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Mel Kiper Jr. projects that ILB prospects Reuben Foster and Jarrad Davis will go in the first round of the 2017 draft.
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West Virginia will install a new high definition video board that will measure 3,616 square feet and be 37-feet high in the north end zone in time for the 2017 season. Here is a high-resolution rendering of what the video board will look like. The rendering is conceptual and subject to change. (Photo Courtesy: WVUSPORTS.com)
Where Harbaugh and other CFB coaches go for peace
Ever wonder where big-time college football coaches, from Harbaugh to Fisher to Saban, go to get away? Here's your insider's guide.
LSU's Miles mum on RB Hill's status for TCU
Les Miles is keeping TCU guessing about whether LSU running back Jeremy Hill, the Tigers' leading rusher last season, will play in Saturday night's season opener.
Kiper/McShay: CFB picks, NFL projections
ESPN Insiders Mel Kiper and Todd McShay offer picks for top teams and players, while also projecting the NFL stock and value of the nation's top players.
Steele: Picks for non-power conferences
Phil Steele offers up his picks to win the five non-power conferences, including the American Athletic, Mountain West, Conference USA, Mid-American and Sun Belt.
SEC coaches drop Manziel to second team
Despite being the reigning Heisman Trophy winner, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel was not named a first-team member of the coaches' 2013 preseason All-SEC squad Thursday.
Gilmore: The SEC is getting better
ESPN Insider Rod Gilmore believes that this could be the SEC's best college football season in recent memory, but it might hurt the conference's chances at another BCS title.
Bama No. 1 to start bid for 3rd straight title
Alabama will begin this season the way it ended the last two -- No. 1.
Law: A&M could sue Manziel autograph brokers
If Johnny Manziel did violate NCAA rules by receiving money for signing autographs, a Texas law could put the people who allegedly paid him at risk of being sued by Texas A&M.
Long-shot candidates for national title
Which not-quite-on-the-radar teams could make a sustained push for the national title this season? Travis Haney takes a closer look at five intriguing long-shot BCS title contenders, including Michigan, Texas and USC.
Steele: Projections for every bowl game
Phil Steele gives his projected participants for every bowl game for the 2013 season, from the BCS bowls to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.
Ex-QB died of pneumonia, had brain disease
A former college football star who disappeared in the Michigan wilderness during a fishing trip died of pneumonia caused by inhaling his vomit after he became disoriented, possibly because of painkillers combined with having a degenerative brain disease.
NCF: Boise State builds on outsider status
In ESPN The Magazine's College Football Preview, Steve Wulf writes that of all the schools snubbed by the BCS, Boise State has built an entire program around its outsider status. And the Broncos know the playoffs won't change that.
NCF: Jadeveon Clowney avoids the spotlight
In ESPN The Magazine's College Football Preview, Ryan McGee writes about how top-ranked DE Jadeveon Clowney stays out of the spotlight and focuses on his game.
Broker: Manziel friend halted free signings
A prominent autograph broker on eBay, based in the Southeast, said Nate Fitch approached him last season to let him know that Johnny Manziel would no longer be signing autographs for him without compensation.
Irish's Kelly: Extension near; focus on play
Putting together back-to-back strong seasons has been rare of late at Notre Dame.
Kazmaier, Princeton Heisman winner, dies
Dick Kazmaier, the last Ivy League football player to win the Heisman Trophy, has died. He was 82.
USC against UCLA use of up-tempo offense
Crosstown rivals Lane Kiffin and Jim Mora stand on different sides in the debate about up-tempo offenses in college football.
Swofford: ACC future 'never been stronger'
The Atlantic Coast Conference is settling into a period of stability it helped create.
Baylor commit visits the national champs
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Back home his friends call him Young Julio, so it only makes sense that ESPN 300 athlete Davion Hall (Texarkana, Ark./Liberty-Eylau) would consider the University of Alabama, home of the original Julio, Julio Jones.
Bama's Saban waves off Bear comparisons
Nick Saban is as hard to distract as he is to beat.
Music City, Gator partner with ACC, Big Ten
The Music City Bowl and Gator Bowl have joined up to pick a school from the Big Ten Conference or Atlantic Coast Conference as one team in their games in a six-year deal starting in 2014.
Oregon, Stanford sniffing first national title
Are two Pac-12 teams the closest programs in the nation to winning their first national title?That's what Athlon Sports asserted after it noted that "The last time a team won a national championship for the first time in program history was 1996 when Florida defeated Florida State in the Sugar Bowl.
Nebraska developing 10-minute concussion test
If all goes according to Dennis Molfese's plan, the day is coming when a football player who takes a hit to the head will come to the sideline, take off his helmet and slip on an electrode-covered mesh cap.
