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1:04 PM ET Kentucky running back Chris Rodriguez Jr., the SEC’s leading returning rusher from a year ago, will be available to play in his first game this season against Ole Miss on Oct. 1, the school announced on Monday. Rodriguez, who rushed for 1,379 yards as a junior, was being withheld as the result

3:30 PM ET South Carolina will be without two defensive starters Saturday against No. 1 Georgia after outside linebacker/edge rusher Jordan Strachan and middle linebacker Mo Kaba suffered season-ending ACL injuries last week in the 44-30 loss at Arkansas. “I’m extremely disappointed and heartbroken for both of these young men,” South Carolina coach Shane Beamer

2:01 PM ET Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian channeled Nick Saban on Monday, issuing a warning to his Longhorns after their near upset of No. 1 Alabama on Saturday. “First of all, to quote my old boss, we’ve got to be careful of the rat poison of people telling us how good we are, which

2:26 PM ET Alabama football coach Nick Saban said Monday that players have to respect what it takes to win after narrowly surviving an upset bid on the road by unranked Texas on Saturday. The No. 1-ranked Crimson Tide needed a last-minute field goal to beat the Longhorns in Austin, despite Texas losing starting quarterback

12:43 PM ET Notre Dame quarterback Tyler Buchner suffered a high-grade AC joint sprain in his non-throwing shoulder in the loss Saturday to Marshall, Irish coach Marcus Freeman told reporters Monday. Buchner will undergo surgery Tuesday and Freeman expects the recovery process to take four months, which would put the quarterback out for the remainder

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.

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