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10:30 AM ET If you were squinting just right, you could see the ground moving beneath Nick Saban’s feet last season. LSU, until recently one of the last proud purveyors of Big Burly Manball, had modernized its offense and produced numbers no one had seen before, throwing for 6,000 yards, beating Alabama in Tuscaloosa and

1:50 PM ET LSU has named Myles Brennan the team’s starting quarterback when it opens the season on Saturday at home against Mississippi State. Brennan steps in for Joe Burrow, who threw for 76 touchdowns and had perhaps the best single-season in college football history last season. Burrow, a former transfer, won the Heisman Trophy

7:00 AM ET None of the Saturdays of the 2020 college football season has been quite as wall-to-wall eventful as we’re used to. Only a few top-10 teams have played at all, a No. 17 vs. No. 18 matchup was the best Week 3 had to offer, and with no late-night football to speak of,

2:19 PM ET Associated Press A week before Big Ten teams become eligible again for The Associated Press college football poll, No. 25 Marshall is ranked for the first time since 2014 and Miami jumped to No. 12 after a conference road victory. Clemson remained a nearly unanimous No. 1 in the AP Top 25

Sep 13, 2020 The biggest ratings shifts early in the 2020 college football season have not come from top teams playing big games — they’ve come from teams being subtracted from the list, then added again. With the Big Ten announcing its late-October return, I’ve gone ahead and added those teams, with their preseason projections,

Sep 19, 2020 There was a time, believe it or not, when people watched TV shows one episode at a time, used telephones to call their friends and the college football world was dominated by the Miami Hurricanes. It was called the 1990s. Ask your parents. In the two decades since, a lot has changed.

7:22 PM ET Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Ian Book ran for three first-half touchdowns and No. 7 Notre Dame won its 20th straight home game 52-0 against South Florida Bulls on Saturday. Coach Brian Kelly’s Fighting Irish (2-0) led 35-0 at halftime and for the second year in a row posted a 52-point

1:49 PM ET Florida State coach Mike Norvell announced Saturday he has tested positive for coronavirus and is isolating, leaving deputy head coach Chris Thomsen as interim coach while Norvell is away. In a statement, Norvell said he tested positive during the team’s most recent round of testing Friday, and is feeling fine. His wife

2:19 PM ET Over the past couple of months, we’ve spent more time talking about the Big Ten not playing football than I ever thought possible. That’s coming to an end. The conference has announced it will resume play on Oct. 24. As for the Pac-12, that conference still has to deal with issues related

7:40 PM ET Colorado director of football operations Bryan McGinnis has been issued a ticket for a 100-player hike on a Colorado mountain trail, Boulder officials told the Boulder Daily Camera on Friday. McGinnis was ticketed for violating a public health order and failure to obtain a large group permit, which was needed to have

7:04 AM ET By KJ Sails Over the past six months, hundreds of college football players across the country have spoken out about social injustice and police brutality, looking for effective ways to make an impact both locally and nationally. One of those athletes is South Florida senior defensive back KJ Sails. After leading a

6:30 PM ET Ohio State cornerback Shaun Wade announced on SportsCenter that he’s returning to play for the Buckeyes this season after declaring for the NFL draft on Sept. 14. Wade originally announced his decision to leave the team as uncertainty loomed over the Big Ten season. Once the Big Ten on Wednesday decided to

7:00 AM ET Inspirational thought of the week: Remember how I’d walk in,What excitement there would be?Never less than 20 people,I had lots of friends, you see. I gave the party, I was the host.Everyone loved me, I was the most. But nothing lasts forever,And the deepest well runs dry.Just ’cause I’ve stopped rolling sevensDoesn’t

8:00 AM ET If I were a member of the College Football Playoff selection committee this season, I would apply for a sabbatical. Or to the Peace Corps. Or to go just about anywhere else besides those selection committee Zoom calls that will begin Nov. 17. College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock’s crew might

7:30 AM ET VALDOSTA, Georgia — On most mornings in early August, Jake Garcia would wake up in the furnished apartment he shares with his dad, Randy, at 5 a.m., have breakfast and then drive over to Valdosta High School for a 5:45 a.m. practice. Jake and his dad had to share a rental car,

10:39 AM ET Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University After what may have been the ugliest, most controversial month in league history, Big Ten college football is

11:29 AM ET The Big Ten announced Wednesday it would begin the football season the weekend of Oct. 23-24, after more than a month of intraconference squabbling, protests, petitions and lawsuits to try to get the league to reconsider its original postponement. It has been a long and wild course to get to this point.

7:30 AM ET Save the best for last, right? While almost all of the FBS programs attempting to play football this fall have already gotten underway, the SEC is still a week and a half from kicking off. When it does, we will witness a season full of fascinating questions. Does overwhelming raw talent (Georgia)