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Eli Lederman, ESPN Staff WriterOct 14, 2024, 06:49 PM ET Close Eli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World. Open Extended Reactions Notre Dame landed a commitment from four-star quarterback Blake Hebert on Monday, flipping the

Wisconsin improved to 4-2 on the 2024 season and 2-1 in Big Ten play with a dominant 42-7 win over Rutgers on Saturday. The Badgers now ride a two-game winning streak with wins by a combined margin of 94-13. That hot streak has greatly improved the team’s standing after it started the season 2-2 and

David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterOct 13, 2024, 12:29 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Change can be scary. It’s easy to look around at the college football landscape in 2024 — realignment, playoff expansion, NIL, the portal, lawsuits, Michigan’s offense — and

The Wisconsin Badgers (4-2, 2-1 Big Ten) are trending in the right direction after a second consecutive dominant win, this a 42-7 road victory over Rutgers. The team’s two recent wins over Purdue and Rutgers were by a combined margin of 94-13. The performances showed dominance that has yet to be seen under Luke Fickell

Associated Press Oct 12, 2024, 03:59 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama was able to hold off South Carolina 27-25 on Saturday with an interception after allowing the Gamecocks a chance at handing the Tide their second straight SEC loss by botching an onside kick recovery before the game’s final drive. LaNorris

Arch Manning and the Texas Longhorns will play the Oklahoma Sooners this Saturday, here’s how to watch. (Tim Warner/Getty Images) No. 18 Oklahoma will visit No. 1 Texas in Dallas this Saturday afternoon for an NCAAF game that kicks off at 3:30 p.m. ET on ABC and ESPN+. Oklahoma and Texas teams have long been

ESPN News Services Oct 10, 2024, 01:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Oklahoma leading wide receiver Deion Burks is not expected to play against No. 1 Texas, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Thursday. Burks tops the No. 18 Sooners in receptions (26) and yards (201) this season. He’d been listed as questionable and has

The Athletic’s Scott Dochterman named the Wisconsin Badgers as a ‘dangerous trap game’ for the No. 4-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions. The two square off on Oct. 26, just two weeks from Saturday. Wisconsin first plays at Rutgers (Oct. 12) and at Northwestern (Oct. 19) before returning home for the premier showdown. Related: Big Ten

Jake Trotter, ESPN Senior WriterOct 10, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Jake Trotter covers college football for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2011. Before that, he worked at The Oklahoman, Austin American-Statesman and Middletown (Ohio) Journal newspapers. You can follow him @Jake_Trotter. Open Extended Reactions STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The night before last year’s Peach

The Chip Kelly era at Oregon was a short but thrilling ride for Duck fans. Kelly, now the offensive coordinator for No. 2 Ohio State, came to Oregon for that same role on Mike Bellotti’s staff in 2007, and two years later he was named Bellotti’s replacement. From 2009 to 2012, Kelly and the Ducks

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNOct 9, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions EUGENE, Ore. — It’s a midsummer day in July, and Oregon‘s present and future at the quarterback position are fittingly passing each other inside the brightly lit hallways of the Marcus Mariota Performance Center. Dillon Gabriel and Dante Moore dap each other up and

Saturday’s top-3 showdown between No. 3 Oregon and No. 2 Ohio State will also include Chip Kelly’s return to Autzen Stadium. The Ducks‘ former coach is in his first season as offensive coordinator for the Buckeyes. Kelly spent six years in Eugene, first as the offensive coordinator under coach Mike Bellotti in 2007 and 2008

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterOct 8, 2024, 09:24 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions Georgia wide receiver Colbie Young was arrested early Tuesday morning on misdemeanor charges of battery and assault of an unborn child, according to Athens-Clarke

Week 7 of the 2024 college football season will surely be thrilling, and it all kicks off with a Tuesday showdown between the Liberty Flames and Florida International Panthers. The Flames have been outstanding thus far en route to a 4-0 record, and have started gaining some traction in the US LBM Coaches Poll. They

Oct 7, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Was something in the air this weekend? Five top-25 teams lost to unranked programs, along with No. 9 Missouri losing by a large margin to No. 25 Texas A&M. The most chaotic weekend of college football so far left many questions left unanswered as we approach

The random nature of sports makes it impossible to foresee every game’s outcome. A whole lot of well-lit buildings in the desert stand as testimony to this reality. College football is especially prone to such randomness. Most of the time, analysts might feel like they have a handle on which team might prevail in a

Associated Press Oct 6, 2024, 02:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions It was a week of upheaval in The Associated Press college football poll, with Texas returning to No. 1 on Sunday after a one-week absence following Vanderbilt‘s monumental upset of Alabama. The Commodores’ win as more than three-touchdown underdogs caused the Crimson Tide to

Next week’s slate of college football games could shake up the top 10 of the US LBM Coaches and AP Top 25 polls. Several monumental games will feature ranked teams including Penn State at USC, Ohio State at Oregon and the Red River Rivalry of Texas-Oklahoma. Even Ole Miss-LSU could catapult the winner into the