12:00 PM ET ESPN staff Week 2 of college football really brought the heat. Not one, but two top-10 teams got upset by — drum roll, please — the Fun Belt. Texas still isn’t back (yet), but it hung in there with Alabama the whole game and gave the Tide a run for their money.
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6:26 AM ET No NFL player generated more betting interest this offseason than Trey Lance did at multiple sportsbooks. The San Francisco 49ers second-year quarterback was a trendy bet to win regular-season MVP. Lance attracted more MVP money than Tom Brady at PointsBet, and in August, more MVP money was bet on Lance at Caesars
8:30 AM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Nick Saban vacillated between pride and frustration as he met with the media following Alabama‘s heart-stopping 20-19 win over Texas on Saturday afternoon. In a cramped, windowless room inside Darrell K Royal Stadium, the Crimson Tide’s often crotchety coach smiled and offered to help a cameraman who was struggling
12:14 PM ET Marshall football coach Charles Huff knew the team he took into Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday wouldn’t be overwhelmed by the sights and sounds. Some of the players had been there before. Marshall added 24 transfers to its roster this offseason, including several from Power 5 programs. “We’ve got three guys from
1:32 PM ET Nebraska fired coach Scott Frost on Sunday, one day after a 45-42 home loss to Georgia Southern in what had become an untenable situation for the Huskers. Nebraska (1-2) had been a three-touchdown favorite. “Earlier today I met with Coach Frost and informed him we were making a change in the leadership
2:17 PM ET Associated Press Georgia reclaimed the top spot in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday, and Kentucky, Oklahoma State and Arkansas moved into the top 10 after an upset-filled weekend across the country. The defending national champion Bulldogs, who started the season at No. 3 in the AP Top 25, took two
12:40 PM ET Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers is expected to be out four to six weeks after injuring his shoulder Saturday against No. 1 Alabama, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Sources said Ewers has been diagnosed with an SC sprain, a significant injury to where the sternum meets the clavicle. Ewers, who is experiencing significant
10:00 AM ET In the past, any celebration of moral victories for the Texas Longhorns would be met with a syrupy “bless your heart,” in Austin, dripping with the kind of disdain generally reserved for a newly arrived Californian who complains about the heat. Not at Texas, the program with the fourth-most victories — and
10:54 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN After pulling a historic upset at No. 6 Texas A&M on Saturday, the Appalachian State football team didn’t get to celebrate back home in Boone, North Carolina. Mechanical issues with the team charter forced the Appalachian State team to spend the night at the hotel where they’d slept the previous
12:32 AM ET ESPN News Services LINCOLN, Neb. — Kyle Vantrease scored on an 8-yard run with 36 seconds left after Nebraska had taken its first lead, and Georgia Southern defeated the three-touchdown-favorite Cornhuskers 45-42 on Saturday night. The Huskers’ Timmy Bleekrode was wide left with a 52-yard field goal attempt as time ran out,
1:26 AM ET Michigan will stick with J.J. McCarthy as its starting quarterback next week against UConn and most likely beyond, as the sophomore is positioned to lead the offense this season. McCarthy, making his first career start Saturday against visiting Hawai’i, completed 11 of 12 passes for 229 yards and three touchdowns in a
12:25 AM ET GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Kentucky coach Mark Stoops passed Paul “Bear” Bryant as the winningest coach in school history in a 26-16 win over No. 12 Florida on Saturday night, in a performance befitting what he has built in Lexington. Behind a tough defense that shut down Florida quarterback Anthony Richardson, the 20th-ranked
9:08 PM ET Texas is not back. Not on Saturday, anyway. Not without its burgeoning star QB, Quinn Ewers. Not on Nick Saban’s watch. But for 59 minutes against Alabama, Texas seemed astonishingly close to turning the page on a decade of heartbreak, embarrassment and jokes before falling to the Tide 20-19. For much of
7:00 PM ET Brianna Williams The No. 8 Notre Dame Fighting Irish fell to the Marshall Thundering Herd, 26-21, in one of the biggest upsets of the young college football season. Notre Dame entered Saturday’s game as a 20.5-point favorite, according to Caesars Sportsbook, but Marshall left South Bend with much more than just a
7:27 PM ET ESPN News Services COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Chase Brice threw for 134 yards and a touchdown and Appalachian State took advantage of two turnovers to stun No. 6 Texas A&M 17-14 on Saturday. Appalachian State won a week after scoring six touchdowns and 40 points in the fourth quarter in a 63-61
7:17 PM ET ESPN News Services SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Steven Gilmore returned an interception 37 yards for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter and Khalan Laborn ran for 163 yards as Marshall shocked No. 8 Notre Dame 26-21 Saturday, making Marcus Freeman the first Fighting Irish coach to lose his first three games.
3:56 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Despite committing 15 penalties and a poor performance by its offensive line, No. 1 Alabama was able to avoid an upset and beat unranked Texas 20-19 on a last-minute field goal Saturday. Alabama quarterback and reigning Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young was constantly harassed by the Texas defense, getting
1:42 PM ET David Wilson Texas‘ Quinn Ewers will not return to Saturday’s game against No. 1 Alabama, a source told ESPN’s Pete Thamel, after the freshman quarterback left with an apparent left shoulder injury after being driven into the ground by the Crimson Tide’s Dallas Turner. Ewers was taken to the locker room for