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ESPN Announces Lee Corso is Retiring from College GameDay After Week 1 of 2025 Season

ESPN announced yesterday that Lee Corso is retiring from College GameDay after Week 1 of the 2025 season.

The location for the Week 1 show has yet to be announced, but it will be Corso’s final show that started some 38 years ago.

Corso – who turns 90 this August – released a statement, sharing “my family and I will be forever indebted for the opportunity to be part of ESPN and College GameDay for nearly 40 years. I have a treasure of many friends, fond memories and some unusual experiences to take with me into retirement.”

NCAA Announces Rule Change to Combat Fake Injuries

The NCAA announced yesterday morning that its Playing Rules Oversight Panel has approved changes to the rules regarding injury timeouts starting with this fall: if medical personnel are forced to enter the field of play to evaluate an injured player after the ball is spotted by officials, the player’s team will be charged a timeout, and if the team does not have a timeout, a 5-yard delay of game penalty will be assessed.

The purpose of the rule is to try and combat fake injuries which were slowing down games in an attempt to slow down offenses. Previously, teams impacted were to send videos to be reviewed by the NCAA’s National Coordinator of Officials, Steve Shaw, who would then contact the conference of the offending team if it was clear and obvious. That system obviously lacked any immediacy and evidently did not provide a strong enough disincentive to not fake injuries, which the hope is this new rule will.

Notre Dame QB Steve Angeli Planning to Enter Portal

Notre Dame QB Steve Angeli shared yesterday that he plans to enter the transfer portal after having spent 3 seasons with the Fighting Irish.

Angeli has made appearances in 21 games across 3 seasons, including 11 appearances in Notre Dame’s run to a runner-up finish in the 2024 season. He played a big role in finishing the first half of the Orange Bowl semifinal versus Penn State strong as Riley Leonard went down and Notre Dame turned to its backup.

Angeli was in a QB battle this spring with CJ Carr and Kenny Minchey, with Carr performing well by all accounts in spring practice, and then dazzling in the spring game.

Carr was a high 4-star in the Class of 2024, and now the stage is set for him to top the depth chart, assuming he beats out Minchey and the Irish do not welcome in any other QBs.

Angeli is ranked 350th nationally and 30th at the QB position according to On3’s portal rankings as he looks for a home for his final 2 seasons of eligibility.

Fran Brown on WR Trebor Pena Hitting Portal: “I ain’t giving no WR $2M in college, man”

Coach Fran Brown was recently on WTLA-AM radio talking on WR Trebor Pena’s decision to hit the transfer portal, sharing that NIL was a part – but not a big part – of the decision and that before leaving, Pena had asked for a bigger deal.

Brown shared, “sometimes, people be asking for an outrageous number. … Stop, with all due respect to everybody in the country, to every wide receiver, to everybody doing all this stuff – if you’re going to make $2 million at wide receiver, that’s the homie at Ohio State. Ain’t nobody else making that money. I ain’t giving no wide receiver $2 million in college, man. That ain’t me, I ain’t doing that. Unless somebody tells me that we have the chance to have Travis Hunter, he can come here and play for us, then he’ll get some of my check. I ain’t paying anybody $2 million. We ain’t giving nobody that.”

As far as Pena’s progression was concerned, and the role this all played in his development and negotiations, Coach Brown shared:

“First of all, I love the kid. Trebor’s my guy. I recruited him, he came and played for me at Temple. Then he got here. That was, what, six years ago? Then, I got here, and Trebor hadn’t played. I think he had 20 catches before we got here in four years. And there were some things I had to help Trebor with, that we helped him with as a staff, and then he got better and had a really good year last year. Did an amazing job. As all the guys left, there’s a lot of pressure, I’ll say, in the world. Everybody don’t always handle everything accordingly that I would maybe handle it or you may handle it. But what I’ll tell you is this: we paid him enough. He was going to be paid more. There were different things that would go there. But there were some numbers that were asked of me that I didn’t feel I would be able to do and move on. Of course, I treat him right, I took care of him. Done everything that was needed. I just said, yo, you got to go. … I prayed on it and I kept going through things, and it was like, why would I try to convince somebody to be somewhere when I know the offense works? Because at Baylor, there was a lot of success with these receivers that all went to the NFL. There was success at other places. I was just like, now I have to tell him he needs to go.”

With Syracuse, Pena led the ACC with 84 catches in 2024. He also finished with 941 yards and 9 touchdowns. Before 2024, he only had 25 career catches for 271 yards and 1 touchdown. He has one year of eligibility remaining.

Wisconsin Transfer TE Tanner Koziol Commits to Houston

Wisconsin transfer and former Ball State TE Tanner Koziol has committed to Houston out of the transfer portal.

Koziol is currently ranked as the 17th overall player in On3’s transfer portal rankings, so Houston is getting a playmaker that had transferred to Wisconsin in the winter portal, but is once again on the move.

