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10:40 AM ET In a matter of hours, the biggest question about Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence went from “Will he be back next year?” to “Will he be back next week?” It turns out, not even the leader of the “We Want To Play” movement could be protected from a highly contagious coronavirus, no matter

11:00 PM ET Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University David M. Hale Close ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Clemson superstar QB Trevor Lawrence has tested positive for the coronavirus and will miss Saturday’s game

8:53 PM ET Clemson Tigers quarterback Trevor Lawrence has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss Saturday’s game against Boston College according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. Mike Garafolo of the NFL Network was the first to report the test result. Lawrence is a front-runner for the Heisman Trophy, and he has

8:30 AM ET It was Tuesday, July 30, 2002, when Coastal Carolina University dignitaries — the chancellor, the athletic director, the football coach, a couple of trustees — gathered beneath a pop-up tent in the sweltering Grand Strand, South Carolina, sun. They smiled from beneath their hard hats, stuck their ceremonial shovels into the sandy

10:52 PM ET Quarterback Quinn Ewers, the No. 1-ranked prospect in the 2022 recruiting class, announced Wednesday he had decommitted from Texas. Ewers is a 6-foot-3, 205-pound prospect from Carroll High School in Southlake, Texas, and had committed to the Longhorns in August. Ewers had been rethinking his decision, however, as more and more schools

11:23 AM ET LSU coach Ed Orgeron does not expect quarterback Myles Brennan to be available against Auburn on Saturday as he continues to deal with a lower-body injury he sustained more than two weeks ago. Orgeron told reporters Wednesday that Brennan has not practiced this week and that if he can’t play, freshman TJ

11:34 AM ET Wisconsin’s football team has paused all team-related activities for at least seven days because of an increased number of COVID-19 cases, causing the No. 9 Badgers‘ game against Nebraska on Saturday to be canceled. The game will not be rescheduled. As of Wednesday morning, 12 people within the program had tested positive

2:18 PM ET ESPN News Services Clemson Tigers quarterback Trevor Lawrence is leaving the door open about his football future despite previously saying he planned on heading to the NFL after this, his junior season. The 6-foot-6 Lawrence, considered the likely No. 1 pick in next spring’s NFL draft, said he hasn’t ruled out returning

11:41 AM ET With only a small percentage of fans returning to college football games across the country, the financial impact is not only affecting the universities directly, but the businesses closely tied to these schools. The coronavirus has kept more and more people out of communities. As a result, smaller operations that once thrived

7:00 AM ET “The All-American Cuban Comet,” an SEC Storied documentary about Carlos Alvarez’s life and Hall of Fame career with the Florida Gators, debuts on SEC Network on Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. ET. Alvarez spoke with ESPN to discuss his story, his activism and the state of athlete empowerment ahead of the debut. “We’re

11:59 PM ET No. 9 Wisconsin might be down to its fourth-string quarterback after Chase Wolf tested positive for COVID-19, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday night. Wolf, the Badgers’ third-stringer, was not at Monday’s practice after testing positive for the virus, according to the report. The Journal Sentinel and Wisconsin State Journal both reported

8:32 PM ET The SEC acknowledged Monday that it should have stopped play to review a fourth-quarter kickoff during the Auburn–Ole Miss game Saturday that appeared to show Auburn’s Shaun Shivers contact the football. Ole Miss led by 1 with 5:43 left when a kickoff appeared to graze Shivers’ finger before it went into the

7:00 AM ET Though it continues to serve as a reminder of college football’s embarrassingly disjointed and haphazard reaction to the challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic, the Royal Rumble-style introduction of one power conference at a time to the 2020 season — Here come the ACC and Big 12! Now here comes the SEC!

7:21 PM ET Wisconsin quarterback Graham Mertz, who had a record-setting first career start Friday, tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, according to the Wisconsin State Journal and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Both newspapers reported Sunday, citing sources, that Mertz had an antigen test come back positive. Mertz will take a polymerase chain reaction

2:19 PM ET Associated Press Indiana jumped into The Associated Press college football poll Sunday after pulling off the weekend’s most dramatic upset, and Ohio State moved up to No. 3 following a dominant season debut. Clemson remained a rock-solid No. 1, and Alabama was No. 2. The Tigers received 52 first-place votes and the

7:02 AM ET The first College Football Playoff ranking will be released on Nov. 24, almost exactly one month from now. That’s plenty of time for what you think you know to change. All it takes is one upset — for one-loss Penn State to redeem itself on Halloween with a home win against Ohio

11:28 PM ET Quarterback Michael Penix is 6-foot-3, a seemingly insignificant fact from Indiana’s roster and the universe’s cruelest twist for Penn State. Oh sure, that might seem like a conspiratorial view of the events that led to the eighth-ranked Nittany Lions losing their season-opener 36-35 in overtime. This was just college football after all.

6:10 PM ET Clemson coach Dabo Swinney got defensive over repeated questions about his team’s performance in a 47-21 win over Syracuse on Saturday, after the Tigers needed a 21-point scoring run over the final 16 minutes to put the contest out of reach. After a question about the team’s energy level to start the