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How Duke football embraces the doubters with unlikely mantra

More Teams. More Games. Riley Leonard finds Jordan Moore wide open for a touchdown to give Duke a 41-0 lead. (0:30) DURHAM, N.C. — Somewhere, deep, deep down, Riley Leonard has to know he is a pretty decent quarterback. His 13-4 record as a college starter says as much. ESPN NFL draft analyst Mel Kiper […]

College football fans’ new gathering place Twitter Spaces is even pulling in players, administrators

It was Dec. 11 and Mullens had just announced the hire of Georgia defensive coordinator Dan Lanning to be the Ducks’ replacement. Mullens was relieved but exhausted when he arrived home to find his teenage sons, Cooper and Tanner, huddled around a phone listening to Oregon fans celebrating the hire. Mullens didn’t know what he […]

ACC Coastal season preview: QBs put North Carolina, Miami and Virginia Tech ahead of pack

It’s been a running joke on the college football internet that at some point the ACC Coastal is going to fulfill its perfect mediocrity and give us a seven-way tie at 4-4. That was never going to happen in 2019 with Georgia Tech going into full-on rebuild mode, but we got the next-best thing: a […]