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11:23 PM ET Nearly all of our writers’ rankings are the same after college football’s elite flexed their muscles this week. How will Saturday’s top games affect the College Football Playoff chase? What are the current odds for the top four? The Allstate Playoff Predictor has the answers. Check back every week as the odds

9:25 PM ET Associated Press CONWAY, S.C. — Mateo Sudipo stopped BYU’s Dax Milne at the 1-yard line as time expired and No. 14 Coastal Carolina beat the eighth-ranked Cougars 22-17 in short-notice showdown of 9-0 teams Saturday night. The Cougars (9-1, No. 13 CFP) were a late-week fill-in, traveling more than 2,200 miles to

7:01 PM ET Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Ian Book threw three touchdown passes and ran for two scores in his final home game at Notre Dame, leading the second-ranked Fighting Irish to a 45-21 victory against Syracuse on Saturday. The fifth-year senior led the Irish to a victory as a starter for the

5:46 PM ET Ohio State coach Ryan Day is hopeful that “the worst part’s behind us” after the No. 4 Buckeyes returned to the field Saturday and beat Michigan State 52-12 despite being short-handed because of COVID-19. The Buckeyes (5-0) played without three starting offensive lineman — tackles Thayer Munford and Nicholas Petit-Frere, and center

2:56 PM ET Louisville coach Scott Satterfield again said he is staying at the school after South Carolina reached out about its coaching vacancy. Satterfield told The (Louisville) Courier-Journal that he had no intention of leaving Louisville but “owed an obligation just to listen [to South Carolina] because of where it’s at.” He characterized the

11:07 AM ET Ohio State will be without three starting offensive lineman and starting linebacker Tuf Borland, a three-time captain, for Saturday’s game at Michigan State. The Buckeyes’ pregame status report lists Borland out, along with offensive line starters Thayer Munford, Josh Myers and Nicholas Petit-Frere. Key reserves like safety Josh Proctor and defensive end

9:30 AM ET Week 14 is one for the ages for college football. Never before have we seen two undefeated teams, thousands of miles apart, up and schedule a game against each other in just a matter of days. But that’s what happened with No. 13 BYU and No. 18 Coastal Carolina. Of course, the

1:54 AM ET Louisiana head coach Billy Napier raised a lot of eyebrows Friday night when he decided to take a safety from his team’s own 35-yard-line with a five-point lead late in the fourth quarter against Appalachian State. When asked about the decision after the Ragin’ Cajuns held on for a 24-21 win, Napier

9:00 AM ET The leaves have yet to turn near the Nebraska sandhills, and Andy and Brianna Hoffman settle into rocking chairs on a white wraparound porch. “Can I hold your hand?” Andy asks Bri, and they clasp fingers. They’re waiting for their son to come home. It’s a good day. Crickets are holding an

5:13 PM ET Marv Marinovich, captain of USC‘s 1962 national championship team and a former NFL player and strength coach, died Thursday at 81, the school announced. Marinovich died in Mission Viejo, Calif., of natural causes. He played both offensive and defensive line for USC, which went 11-0 and defeated Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl

3:43 PM ET The SEC announced on Friday a retooled slate of games for the final two weeks of the regular season, a result of postponements from earlier in the season because of the coronavirus pandemic. The conference will play a slate of six games on Dec. 12 — a designated open date for all

1:30 PM ET Ohio State on Friday confirmed it will play Saturday’s game at Michigan State because COVID-19 issues within the program have improved. The fourth-ranked Buckeyes (4-0) are set to fly to East Lansing, Michigan, on Friday night. Ohio State canceled last week’s game at Illinois hours before the scheduled kickoff because of a

12:27 PM ET Georgia‘s scheduled game against Vanderbilt on Saturday has been postponed because of COVID-19 cases, contact tracing issues and injuries within the Commodores program, sources told ESPN on Friday. The game was scheduled for a 4 p.m. ET kickoff on Saturday at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia. The No. 8 Bulldogs don’t currently

8:30 AM ET College football Saturdays in the middle of a pandemic have tended to all run together, but the morning started differently last weekend. Over breakfast, I told my two daughters that Sarah Fuller had a chance to make history at Vanderbilt. I did not have to explain why. Their eyes went wide. In

7:30 AM ET Realistically, BYU needed to increase its strength of schedule in order to have a prayer at the College Football Playoff. By tacking on what will be their most difficult game of the season — at Coastal Carolina on Saturday — the Cougars did just that. Could it be enough to give the

10:33 PM ET ESPN 300 quarterback Jake Garcia, the No. 18-ranked recruit overall and the No. 2-ranked pocket passer in the class, decommitted from USC on Thursday night. 🖤 pic.twitter.com/3kuUbp91LD — Jake Garcia (@JakeGarcia14) December 4, 2020 The 6-foot-2, 190-pound prospect had been committed to the Trojans since September 2019, but was rumored to be

2:26 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio — No. 4 Ohio State will be “a little short-handed” because of a COVID-19 outbreak but continues to practice ahead of its scheduled game at Michigan State, coach Ryan Day said Thursday. So far, so good, this week for Ohio State, which voluntarily canceled its game at Illinois last week

9:06 PM ET Alabama coach Nick Saban said he has cleared COVID-19 protocols and will travel with the team to LSU on Friday. “I’ll be there,” Saban said on his radio show Thursday night. “I’m good. I think my time is up. I’m ready to get back in the swing of things.” Saban, 69, tested