The Big Ten and Southeastern Conferences have agreed to support a Senate bill that seeks to regulate college sports, ending a breakneck week of negotiations and pulling the bipartisan measure out of what looked like a certain death spiral.

The Florida Gators appear at the SEC Football Media Days in Tampa. New coach Jon Sumrall has expectations of winning every game, but says his team has a long way to go as fall camp looms. He already has one victory as a Gator under his belt. Judging by his players' comments at Media Days, Sumrall has won the buy-in from his football team. Sports Director Jamie Seh reports from Tampa.

Former Alabama football coach Nick Saban has testified in support of a bipartisan bill to overhaul college athletics.

The two biggest conferences in college sports say they do not support the current version of a bipartisan bill designed to regulate an industry struggling for answers in a quickly changing era in which some players make millions.

Leaders in the Big Ten opened their annual spring meeting with nothing more than the future of their business on the agenda.

Sumrall talks all things football with News 6 sports director Jamie Seh ahead of his first season in Gainesville.

A former defensive tackle at the University of Alabama is accused of wearing makeup and wigs to impersonate NFL players in a fraud scheme that bilked investors of $20 million.

The Sweet 16 will have a definite SEC feel with six teams advancing from that conference to the second weekend of March Madness.

Cinderella has been kicked out of the dance early for the second straight season.

Top seeds beware: Maryland-Baltimore County is back in the NCAA Tournament.

College football leaders gave every indication that they remain stuck in a yearlong debate about expanding the playoff from 12 teams to 16 or beyond.

Ole Miss lost a coach but gained in the College Football Rankings, moving up a spot to No. 6 despite the sudden departure of Lane Kiffin to LSU.

The Big 12’s championship game is set.

Oregon has returned to the top five in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll.

North Texas is in The Associated Press college football poll for the first time since 1959.

The Big 12 has five teams in the latest Associated Press Top 25 college football poll.

Ty Simpson throws for 200 yards and three touchdowns, leading eighth-ranked Alabama to a 27-24 victory over No. 14 Missouri on Saturday.

Josh McCray scored on a one-yard run in overtime to give No. 6 Georgia a 44-41 victory over No. 15 Tennessee.

Vanderbilt, which gave up just three runs over three games in the SEC Tournament, was awarded the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament and was among a record 13 teams from the conference to be selected to the 64-team field.

Duke has ended Auburn’s eight-week stay at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll.

Auburn and Duke remain atop the AP Top 25.

Conference commissioners who are part of the College Football Playoff have put off any decisions on potential changes to the format, including how the 12-team field is seeded.

The Southeastern Conference has a big week ahead, with four games between ranked teams, headlined by No. 6 Tennessee at top-ranked Auburn on Saturday.

Tennessee picked up four more first-place votes and remains at No. 1 for the fifth consecutive week in the AP Top 25 college basketball poll.

The South Carolina Gamecocks will face the Illinois Fighting Illini on New Year’s Eve for the 2024 Cheez-It Citrus Bowl, Florida Citrus Sports announced Sunday.

The Big Ten and SEC already have the upper hand in college football.

UCF Football holds its weekly press conference, this week previewing the contest with the Florida Gators.

Iowa State has already scrapped plans for a new wrestling facility.

The first full week of the upcoming college football season will feature a Saturday tripleheader on ABC, including Texas A&M hosting Notre Dame in prime time.

The final season of the Pac-12 turned out to be as big a hit in the NFL draft as it was on the field.

Pentagon leaders are telling Congress that Ukraine and Israel both desperately need the military weapons that are being held up by Congress’ failure to pass a funding package.

The Southeastern Conference has fined South Carolina $100,000 for fans storming the court after the Gamecocks 79-62 win over No. 6 Kentucky on Tuesday night.

Alabama’s national championship hopes came down to fourth-and-31 with a loss and more than a few close calls along the way.

Florida travels to Missouri for the final road game this year.

Mississippi State has fired Zach Arnett after less than one season as head coach, just under a year since he took over the Bulldogs after the tragic passing of Mike Leach from a heart issue.

No. 14 Tennessee visits No. 16 Missouri on Saturday for the first meeting between the SEC schools when both were ranked in the Top 25.

For the first time in school history, the Florida Gators will wear all-black uniforms when hosting Arkansas on Saturday.

Two SEC titans return to Jacksonville on Saturday in the annual Florida-Georgia game.

The Florida Gators look to bounce back against Vanderbilt

Florida will play the first conference road game this season against Kentucky.

The Florida Gators stay in The Swamp hosting Charlotte.

The Florida Gators play host to the Tennessee Volunteers in an early SEC matchup.

The Florida Gators start their 2023 season on the road against the Utah Utes on August 31.

D’antre Robinson is a man among boys on the gridiron.

The Gators are an SEC underdog going into the 2023 football season. Here's what to know.

South Carolina is No. 1 for the 36th consecutive week.

Purdue is this season's first unanimous No. 1 team in the AP men’s college basketball poll.

Freshman Brandon Miller scored 30 points as the fourth-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide beat Vanderbilt 78-66 Tuesday night for their seventh straight victory two days after a teammate was charged with capital murder.

Houston is the No. 1 team in the AP men's college basketball poll.

