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7:00 AM ET The teams currently in the mix for the College Football Playoff might be familiar, with Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma and Ohio State in position to once again earn one of the coveted four spots. But many of the players who are leading the way for those teams and others have stepped into starring

7:00 AM ET [Editor’s note: The letdown after UConn-UMass is very real, but a pair of Pac-12 teams are stepping up (or down?) to save the day in Arizona and Colorado. Meanwhile, what’s an NFL team doing in here?] Inspirational thought of the week: Where do we go from here, now that all of the

5:37 PM ET Five-star defensive lineman Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy, the No. 5 overall recruit in the ESPN 300, has committed to the Oklahoma Sooners on Tuesday. Brownlow-Dindy, a 6-foot-3, 280-pound defensive end out of Lakeland (Florida) High School, had narrowed his choices down to Oklahoma and Texas A&M. “[Oklahoma] treated me like family,” Brownlow-Dindy said. “When

5:11 PM ET Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said that while some Penn State players injured in Saturday’s game had legitimate ailments, he understands why Hawkeyes fans booed when other Nittany Lions players went down. Ferentz on Tuesday noted that Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford did not return to the game after leaving early in the

2:14 PM ET Kevin Wilson Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley said on Tuesday that he does not plan on naming a starting quarterback for Saturday’s game against TCU, days after freshman Caleb Williams replaced Spencer Rattler and led the Sooners to a comeback win over Texas. “We’ll see how it goes Saturday,” Riley said. After two

2:00 PM ET Ohio State defensive coordinator Kerry Coombs hasn’t lost his confidence or his willingness to work hard for the program despite losing playcalling duties earlier this season. Head coach Ryan Day assigned defensive playcalling duties to secondary coach Matt Barnes after Ohio State’s loss to Oregon on Sept. 11. Coombs, who is in

9:00 AM ET We’ve reached the midpoint of what has been an unpredictable 2021 college football season. Already, 40 ranked teams have lost, including defending national champion Alabama on Saturday night. That’s the most in the first six weeks of the season in the AP poll era (since 1936), according to data from ESPN Stats

5:32 AM ET LINCOLN, Neb. — More than an hour after Nebraska lost yet another game in heartbreaking fashion, the callers kept phoning in to Big Red Reaction on the Huskers Radio Network in the early part of Sunday morning. They asked about the playcalling down the stretch in the 32-29 loss to Michigan, and

5:42 AM ET JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Jared Folks is easy to spot on East Tennessee State’s campus. He’s the one toting around a gallon jug of water, sporting a full beard that might have a speck or two of gray (only if you hold the light really close to his face, Folks says jokingly)

5:22 PM ET MESQUITE, Texas — Utah football player Aaron Lowe was remembered for his kindness, brilliant smile and his “infectious optimism” at a memorial service for him on Monday in his hometown. Lowe, a sophomore cornerback, was killed on Sept. 26 after being shot at a party in Salt Lake City. Utah president Taylor

3:51 PM ET Arizona quarterback Jordan McCloud will miss the rest of the season because of knee and ankle injuries, coach Jedd Fisch said Monday. McCloud, who started the past two games for the Wildcats, suffered the injuries during the third quarter of Saturday’s 34-16 home loss to UCLA. A sophomore from Tampa who transferred

4:01 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN Texas A&M has been fined $100,000 by the Southeastern Conference for violating the policy on fans entering the field of play, it was announced Monday. Aggies fans stormed Kyle Field in College Station after kicker Seth Small‘s 28-yard field goal sealed a 41-38 upset win over then-No. 1 Alabama on

2:14 PM ET LSU star receiver Kayshon Boutte will miss the rest of the season with a leg injury, coach Ed Orgeron confirmed Monday. Boutte, whose nine touchdowns this season are tied for the most in the FBS, injured his leg during last Saturday’s loss to Kentucky. The sophomore has found the end zone 13

2:26 PM ET Kentucky will be without two of its top defensive linemen Saturday when it travels to No. 1-ranked Georgia. Coach Mark Stoops said Monday that tackle Octavious Oxendine will miss the remainder of the season with a lower-leg injury. Oxendine was named the SEC’s co-defensive lineman of the week in Kentucky’s 42-21 win

12:26 PM ET Associated Press BESSEMER, Ala. — An argument over the Crimson Tide‘s loss to Texas A&M on Saturday led to a deadly shooting at an Alabama home, police said. Two men started fighting over which team was better at a gathering in the Birmingham suburb of Bessemer when the game was in its

5:47 AM ET ESPN staff We are halfway through the regular season, and it’s safe to say it has been a wild year of college football thus far. That’s a good indicator that we’re in for a hectic finish. Our reporters break down the surprises and favorite moments of the first six weeks and look

9:52 AM ET After an upset-filled first half of the college football season, there’s a new top dog in the odds to win the national championship — Georgia. The undefeated and top-ranked Bulldogs catapulted past Alabama this week and are now the consensus favorites to win the national championship at U.S. sportsbooks. Georgia is 7-5

So, Week 6 was wild, huh? Alabama lost. Oklahoma won with its backup QB. And Iowa defeated Penn State in a battle of top-five teams. Do you want to predict the future? For the past seven years, the Allstate Playoff Predictor has been painting a week-to-week picture of which teams have a realistic chance to