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12:57 PM ET Florida State All-ACC defensive end Jared Verse and All-ACC safety Jammie Robinson said they plan to play in the Seminoles’ upcoming bowl game. Both players spoke to reporters Wednesday after their first bowl practice as No. 13 Florida State (9-3) prepares for its first postseason game since 2019. Florida State will find

10:00 AM ET ESPN Stats & Information play 2:00 The Daily Wager crew discuss which team deserves the final College Football Playoff spot more between Ohio State and Alabama. Championship week has finally arrived. As teams look to hoist their respective conference trophies at the end of the weekend, the College Football Playoff picture will

7:00 AM ET Inspirational thought of the week: “I know where I’d go.”“Where?”“I’d go to Akron. I’d go there with a pretty woman. A strange woman. A quiet woman. I wouldn’t even want to know her name. Where I would be just ‘Mr. Smith’ and I would send out for cold beer. Then I would

11:15 PM ET Former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer is expected to become the next head football coach at UAB, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Tuesday night. Although a deal hasn’t been formalized, the sides are expected to come to terms in the upcoming days, sources said. Dilfer, 50, the head coach at Lipscomb Academy

8:32 PM ET ESPN staff The College Football Playoff selection committee might not even break a sweat this weekend. No lengthy debates, no Tylenol needed and early hotel checkouts all around. No. 1 Georgia, No. 2 Michigan, No. 3 TCU and No. 4 USC appear one conference championship win away from locking up those coveted

2:03 PM ET Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — Receiver Beaux Collins needs surgery on his injured right shoulder and will not play the rest of the season, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said Tuesday. Collins, a 6-3 sophomore, leads the Tigers with five touchdown catches. He returned in in Saturday’s loss to South Carolina after missing

7:14 PM ET Georgia, Michigan, TCU and USC are all poised to make the College Football Playoff with wins in their conference championship games this weekend after the selection committee unveiled its penultimate rankings Tuesday. There was no change at the top, as Georgia (12-0) remained No. 1. But after Michigan (12-0) beat Ohio State

6:10 PM ET AUBURN, Ala. — Hugh Freeze has officially returned to the SEC as Auburn’s head football coach. He’s getting another chance he wasn’t sure would ever come after his self-inflicted downfall at Ole Miss and some of the questions that have followed his successful yet turbulent career. Freeze, 53, said he’s looking forward

3:51 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Texas quarterback Hudson Card, a former ESPN top-40 recruit, intends to enter the NCAA transfer portal, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. He’s a redshirt sophomore who will have three years of eligibility remaining at his next destination. Card is expected to emerge as one of the top quarterbacks in the

3:02 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Georgia Tech has targeted interim coach Brent Key as the school’s next head coach, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. The deal is expected to be finalized in the next 24 hours, sources told ESPN. Georgia Tech went 4-4 with Key as the interim coach as he took over a program

3:00 PM ET Associated Press Quarterbacks Caleb Williams of Southern California, C.J. Stroud of Ohio State and Hendon Hooker of Tennessee have been named finalists for the Maxwell Award as the player of the year in college football. The Maxwell finalists were announced Tuesday along with finalists for most of the other awards that will

11:00 AM ET Auburn athletic director John Cohen will sign the contract for new football coach Hugh Freeze with both eyes open. If anyone knows the upside and the risk involved in hiring the former Ole Miss coach, it’s the former Mississippi State athletic director. They didn’t just share a state for five years, they

1:46 PM ET Northwestern has fired defensive coordinator Jim O’Neil and two other assistants following a 1-11 season that marked its worst since 1989, the school announced Tuesday. Longtime defensive line coach Marty Long and wide receivers coach Dennis Springer are also out. “Our entire football family is grateful for what these three men brought

12:53 PM ET Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops has fired offensive coordinator Rich Scangarello after only one season, a school spokesperson confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. A former NFL assistant with the San Francisco 49ers, the Denver Broncos and others, Scangarello went to Kentucky in February with high expectations, stepping in for former O.C. Liam

12:06 PM ET Leaders of the College Football Playoff issued an ultimatum to the Rose Bowl this week, giving a self-imposed deadline of Wednesday to determine whether the CFP can expand in time for the start of the 2024 regular season, and if the game’s most storied bowl can’t agree to the terms, it’s possible

7:00 AM ET This penultimate ranking could arguably be the most compelling, revealing regular-season College Football Playoff top 25. Period. If there is one upset in this weekend’s conference championship games — most realistically if TCU loses to Kansas State in the Big 12 championship or USC loses to Utah in the Pac-12 title game

4:30 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Penn State left tackle Olu Fashanu told ESPN he’s returning to school next year, a surprising move in NFL circles considering he is projected as the top offensive line prospect in the 2023 NFL draft. Fashanu, 19, is a redshirt sophomore who is in his first full season as a

5:46 PM ET Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — Matt Rhule said he had plenty of options after he got fired by the Carolina Panthers. He could have taken a year off from football or worked in television. Or he could jump back into college coaching. A number of schools reached out to him, he said,