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11:04 AM ET ESPN News Services Mark Smith, the inside linebackers coach for the Colorado Buffaloes, said he and his family lost “every material possession” in the wildfires that have burned hundreds of homes and businesses outside Denver since Thursday morning. “Just got word that every material possession we had today is now gone,” Smith

7:00 AM ET MIAMI — Aidan Hutchinson and David Ojabo enter the CFP semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl as the best pass-rushing tandem in college football. Together, they transformed the Michigan defensive front this season into a nightmarish force that makes coordinators jittery and offensive linemen lose their nerve, combining for 25 sacks.

7:00 AM ET On Friday afternoon, the Cincinnati Bearcats won’t be playing merely on behalf of themselves. Instead, when the Bearcats run onto the field of the Jerry Dome for the College Football Playoff semifinal showdown with No. 1 Alabama (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App), they shouldn’t do so beneath their own traditional black “C”

1:07 AM ET Michigan State defeated Pittsburgh 31-21 in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on Thursday night, capping off a turnaround 11-2 season for Mel Tucker in his second year as head coach. The Spartans faced a 21-10 deficit in the third quarter, but outscored Pitt 21-0 in the fourth quarter to complete the comeback victory.

8:22 PM ET Pittsburgh quarterback Nick Patti suffered an injury during the first quarter of the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl against Michigan State on Thursday night and left the game. With 7:57 left in the quarter, Patti ran 16 yards and dove for the pylon to tie the game at 7-7. After Patti went back to

5:54 PM ET Northwestern safety Brandon Joseph, a consensus All-America selection in 2020, is entering the transfer portal, he announced on Twitter on Thursday. Joseph became Northwestern’s first consensus All-America selection in 20 years as a redshirt freshman, helping the team to a Big Ten West Division title and a No. 10 final ranking in

3:37 PM ET South Carolina defeated North Carolina 38-21 in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl on Thursday, earning Gamecocks head coach Shane Beamer a postgame mayo bath. After the game’s trophy ceremony, Beamer sat down in a chair, where 4.5 gallons of mayonnaise was dumped over the back of his head in celebration. “It is everything

3:22 PM ET Associated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse coach Dino Babers has added a pair of former Virginia coaches to his staff, hiring Robert Anae as offensive coordinator and Jason Beck as quarterbacks coach. Both served in those positions for the Cavaliers for six years under coach Bronco Mendenhall, who resigned four weeks ago.

1:45 PM ET Hawai’i defensive back Michael Graham, son of head coach Todd Graham, entered the transfer portal Thursday. Graham appeared in nine games and recorded two tackles as a freshman this season. Hawai’i’s season ended last week when it withdrew from the EasyPost Hawai’i Bowl against Memphis because of COVID-19 issues with the team.

7:45 AM ET Mike Macdonald’s relationship with Xarvia Smith didn’t get off to a great start. Shortly after Smith was hired as the head coach at Centennial High School in Roswell, Georgia, Macdonald, a senior team captain, called him and invited him to lunch. “I laughed at him and said, ‘Mike, you and I will

11:30 AM ET The day began like any other in December for a college football program shut out of bowl season. Rutgers coach Greg Schiano sat in his home office, fully immersed in recruiting. Scarlet Knights quarterback Noah Vedral relaxed at home in Nebraska. Vedral and his teammates had scattered after exams, traveling to places

11:40 AM ET While Alabama might have taken a little longer to get on track this season than coach Nick Saban would have preferred, he said Thursday his patience wasn’t necessarily tested. “I don’t have any patience, so anything that happens is a test of my patience, including sitting in this chair right now,” Saban

11:08 AM ET MIAMI — When Michigan asked coach Jim Harbaugh to take a pay cut to return as head coach this past offseason, he didn’t have to think much about it. Harbaugh on Thursday said it was “no big deal” when asked how he reacted to the request, which cut his base salary from

9:57 AM ET Michigan defensive back Daxton Hill, an All-Big Ten selection, is not currently in Miami as the Wolverines prepare to play Georgia in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh left open the possibility that Hill could join the team in time for Friday’s game,

7:30 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN This is the way college football has worked. One minute, a wide receivers coach at Eastern Michigan is watching Jerome Ford rip off a 79-yard touchdown run in last year’s Peach Bowl between Cincinnati and Georgia. The next minute, that wide receivers coach is a running backs coach at Cincinnati,

7:02 AM ET William E. Ricks Mayonnaise is one of those condiments you either love or hate. But if it means your team wins the Duke’s Mayo Bowl and gets to make a $10,000 charitable donation, a coach might learn to tolerate the creamy spread. South Carolina Gamecocks coach Shane Beamer and North Carolina Tar

2:50 AM ET ESPN News Services SAN ANTONIO — Bob Stoops and Oklahoma were winners together again, just like old times. Kennedy Brooks ran for 142 yards and three touchdowns, Caleb Williams passed for three more scores and the 14th-ranked Sooners rode a dominant first half to a 47-32 win over No. 15 Oregon in

12:31 AM ET ESPN News Services ORLANDO, Fla. — Clemson coach Dabo Swinney became the sixth-fastest coach in college football history to reach 150 victories. He gave the credit to his players following the No. 19 Tigers’ 20-13 victory over Iowa State on Wednesday night in the Cheez-It Bowl. “This team’s journey was full of