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The University of Texas Longhorn band will not play the school song, “The Eyes of Texas,” this coming weekend.

College Football Hall of Fame Coach Bobby Bowden recently disclosed one of his primary motivations for wanting to beat the coronavirus: He wanted to be around to vote for President Trump.

LSU has lowered the boom on Odell Beckham and enacted a ban to prevent him from visiting the school’s football program for two years.

Ratings for Game 7 of the NLCS and the Georgia-Alabama college football game individually beat every one of the six NBA Finals games, Outkick the Coverage reports.

The attorney representing eight Black former Iowa football players who allege racial discrimination during their time with the Hawkeyes said Monday night that the university’s rejection of their demands, which included a payment of $20 million, is not the end of the matter.

The University of Iowa rebuffed demands from a group of black former athletes who demanded $20 million in damages for the “racial discrimination.”

Conservative women’s group wins complaint against university’s policy that allows biological males to compete against female athletes.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — No. 10 Florida paused all team activities Tuesday following “an increase in positive COVID tests among players,” putting Saturday’s home game against defending national champion LSU in jeopardy.

LSU will no longer require fans to endure a COVID wellness check and will also bring back beer sales for its next football game

Former Florida State University football coaching legend Bobby Bowden says he has tested positive for COVID-19, but is asymptomatic.

Duke basketball has announced that the word “equality” will be emblazoned on the backs of the school’s basketball jerseys for the coming 2020/21 season.

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney says he is in line with the message of black lives matter, but he does not support the group’s politics or having its slogans on jerseys or helmets.

A professor at Ohio State opted to take “anti-racist learning” after writing an article talking about his love of college football.

CLAIM: President Trump claimed during Tuesday night’s debate against Democrat nominee Joe Biden, that he “brought back football.”

Democrat U.S. Senator, Doug Jones, posted a new ad slamming GOP opponent Tommy Tuberville as a quitter during his years as a coach.

Illinois State offensive coordinator Kurt Beathard quit his job Wednesday, after a controversy that began when someone hung a Black Lives Matter sign on his door. 

The Pac-12 set a Nov. 6 start date Thursday for a seven-game football season, following the Big Ten in overturning an August decision to postpone until spring because of concerns about playing through the pandemic.

ESPN broadcaster Mark Jones tweeted that he will tell the police officers assigned to protect him at stadiums to “take the day off,” out of fear that the officer might shoot him due to his “black skin.”

A poll finds that more than half of respondents feel that the Big 10’s return to play is due to President Donald Trump’s urging a college football return.

Saturday’s Baylor-Houston game has become a victim of COVID-19 only 24 hours before kickoff, after contact tracing found someone connected to the team who tested positive for the virus.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was quick to spike the ball in celebration when the Big Ten announced the return of fall football at colleges clustered in some of the Midwest battleground states critical to his reelection effort, declaring, “I’m the one who got football back.”

The memo from NCAA President Mark Emmert went out to the association’s more than 1,200 member schools Wednesday. The furloughs will not affect senior executives.

The New York Times said college football is “non-essential” and shutting it down is a “necessary sacrifice for the nation’s well-being.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Thompson, the imposing Hall of Famer who turned Georgetown into a “Hoya Paranoia” powerhouse and became the first Black coach to lead a team to the NCAA men’s basketball championship, has died. He was 78.

At least half of college football seems determined to play this fall. However, the best team on this year’s college gridiron might only hoist a participation trophy at the end of the year.

Several Dem. U.S. senators submitted a bill that would set federal rules for allowing student-athletes to make money on college sports.

Columnist Drew Magary took the occasion of his latest San Francisco Chronicle editorial to insist that the crisis caused by the coronavirus is the excuse we need to end college football forever.

“I think football’s making a tragic mistake,” he said.

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh released a letter on Monday, laying out the reasons why college football should be played this season.

College football players have organized to launch a “We Want To Play” campaign to urge universities not to shut down their 2020 season.