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12:34 PM ET The NCAA placed LSU’s football program on one year of probation and issued a three-year show cause against a former assistant coach, who it says admitted to meeting with a prospect and giving him team gear during a COVID-19 recruiting dead period. The Tigers said they fired offensive line coach James Cregg

7:32 PM ET ESPN staff College football’s last weekend in September is officially here, meaning conference rivalries move to the forefront of Saturday’s slate. Sure, we’ll miss the nonconference battles like Appalachian State upsetting Texas A&M in College Station or Georgia proving why the title still runs through Athens, but conference play is where seasons

2:43 PM ET Associated Press AMHERST, Mass. — The University of Massachusetts is planning to hold a Pride Day on the same day that the Minutemen host evangelical college Liberty in a football game. The school made the “special announcement” Sunday on Twitter in a 37-second video featuring techno music and a uniformed player standing

7:00 AM ET Inspirational thought of the week: It’s the sport of kings,Better than diamond ringsThat’s why we’re here to sing …Football. — “Football Rap” LL Cool J Here at Bottom 10 Headquarters, located in a Boone, North Carolina, infirmary next to the eyewash station being used to rid Appalachian State students of pink eye

12:45 AM ET North Carolina freshman quarterback Drake Maye apologized Tuesday evening for taking a shot at rival NC State earlier in the day, saying that his remark was meant as a joke but was “inappropriate.” Maye, while meeting with the media to discuss the Tar Heels’ upcoming game on Saturday against Notre Dame, was

8:22 PM ET Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy said Tuesday that any discussion about his school’s role in the future of the Bedlam rivalry with Oklahoma was “childish.” Athletic directors for both schools told the Action Network on Monday that the series officially would be ending when Oklahoma departs for the SEC. “We don’t have

7:41 PM ET Despite his league winning 12 of the last 16 national championships, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said one of the most important components of an expanded 12-team College Football Playoff would be helping the sport not to be so regionalized. “My view is how do you bring more people into November, including in

9:10 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN The story of USC‘s offense so far this season might best be told by starting with the man who has played only five total snaps. Aadyn Sleep-Dalton wears number 42, hails from Australia, and even if you’ve watched every USC game this season, you might have missed him. It would

11:45 PM ET In the wake of “F— the Mormons” chants coming from the Oregon student section last Saturday during the Ducks’ 41-20 win over BYU at Autzen Stadium, BYU issued a statement Monday thanking Oregon for its “sincere apology” and adding that “this isolated behavior does not reflect the values of the University of

10:56 AM ET Defensive tackle Jordan Renaud committed to Alabama on Monday. Renaud, ranked No. 45 in the 2023 ESPN 300, attends Tyler Legacy High School in Tyler, Texas. Renaud, the fourth-best defensive tackle in the 2023 cycle, chose Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide over Brent Venables and the Sooners. 1 Related Alabama now

11:00 AM ET Every top-10 college football team won by double digits, and still, Week 3 had its moments of absurdity and amazement. The Nos. 11, 12 and 13 teams were all upset on the road. There were walk-off field goals (Indiana), walk-off Hail Mary touchdowns (App State), field storms (also App State … and

11:36 PM ET South Carolina coach Shane Beamer apologized Sunday for shouting at a group of female athletes to leave the field during a Title IX recognition in Saturday’s game against No. 1 Georgia. After the first quarter, South Carolina invited all 275 of its female athletes to one of the end zones at Williams

5:32 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Herm Edwards’ tenure as Arizona State‘s football coach began with bravado, featured dollops of optimism and ultimately ended on Sunday amid a spiral of off-field issues and bad football. Under the dark cloud of a significant NCAA investigation and in the wake of both a staff and roster exodus, Edwards’

11:14 PM ET ESPN staff College football’s Week 3 didn’t deliver the upsets that we grew accustomed to last week, but Power Rankings still saw plenty of movement. Arkansas barely avoided a catastrophic loss to former coach Bobby Petrino and FCS Missouri State, while Miami fell to Texas A&M in a bounce-back performance by the

2:09 AM ET It’s a product of college football’s uniquely meaningful regular season that, as each Saturday’s slate draws to a close, we assume we’ve learned something significant. Through two weeks, we had learned that Oregon was overrated, that Notre Dame was toast, that LSU was no better under Brian Kelly than it was under

5:28 PM ET LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska interim coach Mickey Joseph took full responsibility for his team’s performance in a 49-14 loss to Oklahoma on Saturday, repeatedly saying in his postgame news conference, “This is on me.” Joseph was promoted to interim coach last Sunday after Scott Frost was fired following a 1-2 start to

12:34 PM ET Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson defensive tackle Bryan Bresee will miss Saturday night’s game against Louisiana Tech, staying with his family following the death of his younger sister, Ella, this week. Bresee played in the Tigers’ win over Furman last week, then left to be with his family. Ella Bresee, 15,

9:10 AM ET The College Football Playoff race is looking chalky at the top. So much so that the Allstate Playoff Predictor has never been this confident in Week 3 on the top three teams’ individual chances to land a berth to the playoff. Never in the model’s five-year history has it had three teams