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3:22 PM ET Former Ohio State linebacker K’Vaughan Pope, who was dismissed from the team Sunday following a sideline incident during Saturday’s game against Akron, has entered the NCAA transfer portal. Pope’s name appeared Monday in the portal as an undergraduate transfer candidate. He had to be escorted to the Buckeyes’ locker room during the

12:43 PM ET ESPN News Services Utah football player Aaron Lowe was fatally shot early Sunday in Salt Lake City. “We are devastated to hear about the passing of Aaron Lowe,” Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said in a statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Aaron’s family and friends, along with the other individual who

7:01 PM ET Clemson starting defensive tackle Bryan Bresee is out for the season with a torn ACL, coach Dabo Swinney said Sunday. The news was better for running back Will Shipley, who is expected back this season. Both players were hurt in the second half of a 27-21 loss to NC State on Saturday.

4:18 PM ET Ohio State senior linebacker K’Vaughan Pope has been dismissed from the team following a highly publicized incident on Saturday in which he was escorted off the field during the Buckeyes’ win against Akron, according to a statement from coach Ryan Day on Sunday. “K’Vaughan will continue to have the use of programs

12:07 AM ET Ohio State linebacker K’Vaughan Pope was escorted to the locker room in the second quarter of Saturday’s Buckeyes game against visiting Akron after a blowup on the sideline. Pope, according to LetterMen Row, tried to enter the game in the second quarter but was waved off by Buckeyes linebacker Teradja Mitchell. Once

12:59 AM ET Clemson has two losses. Ohio State has some weird quarterback stuff going on and a guy who threw his gear into the stands and quit during a game. Oklahoma can’t move the football unless it’s playing Western Carolina. Arkansas looks like the ’85 Chicago Bears. People spent the week chattering about Alabama

6:06 PM ET CHICAGO — Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly is “pretty optimistic” that quarterback Jack Coan won’t miss next week’s showdown against No. 8 Cincinnati after leaving Saturday’s 41-13 victory against No. 17 Wisconsin with a left ankle injury. Coan, facing his former team at Soldier Field, limped off after Notre Dame’s second possession

2:14 PM ET Oregon defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux launched his own cryptocurrency Thursday, the latest in a string of unique business opportunities he has entered into since changes to the NCAA’s name, image and likeness rules arrived in July. The coin ($JREAM) will be traded exclusively on Rally, which describes itself as a platform for

5:43 PM ET Oklahoma football got a commitment from ESPN Junior 300 wide receiver Deandre Moore Jr. on Friday. Moore is the No. 11-ranked prospect overall in the 2023 class and the No. 1 receiver. He’s a 5-foot-11, 190-pound prospect from Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California. He is joining his high school

11:39 PM ET ESPN News Services USC freshman quarterback Jaxson Dart had surgery to repair a meniscus injury and will be out indefinitely, a source confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. Three-year starter Kedon Slovis is expected to start against Oregon State on Saturday. Dart replaced Slovis during the Trojans’ 45-14 win at Washington State last

7:41 AM ET What if … we win out? Win our conference championship? Lose only a nonconference game? Do we get in? Fans start running the scenarios as soon as the college football season kicks off, and the game changes every week as the landscape shifts. What would happen to your favorite contender as a

1:43 PM ET Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback C.J. Stroud will be used only in an emergency capacity on Saturday against Akron, coach Ryan Day announced on his weekly radio show on 97.1 FM The Fan. Stroud, according to Day, is nursing a shoulder injury, and the staff felt a week of rest would do the

7:30 AM ET It’s been nearly 25 years since the Head Ball Coach, surrounded by a sea of triumphant Florida players, coaches and cheerleaders, stood on the turf at a raucous Louisiana Superdome and repeated one of his favorite sayings. “Swanny, God has smiled on the Gators,” Steve Spurrier told ABC sideline reporter Lynn Swann.

7:45 AM ET In what is shaping up to be one of the weirder seasons in recent memory, allow us to introduce you to the weirdest one-sided matchup in the past decade. No. 7 Texas A&M and No. 16 Arkansas meet on Saturday having played each other 77 times dating back to 1903. The two

7:08 PM ET The battle of top-15 teams Alabama and Ole Miss is still a week and a half away, and already Rebs’ coach Lane Kiffin has some things to say about his former employer. Kiffin, who served as offensive coordinator at Alabama under Nick Saban from 2014-16, said on Wednesday that the No. 1

9:46 AM ET [Editor’s note: Can anyone stop the Bottom 10 juggernaut that is UConn? There are plenty of candidates, including … Florida State and the Pac-12?] Inspirational thought of the week: I got a baby on the East CoastI got a gig going on the West Coast(I got a) suitcase full of sorrowI’m so

6:20 AM ET Let’s get one thing straight right off the top: Miami and Florida State are not the championship programs we all remember from decades past. Or in the case of Florida State, from eight years ago. These are two programs that have more recently finished with losing records in the same season (2019)

12:14 AM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The quarterback competition at Southern California might be over before it even started. Jaxson Dart did not practice Tuesday after the freshman sustained a knee injury in the Trojans’ 45-14 win at Washington State, while three-year starter Kedon Slovis took first-team reps after being knocked out of