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7:30 AM ET This weekend’s college football slate appeared to have a pretty strong tag: Red River Week. No matter what else was going on, you knew there would be at least one season-defining game on the docket. So much for that. Texas and Oklahoma are a combined 3-3, and neither is in the AP

6:27 PM ET Oklahoma added yet another top-300 wide receiver to its 2022 recruiting class Friday when ESPN Junior 300 receiver Luther Burden announced his commitment to the Sooners. Burden, a 6-foot-1, 195-pounder out of Cardinal Ritter College Prep in St. Louis, is ESPN’s No. 47-ranked prospect overall in the 2022 class. He chose Oklahoma

7:00 AM ET Don’t completely rule out the Pac-12 from the 2020 College Football Playoff race. Despite just a seven-game schedule including the conference championship game — on top of a three-year playoff-less streak — the Pac-12 has a 34% chance to put a team in the playoff, per the Allstate Playoff Predictor. Oregon (19%)

3:31 PM ET Kansas Jayhawks coach Les Miles has tested positive for the coronavirus, the university announced Thursday. Miles, 66, learned of his positive test Thursday and began isolating at his home. He will continue to handle his head-coaching responsibilities remotely and not attend the team’s upcoming practices. “Although I will not physically be able

7:00 AM ET David M. Hale Close ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Harry Lyles Jr. To suggest that success in college football is cyclical only understands half the picture. Yes, even the great programs such as Alabama and USC have endured their lean years. But

2:12 PM ET In the late 1990s, at a benefit 30 miles away from his East Texas hometown of Tyler, Earl Campbell sat at a table while the party’s host, a colorful businessman and one of Campbell’s best friends, summoned sheepish onlookers to come say hello to the legend. “Well, what are you waiting for?

8:28 PM ET The LSU–Missouri football game scheduled for Saturday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, will move to Columbia, Missouri, because of Hurricane Delta bearing down on the state of Louisiana, sources confirmed to ESPN. Kickoff for the game was originally scheduled for 9 p.m. ET, but it has been moved up to noon ET at

3:29 PM ET The Mid-American Conference on Wednesday released a six-game, league-only football schedule that will feature only midweek games for the first three weeks. All 12 MAC teams will open the season Nov. 4, a Wednesday, and then play their next two games on Tuesdays or Wednesdays before transitioning to Saturdays for the final

6:10 PM ET Editor’s note: After only two weeks back on the college football calendar, the SEC is all over the place. The Big 12, meanwhile, is in total disarray. The regularly bad teams are, well, regularly bad. As always, the Bottom 10 looks to sort it all out. Inspirational thought of the week Watched

8:52 PM ET ESPN News Services Florida State coaching great Bobby Bowden, 90, was admitted to the hospital Tuesday as he undergoes treatment for COVID-19. Bowden’s wife, Ann, told the Tallahassee Democrat that her husband was taken by ambulance to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare because of fatigue and was scheduled to undergo tests. “I feel sure

9:30 AM ET Dr. Brad Teague has heard your jokes. Central Arkansas’ athletic director knows they’re the go-to Twitter suggestion when a team has to postpone a game (and many teams have had to postpone a game in 2020). That’s what happens when a relatively unknown school puts together one of the most unusual schedules

7:30 AM ET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Twirling his whistle furiously, John Chavis instructs one of his linebackers to get wider. “Line up right there on his foot,” Chavis barks. “Let’s run it again. On the hop. Let’s go!” It’s reminiscent of the way the man they call “Chief” coached the game for 30 consecutive years

2:52 PM ET Arizona football coach Kevin Sumlin has tested positive for COVID-19, the team announced Monday. Sumlin, 56, received the result following a recent round of testing of Arizona’s athletic department staff. He has entered self-isolation and is currently not experiencing any symptoms. Arizona immediately initiated contact tracing and determined that Sumlin’s positive test

5:48 PM ET Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin said Monday he thinks this is probably the best team Alabama has had under his old boss Nick Saban. “As far as being balanced all over and not having holes anywhere,” Kiffin said of the No. 2-ranked Crimson Tide, who face the Rebels on Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway

7:30 AM ET Six years of the College Football Playoff have produced 24 playoff bids. Clemson, Alabama, Oklahoma and Ohio State have combined for 17 of them. This season, then, it was fair to assume once the Big Ten rejoined the fray and announced it would play later in the fall (Oct. 24) that these

4:37 PM ET Wisconsin starting quarterback Jack Coan sustained a foot injury at Saturday’s practice and did not participate Sunday, a team official confirmed to ESPN. Coan will undergo surgery and miss at least several weeks, according to a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Wisconsin is set to open the fall season Oct. 24

10:00 AM ET Sometimes it’s better not to play, apparently. Miami ranked 15th in last week’s SP+ ratings and took a bye week before this Saturday’s big game against Clemson. Of the teams ranked just above them … UCF lost to No. 71 Tulsa Texas lost to No. 45 TCU Oklahoma lost to No. 41

12:48 AM ET This season, more than ever, strength of schedule could mean strength of conference — though the 13 College Football Playoff selection committee members likely would never publicly admit it. Over the past six seasons of the playoff, committee chairs have insisted that the group ranks teams, not conferences, but during a season