7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The college football regular season may be over, but don’t fret, the sport has saved some of the best matchups for conference championship week. Beginning on Friday night in Las Vegas, teams will battle for not only conference bragging rights but spots in the College Football Playoff field as well.
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10:06 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN The last remaining obstacle to expanding the College Football Playoff to 12 teams in the 2024 and 2025 seasons has been cleared. A source told ESPN on Wednesday night that the Rose Bowl has agreed to terms that will pave the way for the College Football Playoff to expand in
11:15 PM ET UAB is finalizing the hire of former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer as the Blazers’ new football coach and is planning to officially introduce him later Wednesday, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Dilfer, 50, the head coach at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, is a former standout quarterback at Fresno State, who graduated
7:00 AM ET Inspirational thought of the week: “I know where I’d go.”“Where?”“I’d go to Akron. I’d go there with a pretty woman. A strange woman. A quiet woman. I wouldn’t even want to know her name. Where I would be just ‘Mr. Smith’ and I would send out for cold beer. Then I would
8:32 PM ET ESPN staff The College Football Playoff selection committee might not even break a sweat this weekend. No lengthy debates, no Tylenol needed and early hotel checkouts all around. No. 1 Georgia, No. 2 Michigan, No. 3 TCU and No. 4 USC appear one conference championship win away from locking up those coveted
7:14 PM ET Georgia, Michigan, TCU and USC are all poised to make the College Football Playoff with wins in their conference championship games this weekend after the selection committee unveiled its penultimate rankings Tuesday. There was no change at the top, as Georgia (12-0) remained No. 1. But after Michigan (12-0) beat Ohio State
7:00 AM ET This penultimate ranking could arguably be the most compelling, revealing regular-season College Football Playoff top 25. Period. If there is one upset in this weekend’s conference championship games — most realistically if TCU loses to Kansas State in the Big 12 championship or USC loses to Utah in the Pac-12 title game
4:10 PM ET Hugh Freeze has agreed to a deal to become Auburn’s next head football coach, the school announced Monday. Auburn administrators, including athletic director John Cohen, met with football staff members earlier in the day to tell them about Freeze’s hiring. They were planning to meet with the players at 6 p.m. ET,
4:30 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Penn State left tackle Olu Fashanu told ESPN he’s returning to school next year, a surprising move in NFL circles considering he is projected as the top offensive line prospect in the 2023 NFL draft. Fashanu, 19, is a redshirt sophomore who is in his first full season as a
10:27 AM ET Missouri sophomore wide receiver Dominic Lovett plans to enter the transfer portal, a source confirms to ESPN. He caught 56 passes for 846 yards and three touchdowns for Missouri in 2022. He established career highs in receptions (10) and receiving yards (148) in the Tigers’ 23-10 victory at South Carolina on Oct.
1:57 PM ET Associated Press Michigan moved up to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday, with TCU at No. 3 and USC at No. 4 behind top-ranked Georgia after four top-10 teams lost on the final day of regular-season games. The Bulldogs (12-0) are No. 1 for the eighth straight week
11:12 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Wisconsin has hired Luke Fickell as its next football coach, athletic director Chris McIntosh announced Sunday. Fickell led Cincinnati to the College Football Playoff last season and had gone 57-18 in his six years there. His 2021 Bearcats team went 13-0 before losing to Alabama in the playoff semifinals as
5:16 AM ET Paolo UggettiESPN Stanford head coach David Shaw has resigned after 12 seasons at his alma mater. Shaw announced his decision to step down, effective immediately, after Saturday night’s 36-25 loss to BYU in Stanford’s season finale. “I prayed about it, I thought about it,” Shaw said. “With every hour it seemed, it
11:30 PM ET ESPN staff For the first time in 2022, ESPN’s writers have an unanimous top four to make the College Football Playoff. Third-ranked Michigan made the biggest statement, turning a three-point halftime deficit against No. 2 Ohio State into a 45-23 rout. Michigan rushed for 242 yards in the second half, largely behind
4:14 PM ET Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Tom VanHaaren Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan COLUMBUS, Ohio — Michigan‘s J.J. McCarthy wasn’t the most decorated quarterback on the field entering the clash Saturday
10:13 AM ET Auburn has been in discussion with Liberty‘s Hugh Freeze for weeks about him becoming the school’s next football coach, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel. Sources said the Tigers are not expected to make a formal offer until after Saturday’s Iron Bowl game against Alabama, but the sides have informally discussed a contract
9:41 PM ET ESPN News Services CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Devin Carter and two teammates took a North Carolina State flag and planted it at rival North Carolina‘s midfield logo amid a wild celebration. The Wolfpack spiked weeks of frustration with a signature road win to end the regular season. “It was just spur of
3:18 PM ET Nebraska has zeroed in on Matt Rhule as the Cornhuskers‘ next head coach and the two sides are working on finalizing a deal in the coming days, sources told ESPN on Friday. Rhule, who was fired by the NFL’s Carolina Panthers in October, previously had successful stints in college at Baylor and