8:26 AM ET Associated Press DELTONA, Fla. — Authorities say a Florida man has been charged with making death threats against the mother of a Purdue University superfan and cancer activist who died last week. A Volusia County Sheriff’s Office news release says 39-year-old John Matthew Pinkham was arrested Monday at a Deltona, Florida, home
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2:34 AM ET Joel AndersonESPN SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Alabama Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban blamed himself for choosing to run a fake field goal instead of settling for a 39-yard attempt early in the third quarter. It was a busted play that proved momentous in a 28-point loss to the Clemson Tigers in the
1:03 AM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Wow, talk about your typos. We’re a little sheepish here at College Football Experts, Inc. It turns out that our season-long discussion about whether the best team this season belonged among the best teams in history focused on the wrong team. Editors, please replace three months’ worth of
2:46 AM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif — They tried to tell us about Trevor Lawrence. The people of East Tennessee and Northwest Georgia and Upstate South Carolina. They tried to tell us that during this incredible college football Year of the Quarterback, when Oklahoma’s Kyler Murray won the Heisman Trophy and Ohio State’s Dwayne Haskins
12:05 AM ET The confetti has just finished falling at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, where Clemson stunned Alabama 44-16 in the College Football Playoff National Championship, handing Nick Saban his worst loss as the Crimson Tide’s coach. The Tigers moved to 2-1 against the Tide in national title games, and here’s the worst
12:21 AM ET Clemson won its second national championship in the past three seasons, and is the favorite in Las Vegas to win next year’s title. The SuperBook at the Westgate Las Vegas opened Alabama as the 3-2 (+150) favorite on Monday night during the title game, followed by Clemson at 7-2 (+350). After Clemson’s
7:00 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — For six consecutive weeks this season, there was no doubt within the College Football Playoff selection committee meeting room and largely throughout the country that No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Clemson were the top two teams in the country. Turns out it was just in the wrong
10:00 PM ET Texas defensive end Breckyn Hager vowed he was going to wait until the Longhorns won a Big 12 championship before cutting off his golden locks. After three years, Hager stood true to his word, as his hair grew past his shoulders, while the Longhorns failed to capture that elusive title. After falling
4:56 PM ET SAN JOSE, Calif. — There will be no immediate changes to the four-team format of the College Football Playoff, as university presidents and conference commissioners decided at a joint annual meeting on Monday morning at the Fairmont Hotel that they were in “unanimous agreement that the playoff has been a tremendous success.”
3:01 PM ET Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins announced Monday that he will enter the 2019 NFL draft. The Ohio State quarterback is headed to the NFL. Here’s what he does well, and where he could land. Haskins is considered the clear-cut top quarterback in the 2019 draft class since Oregon’s Justin Herbert decided to