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Jacoby Mathews enters transfer portal, latest to leave Texas A&M
Tuesday is the first day of the spring transfer portal window that allows players to enter their names in the database to receive communication from coaches to potentially transfer. Mathews is a 6-foot-2, 215-pound sophomore safety who was an ESPN 300 prospect in the 2022 class out of Louisiana. He played in 10 games his […]
Continue readingUCF DE Josh Celiscar says he’ll transfer to Texas A&M
Celiscar entered his name in the transfer portal in December as a grad transfer and was a two-time captain for the Knights in his time with UCF. He had 54 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss and three sacks in the 2023 season. He followed that up with 47 tackles and three tackles for loss this […]
Continue readingHow 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 readingCollege football 2024: Who has the most to prove next season?
So, we asked our staffers which coaches and players — transfers and non-transfers — will have the most to prove during the surely chaotic upcoming season. Here’s what they had to say. Kalen DeBoer, Alabama DeBoer just took Washington to the national title game in only his second year — two seasons after the team […]
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: What we’re most excited to see
We’ve already gazed into a crystal ball for our Way-Too-Early Top 25 and Way-Too-Early All-America team. Now we’re looking more specifically at what we’re most excited to see once the teams take the field in 2024. ESPN’s college football reporters weigh in on the games they’re most excited to see, the freshmen or transfers who […]
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 readingBowl game overreactions: Why Ole Miss and Notre Dame are going to take a leap next season
More Teams. More Games. Kansas State’s head coach and quarterback enjoy a huge Pop-Tart after winning the inaugural Pop-Tarts Bowl. (0:45) The college football postseason is nearly over, and you know what that means. It’s time to get ahead of ourselves and start thinking about next season. Which teams are doomed, and which teams are […]
Continue readingRanking the 10 best college football defenses ahead of the 2023 season
The spring has been spent breaking down which offenses (quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers) will define the upcoming college football season, so it’s now time to look at what ultimately wins championships: the defenses. The Georgia Bulldogs broke their 41-year title drought, then followed it up by becoming the first back-to-back champion in a […]
Continue readingDrafting college football’s best players into four superteams, position by position
But what if we had a draft featuring all college football players? We polled four writers — Andrea Adelson, David Hale, Adam Rittenberg and Alex Scarborough — to come up with their best all-22 selections (plus a place-kicker and return specialist) to create the best team of college football players possible. So, yes, Caleb Williams, […]
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