Koziol was not even in the top 2,000 of the 2021 class, but he transitioned to playing TE and put up some incredible numbers in the MAC, tallying 94 catches for 839 yards and 8 touchdowns in 2024. He finished 2024 with 2nd Team All-MAC honors, and considering Harold Fannin Jr. set all kinds of TE records with an all-time season last year while at Bowling Green, making 2nd Team All-MAC was an impressive feat from Koziol.

Michigan’s Sherrone Moore on Timeline to Name Michigan’s Starting QB

Sherrone Moore recently shared with On3’s JD PicKell that he has not named a starting QB, but that he is expecting the competition to go into Fall Camp, and that he does not anticipate naming a starting QB until the week before the first game.

The battle is currently between true freshman Bryce Underwood, Fresno State transfer Mikey Keene, and Jadyn Davis. Keene has been out this spring with an injury.

“I feel like it usually carries into fall camp. All the real good battles that I’ve been a part of, you can say something in spring, but then it changes. We’re going to take our time with the process of who that person is going [to be]. It’s so important. That’s person’s going to have the ball in their hands every single play and make so many decisions. So, for us, it’s probably going to go into fall camp. And then, probably a week before the first game, make a decision, and make the announcement then.”

Deion Sanders on Contract Extension: “I told y’all I wasn’t going nowhere.”

In a press conference on Thursday, Coach Deion Sanders shared that he was not lying when he told everyone that he was happy at Colorado and was not looking to go anywhere:

“I mean, I told y’all I wasn’t going nowhere. I don’t know why y’all didn’t believe me, you know. I’ll cry to you before I lie to you. I love it here. I adore it here. I wanted to get some things done before I was able to do what we did long-term, as far as collectives, NIL stuff, few of the coaches as well and we got them taken care of. So, then I came in, came in and got mine done. I don’t like talking about me and talking about money, man. I’ve never been one to do that. I don’t know. I don’t ever remember fighting for – I just ball. The money finds you, so, if that’s the approach, that’s the approach. I don’t like talking about my stuff. Let’s talk about somebody else.”

The contract signed by Coach Sanders is a 5-year deal for a total of $54 million, reportedly making him the 4th highest paid coach, behind only Georgia’s Kirby Smart, Ohio State’s Ryan Day, and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney.

In other words, the 3 active coaches to have won a National Championship are the only coaches making more than Coach Sanders.

Texas K Bert Auburn Plans to Enter Portal

Texas K Bert Auburn is planning to enter the transfer portal, he announced yesterday.

Auburn would have been entering his fifth and final season of eligibility, but now he’s looking for somewhere else to play out his final year of eligibility. Even though it now looks like he will not exhaust all of his eligibility with the Longhorns, Auburn leaves Texas with the all-time lead in points scored.

With the Horns, Auburn is 178/178 on extra points and led the Big 12 in field goal percentage in 2023. In 2024, Auburn took a slight step back from his career average in the low 80% range down to 64% (16/25) on field goals.

Colorado OL Cash Cleveland Plans to Enter Portal

Colorado OL Cash Cleveland plans to enter the transfer portal, according to On3’s Pete Nakos.

Cleveland was largely unknown coming out of high school, only garnering a rating from one site – a fairly low 3-star rating from On3. By the end of his true freshman season, the walk-on was starting for the Buffs and playing at a high level.

On3’s College Rating for Cleveland is now a 91, which places him 278th nationally and 28th at the IOL position, already. Multiple major publications had him finish as a true freshman All-American for his performance down the stretch for Colorado.

3-Star S Devin Jackson Decommits from Florida

3-star S Devin Jackson decommitted from Florida yesterday after committing to the Gators back in July.

According to On3’s Chad Simmons, the schools to watch now are LSU, Nebraska, and especially Miami, who hired Coach Will Harris to its staff – one of the big reasons Jackson originally committed to Florida back when Coach Harris was with the Gators.

ESPN and Rivals both rate Jackson as a 4-star, with On3 and 247 giving him a 3-star (88) rating. His On3 industry composite rank is 381st nationally and 33rd at the safety position.

With Jackson’s decommitment, Florida is now down to 2 commitments for the 2026 class – albeit the commitments are a pair of 4-stars. But, with only 2 commitments, the Gators’ 2026 class is currently unranked.

Other Commitments/Decommitments

3-Star (87) IOL Tony Balanganayi commits to Illinois

3-Star (87) WR Jeffar Jean-Noel decommits from West Virginia

3-Star (82) QB Nick Kinsey commits to Eastern Michigan

Unrated EDGE Nick Zalewski commits to Northwestern

Unrated S Bradley Esser commits to Washington State

Unrated K Gaston Gramatica commits to USF

Unrated ATH Zach Becker commits to Ball State

Unrated OT Tommy Fraumann commits to Miami (OH)

Unrated OT Mason Markel commits to Northern Illinois