12:15 PM ET ESPN staff It’s Week 10, yes, Week 10 already. And we had our first batch of College Football Playoff rankings released this week, and the rankings sure did spice things up. So what’s on the line this weekend? Well, Cincinnati will certainly want to go all out against Tulsa to leave no
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10:32 AM ET Week 10 of the college football season comes on the heels of the first College Football Playoff rankings. The top four teams are all in action Saturday. The No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs face the Missouri Tigers in Athens. The No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide host the LSU Tigers, the No. 3 Michigan
7:11 PM ET Boston College quarterback Phil Jurkovec will get the start Friday night against Virginia Tech after missing six games with a hand injury, the school announced. Jurkovec, who threw for 2,558 yards and 17 touchdowns in his first season with BC in 2020, injured his hand against UMass in the season’s second week.
3:47 PM ET Third-string Ohio State quarterback Jack Miller was suspended from the football team Friday following his arrest after allegedly operating a vehicle while impaired. Miller, a redshirt freshman, was arrested by Ohio State Highway Patrol officers Friday morning. According to the police report, Miller refused a Breathalyzer test and was also cited for
2:11 PM ET ESPN News Services Conference USA announced on Friday that it will add Liberty, Jacksonville State, New Mexico State and Sam Houston State beginning on July 1, 2023, as the league tries to replenish its ranks after having nine schools announce plans to leave in the past month. The Conference USA overhaul might
1:41 PM ET Missouri quarterback Connor Bazelak is out for Saturday’s game against No. 1 Georgia after suffering an injury last week against Vanderbilt, sources told ESPN on Friday. Bazelak has started all eight games this season for the Tigers and passed for 2,138 yards and 13 touchdowns with eight interceptions. The redshirt sophomore left
9:00 AM ET ESPN Stats & Information Saturday Missouri Tigers at No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs (-38, 59.5), Noon ET on ESPN This would be the 4th-largest underdog Missouri has been in any game since the 1978 FBS/FCS split and the largest since 1996 (+50 at No. 5 Nebraska). This would be the largest favorite Georgia
7:00 AM ET The only college football résumé that matters is the one on selection day. Don’t get me wrong: Current résumés are helpful for debate and analysis. But the ultimate goal is to get into the playoff, and the easiest way to do that is with a strong measure of accomplishment — once conference
7:01 PM ET Georgia has indefinitely suspended starting linebacker Adam Anderson, who has been accused of raping a woman, sources told ESPN on Thursday. Anderson, a senior from Rome, Georgia, has not been arrested and denied the allegation through his attorney. According to an Athens-Clarke County Police Department incident report, a 21-year-old woman told police
7:59 PM ET Kyle Bonagura Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. In a filing this week appealing former Washington State football coach Nick Rolovich’s termination for failure to comply
7:37 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN Multiple California players will miss Saturday’s game against Arizona after entering COVID protocols, the school said Thursday. Citing student privacy laws, Cal did not specify which players would miss the game, or how many are in the protocols. It did disclose that 99% of its players are fully vaccinated, and
6:05 PM ET The University of Tennessee has concluded its year-long internal investigation into rules violations within the football program that led to the firing of head football coach Jeremy Pruitt and will not self-impose a bowl ban, the university announced Thursday. In a statement, the university said it was “moving forward with our focus
5:59 PM ET GRAPEVINE, Texas — College Football Playoff expansion talks have been tabled again until Dec. 1, but the CFP’s management committee needs to make a decision on eight or 12 teams by January if the format is going to expand in time for the 2024 season, CFP executive director Bill Hancock said on
1:54 PM ET Eight games into his career as the head coach at Texas, Steve Sarkisian didn’t expect to be 4-4 and understands fans’ frustrations. But, he said on Thursday, he doesn’t think the Texas job is harder than he expected. “I knew what I signed up for,” said Sarkisian, who was 46-35 in two
10:09 AM ET Akron fired coach Tom Arth on Thursday, a day after the Zips fell to 2-7 on the season. Arth went just 3-24 in two-plus seasons at the school. Associate head coach and inside linebackers coach Oscar Rodriguez will serve as interim coach for the final three games. A star quarterback for John
7:00 AM ET SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST DR. Kevin Elko was sitting across from Alabama coach Nick Saban in 2019, relaying postgame gossip he’d seen online. Not only had LSU beaten the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa, apparently the Tigers had made a spectacle of it, toasting themselves as if they’d won the national championship in early November.
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff Among the year’s most baffling storylines is the disappointing results from many of the preseason’s Heisman hopefuls. Spencer Rattler was benched. D.J. Uiagalelei has struggled mightily. D’Eriq King got hurt. JT Daniels has barely played. And North Carolina‘s Sam Howell — he’s disappointed, too, right? That seems to be the
9:53 PM ET Notre Dame earned a commitment from ESPN Junior 300 linebacker Drayk Bowen on Wednesday, giving the Irish six in the 2023 class. Bowen, a 6-foot-2, 215-pound linebacker from Andrean High School in Merrillville, Indiana, chose the Irish over Auburn and Clemson. He is the No. 44-ranked prospect in the class of 2023,