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8:00 AM ET CLEMSON, S.C. — Dabo Swinney insists he doesn’t care about correcting the record, but if he’s being asked, then yes, the narratives he’s heard all offseason are — to use the most colorful phrasing he’s apt to provide — bull crap. After nearly a decade of unparalleled stability on his coaching staff,

12:40 AM ET NEW ORLEANS — Brian Kelly’s debut as LSU‘s head football coach didn’t lack for drama. After rallying from 14 points down in the fourth quarter Sunday night against Florida State — and needing only an extra point to send the game into overtime — the Tigers saw their comeback bid come to

9:47 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — LSU standout defensive tackle Maason Smith was knocked out of Sunday’s season-opening game against Florida State with a lower leg injury he sustained while celebrating a stop on defense. A Freshman All-SEC selection a season ago, Smith was expected to be a centerpiece of the Tigers’ defense. Smith exited

7:04 PM ET Jayden Daniels, a transfer quarterback from Arizona State, started for LSU Sunday night in the season opener versus Florida State. LSU’s Brian Kelly, making his debut as Tigers coach, told reporters last week that the staff had made its decision as to who will start against the Seminoles, but believing it might

1:44 PM ET Virginia Tech‘s trip to Old Dominion on Friday just keeps getting worse. After the Hokies lost 20-17 in Brent Pry’s debut as head coach, players returned to the visiting locker room to find items were stolen from their lockers during the game. Former Virginia Tech player Eric Kumah tweeted a reference to

9:30 AM ET BATON ROUGE, La. — Give Brian Kelly this: He operates from a position of strength. The man played club football at Assumption College — not FBS or FCS but club football — and one of his first jobs was coaching softball at the school. Eight years later, he climbed all the way

12:40 AM ET GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida quarterback Anthony Richardson had shown flashes of his potential as a backup for the Gators last season. On Saturday, he showed exactly what he could do as their starter. Richardson had 274 total yards and three touchdowns as Florida upset No. 7 Utah 29-26 in front of a

12:02 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN LOS ANGELES — The grand opening of the Lincoln Riley era at USC began with a new logo on his familiar visor and plenty of fireworks on the field from new and old faces alike. USC scored its most points in a game since 2008 thanks to a clinical debut

2:01 AM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio — While many outside the program were waiting to see No. 2 Ohio State unveil yet another potent offense against an overmatched opponent, Buckeyes coach Ryan Day was waiting for this: the game when the passes weren’t sailing through the air with precision and ease to future NFL draft picks,

12:08 AM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama quarterback Bryce Young began his Heisman Trophy defense on Saturday with six touchdowns in a season-opening 55-0 win over Utah State. He joined Tua Tagovailoa as the only players in Alabama history with six or more touchdowns in a game. Tagovailoa had seven touchdowns in a 2019 game

7:53 PM ET The Week 1 matchup between the No. 5 Notre Dame Fighting Irish and No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes has been circled on the calendar of college football fans for quite some time. The game isn’t short on storylines, either, as first-year Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman makes his regular season coaching

12:08 AM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama quarterback Bryce Young began his Heisman Trophy defense on Saturday with six touchdowns in a season-opening 55-0 win over Utah State. He joined Tua Tagovailoa as the only players in Alabama history with six or more touchdowns in a single game. Young completed 18 of 28 pass attempts

4:12 PM ET Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa‘s defense came up with two second-half safeties, and the Hawkeyes opened the season with a 7-3 win over South Dakota State on Saturday. Neither team could do much offensively. Iowa finished with 166 yards of offense, while South Dakota State had 120. The two teams

12:45 AM ET To endure an offseason as a college football fan is to live within an ecosystem of daily panic, near constant tumult and, on the plus side, the occasional heated debate over what to name a chicken. These are fraught times for the sport, when each day brings the possibility of a star

10:13 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State leading receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba, a potential Heisman Trophy contender, took a hit in the first quarter that popped his helmet off, and he is not expected to return to the game, according to ESPN reporter Holly Rowe. The hit occurred on the first play of Ohio State’s

8:27 PM ET ATLANTA — Defending national champion Georgia might have lost 15 players to the NFL draft, but the No. 3 Bulldogs looked just fine in the first game of their title defense, blasting No. 11 Oregon 49-3 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Saturday. Even after losing five defensive players in the first round, including

5:02 PM ET ESPN News Services BOONE, N.C. — Drake Maye is looking like the real deal. North Carolina’s redshirt freshman quarterback continued his torrid start to the season, throwing for 352 yards and combining for five touchdowns as the Tar Heels outlasted Appalachian State 63-61 on Saturday — despite surrendering 40 points to the

4:49 PM ET ANN ARBOR, Michigan — After Michigan‘s 51-7 win over Colorado State, Cade McNamara said he wasn’t expecting to be in a quarterback battle with sophomore J.J. McCarthy to start this season. Jim Harbaugh announced prior to the first game that the two would battle for the starting spot with McNamara starting the