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5:48 PM ET Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin said Monday he thinks this is probably the best team Alabama has had under his old boss Nick Saban. “As far as being balanced all over and not having holes anywhere,” Kiffin said of the No. 2-ranked Crimson Tide, who face the Rebels on Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway

7:30 AM ET Six years of the College Football Playoff have produced 24 playoff bids. Clemson, Alabama, Oklahoma and Ohio State have combined for 17 of them. This season, then, it was fair to assume once the Big Ten rejoined the fray and announced it would play later in the fall (Oct. 24) that these

2:23 PM ET Associated Press Oklahoma dropped out of The Associated Press college football poll for the first time since September 2016 and No. 24 Iowa State jumped back into the Top 25 after a day of upsets. There largely was stability at the top of the rankings Sunday after No. 1 Clemson, No. 2

10:00 AM ET Sometimes it’s better not to play, apparently. Miami ranked 15th in last week’s SP+ ratings and took a bye week before this Saturday’s big game against Clemson. Of the teams ranked just above them … UCF lost to No. 71 Tulsa Texas lost to No. 45 TCU Oklahoma lost to No. 41

12:29 AM ET Do you hear it, off in the distance? It’s still faint, because we’re just a month into this strange attempt at college football in 2020, but it’s there — that familiar refrain, the siren song we’ve heard before. Listen. “S-E-C! S-E-C!” You thought this college football season would be different just because

6:37 PM ET Texas senior quarterback Sam Ehlinger said his school “deserves better,” after the No. 9 Longhorns lost at home to unranked TCU on Saturday. The 33-31 loss to the Horned Frogs marked the sixth time since 2017 that the Longhorns have entered a game ranked in the Associated Press poll and lost to

9:00 AM ET Welcome to college football’s Week 5! During which we ask, “Is this really Week 5?” But it is. And even though we’ve just passed the mark into October, we already have a top-10 matchup in the 125th meeting between Auburn and Georgia, the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry. It’s the teams’ first October

2:15 PM ET Notre Dame president Rev. John Jenkins has tested positive for COVID-19 and is showing mild symptoms, the school said in a message sent to the campus community on Friday. Jenkins learned this week that a colleague with whom he has been in regular contact tested positive, so he also got tested and

8:00 AM ET When Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott recently proposed expanding the 2020 playoff field to eight teams, he also was proposing — in a way — to bring Texas back. Because there is no team in the SEC, ACC, Big 12 or Big Ten that would have benefited more from an eight-team playoff field

8:00 AM ET The good news about Week 5: 18 ranked teams are in action. By 2020’s standards, that’s pretty fantastic. The less good news: 13 of them are favored by double-digits, and only four play each other. The No. 4 Georgia vs. No. 7 Auburn game (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN) could be dynamite, but

7:00 AM ET David M. Hale Close ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Harry Lyles Jr. This is the weekend you’ve been waiting for in college football. We’re slowly getting to a point where all Power 5 football is going to be played, and we’ll be

7:05 AM ET We should not have been surprised at what we saw unfold at Death Valley on Saturday. We shouldn’t have been shocked when Mississippi State quarterback K.J. Costello, whom we had last seen driving a bulldozer at Stanford, spent the afternoon throwing his way past the likes of Dak Prescott and Nick Fitzgerald

3:02 PM ET PAC-12 commissioner Larry Scott suggested expanding the College Football Playoff from four to eight teams for this season, but the CFP management committee did not approve the idea during Wednesday’s meeting, CFP executive director Bill Hancock told ESPN. Although the playoff won’t expand this season, the commissioners have reviewed the current format

10:00 AM ET Editor’s note: The SEC is back! Except maybe LSU. Meanwhile, the Bottom 10 never went away, ready to rank the worst of college football while we await the return of the Big Ten, Pac-12, MAC and Mountain West. Inspirational thought of the week: All I hear is what you’re worthWith all those

1:57 PM ET Notre Dame will resume team practices Wednesday after reporting 18 positive coronavirus tests on Monday, but the program has changed the way it will eat its pregame meals and will now have rapid antigen tests available on the sideline because of lessons learned from their outbreak, coach Brian Kelly told ESPN on

4:59 PM ET Last week, minutes after news broke of Houston’s fourth false start, linebacker Keith Corbin tapped out two short tweets that summed up the Cougars’ current state of mind. “Can we just play one game man,” he posted shortly after North Texas announced — like three other teams before it — that it

7:44 PM ET Ohio State Buckeyes All-American candidates Shaun Wade and Wyatt Davis have been cleared to play this season after opting back in. Ohio State coach Ryan Day said both players would be eligible during an interview on 97.1 FM in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday. A team captain for the Buckeyes, Wade was listed

7:00 AM ET A Mike Leach team finished with more than 600 passing yards and single-digit rushing yards. Texas Tech roped a highly ranked team into some serious scoreboard explosions and fell short. Alabama was merciless. Oklahoma lost as a huge favorite to Kansas State. The word “normal” has lost all meaning in 2020, but