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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 […]
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Michigan’s last dance? After wild season, Wolverines can go out on top
More Teams. More Games. Blake Corum speaks on Jim Harbaugh’s wolves analogy and how Michigan is staying hungry for a national championship win. (0:51) HOUSTON — Last February, at a Michigan basketball game in the Crisler Center, Wolverines running back Blake Corum held a microphone and told the fans, “I promise you we’re going to […]
Continue readingESPN 2023 College Football Power Rankings after Week 13
More Teams. More Games. After Washington converts on fourth down, Michael Penix Jr. cannot bear to watch the game-winning kick, which Grady Gross nails from 42 yards. (1:00) Rivalry Week, or at least the Saturday portion of it, lived up to its billing and then some. Ohio State-Michigan. Alabama-Auburn. Washington State-Washington. Heart-stoppers all. Michigan managed […]
Continue readingMichigan beats Ohio State for third straight win in rivalry
More Teams. More Games. Michigan interim head coach Sherrone Moore describes his team’s feelings for Jim Harbaugh and how the players wanted to beat Ohio State for him. (0:29) ANN ARBOR, Mich. — When suspended Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh addressed his team Friday night, he recited Bo Schembechler’s famous line — “The team, the team, […]
Continue readingUSC 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 […]
Continue readingPreviewing Big Ten media days: The biggest questions for the 2023 season
Power 5 media days will officially wrap up with the Big Ten on Wednesday and Thursday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. With the entries of UCLA and USC still a year away, the focus will be on the conference’s historic blue bloods: How will Ohio State look with a new starting quarterback? Can Michigan, […]
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 readingCollege football Power Rankings after conference championship week
It was all supposed to be so easy heading into conference championship week. USC beats Utah in the Pac-12 title game on Friday to clinch a spot in the College Football Playoff and TCU follows suit on Saturday in the Big 12 championship against Kansas State. Well, not so easy. Instead, the Trojans lost a […]
Continue readingPredicting every college football Power 5 conference for the 2022 season
As much as college football has changed over the past few seasons through the transfer portal, conference realignment and NIL money, the lopsided nature of the sport has largely remained unchanged. Alabama, Clemson, Georgia and Ohio State are still the most dominant teams in the FBS, and it’s difficult to find any other program that […]
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