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ESPN 2023 College Football Power Rankings after Week 5
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 readingIowa QB Cade McNamara carted off with left leg injury
More Teams. More Games. Iowa QB Cade McNamara falls to the turf with an apparent leg injury and exits the game. (1:07) Iowa starting quarterback Cade McNamara did not return to Saturday night’s 26-16 win over Michigan State after suffering a left knee injury in the first half. McNamara, a transfer from Michigan, left the […]
Continue readingESPN 2023 college football Power Rankings after Week 3
More Teams. More Games. Preston Daniel hauls in a dime from Jordan Travis to give the Seminoles a 24-10 lead. (0:30) It could be many of the teams occupying the top 25 slots in college football were looking ahead a week to their conference openers. Or it could be some of those teams aren’t as […]
Continue readingESPN 2023 college football Power Rankings after Week 2
More Teams. More Games. Quinn Ewers lofts it 39 yards to Adonai Mitchell in the end zone for Texas. (0:44) Huddled in a corner of Bryant-Denny Stadium, Texas players sang the “Eyes of Texas” to a large contingent of fans in burnt orange T-shirts and arms raised with Hook ‘Em hand signs Saturday night. It […]
Continue readingESPN 2023 college football Power Rankings after Week 1
Coach 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 readingJim Harbaugh, OC Sherrone Moore watched U-M’s victory together
More Teams. More Games. Jim Harbaugh says he watched Michigan’s win with offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore and was very happy with what he saw on the field. (1:04) Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore both were serving suspensions for the team’s opener against East Carolina, so they decided to watch together at […]
Continue readingBest highlights by top college football recruits this week
More Teams. More Games. Jadyn Davis finds Jaylen Himes with perfect pass for the Providence Day touchdown. (0:25) Before they take the field as college football players on Saturdays, some of the top recruits in the 2024 ESPN 300 are playing underneath the lights on weeknights. A pair of top-five cornerbacks — Ohio State-bound Bryce […]
Continue readingMichigan a college football force again despite distractions
More Teams. More Games. Pete Thamel explains what Michigan’s self-imposed suspension for Jim Harbaugh means in the short and long term. (1:08) ANN ARBOR, Mich. — When Santa Ono’s phone pinged on Jan. 16 with intel that Jim Harbaugh would return to coach Michigan in 2023 and not bolt for the NFL, he did what […]
Continue readingCFB Week 1 Notable Bets: Public flocking to Colorado
More Teams. More Games. Desmond Howard explains why Colorado was never a perfect fit for the Pac-12 and breaks down what the Buffaloes offer the Big 12. (1:47) College football has arrived, so let’s check in on who the betting public likes entering the season. Colorado, a 500-1 longshot that’s projected to win just a […]
Continue readingUSC’s Caleb Williams betting favorite for consecutive Heismans
More Teams. More Games. Kirk Herbstreit gives his Herbie Award for Most Exciting Player to USC Quarterback Caleb Williams. (1:05) USC quarterback Caleb Williams is the consensus betting favorite to win the Heisman Trophy again. Williams enters his junior season as the Heisman favorite at all U.S. sportsbooks. He is listed with 15-4 odds at […]
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