12:15 PM ET A week out from a rematch of last year’s Sun Belt title game, Appalachian State and Louisiana announced Thursday that their Oct. 7 game would be postponed due to positive coronavirus tests at Appalachian State. Appalachian State said that all active cases are recovering in isolation, but chancellor Sheri Everts and the
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7:23 AM ET The first College Football Playoff selection committee ranking has been pushed back a week to Nov. 24, executive director Bill Hancock told ESPN. The date was moved from Nov. 17 after all 10 FBS conferences announced their intentions to play a fall season. The 13-member selection committee will announce its fifth and
7:05 AM ET We should not have been surprised at what we saw unfold at Death Valley on Saturday. We shouldn’t have been shocked when Mississippi State quarterback K.J. Costello, whom we had last seen driving a bulldozer at Stanford, spent the afternoon throwing his way past the likes of Dak Prescott and Nick Fitzgerald
7:00 AM ET David M. Hale Close ESPN Staff Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Harry Lyles Jr. This is the weekend you’ve been waiting for in college football. We’re slowly getting to a point where all Power 5 football is going to be played, and we’ll be
7:00 AM ET Auburn coach Gus Malzahn says No. 4 Georgia is “probably the most talented team overall in the SEC.” Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart calls Malzahn’s compliment nothing more than coach speak. “If you ask somebody the week of the game — the team they are playing will have the most talent in the
7:00 AM ET Chris ConnellyReporter Close Reporter for ESPN and ABC Stories appear on Outside the Lines and E:60, as well as College GameDay and SportsCenter, Has won three Sports Emmys and six Edward R. Murrow Awards, as well as a Prism, a Gracie, and a National Headliner Award. ON THE MORNING of Oct. 2,
9:04 PM ET Due to local restrictions currently preventing San Jose State from practicing in groups larger than 12, the Spartans will travel to Humboldt State, 320 miles away, to practice ahead of their season opener on Oct. 24. The team could leave as early as Thursday and will remain there until Santa Clara County
7:44 PM ET Chris Low Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia The SEC altered its rules to allow immediate eligibility for
3:02 PM ET PAC-12 commissioner Larry Scott suggested expanding the College Football Playoff from four to eight teams for this season, but the CFP management committee did not approve the idea during Wednesday’s meeting, CFP executive director Bill Hancock told ESPN. Although the playoff won’t expand this season, the commissioners have reviewed the current format
2:21 PM ET Missouri football coach Eli Drinkwitz said there’s no uniform SEC policy for reporting COVID-19 test results and no sharing of that information among the 14 member programs. Drinkwitz told reporters on Wednesday that he has “no idea” what’s going on with other teams from week to week. “It’s kind of a free-for-all,”