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USC’s Miller Moss waited patiently for his shot. Now he has it
The 12 hours before that call couldn’t have gone much better for Moss. After spending three years as USC’s backup quarterback — two in Caleb Williams‘ shadow — and only attempting 59 passes, Moss was finally given the chance to take center stage with the NFL-bound Williams opting out of the 2023 DIRECTV Holiday Bowl. […]
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 readingRanking the top 10 pass catchers in college football for 2024
But that doesn’t mean there won’t be anyone left to catch the ball in the college game. Our list of the top 10 receivers in college football for the coming season, as determined by a poll of our reporters, includes five players who broke the 1,000-yard threshold in 2023, plus two players who missed significant […]
Continue readingTop 50 college football recruits: Stats for 2023 true freshmen
More Teams. More Games. Zachariah Branch weaves between defenders and takes it all the way to the end zone for USC. (0:59) There are just two weeks remaining in the 2023 college football regular season. After 11 weeks, we can assess which true freshmen have become instant stars, while for others, we’ll still have to […]
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 readingUSC’s Zachariah Branch has 2 TDs in debut as Trojans roll
More Teams. More Games. Caleb Williams lights up San Jose State with a 278-yard, four-touchdown game in a win for USC. (1:44) LOS ANGELES — For about one half of football, the 2023 version of USC looked like a lot like the 2022 version. In its season opener against San Jose State on Saturday night, […]
Continue reading2023 college football outlook: Pac-12 at a glance
While the Pac-12 was the talk of college football much of the past month for all the wrong reasons, don’t let the venerable conference’s demise overshadow the immediate future — this league is loaded with talent and set up for a marvelous swan song this season. With defending Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams of USC […]
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