2:00 PM ET The AP Top 25 college football poll is out, and this should be the last week it does not include Big Ten teams. So before next week’s shake-up — which will also include the first weekend of SEC play — here’s what’s on tap for each ranked team, starting with No. 1
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1:54 AM ET Deion Sanders will be the next head football coach at Jackson State, he announced Sunday on his new podcast. “God called me to Jackson State,” Sanders said on the first episode of 21st & Prime, according to a transcription by the Clarion Ledger. Sanders, a member of the Pro Football Hall of
6:31 PM ET Multiple Division I athletic directors have signed a pledge to diversify their hiring pools. According to Jason Belzer, founder of Athletic Director U, 30 Division I athletic directors have signed the Collegiate Coaching Diversity Pledge, which was announced on Sunday. To adhere to the pledge, schools “must have a finalist pool that
5:14 PM ET North Carolina has been unable to secure an opponent for a game this weekend, so the Tar Heels will next play Oct. 3 against Boston College unless something changes. The school said Sunday that it had worked the phones all weekend but was unable to find a new nonconference opponent. North Carolina
2:19 PM ET Associated Press A week before Big Ten teams become eligible again for The Associated Press college football poll, No. 25 Marshall is ranked for the first time since 2014 and Miami jumped to No. 12 after a conference road victory. Clemson remained a nearly unanimous No. 1 in the AP Top 25
1:02 PM ET Associated Press Pete Golding doesn’t make excuses for Alabama‘s uncharacteristic defensive shortcomings last season, and he probably could. The second-ranked Crimson Tide struggled at times amid a wave of injuries, losing players like middle linebacker Dylan Moses and defensive end LaBryan Ray for all or most of the season. Golding, Alabama’s defensive
Sep 13, 2020 The biggest ratings shifts early in the 2020 college football season have not come from top teams playing big games — they’ve come from teams being subtracted from the list, then added again. With the Big Ten announcing its late-October return, I’ve gone ahead and added those teams, with their preseason projections,
12:13 PM ET Texas A&M will begin its season on Saturday without starting linebacker Anthony Hines, who announced that he has chosen to opt out. Hines’ decision comes a week after the Aggies’ leading receiver, Jhamon Ausbon, said he would opt out to begin preparing for the 2021 NFL draft. Hines, a junior, made no
12:00 PM ET ESPN Stats & Info It’s never too early to obsess over who will reach the College Football Playoff. But in an already unprecedented season, one in which only two of the five Power 5 leagues have kicked off — and both the Big Ten and Pac-12 have a distance to go before
Sep 19, 2020 There was a time, believe it or not, when people watched TV shows one episode at a time, used telephones to call their friends and the college football world was dominated by the Miami Hurricanes. It was called the 1990s. Ask your parents. In the two decades since, a lot has changed.