9:25 AM ET Lane Kiffin got exactly what he asked for on Saturday and more from our college football quotes of the week. “Let’s both beat the state of Alabama today. Go Vols.” Ole Miss Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin, on his team playing the Auburn Tigers and his former team, the Tennessee Volunteers, playing
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7:00 AM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The sour stench of panic didn’t linger in the air at the University of Alabama on Monday. Only a few crushed beer cans on the sidewalk were a reminder of the miserable weekend that was. Students still walked to class under massive oak trees. The line at Starbucks on
4:51 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — New athletic director J Batt knows most Georgia Tech fans want to know who’s going to be the Yellow Jackets’ next permanent football coach. The fans will have to wait, however, to see how Batt goes about his business and learn how Brent Key performs as interim coach
12:53 PM ET Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana backup quarterback Jack Tuttle announced Monday that he will transfer at the end of this season. Coach Tom Allen confirmed the development at the start of his weekly news conference, explaining that the two spoke last week and that Tuttle, a team captain, would remain No.
11:55 AM ET Minnesota senior quarterback Tanner Morgan has not been ruled out for Saturday’s game against Penn State. Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck said on Monday that Morgan woke up feeling better on Sunday and his availability will be determined by medical personnel over the course of the week. “Tanner is doing very well,” Fleck
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff What a Week 7. In the words of Tennessee coach Josh Heupel, “This is college football at its absolute best.” Unless you’re on the losing side of things, how could anyone disagree? From all the monumental upsets that dramatically shifted the College Football Playoff picture to the best plays that
4:56 PM ET Tennessee beat Alabama on Saturday night, with fans storming off the field and carrying away both goalposts before dumping them in the Tennessee River. Now the bill is due. Tennessee football tweeted Sunday that it’s raising money it says will go toward the purchase of new goalposts. There’s an option for a
1:52 PM ET Associated Press Tennessee moved to No. 3 in The Associated Press college football poll behind No. 1 Georgia and No. 2 Ohio State after knocking off Alabama. The Crimson Tide were one of five unbeaten teams to fall during a wild weekend and dropped three places to No. 6 in the AP
11:00 PM ET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The cigars were everywhere in Knoxville on Saturday morning. Problem is, the University of Tennessee is a tobacco-free campus. It has been for decades. So, a not-small percentage of the hundreds of thousands of college football fans who poured into East Tennessee for the afternoon’s matchup between No. 3
2:46 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN SALT LAKE CITY — Caleb Williams was feeling the salt on top of the wound. As the sophomore quarterback answered questions following No. 7 USC‘s first loss of the season — 43-42 to No. 20 Utah on Saturday night — he could hear the fans inside what had been a
1:29 AM ET TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — After DJ Uiagalelei scored four touchdowns in a 34-28 win over Florida State on Saturday night, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney took up for his quarterback once again, decrying the critics who predicted Uiagalelei would lose his starting job this season. After a disappointing 2021 season and a slow start
8:30 PM ET For all of the twists and turns and surprises and upsets the college football season invariably delivers, it’s easy to still assume the final chapters have been prewritten, and in the end, the same heroes will emerge victorious. Just think what life has been like for Tennessee fans who, through 15 years
9:40 PM ET Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Following an injury to Taulia Tagovailoa in the fourth quarter, Billy Edwards Jr. stepped in and led a game-winning drive to lift the Maryland Terrapins past the Indiana Hoosiers 38-33 on Saturday. After getting hit as he threw a pass, Tagovailoa was carted off the field with
10:00 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — The first year of the Sonny Dykes era at TCU is off to a hot start, with Saturday’s 43-40 double-overtime win over No. 8 Oklahoma State marking the first time in school history that the Horned Frogs have beaten three consecutive ranked opponents. After previously beating then-No. 18
9:28 PM ET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Alabama coach Nick Saban said his defense played “too soft” late in the game when it allowed Tennessee to drive the ball 45 yards in 13 seconds and set up a walk-off field goal to win the game, 52-49. Tennessee fans rushed the field and tore down both goal
7:16 PM ET Associated Press FARGO, N.D. — Hunter Dustman‘s third field goal of the game, an 18-yarder with under four minutes remaining, lifted South Dakota State to a 23-21 victory over top-ranked and defending FCS national champion North Dakota State on Saturday in the Dakota Marker rivalry game. The Jackrabbits (6-1, 4-0 Missouri Valley
6:00 PM ET ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan bullied Penn State on Saturday, from the line of scrimmage to the scoreboard to the newly named Lloyd Carr Tunnel at Michigan Stadium. Tempers flared as both teams entered the shared tunnel with the Wolverines holding a 16-14 halftime lead. While video showed the teams exchanging verbal
3:09 PM ET Kansas starting cornerback Cobee Bryant was carted off the field after he suffered a left ankle injury at the end of the first half of Saturday’s 52-42 loss to Oklahoma. Jayhawks coach Lance Leipold said after the game that it was a “wait and see” situation regarding Bryant’s injury. He did not