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USATSI The clock is winding down and the 2023 college football schedule begins soon. While conference realignment is a hot topic right now, the new season will be unaffected and kick off with some very exciting matchups for anyone making college football office pool picks. Week 1 begins on Thursday, August 31 with 11 games,

The first college football Power Rankings are here and who else but the two-time defending national champion Georgia Bulldogs reign supreme. Michigan and Ohio State are battling it out for second with the Wolverines narrowly edging the Buckeyes for the No. 2 spot. The rest of the top 10 is filled with fellow blue bloods

USATSI Carson Beck has won the Georgia starting quarterback battle, Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart announced on Saturday. Beck, a junior, is in his fourth season with the No. 1 Bulldogs and served as the primary backup last season while the program captured its second consecutive national title. The former four-star prospect from the Class of

Everyone wants to be known as the best at something. Anything. Being the best grill master at your house. Being the best among your friends at singing Taylor Swift karaoke at 2 a.m. Being the best player in all of college football. And when it comes to us who cover college football for a living,

If you are a state legislator and there is a piece of legislation you could pass or a regulation you could repeal that would improve the competitiveness of a local business, then, for the most part, you do it. Maybe it’s a tax break for expansion. Maybe it’s by building infrastructure. Maybe it’s trying to

Who will challenge Georgia, Alabama and LSU in the SEC in 2023? The three schools enter as the overwhelming favorites to win the conference and among the top favorites to win the national title. Defending SEC West champion LSU is the No. 3 favorite to win the SEC at +450 and there’s a big jump

USATSI Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze spoke publicly for the first time about the lawsuit filed by Michael Oher against Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, lamenting over the situation and expressing his love for all parties involved. Freeze was Oher’s head coach at Briarcrest Christian School in Eads, Tennessee and went on to serve as

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterAug 17, 2023, 02:13 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Former Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald will serve as a parent volunteer for the football program at Loyola Academy, the high school in the Chicago suburbs that two of his sons attend. Fitzgerald, who

It’s the final season of the Pac-12 as we know it. The conference’s demise has been well-documented. USC and UCLA accepted invitations to the Big Ten last summer, and commissioner George Kliavkoff could not land a suitable television deal to keep the league intact. Colorado’s departure to the Big 12 caused a chain reaction with

USATSI Utah’s quarterback situation remains a mystery with less than a month until the start of the 2023 season. Star Cam Rising is still rehabbing his ACL injury from January’s Rose Bowl loss, and Utes coach Kyle Whittingham is not certain Rising will be able to go for Week 1 vs. Florida. To make matters

Michael A. Fletcher, ESPNAug 15, 2023, 07:43 PM ET Close Michael Fletcher is a senior writer with ESPN’s enterprise and investigative team. Before that, he wrote for ESPN’s The Undefeated, focusing on politics, criminal justice and social issues. He spent 21 years at The Washington Post, where his beats included the national economy, the White

CBS Sports graphic Sports betting is becoming more popular every year as many states across the country pass legalization, allowing millions of sports fans access a variety of sportsbooks and bets on their phone. It’s even becoming more popular with college football players! While that’s a serious problem, another one exists even for those who

On Aug. 30 in Dallas, leaders of the College Football Playoff were scheduled to finalize minutiae of the expanded postseason format set to begin in 2024. Items on the agenda included things like ticket distribution, team lodging and other important but tedious matters around the first-round games on campus. Now, after another realignment wave shook

Georgia begins the 2023 college football season in the same place it finished the last two — atop the AP Top 25 poll. The two-time defending champ Bulldogs were a runaway pick for the top spot in the preseason poll. While the Bulldogs will be breaking in a new quarterback, there aren’t a lot of

We’re getting closer and closer to the college football season. It’s been a busy and eventful offseason but now we’re less than two weeks from actual action on the field, beginning with Notre Dame vs. Navy over in Ireland. Before the games begin, let’s dive in on the biggest storylines entering the 2023 season. 1.

USATSI College football realignment has dominated the headlines, but the 2023 college football schedule will be largely unaffected. A few teams will kick off their seasons on Saturday, August 26, but the majority will begin over Labor Day weekend with primetime matchups on Thursday and Friday leading into a full slate on Saturday, September 2.

Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Staff WriterAug 13, 2023, 07:09 AM ET Close ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan Austin Simmons has already completed his associate’s degree and is only two years from getting his bachelor’s. He’s a star football player, one of several elite quarterbacks in the Ole Miss Rebels‘ loaded

Michigan Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh poses during the Big Ten Conference media days on July 27. (James Black/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) An agreement between the NCAA and Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh concerning penalties stemming from what the NCAA deemed to be false statements Harbaugh made to investigators has broken down, an industry