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6:00 AM ET ESPN staff Dave Aranda’s second season at Baylor has been one of turnarounds. The Bears improved from 2-7 last year to 7-2 this year, but they suffered a setback last week in a 30-28 loss to an emotional TCU team following Gary Patterson’s departure. This week provides the best measuring stick yet

6:00 AM ET Going back to their Mighty Mite football days as kids, Anthony Tedesco knew there was something different about his pal Kenny Pickett. They grew up about five minutes from the New Jersey shore, and if they weren’t splashing around in the surf during the summers at Loch Arbour or Allenhurst beaches, they

10:19 PM ET Associated Press BERKELEY, Calif. — California coach Justin Wilcox said his team followed all the proper protocols before a COVID-19 outbreak that led to dozens of positive tests and the first postponement of a major college football game this season. The Golden Bears played last week at Arizona without starting quarterback Chase

8:30 PM ET Police charged Georgia linebacker Adam Anderson with felony rape on Wednesday after a 21-year-old woman accused him of raping her in a house in Athens, Georgia, on Oct. 29. Anderson voluntarily turned himself in to police on Wednesday and was being held without bond at the Athens-Clarke County Jail. Anderson has denied

6:36 PM ET The 12-team Mid-American Conference on Wednesday said it would not pursue expansion at this time “to end the speculation,” commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said. “Following analysis and evaluation by the membership, it has been determined our best interests are served in the conference remaining at 12 full member institutions,” Steinbrecher said in a

2:54 PM ET Coastal Carolina football coach Jeremy Chadwell said Wednesday he is hopeful that quarterback Grayson McCall will be able to return this season after injuring his shoulder on Oct. 28 in a 35-28 victory over Troy. In his Sun Belt Conference media call on Monday, Chadwell mentioned the possibility of McCall being out

4:25 PM ET There is “unfair pressure” on No. 5 Cincinnati to dominate teams in a way that isn’t required of Power 5 playoff contenders, American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco said in an email to ESPN on Wednesday. “There is unfair pressure on the Bearcats to get style points that P5 conference teams are

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2:31 PM ET Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — Scott Frost said Wednesday he had no problem taking a pay cut and firing four offensive assistants who also are friends if those moves give him more time to turn Nebraska into a winning football program again. Frost, who is 15-27 in four years and 3-7 this

7:00 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN You’re a linebacker ready to rush the opposing kicker to try to block his field goal. You break through, but not fast enough; the kick is good and you end up barging into the holder instead. Suddenly, the kicker is in your face, pointing his finger at you, shouting at

7:00 AM ET [Editor’s note: The nation’s last two winless teams … won?! And a second-straight Big Ten team from Michigan played itself into the Coveted Fifth Spot, barely edging out the Florida Gators.] Inspirational thought of the week: So, if this life repeats, will it be all the sameEvery choice till death, the same

9:10 PM ET What happens when every College Football Playoff contender except the No. 1 team struggles on the first Saturday of November? Not a whole lot when it comes to the CFP selection committee rankings. The undefeated Georgia Bulldogs remained No. 1 in the second edition of the rankings released on Tuesday night, followed

7:22 PM ET Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — Former Clemson quarterback Harvey White, who led the Tigers to Atlantic Coast Conference championships in 1958 and 1959, has died. He was 83. The Blyth Funeral Home of Greenwood, South Carolina, said White died on Saturday. No cause of death was given. The school also announced White’s

7:06 PM ET The USC–California football game scheduled for Saturday has been postponed, Cal announced Tuesday. “It was a difficult decision to postpone this Saturday’s game against USC,” Cal athletic director Jim Knowlton said in a statement. “We know how important every one of our games is to our student-athletes, especially our seniors who have

4:59 PM ET Associated Press CONWAY, S.C. — Injured Coastal Carolina quarterback Grayson McCall could miss the rest of the season for the 22nd-ranked Chanticleers, coach Jamey Chadwell said. McCall, a 6-foot-3, 209-pound redshirt sophomore from Indian Trail, North Carolina, missed last weekend’s 28-8 win at Georgia Southern with what the school called an upper-body

4:01 PM ET Northern Illinois coach Thomas Hammock has agreed to a contract extension with the school through the 2026 season. Hammock, 40, is a former NIU running back who has led the Huskies to a 6-3 record this fall, a year after the team went winless during the COVID-shortened 2020 season. He is 11-16

6:00 AM ET There’s less than a month left in the 2021 college football regular season, and the legitimate College Football Playoff contenders will begin to emerge over the next four weeks. Can Georgia and/or Oklahoma go unbeaten? Who will win the Big Ten East? Can Cincinnati become the first Group of 5 team to

7:05 PM ET LINCOLN, Neb. — Scott Frost has not won enough games at Nebraska. He knows that. Athletic director Trev Alberts knows that. Everybody in Nebraska knows that. While a 15-27 record in four years would be enough to get a coach fired at nearly any big-time program in America, Nebraska prides itself on