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7:38 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN USC defensive coordinator Alex Grinch will remain in his position next season, according to head coach Lincoln Riley, who announced the news in a session with local media on Tuesday. “I’ve been through it enough with that guy to know, don’t bet against him,” Riley said, according to reporters who

10:56 PM ET The team that couldn’t win a national championship for more than four decades can’t stop winning them. After winning its first national title since 1980 last season, Georgia crushed TCU 65-7 on Monday night in the College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T. The Bulldogs became the first team in the

3:46 PM ET LOS ANGELES — The morning after Georgia dominated TCU to cement back-to-back national championships, coach Kirby Smart said the Bulldogs will have to evolve in order to chase yet another ring. No team has won three straight titles since the dawn of the AP Poll era, which began in 1936. The Minnesota

2:36 PM ET Ohio State offensive tackle Paris Johnson Jr., a potential top-10 pick, is headed to the NFL draft. Johnson, projected by ESPN as the No. 9 overall prospect and No. 2 offensive tackle, announced his decision Tuesday on social media. The 6-foot-6, 310-pound Johnson earned consensus All-America honors and was first-team All-Big Ten

1:55 AM ET INGLEWOOD, Calif. — For so long, Georgia was the flagship program of the really good but not quite great. It produced a few decades of pretty nice seasons ending in pretty nice bowl games played by a lot of really good players dressed in red, white and black. But the Dawgs were

11:00 PM ET William E. Ricks Some of the best stories in college football history include walk-on players blossoming into stars — just ask Stetson Bennett. The Georgia Bulldogs quarterback started his career as a walk-on for the team in 2017 but ended it as a UGA football legend. 1 Related Bennett helped his Bulldogs

2:10 AM ET INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Angelo Pizzo knows a thing or two about great underdog stories. He wrote the screenplays for “Hoosiers” and “Rudy,” two of the most iconic sports films of all time. He knows a good storyline. Pizzo, 75, sees a lot of Rudy Ruettiger — the walk-on who played three snaps

12:28 AM ET William E. Ricks The Georgia Bulldogs are again on top of the college football world after winning the 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship. 1 Related UGA defeated the TCU Horned Frogs 65-7, fueled by an outstanding performance from Stetson Bennett. He finished with 304 yards passing, four passing touchdowns and two

1:18 AM ET INGLEWOOD, Calif. — It rained in Southern California on Monday. It poured on TCU. Both are rare occurrences this year. The Horned Frogs soared to new heights, becoming the first Texas team to make the College Football Playoff, beat Michigan in a thrilling Vrbo Fiesta Bowl and became the longest of long

1:27 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN INGLEWOOD, Calif. — As TCU players ripped their name decals off the top of their locker rooms inside SoFi Stadium to take home in the aftermath of a 65-7 loss to Georgia in the College Football Playoff title game, the emotions that hung in the air inside the quiet room

11:00 PM ET INGLEWOOD, Calif. — There was no epic comeback and no miraculous finish because there was no chance — not when the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs asserted their sheer dominance from the onset and sucked the storybook ending right out from under No. 3 TCU with a 65-7 win in the College Football

11:00 PM ET Fresh off winning back-to-back national championships, the Georgia Bulldogs are the overall betting favorites at +375 to win next season’s College Football Playoff. Alabama (+550) and Ohio State (+650) are next in line, forming the same trio of favorites that entered last season. The biggest difference is that the Dawgs have seemingly

4:39 PM ET Associated Press Reggie Bush, whose Heisman Trophy victory for Southern California in 2005 was vacated because of NCAA violations, is among 18 players in the latest College Football Hall of Fame class announced Monday. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, who won the Heisman in 2007, was also elected to the Hall by the

5:56 PM ET ESPN’s Lee Corso has been elected to the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame, and college football insider Pete Thamel is one of two national sportswriters of the year, the NSMA announced Monday. Corso has been part of ESPN’s “College GameDay” since 1987 and his “helmet pick” of the winner of

4:04 PM ET A surge of big bets on heavily favored Georgia began showing up at sportsbooks Monday in the hours leading up to the College Football Playoff National Championship game against underdog TCU. Georgia was a 13-point favorite over TCU on Monday afternoon at Caesars Sportsbook. The line had grown to Georgia -13.5 at

2:52 PM ET Michigan running back Blake Corum announced Monday that he is returning to play for the Wolverines for the 2023 season. Corum was Michigan’s leading running back and was ranked as the fifth-best draft eligible running back by ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay. The junior ran for 1,463 yards and 18

1:58 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN After leading Utah to back-to-back Pac-12 championships and two Rose Bowl appearances, starting quarterback Cam Rising announced on Monday that he will be returning to Salt Lake City for his senior season. “Let’s run it back,” Rising said on Twitter, with an accompanying video signaling his return. Let’s run it

10:34 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Star Stanford junior tight end Ben Yurosek, who earned second-team all-league honors in 2022, is returning to school, according to an ESPN source. Yurosek intends to come back to Stanford in 2023, where he’ll be one of the focal points of the Stanford offense. The news is a boon to