7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The forecast for Week 2’s college football slate was dreary and yet, the scheduled delivered. The Sun Belt rose to the occasion as Marshall knocked off then top-10 Notre Dame 26-21 and Appalachian State — this week’s host for College GameDay — went into College Station and handed Jimbo Fisher
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Sep 15, 2022 Stetson Bennett took a sip of coffee and grinned. What’s it like having tight ends Brock Bowers, Darnell Washington and Arik Gilbert to throw to? “It’s a safety net,” Bennett told ESPN in July. But Georgia’s veteran quarterback was underselling it. He went on to reveal a phrase they use around the
9:06 AM ET Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — A sister of Clemson defensive tackle Bryan Bresee has died of cancer. Bresee announced Thursday on social media that his sister Ella Bresee had died after battling an aggressive form of brain cancer. Ella was 15. “I know for a fact heaven has gained a beautiful angel
7:00 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN CORAL GABLES, Fla. — In the middle of the toughest professional decision of his life, Mario Cristobal dialed a familiar phone number. Over 3,000 miles from Eugene, Oregon, in Stuart, Florida, Dennis Lavelle picked up. Cristobal wanted to know what his former high school coach at Christopher Columbus High thought
2:46 AM ET An attorney representing defensive end T.A. Cunningham, the No. 1-ranked football prospect in California in the Class of 2024, filed for an injunction Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court, requesting to reverse a ruling last week from the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section that determined he was ineligible. In the offseason, Cunningham,
7:11 PM ET WASHINGTON — An overwhelming majority of Division I athletic directors at the annual fall LEAD1 meeting on Wednesday expressed a “strong preference” to keep FBS football under the NCAA if it can be more streamlined and less bureaucratic. Tom McMillen, the CEO and president of the organization representing the 131 athletic directors
7:00 PM ET The NCAA has instructed college football programs to remove the names of any student-athletes who entered the transfer portal since the new portal windows went into effect on Aug. 31, a source told ESPN, confirming a report by On3Sports. The schools were also told not to contact any student-athletes who entered the
1:59 PM ET Mountain West Conference commissioner Craig Thompson, the longest tenured active FBS commissioner, will step down on Dec. 31 after leading the league for nearly 24 years, he announced on Wednesday. “My one remaining priority was expansion of the College Football Playoff and viable access for the Mountain West,” said Thompson, one of
2:42 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Two high-profile nonconference series have been scuttled because of the impending departure of Oklahoma and Texas to the SEC, which is scheduled for 2025. The SEC announced on Wednesday that it “directed” Georgia and Tennessee to “postpone” scheduled games with Oklahoma because the Sooners are on their way to the
8:00 AM ET In July, among the 16,452 attendees at the annual Texas High School Coaches’ Association convention in San Antonio, two college coaches drew a crowd wherever they went. Sure, Georgia coach Kirby Smart, continuing a tradition among national championship coaches, flew in for a few hours just to speak to the largest and