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No. 3 Ohio State’s game at Illinois on Saturday has been canceled because the Buckeyes have had a spike of COVID-19 cases this week, leaving the Big Ten’s best team precariously close to being ineligible to play for the conference title.

The Florida State Seminoles declined to play their scheduled game against Clemson this weekend, they claim, because of concerns over a player who tested positive for the coronavirus.

Former Penn State defensive back Isaiah Humphries said head coach James Franklin told him not to contact police after a fight with a teammate in 2018. The altercation with star linebacker Micah Parsons reportedly involved “punching, choking, and a knife being pulled,” ESPN reported.

Players for the Pittsburgh Panthers and Virginia Tech Hokies will be wearing masks Saturday even while playing on the field.

The Big Ten game Saturday between Maryland and Michigan State has been canceled after a COVID-19 outbreak on the Terrapins resulted in a positive test for coach Michael Locksley.

Wichita State University announced Tuesday that basketball coach Gregg Marshall will receive $7.75 million to resign following several reports of verbal and physical abuse, ESPN reported. 

The University of Maryland-Baltimore County pulled off one of the greatest upsets in American sports history at the 2018 NCAA Tournament, knocking off Virginia to become the first No. 16 seed to beat a No. 1.

Indiana University reportedly punished several students for celebrating school football wins in large groups in violation of coronavirus rule

On Wednesday, the University of Maryland announced that the Terrapin athletic department was hit with a wave of new coronavirus cases, and Saturday’s game against Ohio State will be canceled.

Nov. 10 (UPI) — The Southeastern Conference on Tuesday postponed this weekend’s Alabama-LSU and Tennessee-Texas A&M games because of multiple COVID-19 cases within the Tigers and Aggies football programs.

Notre Dame student expressed their joy by charging the field on Saturday night, after the Irish beat a #1 ranked team for the first time since 1993. Notre Dame’s school president, however, is less enthused.

The Wisconsin Badgers have now canceled a game for a second consecutive week, as a coronavirus outbreak within the program continues to put their season in jeopardy.

The bad blood was supposed to be on display next weekend when the Florida Gators took on the Georgia Bulldogs. However, the Gators got their warm-up punches out of the way this weekend against Missouri.

When they scheduled Notre Dame and Clemson for prime time in early November they probably didn’t think that the game would be missing its biggest star, but that’s exactly what’s going to happen.

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.