Eastern Illinois AD Tom Michael is leaving the Panthers to return to Illinois as deputy AD. Michael played basketball for the Illini and worked in the athletic department for 18 years. He replaces Roger Denny, who is now Oklahoma's AD.

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Illini (and @BigTenNetwork!) great Howard Griffith headlines the school’s 2026 Athletics Hall of Fame class. Joining Griffith: 🏀 James Augustine 🏀 Tauja Catchings 🏀 Ayo Dosunmu 🏈 Brandon Lloyd ⚽️ Ella Masar ⛳️ D.A. Points 🏐 Jordyn Poulter

Notre Dame has promoted Ron Powlus to chief operating officer. He will remain the administrator in charge of oversight of the football program.

Boise State will honor Kellen Moore (11) and Ashton Jeanty (2) at Albertsons Stadium with orange sideline hashmarks on their jersey numbers. The Broncos will also have outlines of Idaho at the 35-yard lines for kickoffs.

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NEWS: Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby is taking an immediate indefinite leave of absence to enter treatment for a gambling addiction.

The Pac-12 has officially unveiled its new primary mark and logo:

What if we measured draftees by where they began their college careers, not where they ended? How different would this weekend read? The B1G would reign. The FCS would get lots of love. And Iowa Western Community College would have more picks than Miami. ⬇️⬇️ www.insidezonemf.com/p/how-its-go...

Oregon football players Dante Moore, Dakorien Moore, Jamari Johnson, Jeremiah McClellan, Evan Stewart, Jordon Davison, and Dierre Hill Jr. will travel June 25-27 to Tokyo for the Tokyo Oregon Football Showcase presented by Flight Club.

Notre Dame's spring game is a wrap. Let's talk about it with @petesampson.bsky.social on a LIVE edition of The Independent ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMY-...

Notre Dame RB Aneyas Williams on the biggest challenge for this group this summer: “Ourselves. One-word answer. Just ourselves. "I think there’s nothing in the way of this team besides ourself. We just gotta put our head down and work, we got a long way to go, and it’s gonna be a long season.”

Notre Dame RB Aneyas Williams on returning for a heavier workload than expected this spring: “The position that I'm finally in that I've been waiting for the last two years, I couldn't just sit there and watch…IDK if my medical staff would agree, but I just felt a better timeline than where I was."

Notre Dame LB Jaylen Sneed on CJ Carr: "CJ's so good at pre-snap, just knowing what he's seeing. If we have one foot up, he'll just know we're blitzing. He'll be like: '3 right there! 3! 3! 3!' "And I'm like: Damn, how did he know that?"

Notre Dame QB CJ Carr, asked by Caroline Pineda on how the offense and defense make each other better, echoes Marcus Freeman's comments from earlier this spring: "Brothers gotta fight sometimes."

Tony Simeone breaks to Marcus Freeman that Billy Schrauth just got drafted by the Bucs. “That’s awesome, he's going to Tampa Bay, getting a heckuva player, a guy that loves football, is tough and he's got" — then the ref interrupted MF to ask if he should've whistled the last play as a sack earlier

Jeremiyah Love is back at Notre Dame for the Blue-Gold spring game. He tells Caroline Pineda: "This is my first home. Notre Dame is where I created the name Jeremyiah Love. Before I got here, I was really a nobody. I hadn't built myself up to where I am today."

Surprising stat from Clemson: “Clemson’s five total selections across the first two days of the draft represent the program’s most through the first three rounds of a draft in school history.”

With Eli Raridon getting drafted 95th overall by the Patriots, every No. 1 TE at Notre Dame has been drafted since Anthony Fasano in 2006:

Want to play WR for the Giants? Go to an ACC school, then transfer to Notre Dame your senior year. Malachi Fields (Virginia) takes the Beaux Collins (Clemson) route to the Big Apple.

Michael Yormark is the name to watch as Miami’s next AD, per sources. Yormark, the twin brother of Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark, is the president of Roc Nation Sports International, has extensive ties in the area and has been around campus more lately.

Sources: Miami AD Dan Radakovich is set to retire. The 67-year-old Radakovich has led the Hurricanes since December of 2021, and was AD at Clemson and Georgia Tech before that.

