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Open Extended Reactions With Week 9 in the books, the conference races are heating up. To this point, the focus in the Big 12 has been on Texas and Oklahoma, but with the Sooners suffering their first loss, things are more unsettled. Surging Kansas State is part of a five-team logjam at the top of

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterOct 30, 2023, 12:57 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions Notre Dame tight end Mitchell Evans, the team’s receiving yards leader this season, will miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL in his knee. Coach Marcus Freeman

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNOct 29, 2023, 02:01 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PASADENA, Calif. — Shedeur Sanders‘ tired demeanor and the box score from Colorado’s 28-16 loss to UCLA on Saturday told a similar story. Over the course of 60 minutes at the Rose Bowl, Shedeur had been sacked seven times, hit 17 other times and

Associated Press Oct 29, 2023, 06:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson starting tailback Will Shipley is in concussion protocol after a hard hit to the helmet in a loss to North Carolina State, and his status against No. 12 Notre Dame this week is uncertain. Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said scans

Associated Press Oct 29, 2023, 02:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Oklahoma Sooners dropped four spots to No. 10, the top five teams held their places and Kansas and Kansas State both entered The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday. Georgia is No. 1 for the 20th straight week, receiving 48 of 63

David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterOct 28, 2023, 05:43 PM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions There have been a few stunners already this season, games that went against script and upended playoff hopes for teams that, if we’re being honest, probably didn’t have much

Associated Press Oct 28, 2023, 05:09 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas coach Lance Leipold has always been focused on the future: the next game, the renovations that are about to transform Memorial Stadium, the long-term prospects of a program that has long been in the dumps. “It’s time,” Leipold said after

Dave Wilson, ESPN Staff WriterOct 26, 2023, 05:04 PM ET Close Dave Wilson is an editor for ESPN.com since 2010. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. Open Extended Reactions Texas coach Steve Sarkisian officially named quarterback Maalik Murphy the starter for Saturday’s game against BYU in

Dan Murphy, ESPN Staff WriterOct 27, 2023, 06:53 PM ET Close Covers the Big Ten Joined ESPN.com in 2014 Graduate of the University of Notre Dame Open Extended Reactions Suspended Michigan football staffer Connor Stalions compensated at least one person for recording future Wolverine opponents with “a couple hundred dollars” and a ticket to a

Oct 27, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Earlier this season, the Pac-12 looked like a conference sure to land a team — or multiple teams — in the College Football Playoff. Times have changed. The Allstate Playoff Predictor now has pegged the Big Ten as the conference most likely to have a team

Kyle Bonagura, ESPN Staff WriterOct 27, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Open Extended Reactions For the first time since Deion Sanders arrived at Colorado, the pressure is on. Not that there isn’t a level of pressure felt by every college football coach, but Sanders

Oct 26, 2023, 12:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Michigan has become the biggest story in college football — not for the dominance it has displayed this season with arguably coach Jim Harbaugh’s best team, but possibly how it got there. Since news broke a week ago that the NCAA is investigating Michigan for off-campus

Pete Thamel, ESPNOct 26, 2023, 02:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NCAA enforcement staff have been at the University of Michigan this week to look into the sign-stealing probe, sources told ESPN. The arrival of NCAA enforcement just a week after the investigation formally launched is an indication of the priority the case has taken,

Open Extended Reactions There’s so much more to celebrate this Halloween than chocolate bars, candy corn (no judgment here) and kids in adorable costumes. The College Football Playoff selection committee’s first ranking release, for instance. Will it be a Halloween trick or a treat? With the decision on the horizon, what do one-loss teams have

Alex Scarborough, ESPN Staff WriterOct 25, 2023, 02:54 PM ET Close Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. Open Extended Reactions BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU coach Brian Kelly said he’s encouraged the SEC to adopt headset communication, but that his efforts have ultimately gone nowhere. Kelly is frustrated that they

Alex Scarborough, ESPN Staff WriterOct 25, 2023, 12:00 PM ET Close Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. Open Extended Reactions DURING A TEAM meeting this summer, Florida center Kingsley Eguakun watched as a clip from last season’s opening game against Utah popped onto the screen. That game — beating the

Oct 25, 2023, 08:40 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The American Athletic Conference has voted to add Army into the league as a football-only member, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Wednesday, with the sides working toward the Black Knights joining in 2024. Army will serve as a replacement for SMU, which is joining the

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterOct 24, 2023, 04:09 PM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions Even if Michigan’s football team had stolen its opponents’ signals, Colorado coach Deion Sanders isn’t sure how much it would have helped the Wolverines