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2:01 PM ET Associated Press USC moved into the top five of The Associated Press college football poll Sunday for the first time in five years. Georgia again received 62 of the 63 first-place votes in the AP Top 25 as the top four teams held their places after playing varying degrees of close games

5:18 PM ET Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during Saturday’s 63-38 loss to South Carolina and will miss the remainder of the season. Team officials feared the worst Saturday after Hooker was injured in the fourth quarter, and the school announced the news Sunday. “Hendon and the

5:16 PM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com Within minutes of each other on Saturday afternoon, both the No. 3 Michigan Wolverines and No. 4 TCU Horned Frogs held off upset-minded conference foes and kept their undefeated seasons and College Football Playoff chances alive. In the timeline, TCU’s game against the Baylor Bears ended first. Baylor held the

2:13 AM ET The last time the Pac-12 had a Saturday in November as consequential in the national conversation as it did in Week 12, California was little more than rows of orange groves and a few small studios churning out talking pictures. OK, maybe it wasn’t quite that long ago, but it’s been a

3:57 PM ET Associated Press WACO, Texas — Fourth-ranked TCU had players shuffling on and off the field as the final seconds were ticking off the clock. Kicker Griffin Kell was the last one to get into place. “That looked like chaos, but we practice it every Thursday exactly like that,” Frogs coach Sonny Dykes

Nov 17, 2022 ESPN staff It’s the penultimate week of college football’s regular season and the Pac-12 takes center stage. The Battle for L.A. between USC and UCLA has been anticipated all season. If the conference wants to have any College Football Playoff hope, the Trojans will have to beat the Bruins on Saturday, then

11:39 AM ET A former NC State football player was arrested this week and charged with misdemeanor stalking and communicating threats to Wolfpack head coach Dave Doeren, according to Wake County records. The arrest stems from a tweet reportedly sent by Joseph Boletepeli, 22, a member of the 2018 and 2019 NC State football teams,

1:38 PM ET Leaders throughout college athletics are considering appointing a chief operating officer of college football who would report to a proposed FBS football governing board, according to a lengthy letter from the LEAD1 Association obtained by ESPN. The letter was sent this week to every Division I athletic director and eventually members of

7:00 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN SHANE LEE WAS CONFUSED. The USC linebacker walked out of Monday morning meetings this week and saw the Trojan statue near the center of campus covered in shimmering silver tape pulled taut. Lee, who transferred to USC this offseason from Alabama had to turn to backup quarterback Miller Moss for

8:30 PM ET This story was reported by Andrea Adelson, David M. Hale and Adam Rittenberg The photos that have run with nearly every story about the shooting deaths of three Virginia football players this week came from the team’s annual yearbook pictures. Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry are each dressed in

2:09 PM ET CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — When a gunman started shooting passengers on a charter bus returning to the University of Virginia from a class field trip on Sunday night, Cavaliers running back Mike Hollins at first thought it was balloons popping. Then Hollins saw the alleged gunman, former Virginia walk-on football player Christopher Darnell

7:00 AM ET WASHINGTON — Last week, on an unseasonably warm November afternoon, Gallaudet offensive line coach Todd Collins jogged onto the field, pushing the team’s big bass drum on wheels to midfield, where he banged on it repeatedly, signaling to the nation’s only deaf and hard of hearing team it was time to stretch.

9:17 AM ET ESPN News Services Virginia has canceled a home football game against No. 23 Coastal Carolina scheduled for Saturday in the wake of a shooting that left three players dead and another wounded. The school also announced Wednesday that no decision had been made on the Cavaliers’ season finale against Virginia Tech on

9:00 AM ET ANN ARBOR, Mich. — When Michigan running back Blake Corum went outside as a kid, he never wore shoes. Barefoot Blake would grab charcoal briquettes from the family grill, mix them in a bowl of water and then paint on trees in and around Marshall, Virginia, his one stoplight hometown, about 50

7:00 AM ET Inspirational thought of the week: You must think on a different level, like the CIA does.We’re through the looking glass here, people.White is black.And black is white. — Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison, “JFK” Under the supervision of the reverse vampires,they are forcing our parents to go to bed early,In a fiendish

11:22 PM ET ESPN staff The College Football Playoff selection committee will never ask coaches to run up the score, and the protocol specifically states that comparing games against a common opponent is done “without incenting margin of victory.” That doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate a good old-fashioned drubbing. With no changes to the top

7:00 AM ET Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. The top four teams in the country — Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan and TCU — all won on

7:00 AM ET BERKELEY, Calif. — Joe Starkey thought he had blown the call. Hours after “the most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heartrending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football,” Starkey attended a neighborhood party near his home in Walnut Creek, California, about 15 miles East of Cal’s Memorial Stadium. The date was Nov.