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6:00 AM ET ESPN staff Dave Aranda’s second season at Baylor has been one of turnarounds. The Bears improved from 2-7 last year to 7-2 this year, but they suffered a setback last week in a 30-28 loss to an emotional TCU team following Gary Patterson’s departure. This week provides the best measuring stick yet

8:30 PM ET Police charged Georgia linebacker Adam Anderson with felony rape on Wednesday after a 21-year-old woman accused him of raping her in a house in Athens, Georgia, on Oct. 29. Anderson voluntarily turned himself in to police on Wednesday and was being held without bond at the Athens-Clarke County Jail. Anderson has denied

4:25 PM ET There is “unfair pressure” on No. 5 Cincinnati to dominate teams in a way that isn’t required of Power 5 playoff contenders, American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco said in an email to ESPN on Wednesday. “There is unfair pressure on the Bearcats to get style points that P5 conference teams are

7:00 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN You’re a linebacker ready to rush the opposing kicker to try to block his field goal. You break through, but not fast enough; the kick is good and you end up barging into the holder instead. Suddenly, the kicker is in your face, pointing his finger at you, shouting at

9:10 PM ET What happens when every College Football Playoff contender except the No. 1 team struggles on the first Saturday of November? Not a whole lot when it comes to the CFP selection committee rankings. The undefeated Georgia Bulldogs remained No. 1 in the second edition of the rankings released on Tuesday night, followed

4:59 PM ET Associated Press CONWAY, S.C. — Injured Coastal Carolina quarterback Grayson McCall could miss the rest of the season for the 22nd-ranked Chanticleers, coach Jamey Chadwell said. McCall, a 6-foot-3, 209-pound redshirt sophomore from Indian Trail, North Carolina, missed last weekend’s 28-8 win at Georgia Southern with what the school called an upper-body

6:00 AM ET There’s less than a month left in the 2021 college football regular season, and the legitimate College Football Playoff contenders will begin to emerge over the next four weeks. Can Georgia and/or Oklahoma go unbeaten? Who will win the Big Ten East? Can Cincinnati become the first Group of 5 team to

7:05 PM ET LINCOLN, Neb. — Scott Frost has not won enough games at Nebraska. He knows that. Athletic director Trev Alberts knows that. Everybody in Nebraska knows that. While a 15-27 record in four years would be enough to get a coach fired at nearly any big-time program in America, Nebraska prides itself on

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff Chaos has been the common theme throughout the 2021 college football season. Two more undefeated teams lost (sorry, Michigan State and Wake Forest). A few other College Football Playoff contenders survived after being taken to the brink. And no one has run away with the Heisman yet. Our reporters put

8:45 AM ET Texas Tech is hiring Baylor associate head coach Joey McGuire as its next head football coach, sources told ESPN. An official announcement is expected later Monday. McGuire, a successful longtime Texas high school coach, is in his fifth season at Baylor and his third as the team’s associate head coach. He has

9:30 PM ET Florida Gators defensive coordinator Todd Grantham and offensive line coach John Hevesy are out, sources confirmed to ESPN on Sunday. The moves come one day after Florida continued its downward spiral, losing 40-17 to host South Carolina — its worst loss to the Gamecocks in school history. Coach Dan Mullen had faced

2:16 PM ET Associated Press Cincinnati held on to the No. 2 ranking by just four points over No. 3 Alabama in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday, and Oregon passed Ohio State to move up to No. 5. Georgia is a unanimous No. 1 for the fifth straight week in the Top 25.

1:29 AM ET In the final three minutes of Saturday’s slugfest against Tulsa, Cincinnati had eight chances to lose a football game, and yet it won. There are two ways to tell this story. In one, Cincinnati failed miserably once more. By ranking the Bearcats sixth last week, the College Football Playoff committee sent a

12:27 AM ET Florida continued its downward spiral on Saturday night, losing 40-17 to South Carolina — its worst loss to the Gamecocks in school history. Florida coach Dan Mullen said afterward his roster had been depleted during the week because of the flu, noting that anywhere between 20-30 players missed practice during the week.

5:56 PM ET Ole Miss officials have apologized after since-deleted tweets from Ole Miss’ official football Twitter account on Saturday mocked former coach Hugh Freeze following the Rebels’ 27-14 victory over Liberty. One of the tweets included a picture of Freeze coaching from a hospital bed two years ago at Liberty while recovering from surgery

11:27 AM ET Ohio State leading wide receiver Garrett Wilson will miss Saturday’s game at Nebraska with an unspecified injury. Coach Ryan Day told Fox that the team hopes to get Wilson back for next week’s home game against Purdue. Day said sophomore Julian Fleming and freshman Marvin Harrison Jr. will get increased playing time

9:00 AM ET ESPN Stats & Information Saturday Missouri Tigers at No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs (-38, 59.5), Noon ET on ESPN This would be the 4th-largest underdog Missouri has been in any game since the 1978 FBS/FCS split and the largest since 1996 (+50 at No. 5 Nebraska). This would be the largest favorite Georgia

Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson famously warned mammas to not let their babies grow up to be cowboys. The country music stars might have encouraged them to be fired college coaches instead. According to an ESPN analysis of financial records of athletics departments at public universities, FBS programs spent more than $533.6 million in dead