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8:00 AM ET ESPN staff November is officially here and with it comes a top 5 matchup that has all the stakes a fan could ask for. Tennessee will travel to Georgia on Saturday in what should be one of the most highly anticipated SEC East games in recent history. What’s on the line? Oh,

5:23 PM ET William E. Ricks Getting hit with a line drive is no fun in baseball, as Ole Miss Rebels offensive football analyst Michael Nysewander just found out. Rebels players participated in a home run derby during practice Wednesday and head coach Lane Kiffin recorded a video of defensive tackle Tywone Malone taking pitches

5:00 PM ET Quarterback Julian Sayin committed to Alabama on Wednesday. Sayin, No. 34 overall in the 2024 ESPN 300 and the second-best dual-threat quarterback in the junior class, attends Carlsbad (California) High School. “Alabama’s the standard for college football,” Sayin told ESPN. “They’re going to coach you hard. You’re going to be disciplined there.

7:15 AM ET “You’re a football ref, an ordinary man, 60, 65 years old. You’re not making the big millions like the football players, but you’ve got one thing. You’ve got a button on a belt. And you know that all you’ve got to do is click that puppy on and for the first time

7:00 AM ET Inspirational thought of the week: Monday morning on the floorKeep calling out for more and moreStand up and get up, are you sure?Best friend kicks you out the doorUpside down you lost the wheelRaise your neck and bellow it out Bad candy has got you nowBad candy has got you now —

4:44 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — Highly regarded Arkansas State transfer receiver Corey Rucker will miss the rest of South Carolina’s season with a foot injury. Gamecocks coach Shane Beamer said Tuesday that Rucker was scheduled for surgery. Beamer expects Rucker to make a full recovery and be back in time for the

9:00 PM ET ESPN staff GRAPEVINE, Texas — The College Football Playoff selection committee rewarded undefeated Tennessee with the top spot in its first rankings of the 2022 season, marking the first time in school history the Volunteers entered the top four. The Vols were followed by No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Georgia and

7:17 PM ET GRAPEVINE, Texas — Undefeated Tennessee earned the No. 1 spot in the College Football Playoff’s initial Top 25 ranking Tuesday, marking the first time in the program’s history it cracked the top four, followed by No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Georgia and No. 4 Clemson. The 13-member committee ranked undefeated Michigan

6:18 PM ET Michigan State director of athletics Alan Haller and football coach Mel Tucker on Tuesday announced four new suspensions in the aftermath of the altercation that occurred in the tunnel of Michigan Stadium Saturday night. Defensive ends Jacoby Windmon and Brandon Wright and cornerbacks Justin White and Malcolm Jones are now suspended. Previously,

4:09 PM ET Jackson State football coach Deion Sanders said he will not allow his players to leave their hotel this weekend when they face Texas Southern in Houston, where rapper Takeoff, 28, was shot and killed at a bowling alley early Tuesday morning. Sanders said family members and friends who want to see players

2:03 PM ET Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska quarterback Casey Thompson is listed as day-to-day for the game against Minnesota on Saturday because of an arm injury that knocked him out of last week’s game. Interim coach Mickey Joseph said Thompson was held out of practice Tuesday, and backups Chubba Purdy and Logan Smothers

7:00 AM ET BERKELEY, Calif. — Oregon quarterback Bo Nix took a seat, exhaled and looked out at the small, crowded room full of reporters ready to ask him about the Ducks’ game against Cal. He wore frustration across his face, bordering on sheer disappointment. Had anyone not been watching the game that had just

10:32 AM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Pete Thamel Georgia outside linebacker Nolan Smith, the No. 1-ranked Bulldogs’ leading pass-rusher this season, will miss the rest of the season with a torn pectoral muscle, sources confirmed

7:00 AM ET GRAPEVINE, Texas — It never fails. Somebody will be angry. Maybe two somebodies. TCU? Clemson? Everyone outside the SEC East and Big Ten East? When 13 people are sequestered around a table for a day and a half to sort out what college football fans have been arguing over for weeks, there’s

8:00 PM ET When former Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley fired Ron Zook on Oct. 25, 2004 — smack in the middle of the season — the timing seemed shocking. Following another disappointing loss in the post-Steve Spurrier era, the Gators were hovering above .500 at 4-3 and No. 10 Georgia was looming. When Foley

3:04 PM ET Associated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse defensive back Garrett Williams, who led the Atlantic Coast Conference in pass breakups in each of the previous two seasons, will miss the rest of this season for the No. 22 Orange because of a knee injury. Coach Dino Babers said Monday that Williams has a

1:23 PM ET Georgia outside linebacker Nolan Smith, the No. 1-ranked Bulldogs’ leading pass-rusher this season, is doubtful to play in Saturday’s showdown against No. 2 Tennessee because of a shoulder injury, coach Kirby Smart told reporters Monday. Smith, a senior from Savannah, Georgia, was hurt in the first half of the Bulldogs’ 42-20 victory

1:09 PM ET The individual who serves as the Stanford Tree mascot has been suspended after unfurling a banner that read “Stanford hates fun” during the Cardinal‘s football game against Arizona State on Oct. 22. It was first announced by the Stanford Tree’s Twitter account on Sunday evening. A Stanford athletic department spokesperson confirmed the