Alabama has been racking up injuries to depth pieces, but now they have to deal with one to a projected starter. A busy weekend in Gainesville sees a star transfer arrive and two other players leave the team.

First Take, Pardon The Interruption, and many more heavyweights of the take-o-sphere tackled the subject of Kelly Bryant not getting a title ring for Clemson's national championship. Is this just a sign that Clemson has arrived as a college football powerhouse?

An NFL-style injury report is not coming to the NCAA any time soon (sorry, gamblers). Clemson football self-reported secondary NCAA violations on Wednesday, which range in seriousness — but shouldn't result in any penalties. And Tennessee suffered two big blows on the injury front.

Washington successfully block's Colson Yankoff's appeal for immediate eligibility at UCLA, Florida loses a defensive back for the season and has more disturbing details unearthed about one of its players, Maryland loses its top receiver for the season, and Florida transfer Chris Steele is granted immediate eligibility at USC.

Yet another big name is leaving Athens, leaving the Georgia Bulldogs to again reload, while cross-divisional rival Auburn isn’t sure about the status of speed-demon Anthony Schwartz for its Week 1 opener vs. Oregon.

What, if anything, did we learn from the 2,000 pages of documents released by Ohio State pertaining to their investigation of Urban Meyer and Zach Smith?

Evan Watkins of VT Scoop joins the show to discuss longtime Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster and his plans to retire at the end of the 2019 season.

August has arrived, which means college football is on the immediate horizon. As is the preseason USA Today coaches poll, which will be released Thursday. Will Clemson or Alabama claim the No. 1 spot? Does it matter? That, plus a smattering of bad-news notes from around the country.

FSU picked up its fourth commitment in four days, securing the pledge of four-star running back Jaylan Knighton, and 247Sports released its update Top247 for the class of 2021, including a new five-star prospect from the Golden State.

There’s a flurry of recruiting activity to discuss — and if you’re shopping for a running back in 2020, you’d better get on that — as well as a new ESPN hire and a home-and-home series that we wish they could just play this season.

Football season is almost here, but portal season still has the mic.

Nick Saban used a platform on ESPN's First Take to seemingly clarify comments he made last week that helped spark a way of words between the Tide and the Clemson Tigers; Legal troubles continue for Nebraska RB Maurice Washington, the Kentucky Wildcats are down yet another defender and a former Top247 QB is hanging up his (football) spikes.

Ohio State football self-reported 16 violations to the NCAA over the course of two years, and while the damage has already come and gone, the impact is interesting. Pac-12 Media Days kicked off with plenty of noise — a coach dropped the hammer on the transfer portal, officiating is, well, fine, games might start earlier and the title game is moving to Vegas. That and more in the 247Sports Morning Blitz.

Former USC Trojans QB Mark Sanchez is going straight from the NFL to ABC's Saturday desk. Former Florida State QB Deondre Francois isn't ending up at FAU, after all, and his options appear to be dwindling. Trey Scott runs down the day's biggest news.

LSU football unveiled some incredible new digs on social media — but not everyone is happy about it. Trey Scott covers that and the rest of the day's quick-hitting news.

After correctly pointing out that Urban Meyer leaves controversy in his wake, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh saw fierce backlash after his comments and solutions for college football's transfer portal crisis. With Connor on vacation, Trey runs through that, other quick-hitters and the weekend's commit rundown.

After a long week in Hoover, Trey and Connor unpack what they learned and how the event could be more useful. They also talk about a screening they saw of a documentary series coming soon to the SEC Network.

Alabama and Clemson both had their media days sessions on Wednesday, and — for better or for worse — the media spent some time spinning the words of Nick Saban and Dylan Moses into bulletin board material for the Tigers.

Three former Saban assistants took the stage on Tuesday as the Alabama head coach cast his ever-present shadow over proceedings. Plus, Chris Hummer sends in a dispatch from Big 12 Media Days in Arlington.

The transfer portal stole the show on Monday at SEC Media Days, Jamical Perine introduced himself as the league's next great trash talker, Kelly Bryant fielded difficult Clemson questions with aplomb, and Joe Burrow reminded us he's one of the conference's truly unique characters.

Getting ready for the start of conference media days, live from Hoover, Alabama for the SEC version.

Clemson transfer and former five-star all-purpose back Tavien Feaster is down to two finalists. "Friends" and "Scream" star Courteney Cox is set to star in a scripted Last Chance U series.

UCF quarterback Darriel Mack suffers broken ankle, California's Fair Pay to Play bill moves out of committee, Tennessee makes minor recruiting whoops, and your daily commit roundup.

We've known that Nick Saban's name had been floated several times for the Texas job, but new details have been reported of how Mack Brown obstructed the move. ESPN names a new College Football Final host, the Longhorns get a big 2020 commit, and Kennedy Brooks seems headed toward reinstatement at Oklahoma.

The talk of Monday was Kansas' decision to reinstate star running back Pooka Williams in the aftermath of a domestic violence allegation. That and your usual rundowns of commitments, decommitments, transfers, and the like.