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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 […]
Continue readingWho are the top 50 players in Pac-12 women’s basketball history?
There is a USC legend in the top spot of our list, but it’s not Cheryl Miller. That’s because the two-time NCAA champion didn’t play in the Pac-10/Pac-12. The league didn’t begin governing women’s sports until the 1986-87 academic year, right after Miller finished her college career. Thus, names such as Miller, USC teammate Cynthia […]
Continue readingRanking the top 10 college football quarterbacks in 2024
We polled our college football reporters, asking them to rank their top 10 QBs entering the 2024 season. Points were assigned based on their votes: 10 points for first place, 9 for second place, down to 1 for 10th place. Our picks include four quarterbacks from the SEC and two who are returning from injury […]
Continue readingThe biggest spring questions for college football’s top 25 teams
Here are our writers’ biggest spring questions for each team. Will the Bulldogs be able to replace their departing defensive stars? Georgia’s pass defense was great again last season, ranking sixth in the FBS in yards allowed per attempt. But the Bulldogs will have to do some reloading in the secondary with safeties Javon Bullard […]
Continue readingArizona hires Desireé Reed-Francois as new AD amid budget woes
Reed-Francois has agreed to a five-year deal. The hiring, announced Monday, gives Arizona’s athletic department, which is replete with financial struggles, a veteran leader who has spent nearly three years leading Missouri. The jump from the SEC to Arizona, which is entering the Big 12 in the 2024-25 academic year, is an unexpected one within […]
Continue readingUpdated 2024 Way-Too-Early college football Top 25 rankings
In the 36 days since then, Alabama coach Nick Saban retired, Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh left for the NFL and Ohio State hired two offensive coordinators, the second one a sitting power conference coach. Saban’s surprising announcement Jan. 10 precipitated eight coaching moves that led to five FBS schools — Washington, Arizona, South Alabama, Buffalo […]
Continue readingCollege football 2024: Who will make the 12-team playoff?
David Hale: The argument against a playoff — any playoff — was always about watering down the regular season. For the most part, that wasn’t a concern during the four-team era, though there were certainly signs of problems. In a 12-team playoff with just four power conferences now — and some might argue just two […]
Continue readingWashington hires Jedd Fisch away from Arizona to be coach
More Teams. More Games. Scott Van Pelt breaks down the series of moves that led to Jedd Fisch leaving Arizona to become the head coach at Washington. (0:48) Jedd Fisch is the next football coach at Washington, the school announced Sunday. Washington athletic director Troy Dannen engaged Fisch in a second interview this weekend and […]
Continue reading2024 Way-Too-Early college football Top 25
More Teams. More Games. Now that the college football season is over, ESPN names its way-too-early top 25 for the 2024 season. (1:56) The curtain fell on the four-team College Football Playoff in Houston on Monday night, and it more than delivered in its last season with two nail-biting semifinals that weren’t decided until the […]
Continue readingBreaking down the top 100 CFB players: What the rankings missed
More Teams. More Games. Kirk Herbstreit takes an early look at the CFP National Championship game between Washington and Michigan next Monday. (2:27) With the 2023 college football season almost in the rearview mirror, we ranked the top 100 players for the year. But as with any ranking, there is plenty to debate. Our reporters […]
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