11:22 PM ET ESPN staff The College Football Playoff selection committee will never ask coaches to run up the score, and the protocol specifically states that comparing games against a common opponent is done “without incenting margin of victory.” That doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate a good old-fashioned drubbing. With no changes to the top
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6:47 PM ET CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — First-year Virginia football coach Tony Elliott knows there is no manual or playbook to help him deal with what his team is facing. On Sunday night, three of his players were shot and killed and two others were wounded on a charter bus after students returned to campus from
5:10 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Georgia Tech has lost two quarterbacks for the rest of the season with former starter Jeff Sims nursing a foot injury and No. 1 backup Zach Pyron out with a broken collarbone, interim coach Brent Key said Tuesday. Sims, the team’s starter since 2020, will spend the rest
3:56 PM ET Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson will be without junior defensive back Malcolm Greene for the rest of the season due to a groin injury. Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said Tuesday Greene would need an operation and would not be available going forward. No. 9 Clemson (9-1, 7-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) closes
3:59 PM ET Charlotte has hired Michigan associate head coach Biff Poggi as its next football coach. Poggi was a longtime successful high school coach in Maryland with the Gilman School and St. Frances Academy before joining Jim Harbaugh’s staff at Michigan. He spent 19 seasons at Gilman School before taking over at St. Frances
2:43 PM ET Connor O’Halloran The clock ticks toward midnight in a quiet suburb outside the French city of Bordeaux. Valentin Joanny sits perched on the edge of his couch, screaming about playcalling and the Ole Miss Rebels. Joanny, 4,500 miles and a few time zones from SEC country, is sitting in his one-bedroom apartment,
2:07 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Kedon Slovis is in no hurry to talk about 2023. Getting through 2022 has been challenging enough for the Pittsburgh quarterback. While Slovis said he and head coach Pat Narduzzi have “glossed over” the USC transfer’s future, he’s not quite ready to make any pronouncement about where he
7:00 AM ET Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. The top four teams in the country — Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan and TCU — all won on
7:00 AM ET BERKELEY, Calif. — Joe Starkey thought he had blown the call. Hours after “the most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heartrending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football,” Starkey attended a neighborhood party near his home in Walnut Creek, California, about 15 miles East of Cal’s Memorial Stadium. The date was Nov.
2:55 PM ET Illinois coach Bret Bielema said Monday that junior running back Chase Brown is “trending in the right direction” ahead of the game Saturday at No. 3 Michigan. “Very positive and excited, but don’t know where we’ll be by Friday for the trip and Saturday for the game,” Bielema said. Brown left in