Schools with multiple first-round NFL Draft picks tonight: Ohio State: 4 Miami: 3 Alabama: 2 Arizona State: 2 Clemson: 2 Indiana: 2 Notre Dame: 2 Oregon: 2 Utah: 2

NFL first-round draft picks by conference: Big Ten: 10 SEC: 7 Big 12: 6 ACC: 6 Notre Dame: 2 Mountain West: 1

Notre Dame has become the first program to have the first two running backs drafted in the same draft: ☘️ Jeremiyah Love (No. 4, Arizona) ☘️ Jadarian Price (No. 32, Seattle)

Top-10 NFL Draft picks: The state of Indiana: 2 The entire SEC: 1

Caleb Downs is not a top-10 draft pick. WTF are we doing here?

Maybe these two can broker the resumption of the USC-Notre Dame rivalry?

Carnell Tate gives Ohio State 6 WRs taken in the first round since 2002 — a streak that is sure to continue next year with Jeremiah Smith. The lowest-drafted of that Buckeyes group, Jaxon Smith-Njigba (No. 20, 2023), just won NFL Offensive Player of the Year honors.

Ohio State WR Carnell Tate, a Marist HS product, shows the name of his late mother, Ashley, inside his suit after being drafted No. 4 by the Titans: "She's my everything. She's my rock. ... If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be here. She sacrificed everything for me. I'm forever indebted to her."

Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love gets drafted No. 3 overall by the Arizona Cardinals.

Former Notre Dame and Penn State men’s basketball GM Brian Snow has been hired for the same role by Chris Mack at USF.

Kalen DeBoer has a new 7-year deal with Alabama that will pay him $12.5 million annually. DeBoer made roughly one-third of that ($4.2 million) when he took Washington to the national championship game less than three years ago.

🏈 Half of the Big Ten's 18 teams return their starting QBs in 2026 🏈 4 of those 9 are homegrown 🏈 One program will start its 9th different Week 1 QB in 9 years Ahead of an NFL Draft with a No. 1 pick, a look at what's left under center in the B1G. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.insidezonemf.com/p/big-ten-qb...

🏈 Half of the Big Ten's 18 teams return their starting QBs in 2026 🏈 4 of those 9 are homegrown 🏈 One program will start its 9th different Week 1 QB in 9 years Ahead of an NFL Draft with a No. 1 pick, a look at what's left under center in the B1G. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.insidezonemf.com/p/big-ten-qb...

Boise State and head coach Spencer Danielson have agreed to a contract extension through the 2030 season. Danielson and Lincoln Riley are the only coaches to win FBS conference championships in each of their first three seasons as head coaches.

Big East commissioner Val Ackerman, a Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer, is retiring effective Aug. 31. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Big East commissioner Val Ackerman, a Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer, is retiring effective Aug. 31. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

TCU will now host UNT on Sept. 11, 2027. This game is a result of similar circumstances, as Stanford canceled its 2027 trip to Fort Worth.

Texas Tech says NC State has bought out their 2027 game in Lubbock due to the ACC going to a 9-game league schedule. Because of their need for six home games, the Red Raiders have canceled their 2027 game at UNT. They are now looking for one P4 and one other opponent for 2027.

The much-discussed Notre Dame-Villanova doubleheader in Rome — The Eternal City Tip-Off — is now official. Men’s at 9:30 a.m. ET on Fox Women’s at noon ET on FS1 Nov. 1 at a venue TBD. On Location, Players Era and FOX Sports collaborated to make this happen.

Duke and Manny Diaz have agreed to a contract extension through the 2032 season. Blue Devils AD Nina King:

Former Michigan coach Sherrone Moore has been sentenced to 18 months probation, per The Athletic’s Austin Meek on the scene

Iowa joint statement from president Barb Wilson and AD Beth Goetz (left) and from head football coach Kirk Ferentz (right) on today’s NCAA ruling:

The CFP has a refreshed brand ID/logo system.

The Big Ten championship game in 2023 featured eventual national champion Michigan against Iowa. Iowa is the program that had to vacate wins from that season.

Iowa is forced to vacate 2023 wins in which the player it allegedly tampered with (Cade McNamara) participated in. By my count, that would be: Utah State Iowa State Western Michigan Michigan State

The Big Ten’s hiring of Wisconsin AD Chris McIntosh is now official. McIntosh will be the conference’s deputy commissioner for strategy and start May 1. Tony Petitti: