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College football spring games: Key newcomers, position battles

Nick Saban, recognized as the greatest college football coach of all time, retired from his post at Alabama, setting off a late coaching carousel chain reaction that left Kalen DeBoer in Tuscaloosa, Jedd Fisch at Washington and San José State’s Brent Brennan at Arizona. Georgia scored the top-ranked recruiting class in February, and while there […]

How a 64-team college football tournament would play out

At ESPN, we expanded the college football postseason a long time ago and will again count down from 64 teams in our fictional 2024 NCAA football tournament. At the very least, the real world in college football is slowly catching up. Here’s the format: We’ve seeded the teams 1 through 64, and the seeds are […]

Support for LSU’s Greg Brooks amid cancer diagnosis ‘inspirational’

Brooks, 22, had surgery to remove a brain mass last month. He was recently transferred to St. Jude’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Kelly said earlier this week that Brooks will need another surgery to allow “him to begin the next challenge of battling cancer.” Kelly said the team has worn Greg Brooks T-shirts often […]

Duke QB Riley Leonard (ankle) progressing but still day to day

Elko said Leonard was “day-to-day” but added that Leonard was “making really strong progress.” “I do think the outlook for him the rest of the season is really positive,” Elko said Monday. Leonard had led two second-half scoring drives for Duke to take a 14-13 lead on the Irish, but Sam Hartman’s scramble on fourth […]

ESPN 2023 College Football Power Rankings after Week 6

While Oklahoma’s thrilling victory over Texas in the Red River Rivalry captured the nation’s attention, Georgia, Michigan, Florida State and Ohio State were reminding the college football world they’re still here. All won in reasonably easy fashion — Ohio State struggled early — to secure their spots in our power rankings. While Texas’ loss dropped […]

Miami opts not to kneel, falls to Georgia Tech on late score

More Teams. More Games. Miami’s choice to run the ball leads to a crucial fumble, which Georgia Tech recovers and later completes the miracle comeback. (0:53) MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Miami should have taken a knee. It took a disastrous loss instead, as Georgia Tech turned a huge mistake by the Hurricanes into a last-second […]

Jimbo Fisher names Conner Weigman as Texas A&M’s starting QB

Weigman beat out Max Johnson, the former LSU transfer who started 14 games for the Tigers and led the Aggies to wins over Miami and Arkansas before a hand injury against Mississippi State sidelined him for the rest of the season. Weigman, the No. 27 overall in the 2022 ESPN 300, was the No. 1-ranked […]

Texas high school football and the rise of Texas Tech’s Joey McGuire and UTSA’s Jeff Traylor

Sure, Georgia coach Kirby Smart, continuing a tradition among national championship coaches, flew in for a few hours just to speak to the largest and most powerful coaching organization of its kind in the country. Texas’ Steve Sarkisian and Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher drew plenty of attention. All 12 Division I coaches in Texas spoke […]

College football Power Rankings after Week 1

The Week 1 college football slate was loaded with top-tier matchups to officially kick off the season while ushering fans back into stadiums and onto message boards. Some games lived up to the hype — No. 5 Notre Dame went toe-to-toe with No. 2 Ohio State for three quarters and 10 minutes in a 21-10 […]

Preseason College Football Power Rankings: Alabama once again starts the season at No. 1

Despite the seismic changes that took place during college football’s offseason, the upcoming season will provide fans with a breath of familiarity. Yes, the preseason College Football Power Rankings are once again led by perennial playoff teams, Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia and Clemson. But last season’s rankings had the Spencer Rattler-led Oklahoma Sooners at No. […]

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