College Football

The latest surge in COVID-19 cases has upended postseason plans for a number of college football programs in Texas.

Sonny Dykes spent the past four seasons at SMU before his return to the other side of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The son of former Texas Tech coach Spike Dykes had been considered a top candidate for the Frogs job since Gary Patterson and TCU mutually agreed Oct. 31 to part ways with four games left in the season.

TCU and football coach Gary Patterson mutually agreed to immediately part ways Sunday before the completion of his 21st season.

The American Athletic Conference is adding UAB, Texas-San Antonio, Rice, North Texas, Charlotte and Florida Atlantic to the league, replacing three schools that are leaving for the Big 12 Conference and growing to 14 teams.

Established in 1925, the State Fair Classic between Prairie View A&M and Grambling State University is more than just a football game. It’s a space for the Black community to connect and support historically Black colleges and universities.

Texas and Oklahoma won't move to the SEC until 2025, and that was a hot topic at Big 12 Media Day. The coaches would rather focus on the upcoming season, though.

The decision comes just a week after news surfaced that the two schools planned to leave the Big 12, sending shockwaves through college sports and many Texas lawmakers who feel the expansion will have drastic consequences on the remaining Texas schools in the Big 12.

The Alamodome is gearing up to host several thousand people during the Valero Alamo Bowl Tuesday night amid increasing COVID-19 cases in Bexar County.

Ty Jordan, a star freshman running back for the University of Utah, died at a Dallas-area hospital after accidently shooting himself, authorities said Sunday. University officials announced Jordan’s death Saturday, a day after he was named Pac-12’s newcomer of the year.

The College Football Playoff semifinal scheduled to be played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Jan. 1 is relocating to the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium in Texas, a move prompted by California’s ban on spectators at sporting events during the pandemic.

Sarah Fuller became the first woman to score in a Power Five conference football game by kicking an extra point for Vanderbilt on Saturday. Fuller went to high school in Wylie.

The bowl game, an annual tradition for scores of El Pasoans that has hosted college teams since 1936, will resume in 2021, bowl officials said.