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2:18 PM ET ESPN News Services Clemson Tigers quarterback Trevor Lawrence is leaving the door open about his football future despite previously saying he planned on heading to the NFL after this, his junior season. The 6-foot-6 Lawrence, considered the likely No. 1 pick in next spring’s NFL draft, said he hasn’t ruled out returning

7:30 AM ET Jaylen Waddle took your breath away so often the past three seasons at Alabama that he changed the way you watched him play. Whether he was returning kicks or catching passes, you were better off taking a big gulp of air when the ball was headed his direction and exhaling only after

11:41 AM ET With only a small percentage of fans returning to college football games across the country, the financial impact is not only affecting the universities directly, but the businesses closely tied to these schools. The coronavirus has kept more and more people out of communities. As a result, smaller operations that once thrived

8:32 PM ET The SEC acknowledged Monday that it should have stopped play to review a fourth-quarter kickoff during the Auburn–Ole Miss game Saturday that appeared to show Auburn’s Shaun Shivers contact the football. Ole Miss led by 1 with 5:43 left when a kickoff appeared to graze Shivers’ finger before it went into the

7:00 AM ET Though it continues to serve as a reminder of college football’s embarrassingly disjointed and haphazard reaction to the challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic, the Royal Rumble-style introduction of one power conference at a time to the 2020 season — Here come the ACC and Big 12! Now here comes the SEC!

6:50 PM ET Alabama football added another ESPN 300 prospect to its No. 1-ranked recruiting class on Sunday when defensive back Ga’Quincy McKinstry announced his commitment to the Crimson Tide. McKinstry is a 6-foot, 175-pound prospect from Pinson Valley High School in Pinson, Alabama, and chose the Tide over Auburn and LSU. McKinstry is the

7:21 PM ET Wisconsin quarterback Graham Mertz, who had a record-setting first career start Friday, tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend, according to the Wisconsin State Journal and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Both newspapers reported Sunday, citing sources, that Mertz had an antigen test come back positive. Mertz will take a polymerase chain reaction

2:19 PM ET Associated Press Indiana jumped into The Associated Press college football poll Sunday after pulling off the weekend’s most dramatic upset, and Ohio State moved up to No. 3 following a dominant season debut. Clemson remained a rock-solid No. 1, and Alabama was No. 2. The Tigers received 52 first-place votes and the

7:02 AM ET The first College Football Playoff ranking will be released on Nov. 24, almost exactly one month from now. That’s plenty of time for what you think you know to change. All it takes is one upset — for one-loss Penn State to redeem itself on Halloween with a home win against Ohio

11:28 PM ET Quarterback Michael Penix is 6-foot-3, a seemingly insignificant fact from Indiana’s roster and the universe’s cruelest twist for Penn State. Oh sure, that might seem like a conspiratorial view of the events that led to the eighth-ranked Nittany Lions losing their season-opener 36-35 in overtime. This was just college football after all.

8:45 AM ET We’re here in Week 8 and making college football history. Can you ever remember a season when there were so many undefeated teams this late in the year? Simply unprecedented. That’s some of that classic football humor. The Big Ten is back! Welcome, friends. There’s going to be more football to keep

11:07 PM ET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Alabama coach Nick Saban has finally relented, albeit reluctantly. He said college football has officially become an offensive game. “It used to be that good defense beats good offense. Good defense doesn’t beat good offense anymore,” Saban told ESPN on Friday. “It’s just like last week. Georgia has as

12:20 AM ET Wisconsin Badgers quarterback Graham Mertz broke the program record for completion percentage in a game on Friday, completing 20 of 21 passes for 248 yards and five touchdowns in the Badgers 45-7 win over Illinois. “It was definitely fun,” Mertz said after the game. “I owe it to Coach (Jon) Budmayr and

7:30 AM ET It’s the nature and depth of the conversation that has marked the biggest change for Minnesota Golden Gophers wide receiver Rashod Bateman and his teammates. Since the viral video of George Floyd’s death began to circulate on Memorial Day, you’ll find Bateman and Minnesota football players from a variety of backgrounds regularly

7:00 AM ET “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” — — Ernest Hemingway, “The Sun Also Rises” In the present tense, it can seem impossible for a new team to join college football’s ruling class. You fall short again and again, and it starts to feel like

1:26 AM ET A USC Trojans football player was suspended last month by the school in connection to a possible federal investigation into fraud related to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times. Sophomore receiver Munir McClain has been suspended since mid-September, his mother, Shan McClain told the

7:00 AM ET David M. Hale Close ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Harry Lyles Jr. The biggest college football game on Saturday? It’s happening in Dallas between No. 9 Cincinnati and No. 16 SMU — two of the nine unbeaten teams left in the FBS.

7:30 AM ET For going on 14 years, Alabama has beaten Tennessee every October, and every year coaches and players have enjoyed a traditional postgame cigar. You’ve probably seen the photos that pop up on social media around this time each year. The one of Derrick Henry puffing a stogie with his arm around Nick