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The all-playoff era team: The best players of the past decade

It’s a simple premise and yet a near-impossible challenge. The story of the past decade of college football is littered with superstars — from Lamar Jackson‘s mystifying talent to Baker Mayfield planting the Oklahoma flag at Ohio State to Tua Tagovailoa rescuing Alabama from the brink of defeat to a former walk-on in Stetson Bennett […]

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2024 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 […]

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Breaking 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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Iowa football already behind on its drive for 325 points

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Brian Ferentz has accepted his eventual demise, both in life and in coaching. For the latter, it’s actually kind of liberating. Some anticipated the end of Brian’s time as Iowa’s offensive coordinator after the 2022 season, when the Hawkeyes tumbled to historic lows — 251.6 yards per game, 130th out of […]

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Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz emotional after 200th career win

More Teams. More Games. Iowa stuffs Iowa State on 4th-and-1 to take back the Cy-Hawk Trophy after a one-year hiatus. (0:45) AMES, Iowa — Iowa Hawkeyes safety Sebastian Castro had nearly reached the visitors’ locker room when he first learned that coach Kirk Ferentz had won his 200th career game. Then, Castro saw Ferentz. “A […]

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USC QB Caleb Williams tops AP preseason All-Americans

Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams of USC, Ohio State receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. and Michigan running back Blake Corum are among the returning first-team players who were selected to the Associated Press preseason All-America team announced Monday. Notre Dame offensive tackle Joe Alt and Miami safety Kamren Kinchens also followed up their stellar 2022 seasons […]

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USC’s Caleb Williams, Alabama’s Will Anderson Jr. lead AP All-America team

Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams was one of three Southern California players selected to The Associated Press All-America team released Monday. Offensive lineman Andrew Vorhees and defensive end Tuli Tuipulotu joined their quarterback to give USC more players on the first team than any other school. Williams, named last week the AP player of the […]

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Big Ten college football preview: Breaking down the conference’s best storylines, games and more

After a summer of significant news — the expansion additions of USC and UCLA, followed by a record new media rights deal — the Big Ten swaggers into the season. The league has proven it can compete with the SEC in revenue and realignment. National championships? That’s a different story. Ohio State has been the […]

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Urban Meyer returning to Fox college football pregame show after NFL coaching stint

Fox announced Friday that Meyer would rejoin the show he was part of in its first two seasons. After resigning as Ohio State’s coach after the 2018 season, Meyer worked as an analyst for the Los Angeles-based studio show in 2019 and 2020. Then he was hired to coach the Jacksonville Jaguars in January 2021 […]

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