Associated Press Nov 3, 2023, 07:59 PM ET CHICAGO — Two more former Northwestern University football players came forward Friday saying they experienced racist treatment during their time on the team in the early 2000s. Noah Herron and Rico Lamitte said Black players were pressured to conform to white norms and faced unfair punishments. They
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Nov 3, 2023, 07:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Michigan has fired football analyst Connor Stalions amid an NCAA investigation into an alleged sign-stealing operation by the Wolverines, sources confirmed to ESPN. The firing comes two weeks after Stalions was identified as a person of interest in the investigation into whether Michigan violated an NCAA
Nov 3, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Tuesday’s release of the first College Football Playoff rankings seems like a good time to check in with each of the Power 5 conferences and their chances of making it to the last four, according to the Allstate Playoff Predictor. The selection committee ranked Ohio State
Nov 3, 2023, 01:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Colorado has stripped offensive coordinator Sean Lewis of his offensive play-calling duties, and is elevating analyst Pat Shurmur to an on-field role with the expectation that he will take over as the team’s play caller, sources told ESPN. Lewis’ new role is still to be settled,
Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterNov 3, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Open Extended Reactions STILLWATER, Okla. — Mike Gundy isn’t sure how the course of football history in the state of Oklahoma might have changed had he stuck to his original choice
Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterNov 3, 2023, 07:00 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions ATHENS, Georgia — Georgia hasn’t lost a football game in 699 days. The Bulldogs haven’t been beaten in the regular season in 1,091 days.
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterNov 3, 2023, 12:02 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions Purdue coach Ryan Walters, whose team visits No. 3 Michigan on Saturday, said his school has evidence the Wolverines scouted the Boilermakers’ games earlier this season. The NCAA is investigating
Pete Thamel, ESPNNov 2, 2023, 08:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Big Ten athletic directors met with commissioner Tony Petitti on a video call Thursday without Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel present, and sources told ESPN the call about Michigan’s alleged sign-stealing operation took on a distinctly different tenor than when they met a week
Kyle Bonaguara Nov 2, 2023, 07:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions In the ongoing legal battle for control of the Pac-12, the 10 departing universities expressed concern in a filing opposing a motion for preliminary injunction that if Oregon State and Washington State were to obtain complete control of the conference board, they could attempt
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterNov 2, 2023, 05:52 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Open Extended Reactions USC will visit Michigan in its first-ever Big Ten conference game, while UCLA will make two cross-country trips and Oregon–Washington will be featured during rivalry weekend of the Big Ten’s
Nov 2, 2023, 06:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions With the additions of Oregon, Washington, USC and UCLA, the Big Ten conference revealed its matchups for the 2024 to 2028 seasons last month and its full 2024 Big Ten schedule on Thursday. Those matchups included 12 protected annual games, preserving rivalries and games of historical
Pete Thamel, ESPNNov 2, 2023, 04:20 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Duke quarterback Riley Leonard will miss an “extended period of time” with a left toe injury suffered late in the game against Louisville on Saturday, sources told ESPN. His absence against Wake Forest on Thursday night means that true freshman Grayson Loftis will get
Dave Wilson, ESPN Staff WriterNov 2, 2023, 12:53 PM ET Close Dave Wilson is an editor for ESPN.com since 2010. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. Open Extended Reactions The final edition of the Bedlam rivalry game between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State didn’t need any extra
Welcome to November, that most precious of college football months when falling temperatures mean the heat around the competition is turning up. And this year, the torridity around the Heisman Trophy race is at a downright boil. Earlier this year, we, 15 ESPN college football writers, gifted you with our preseason Heisman Tracker. It was
Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterNov 2, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Open Extended Reactions Inspirational thought of the week: All of my life I’ve tried so hardDoing my best with what I had Now that I’ve
Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterNov 2, 2023, 07:03 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Open Extended Reactions It was Dec. 13, 2008, in New York City and time for the three Heisman Trophy finalists to take their place at
Open Extended Reactions The College Football Playoff selection committee’s first rankings released this week were hardly a surprise in terms of the top five teams. Perhaps the rankings order confused some, since Georgia has been No. 1 for the entire year in the AP poll but debuted at No. 2 in the CFP rankings. Ohio
Pete Thamel, ESPNNov 1, 2023, 11:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions A vast majority of the Big Ten coaches expressed their frustrations with the ongoing signal-stealing investigation at Michigan in a video call with commissioner Tony Petitti on Wednesday, sources told ESPN. The call, which took 90 minutes, included nearly an hour without Michigan coach