Fans of the University of Kentucky Wildcats football team flipped over a car and set furniture on fire in Lexington, Kentucky, while celebrating the team’s 26 to 16 win over the University of Florida Gators on Sept. 10.

No. 20 Kentucky intercepted Anthony Richardson twice, Keidron Smith returned one of those interception 65 yards for a touchdown, and the Wildcats toppled 12th-ranked Florida 26-16 in the Swamp.

Georgia moved up to No. 2 in the first Associated Press college football poll of the regular season.

Life at the top of the Southeastern Conference can be difficult, especially when anything short of a national championship in football is considered unsatisfactory.

The Southeastern Conference and Big East Conference have updated their policies for basketball game postponements, cancellations and rescheduling to give more leniancy to teams that are unable to play because of spiking COVID-19 cases.

The Big 12 will play a title game without Oklahoma or Texas for the first time since 1998.

Reigning national champion Vanderbilt and Stanford swept their NCAA super regionals and became the first teams to lock up spots in the College World Series.

Aaliyah Wilson scored 17 points and N’dea Jones added 16 to lead Texas A&M to a 65-57 win over fifth-ranked South Carolina to give the Aggies their first regular-season Southeastern Conference title. Texas A&M (22-1, 13-1 SEC) snapped a seven-game skid against South Carolina and finished the season 13-0 at home after playing in front of a season-high 2,700 on Sunday. The Aggies outscored South Carolina (19-4, 14-2) 19-8 in the third quarter to take a commanding lead before the Gamecocks get back in it late. AdThe Aggies added a basket after that before South Carolina got its first field goal of the second half on a layup by Lele Grissett a few seconds later. A 5-0 run by Texas A&M, with another 3 by Nixon, came next to make it 52-37 and spur South Carolina Staley to call a timeout.

4 Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff semifinal originally scheduled to serve as the 107th Rose Bowl. It's still unclear whether the game in the Dallas Cowboys' stadium will be called the Rose Bowl, but the decision ended a streak of 78 straight years in Pasadena for a bowl game first played in 1902. The festive week of genteel celebrations around the Rose Bowl game already had been mostly canceled, interrupting a beloved annual holiday tradition for hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles-area residents and tens of thousands of visiting fans. Alabama's first bowl game was the 1926 Rose Bowl, and the Tide played in six early editions of the game. They haven't been back in the official Rose Bowl game since 1946, although they beat Texas on Jan. 7, 2010, in the BCS National Championship Game at the Rose Bowl stadium.

The Gators have clinched the Southeastern Conference’s East Division and will play top-ranked Alabama in the league title game next week in Atlanta. Losing to LSU in the Swamp would eliminate any chance Florida has of sneaking into the College Football Playoff with a loss to the heavily favored Crimson Tide. Florida: TE Kyle Pitts is Kyle Trask’s top target and the team’s best pro prospect. … LSU self-imposed a one-year ban on postseason play Wednesday as part an effort to cooperate with an NCAA probe into rules violations. … Florida has won 12 straight at home, the team’s longest streak since winning 14 in a row between 2008 and 2010.

Among the three SEC games still on for this Saturday, Arkansas will visit No. Orgeron said he expects most of his players in quarantine due to contact tracing back next week. Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher said his team only had two positive cases as of Wednesday afternoon, but contact tracing had taken a toll. “Candidly, the numbers around contact tracing have emerged as one of our biggest challenges to playing. “The contact tracing has the potential to magnify even one positive test,” Sankey said.

5 Texas A&M at Tennessee will not be played Saturday because of COVID-19 issues, raising the number of Southeastern Conference games postponed this week to three. Texas A&M said it has three active COVID-19 cases, including two people who traveled with the team to South Carolina last week. 24 Auburn's game at Mississippi State was postponed because of COVID-19 positive tests and contact tracing within the Bulldogs' program. In the American Athletic Conference, Navy's game at Memphis on Saturday was postponed because of positive COVID-19 tests at the Naval Academy. It’s the second week in a row that Navy had a game postponed because of positive tests at the Academy and the subsequent quarantine of student-athletes.

10 Florida's game against defending national champion LSU was postponed Wednesday to tentatively Dec. 12 after the SEC postponed Missouri-Vanderbilt on Monday. Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason is going through a similar situation. To play, the SEC requires at least 53 on game days. Timing is critical depending on the day of the week a positive test or tracing result returns. “Every time you’re taking a test," Mason said, “you're crossing your fingers ... you don't have anybody in harm's way."

Several teams in other leagues have had to postpone games because of outbreaks among players and staff. Ron DeSantis, alarmed by what he sees as draconian rules on college campuses, said he is drawing up a “bill of rights” for college students. The University of Wisconsin-Madison had seen more than 2,800 confirmed cases in students as of Friday. At Kansas State University, more than 2,200 students have been placed in quarantine or isolation since class began. But Mariscano said universities should expect college students to act like college students.

Ron DeSantis said Thursday that hes hoping one of college footballs biggest rivalry games can take place in 2020. I am gonna see if we can make sure that rivalry game continues because I know its one that we all look forward to every year, DeSantis said. I think they played LSU better than any team did (last season). And then I think we got a new coach at Florida State, (so) I think theres some renewed optimism with the program there.The 2020 game was originally scheduled to take place in Tallahassee. I just want to say that, as the governor, I would like to see a way for that game to happen, DeSantis said.