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12:51 PM ET Michigan will start junior Cade McNamara at quarterback for Saturday’s season opener against Western Michigan, coach Jim Harbaugh said Monday. Harbaugh labeled McNamara as the Wolverines’ starter before preseason camp opened, and the junior has only strengthened his position during the past month. McNamara appeared in four games last season and started

12:34 PM ET The Oklahoma–Tulane game set for Saturday will not be played in New Orleans due to the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, sources told ESPN. Tulane was set to host No. 2 Oklahoma on campus at Yulman Stadium. A shelter-in-place order for Tulane’s campus remained Monday morning as the university’s damage assessment and recovery

1:12 PM ET The inevitable became official Monday as top-ranked Alabama named Bryce Young its starting quarterback for Saturday’s game against No. 14 Miami. Young, a sophomore and former five-star prospect, spent last season as the back-up to Mac Jones, who was selected by the New England Patriots in the first round of this year’s

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff Week 1 is finally here. So let’s get right into the thick of it. What coaches are already under pressure? Which players do we think are going to become stars this season? Is there any chance of an underdog reaching the College Football Playoffs? Our college football reporters break down

9:14 PM ET Oklahoma transfer Tanner Mordecai will be SMU‘s starting quarterback, a source confirmed to ESPN. Mordecai, who backed up Kyler Murray, Jalen Hurts and Spencer Rattler at OU, beat out highly touted freshman Preston Stone, a four-star recruit who was ranked No. 121 in the ESPN 300 and chose SMU over LSU, Penn

7:00 AM ET LAFAYETTE, La. — Billy Napier isn’t in a hurry. The football coach sits in his office at the University of Louisiana on a Friday morning earlier this month, leans back in a red leather chair and waits patiently for the question he knows is coming: What’s he still doing here? It’s blunt,

6:42 PM ET CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The most frustrating thing about Nebraska’s 30-22 season-opening loss at Illinois is that the mistakes that have hamstrung the Huskers in recent years all seemed to show up. The scariest thing is that coach Scott Frost and his players don’t know why the same things keep happening to them.

7:36 PM ET With Hurricane Ida approaching the Louisiana coast and expected to make landfall on Sunday, LSU announced that the football team would be moving to Houston on Saturday for next week’s practice. The Tigers play at UCLA on Sept. 4. The school says the team will leave from Houston for Los Angeles on

3:51 PM ET CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Illinois starting quarterback Brandon Peters left Saturday’s season opener with a left arm/shoulder injury suffered late in the first quarter. Peters, a sixth-year senior, remained down after being sacked by Nebraska‘s Deontre Thomas on Illinois’ final series of the opening quarter. He immediately went into Illinois’ injury tent, and

1:45 PM ET College football is back and so is College Gameday. Along with it comes all the signs. For Week 0, College GameDay was live from Atlanta, Georgia, for the MEAC/SWAC Challenge with HBCU powers Alcorn State and North Carolina Central facing off. Rap trio Migos was in the house and the fans were

7:40 AM ET New South Carolina coach Shane Beamer has been able to count on a reliable source of encouragement in some of the biggest moments of his career. In need of a jolt of adrenaline? Looking for a steadying reminder of where it all started? A family rally to help land his dream job?

5:44 PM ET A four-person Big 12 subcommittee tasked with exploring expansion held a videoconference on Friday, and Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt told ESPN nobody in the Big 12 has directly contacted any other schools about membership yet. “Not to my knowledge,” he said. “There’s nothing imminent.” Hocutt is one of the four

3:47 PM ET Elizabeth Merrill Close ESPN Senior Writer Elizabeth Merrill is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. She previously wrote for The Kansas City Star and The Omaha World-Herald. Paula Lavigne Close ESPN Staff Writer Data analyst and reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit. Winner, 2014 Alfred I. duPont Columbia

2:56 PM ET If a team in the Mountain West Conference is unable to play in a game because of COVID-19 issues, it will have to forfeit and the game will not be rescheduled, the league announced Friday. If both opponents in a game can’t play because of COVID-19, the game will be declared a

7:00 AM ET WEST HARRISON, Ind. — Luke Fickell sits at a corner table in the dining hall at Camp Higher Ground, Cincinnati‘s off-campus football training site in the hills just beyond the Indiana state line. Behind him, the most anticipated team in Cincinnati history devours lunch before a rescheduled afternoon practice. Three days earlier,

7:12 AM ET Maybe your parents attended a Black college. Maybe you did the same. Maybe you grew up watching the Bayou Classic each year on television. Maybe you even got a chance to go to the Bayou Classic. (Maybe you got a chance to attend the Battle of the Bands, saw Southern’s Human Jukebox

5:29 PM ET West Virginia president Gordon Gee said that he believes College Football Playoff expansion is “on life support” and that he will not vote in favor of the proposed 12-team model when the CFP board of managers meets next month. In comments to West Virginia student newspaper The Daily Athenaeum earlier this week,

3:54 PM ET LSU and USC will open the 2024 season in Las Vegas, a matchup of teams that both staked claim to the 2003 national championship. The Tigers and Trojans will play in the Vegas Kickoff Classic during Labor Day weekend in 2024 at Allegiant Stadium in a game to be aired on ABC