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7:48 PM ET ESPN staff The Week 8 college slate left something to be desired but, given the way the year has gone, the lackluster schedule did little to deter the unpredictability of the season. Cincinnati and Oklahoma, both undefeated with realistic College Football Playoff chances, were pushed by significant underdogs but survived to keep

1:00 AM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – On a night when Miami honored its 2001 national champions, the current Hurricanes won a close game they desperately needed to win, beating NC State 31-30 on Saturday night. A day after athletic director Blake James said he could not make any guarantees about the future for coach

12:08 AM ET No. 4 Alabama pulled away in the second half to defeat Tennessee, 52-24, at home on Saturday, but Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said the win came with a warning. Saban pointed out the various mistakes his team made, whether it was busted coverages, a blocked punt or a penalty for roughing

10:56 PM ET ESPN staff With Georgia on a bye week, the top spot was never in question in Week 8 but several other teams in the top 5 got pushed to the limit by over 20-point underdogs. How will Saturday’s top games affect the College Football Playoff chase? What are the current odds for

9:17 PM ET After yet another woeful offensive performance in which starting quarterback D.J. Uiagalelei was benched and Clemson fell 27-17 to Pitt on Saturday, Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said every job on the unit would be up for grabs in practice this week. “Everything’s under evaluation at this point,” Swinney said, adding that he

Oct 10, 2021 William E. Ricks After nine — yes, nine — overtime periods, unranked Illinois defeated No. 7 Penn State in a game that was a test of endurance for the players and fans involved. After Khalan Tolson broke up Sean Clifford‘s pass in the ninth overtime, Brandon Peters found Casey Washington in the

5:04 PM ET Oklahoma survived another slow start in a 35-23 win over Kansas, and Caleb Williams once again provided a spark, but in an unusual way. With Oklahoma clinging to a 28-23 lead in the fourth quarter with just over three minutes remaining, the Sooners went for it on fourth and 1 at their

5:16 PM ET Associated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Casey Washington caught a 2-point conversion pass from Brandon Peters to end the first nine-overtime game in NCAA history and lift Illinois over No. 7 Penn State 20-18 Saturday. The teams were tied at 10 after regulation, exchanged field goals in the first two overtimes, then

5:43 PM ET Ole Miss retired former quarterback Eli Manning’s No. 10 jersey number at halftime of its game against LSU on Saturday. The program planned several activities to honor Manning, who set or tied 47 school records during his time at Ole Miss and was later selected No. 1 by the then-San Diego Chargers

2:20 PM ET Joseph Ngata, who leads Clemson in receiving yards, will miss Saturday’s game against No. 23 Pittsburgh because of COVID-19 protocols. The school announced that Ngata would be absent alongside fellow wide receivers E.J. Williams and Frank Ladson Jr., who’ve both had injuries this season. It leaves the Tigers’ receiving corps desperately thin.

12:46 PM ET ESPN staff College football is never short of drama, and just this week we got more action on the conference realignment side of things with FAU, Rice, Charlotte, North Texas, UTSA and UAB set to join the American Athletic Conference. So if we got a bit of a shake-up early in the

6:08 PM ET CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Miami Hurricanes athletic director Blake James was not ready to make any pronouncements for how this season would play out for coach Manny Diaz, who has come under fire for a 2-4 start. Asked whether Diaz was on the hot seat, James told ESPN.com, “I don’t know how

2:56 PM ET A federal judge dismissed a Title IX lawsuit that a suspended Michigan State football player filed against the university after he declined to use his name in court proceedings. Judge Hala Y. Jarbou in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Michigan wrote in an Oct. 14 order that the

2:51 PM ET Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Plagued by a shortage of stadium workers and complaints about long concession lines at home football games during the pandemic, the University of Alabama has contracted with an online app. The school is also making other changes in hopes of speeding up service during Saturday’s homecoming game

1:16 PM ET Oklahoma State and Mike Gundy have agreed to a new deal that will restore the football coach to a “perpetual five-year contract” with the Cowboys after the rollover had been decreased to four years in 2020, the university announced Friday. Last year, Gundy voluntarily took a $1 million pay cut and amended

9:00 AM ET William E. Ricks This college football season has been a roller coaster ride. Top-ranked teams have fallen, unranked teams have pulled off some impressive upset victories, and the uniform selections by a lot of these teams have been fire — to say the least. Week 8 brings more heat to the gridiron,

7:01 AM ET Let’s talk College Football Playoff combinations. With the playoff picture starting to come into focus now, there are specific playoff foursomes that now have a non-trivial chance of occurring. The most likely combination of four teams being selected by the playoff committee — more on that in a minute — has a

7:00 AM ET NEW ORLEANS — When Texas coach Steve Sarkisian connected with one of the country’s most famous high school football players on FaceTime one afternoon in July, he couldn’t hear the prospect because of a pinging noise in the background. “Are you at an arcade?” Sarkisian asked. “Where are you?” “Coach, it’s kind