7:00 AM ET ESPN staff We are now 11 weeks into the college football season, and only three undefeated teams remain: Georgia, Cincinnati and UTSA. Just as we all predicted at the beginning of the year. Saturday saw Michigan rally past Penn State, Oklahoma have its bid for perfection end at the hands of Baylor,
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11:33 AM ET Florida International coach Butch Davis will not return in 2022. Davis, who has led FIU since 2017, told The Action Network that he’s out after the season and criticized the school’s administration for “sabotaging the program.” He has informed the coaching staff that he will not be back, sources told ESPN, although
9:00 PM ET Auburn quarterback Bo Nix confirmed that he will have surgery to repair an ankle injury he suffered during Saturday’s loss to Mississippi State. Nix tweeted on Sunday night: “The road to recovery begins tomorrow.” A source told ESPN that Nix is expected to miss the rest of the regular season. Bones break
5:12 PM ET Washington has fired football coach Jimmy Lake in his second season, the school announced Sunday. “Making a head coaching change in any sport is difficult, recognizing that the decision impacts coaches, staff, student-athletes and their families,” Washington athletic director Jen Cohen said in a statement. “However, as the steward of UW Athletics,
1:59 AM ET Just two weeks remain in the 2021 regular season, and all we’re certain of is that Georgia looks awfully good. Beyond that, nearly everything seems debatable, and Week 11 proved particularly adept at illustrating just how foolish many of our assumptions have been. Oh, sure, there were the truly hilarious twists of
12:15 AM ET ESPN News Services AUSTIN, Texas — Jalon Daniels hit Jared Casey on a scrambling pass for a 2-point conversion in overtime and Kansas stunned Texas 57-56 Saturday night to snap the Jayhawks’ eight-game losing streak this season and a 56-game losing streak in Big 12 road games. Kansas was a 31-point underdog
5:33 PM ET Baylor fans were so excited that their No. 13 Bears beat No. 8 Oklahoma 27-14 that they stormed the field twice. Assuming the game was over, throngs of fans who had been perched on walls waiting for the final seconds to tick off the clock rushed the field, not realizing Baylor coach
2:13 PM ET Georgia got a commitment from ESPN 300 cornerback Julian Humphrey on Friday, giving the Bulldogs two commitments in the past two days from prospects previously committed to Florida. Georgia was able to flip ESPN Junior 300 wide receiver Raymond Cottrell on Thursday from Florida, and Humphrey had been committed to the Gators
4:12 PM ET Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — Linebacker JoJo Domann, one of the top tacklers in Nebraska history, announced Thursday that his career with the Cornhuskers is over following surgery on his left hand. Domann, who made the announcement on his podcast, said he injured a finger early in the Oct. 30 game against
6:34 PM ET New Mexico State is the biggest underdog of the college football season to date, catching 52 points in Saturday’s tester at Alabama. Some bettors have backed the Aggies to win straight up. New Mexico State is 75-1 to pull an outright upset of Alabama at sportsbook operator WynnBet, where 29 money-line bets
6:00 AM ET All but four teams are on the outside looking in at the College Football Playoff right now. Fortunately for them, the clock has not run out. There’s a path for many teams to break through — though for some it’s much less likely to happen than for others. Still, a path is
10:11 AM ET UConn has hired former UCLA and NFL coach Jim Mora to be its next football coach, athletic director David Benedict announced Thursday. Mora and UConn have agreed to a five-year contract in which he will make $1.5 million in the first season and could earn another $200,000 in annual performance incentives. He
6:00 AM ET Going back to their Mighty Mite football days as kids, Anthony Tedesco knew there was something different about his pal Kenny Pickett. They grew up about five minutes from the New Jersey shore, and if they weren’t splashing around in the surf during the summers at Loch Arbour or Allenhurst beaches, they
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
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
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
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
7:06 PM ET The USC–California football game scheduled for Saturday has been postponed, Cal announced Tuesday. “It was a difficult decision to postpone this Saturday’s game against USC,” Cal athletic director Jim Knowlton said in a statement. “We know how important every one of our games is to our student-athletes, especially our seniors who have