2:34 PM ET LSU running back John Emery Jr. won’t play the rest of the season, coach Ed Orgeron said on Monday. A source confirmed to ESPN the reason for Emery’s absence is related to academics. Emery started three games last season and was expected to play a pivotal role at running back alongside Ty
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1:53 PM ET Florida State coach Mike Norvell described his team as “sick to their stomach” after losing to FCS Jacksonville State, and vowed his players would not quit on the season in the face of such a dispiriting loss. During his Monday press conference with media in Tallahassee, a fired-up Norvell once again took
2:04 PM ET NC State starting linebacker Payton Wilson and starting safety Cyrus Fagan will undergo surgery and miss the rest of the season, the school announced Monday. Both were hurt in a 24-10 loss to Mississippi State on Saturday night. Wilson, a preseason All-ACC selection, left the game with an apparent arm injury. Fagan’s
11:32 AM ET Tulane‘s football team will return to campus and play its first game there since Hurricane Ida on Sept. 25 when it hosts UAB at Yulman Stadium. The Green Wave left campus for Birmingham, Alabama, before the storm hit, and all of Tulane’s athletic operations have been taking place there. Tulane moved its
11:50 AM ET Virginia Tech will be without star tight end James Mitchell for the rest of the season, coach Justin Fuente announced Monday, after the junior suffered a knee injury in the 15th-ranked Hokies’ win over Middle Tennessee on Saturday. Mitchell, a preseason All-ACC selection, injured his right knee on a goal-line running play
11:51 AM ET Purdue starting running back Zander Horvath, a third-team All-Big Ten selection in 2020, will miss four to eight weeks with a broken leg. Coach Jeff Brohm said that Horvath has a broken fibula and would undergo surgery Monday. He sustained the injury in the first quarter of Saturday’s win at UConn and
12:44 PM ET Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday that Casey Thompson will replace Hudson Card as the Longhorns’ starting quarterback. Card, who started the first two games, was 8-of-15 for 61 yards and was sacked three times in the Longhorns’ 40-21 loss to Arkansas. Thompson, who also played in the second half against Louisiana,
12:24 PM ET Kansas State quarterback Skylar Thompson is out indefinitely but will return at some point this season after sustaining a right knee injury in Saturday’s game against Southern Illinois, coach Chris Klieman said Monday. Thompson was injured while blocking for teammate Deuce Vaughn on a run play in the first quarter, although Thompson
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff Week 2 of the 2021 college football season is in the books. Two top-10 teams lost. Two other top-10 teams needed fourth-quarter rallies to avoid upsets. But at the end of the day, here is what our reporters take away from the weekend’s action. The Ohio State defense misses Jeff
2:39 PM ET Associated Press Oregon and Iowa were the big movers in The Associated Press college football poll after road wins over top-10 opponents. The Ducks’ victory over Ohio State earned them a promotion from No. 12 to No. 4. Another impressive defensive performance by Iowa in the Cy-Hawk Trophy game pushed the Hawkeyes