete for his/her NIL rights as “financial assistance,” which “must be made proportionately available to male and female athletes” or risk violating Title IX.

Texas A&M WR Micah Hudson Steps Away From Football

2053 Lineup Thread

Who is on your teams Mount Rushmore

[Thamel] This deal has been finalized. Tom Allen has agreed to a three-year deal at Clemson to be the defensive coordinator that starts at $1.9 million per year.

[Poloha] (Out of 134 teams,) Ohio State ranks No. 134 in opponent penalties per game (3.6). It also ranks 134th in opponent penalty yards per game (27.4).

[Gorney] Hearing a big-time name and portal receiver was possibly kicked off his new team. Doing some digging now.

[Mandel] We wondered how the Thursday/Friday semifinal time slots would fare. ND-Penn State (Thursday): 17.8 million. OSU-Texas (Friday): 20.6 million. Orange was lowest semi in 3 years. Cotton was higher than Texas-Washington last year (18.8M), lower than this year's Rose Bowl (21.1M).

Has any national champion in history ever missed their conference championship game and won the national title?

[NFLNetwork] The Bears are looking to interview Notre Dame HC Marcus Freeman for their HC opening, per Tom Pelissero.

2053 High 4-Star Recruiting #26-50

Lamar Jackson 1st half vs. Pittsburgh: 13/15, 144 yards, 2 TD, 64 rushing yards

Justin Herbert in the loss: 14/32, 1 Td, 4 INT, 4 sacks, 40.9 RTG.

[Highlight] Kamari Lassiter picks off Herbert for back-to-back interceptions

Miami will hire Corey Hetherman as defensive coordinator

[Game Thread] Texas vs. Ohio State (7:30 PM ET) 2nd Half

[Funhouse] Cowherd keeps defending Notre Dame's right to compete as an independent in football. His main argument? BYU and the service academies are also independents. It's really an excellent point, other than the fact that neither BYU nor any of the service academies are independents.

[Game Thread] Texas vs. Ohio State (7:30 PM ET)

[KEZI 9 News] An Oregon Ducks football player who is accused of pistol-whipping a person in California on Christmas Day was arrested in Springfield this week on a warrant from his hometown of Long Beach, California.

Georgia QB Carson Beck transfers to Miami

Georgia CB Daylen Everette will return for the 2025 season

[Barnett] Penn State managed the impossible in 2024. It played a 16-game season in which the narrative around the program moved 0.0 inches.

Why is the tendency to dog pile on the loser and not give the winner any credit?

[Powers] Any time you can have 2 less guys attempt to block the biggest kick of the season you simply have to do it