12:34 AM ET ESPN News Services INDIANAPOLIS — Donovan Edwards ran for 185 yards and a score, J.J. McCarthy threw three touchdown passes and No. 2 Michigan beat Purdue 43-22 on Saturday night for its second straight Big Ten title and a likely No. 2 playoff seed. College football’s winningest program has the first 13-win
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11:35 PM ET ESPN staff It was all supposed to be so easy heading into conference championship week. USC beats Utah in the Pac-12 title game on Friday to clinch a spot in the College Football Playoff and TCU follows suit on Saturday in the Big 12 championship against Kansas State. Well, not so easy.
11:08 PM ET Tennessee offensive coordinator Alex Golesh has agreed to a deal to become the next head coach at South Florida, sources told ESPN, confirming reports. Golesh was the primary playcaller for the Volunteers, who led the country in scoring this season with an average of 47.3 points per game. He came to Tennessee
10:42 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Clemson benched starting quarterback DJ Uiagalelei after two series in the ACC championship game against North Carolina on Saturday, turning to backup Cade Klubnik to provide a spark. Klubnik did just that, going 10-of-11 for 149 yards and a touchdown in the first half. He was eventually pulled in
10:33 PM ET Colorado has named Deion Sanders as its next head coach, the school announced in a statement on Saturday. The announcement came minutes after Sanders led Jackson State to its second straight SWAC title. Sanders, 55, has gone 27-5 at Jackson State in three seasons. Jackson State defeated Southern 43-24 in the title
6:52 PM ET ATLANTA — Georgia‘s top receiver this season, Ladd McConkey, was ruled out of the second half of the SEC championship game on Saturday after experiencing what coach Kirby Smart called tendinitis in his knees. Smart said it was a continuation of knee issues that have bothered McConkey through much of the season.
9:22 PM ET Two things have been true of the College Football Playoff committee’s first eight years of selections. First, the committee has almost certainly gotten the top four correct on every occasion. For any debates over Ohio State in 2014 or Alabama in 2017, the eventual results — a national championship for both —
8:30 PM ET With Alabama’s College Football Playoff future in limbo, coach Nick Saban said on Saturday that there was an argument for his team to be included among the top four and framed the debate over who’s in and who’s out with a single question: How are they playing at present? The question lends
8:22 PM ET ESPN News Services ATLANTA — With all sorts of turmoil behind them in the rankings, the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs left no doubt about the top team heading into the College Football Playoff, dismantling No. 11 LSU 50-30 in the Southeastern Conference championship game Saturday. Stetson Bennett threw a season-high four touchdown
7:26 PM ET Mason Cobb, Oklahoma State‘s leading tackler this season, announced Saturday that he has entered the transfer portal. Cobb, a 6-foot junior from Provo, Utah, has two years of eligibility remaining. “I will always be a Cowboy at heart!” he wrote in a statement posted on his Twitter account. “It’s time for me