Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

ECU Conducts First Fall Scrimmage ecupirates.com

247 Sports

• ECU Countdown to Kickoff: No. 21 Jordan Huff
• ECU Countdown to Kickoff: No. 21 Marlon Gunn Jr.
• Everything Mike Houston said after ECU’s first preseason scrimmage

Around the American Athletic Conference

New talent emerges at first Army football scrimmage of the preseason News Times-Record

4-win season for TU, Kirk Francis doesn’t play, according to EA Sports College Football simulation Tulsa World

What makes 4-star Kaden Magwood’s official visit with Memphis basketball, Penny Hardaway significant USA Today

Tulane Ebbs and Flows in First Camp Scrimmage Sports illustrated

UTSA coach Jeff Traylor projects minimal impact from new helmet communication rules San Antonio Express News

Mike Bloomgren pleased with Rice’s physicality after Owls’ first scrimmage of the preseason Houston Chronicle

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• Who is UNC’s starting quarterback? OC Chip Lindsey says battle is still wide open
• Charlotte-area teenager earns second Olympic medal with USA’s 4×400-meter relay team
• Raleigh native PGA Tour golfer Webb Simpson hopes home cooking at Wyndham helps jolt season

Inside Jim Harbaugh’s years-long fight with the NCAA – and with Michigan USA Today

Virginia Tech Target Four-Star Messiah Delhomme Announces His Commitment Sports Illustrated

Dawn Staley appeals to social media to schedule nonconference games for South Carolina Greenville (SC) News

Nebraska is preparing now for the big question with revenue sharing — who makes what? Lincoln Journal Star

Columbia The State

• South Carolina’s Spencer Rattler scores TD, leads Saints to win in first NFL action
• South Carolina football beats out SEC foe to land talented Alabama linebacker
• What Shane Beamer said about South Carolina football’s first preseason scrimmage
• ‘They want me so bad.’ Gamecocks stay after talented in-state receiver, FSU commitment
• South Carolina’s newest QB is from Texas. So how did he grow up rooting for Gamecocks?

Charleston Post & Courier

• Hamilton: Gamecocks can’t afford slow start, letups or missteps
• 5 takeaways from Citadel’s 1st scrimmage as new QB makes a difference
• Believe Dabo or not, but Clemson coach touts offense after Tigers’ first scrimmage
• Gamecocks’ Rocket Sanders misses 1st scrimmage, but is 100 percent healthy, Beamer says

Roanoke Times

• ACC Scouting Report: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
• ACC Scouting Report: Florida State Seminoles
• Linebackers coach Adams has key role in UVa football’s push to improve run defense

The Associated Press

• Coach Prime holds combative news conference as he prepares for his second season at Colorado
• Iowa’s veteran defense plans on being even better this season
• Jim Harbaugh gives muted response after NCAA announces 4-year, show-cause order