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Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterAug 18, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. Virginia Tech coach Brent Pry inherited a program in 2022 that had lost its way, more than a decade removed from its last conference championship. Though Pry had zero head-coaching experience, he

Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterAug 18, 2023, 06:28 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Off the field, college football is almost always threatened by storm clouds. On the field, it remains unbeaten. The 2022 college offseason was defined by coaches yelling about stressful and exhausting recruiting calendars and the hand-wringing

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

Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterAug 17, 2023, 02:09 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Payton Thorne has won the Auburn starting quarterback job, coach Hugh Freeze announced on Thursday. Thorne, a transfer from Michigan State, beat out Robby Ashford and will start for the Tigers

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterAug 17, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. More than 1,000 former Northwestern athletes have sent an open letter condemning hazing “in any form” while also defending an athletics culture they say is not represented or defined by allegations that surfaced

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

Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterAug 16, 2023, 10:00 AM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. ACC PRESIDENTS HAD a meeting scheduled last Wednesday that had the potential to affect the future of the league. As the hours ticked closer to the call, nobody had a clear idea

Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Staff WriterAug 15, 2023, 01:31 PM ET Close ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan Despite facing an NCAA investigation and the NCAA Committee on Infractions not approving a negotiated resolution in the case, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh told reporters on Monday that his team is as focused

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

Our top 100 college football players for the 2023 season list is live and as expected, Caleb Williams came in at No. 1, a position the Heisman Trophy winner held at the end of last season. But as with any ranking, not everyone is in exact agreement with how the results of our voting turned

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,

Michael A. Fletcher, ESPNAug 14, 2023, 12:00 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

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

Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterAug 14, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee The start of the 2023 college football season is almost here, which means it’s time to unveil ESPN’s preseason All-America team. The offense should look familiar. Six players were on our

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

Pete Thamel, ESPNAug 12, 2023, 05:43 PM ET The negotiated resolution between Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh and the NCAA over alleged recruiting violations was not approved by the NCAA Committee on Infractions, sources confirmed to ESPN, which leaves the timing of Harbaugh’s expected suspension uncertain. It had been widely expected that the COI would

Blake Baumgartner, ESPN Staff WriterAug 12, 2023, 05:42 PM ET LSU has been long known for its wealth of talent at various skill positions. The victory Brian Kelly scored on the recruiting trail Saturday with 2025 five-star wide receiver Dakorien Moore, a product of Duncanville High School (Texas), hits a little differently. Moore, who’s No.

Every August, returning quarterbacks around college football generate unparalleled interest, and the 2023 collection is no exception. The overall transfer market might not have popped as much as the one heading into the 2022 season, but Notre Dame‘s Sam Hartman (Wake Forest) and Kentucky‘s Devin Leary (NC State) are among the ones generating buzz entering