9:00 AM ET ESPN staff These rankings are all about rating teams against their conference brethren, but we are also ranking the conferences against each other. Check out the chart below, and click on a conference to get full details on why we ranked teams how we did. 1. SEC | 2. Big Ten |
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11:01 PM ET With USC starting quarterback JT Daniels in concussion protocol and backup Matt Fink out with three broken ribs, third-stringer Jack Sears will prepare as the starter for this week’s game against Arizona State, coach Clay Helton announced Sunday evening. Both injuries occurred in the Trojans’ 41-28 loss at Utah on Saturday. Sears,
9:30 AM ET EAST LANSING, Mich. — The hail started to ping off the turf at Spartan Stadium as Michigan‘s defense closed in on Michigan State‘s quarterback one final time. Consider it a parting wink from the football gods, who threw all the elements of an upset at the Wolverines on Saturday before watching them
3:48 PM ET Kyle Bonagura Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Mitch Sherman Close ESPN Staff Writer Nebraska/Big Ten/Recruiting reporter. Joined ESPN in 2011. Graduated from the University of Nebraska. Ohio State’s loss at Purdue helped move Michigan into playoff consideration in our latest projections. Find
2:30 PM ET Associated Press Clemson is back at No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll behind top-ranked Alabama, moving up to where it started, after a convincing victory and Ohio State’s first loss of the season. The Crimson Tide are a unanimous No. 1, with all 61 first-place votes, for the first
2:13 AM ET WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Late in the fourth quarter, as Purdue prepared to celebrate the biggest win in recent team history, Tyler Trent joined the party on the field at Ross-Ade Stadium. After a stunning 49-20 loss to Purdue, Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer said that despite signs of trouble in previous
1:00 AM ET This is why the Big 12 isn’t done yet. It’s why the Ohio State-Michigan game just got even bigger — even though it’s also why the Big Ten lost its chance to get both teams in the semifinals. It’s why the 13 members of the College Football Playoff selection committee don’t release
5:30 AM ET WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — For weeks, Ohio State Buckeyes showed obvious flaws but found ways to escape and preserve a perfect record. But when the Purdue Boilermakers dropped the hammer Saturday night, the second-ranked Buckeyes had no answers in a 49-20 loss, their second to an unranked Big Ten opponent in as
12:51 AM ET The cardinal sin in college football is looking too far ahead. Well, that or using the port-o-johns after a night game in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. But instead of looking too far ahead, let’s look back. Back to January 2018, when Alabama battled Clemson in the Sugar Bowl, an appetizer before another national
11:02 PM ET ESPN News Services GREENVILLE, N.C. — Heisman Trophy hopeful McKenzie Milton did not start or play at quarterback in No. 10 UCF’s 37-10 over East Carolina on Saturday. Team spokesman Andy Seeley said before the game that Milton’s lineup absence was a game-time decision by coach Josh Heupel. Darriel Mack Jr. made