More Teams. More Games. Quinn Ewers rushes for two touchdowns and throws for another, leading Texas to a big win over Kansas. (1:26) Week 5 didn’t quite deliver the drama of Week 4, Notre Dame-Duke notwithstanding, but it tried. Two top-10 teams — the Georgia Bulldogs and USC Trojans — avoided road upsets, while another, […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Clemson’s new kicker Jonathan Weitz is unable to give the lead as his late field goal misses. (0:47) CLEMSON, S.C. — Cade Klubnik was battered and defeated, his pants splattered with blood stains, his arms covered in cuts and scrapes and scratches. He’d been hit — hard and repeatedly — by […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney shares his thoughts after an “incredibly disappointing loss” to Duke. (1:47) DURHAM, N.C. — Monday was judgement night for Clemson, and coach Dabo Swinney expects the jury will deliver a scathing verdict. Clemson arrived in Durham ranked ninth in the Associated Press preseason poll and was […]
Continue readingDURHAM, N.C. — Riley Leonard ran for one touchdown and threw for 175 yards as the Duke Blue Devils upset No. 9 Clemson 28-7 on Monday night, capping a wild Week 1 of college football. The Tigers (0-1) outgained the Blue Devils (1-0) and won the time of possession battle, but three turnovers doomed the […]
Continue readingCoach Deion Sanders said his Colorado Buffaloes were coming in 2023, and now they’ve arrived in our Power Rankings. The Buffaloes’ 45-42 victory in Week 1 at No. 17 TCU, the national runner-up in the 2022 season, made believers out of ESPN’s writers. Colorado, which had only one win last season, went from unranked to […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. After missing out on the College Football Playoff last season, Dabo Swinney and the Clemson Tigers are ready to climb back to the top. (1:29) CLEMSON, S.C. — Maybe it’s the hair. This much, Cade Klubnik is willing to concede. It’s neatly trimmed, parted at the side, clean-cut, professional and, yeah, […]
Continue readingOregon State has named DJ Uiagalelei, the Clemson transfer, as its starting quarterback to open the 2023 season, a source confirmed to ESPN. Uiagalelei, who started the past two seasons at Clemson, had been competing with redshirt sophomore Ben Gulbranson and true freshman Aidan Chiles. He transferred to Oregon State in December, shortly after being […]
Continue readingJust when it looked like college football was settling down for the final season of a four-team playoff, conference realignment shook up the sport once again. UCLA and USC are leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten in 2024, along with Oregon and Washington. Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah are jumping to the Big […]
Continue readingThe first college football Power Rankings are here and who else but the two-time defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs reign supreme. Michigan and Ohio State are battling it out for second with the Wolverines narrowly edging the Buckeyes for the No. 2 spot. The rest of the top 10 is filled with fellow blue bloods […]
Continue readingGeorgia begins the 2023 college football season in the same place it finished the last two — atop the AP Top 25 poll. The two-time defending champ Bulldogs were a runaway pick for the top spot in the preseason poll. While the Bulldogs will be breaking in a new quarterback, there aren’t a lot of […]
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