10:00 AM ET ESPN staff It’s Week 6, and it’s sure to be a good one. We’ve got the Red River showdown early in the day, a top-five matchup between No. 3 Iowa and No. 4 Penn State (hey, Cincinnati, this is your time to maybe sneak into the top four with a win over
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12:44 AM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota running back Trey Potts was discharged Friday from an Indiana hospital where he spent six days after an unspecified medical condition developed during the team’s game at Purdue. The university’s athletic department announced that Potts returned to Minnesota for follow-up care and said he was “doing well.”
9:00 AM ET William Ricks We’re already in Week 6 of the college football season, and it’s been high-octane energy all year long. There have been upsets, blowouts, trolls — you name it. Expect more of the same heading into a huge week on the college gridiron. There are some great games on tap —
11:44 AM ET LSU, which became the first SEC school to require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test to enter Tiger Stadium in the summer, announced Friday that it will lift its protocols in time for the football team’s next home game against Florida on Oct. 16. Citing a reduction in the number
11:52 AM ET Interim UConn football coach Lou Spanos is one of three coaches and two players who tested positive for COVID-19 and will be out for Saturday’s game against UMass. Spanos, who took over for Randy Edsall after his resignation on Sept. 6, is in isolation, as are offensive coordinator/offensive line coach Frank Giufre
12:28 PM ET Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz and offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz will not have to spend the Hawkeyes‘ bye week answering questions from lawyers for Black former players who say they suffered discrimination, a federal judge ruled. U.S. Magistrate Judge Helen Adams granted a motion Thursday to
6:55 AM ET Luke Brockermeyer‘s odyssey to becoming Texas‘ starting middle linebacker — one soaked in sweat, perseverance and family history — will come full circle Saturday in the Red River Showdown. It’s a day that has been nothing short of a holiday in Brockermeyer’s family for as long as he can remember “No matter
5:29 PM ET Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin has taken to Twitter to poke fun at himself after his popcorn comment blew up in his face Saturday before Ole Miss’ 42-21 loss to No. 1-ranked Alabama. Kiffin tweeted a photo Thursday of different kinds of popcorn piled up on a chair in his office and
5:22 PM ET Associated Press PROVO, Utah — Gordon Hudson, an All-American tight end for BYU and a College Football Hall of Famer, died Sept. 27. He was 59. He died in San Jose, California, the school said. Hudson suited up for the Cougars from 1980 to ’83, earning All-America honors as a junior and
4:05 PM ET Running back CJ Verdell and safety Bennett Williams both will miss the remainder of the season for the No. 8 Oregon Ducks, coach Mario Cristobal said Thursday. Verdell, a fifth-year junior, sustained a left leg injury in the second half of Oregon’s loss to Stanford last Saturday. He leads Oregon with 78