3:02 PM ET ESPN News Services ATLANTA — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker will meet in a Dec. 6 runoff in Georgia after neither reached the general election majority required under state law. Walker had a storied career at the University of Georgia from 1980 to ’82. He led the Bulldogs
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7:00 AM ET Like many of the state’s most colorful tales, the story of Texas’ Big Bertha and a decades-long rivalry over the biggest drums in college football began with the bravado of a wealthy oilman. In 1954, Longhorn Band benefactor Col. D. Harold “Dry Hole” Byrd, a man who had earned an unfortunate nickname
8:30 PM ET ESPN staff With Georgia now the undisputed No. 1 team in the country, the biggest debate for the selection committee in its second ranking was at No. 4, where undefeated TCU earned the spot ahead of one-loss No. 5 Tennessee following the Vols’ loss to Georgia on Saturday. No. 2 Ohio State
7:18 PM ET Georgia took over the top spot in the College Football Playoff top 25 rankings released Tuesday night, after its impressive 27-13 win over previous No. 1 Tennessee last weekend. Meanwhile, TCU jumped three spots to No. 4 heading into its big Saturday showdown at No. 18 Texas. “They’ve got six wins over
7:00 AM ET Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. The results from a wild Week 10 will cause some shuffling at the top of the College Football
3:06 PM ET Anthony Hill Jr., the second-ranked linebacker in the Class of 2023, has decommitted from Texas A&M. Hill, No. 18 in the 2023 ESPN 300, intends to commit elsewhere in December during the early signing period, according to his father. “I’d like to thank Texas A&M, [co-DC/LBs] Coach [Tyler] Santucci and staff for
7:00 AM ET BATON ROUGE, La. — It was too loud and too chaotic inside Tiger Stadium to hear the crash of Alabama‘s season late Saturday night. The fall happened so quickly and so unexpectedly it was hard to comprehend in real time. LSU coach Brian Kelly wouldn’t dare go for two, would he? After
2:06 PM ET Associated Press Georgia tightened its hold on No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday, with TCU climbing up to No. 4 and Alabama dropping all the way to No. 10. The Bulldogs had their strongest support of the season after manhandling Tennessee on Saturday, receiving 62 of 63 first-place
Nov 6, 2022 SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Since the 2015 season, when Clemson made the first of six straight College Football Playoff appearances, coach Dabo Swinney has endured tough losses. The Tigers have fallen in national title games, CFP semifinals and five times during the regular season. But arguably no defeat felt as complete and
6:37 PM ET South Florida fired football coach Jeff Scott on Sunday, the school announced. The Bulls (1-8, 0-5 American) are coming off a 54-28 loss at Temple on Saturday, their seventh straight defeat. “When Jeff came to Tampa in December of 2019, we had high expectations for where he could take our football program,”
1:08 AM ET Georgia entered Saturday’s showdown with Tennessee as the No. 3 team in the country, which says something about how these evaluations are made. It’s true, of course, that the Bulldogs looked listless at times against miserable competition like Kent State and Missouri. And it’s true, too, that after a dominant Week 1
1:35 AM ET BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU coach Brian Kelly made the decision to go for two against Alabama sound simple. “If you asked me, ‘Hey, I’m going to give you one play and if you’re successful on that one play, you beat Alabama,’ I would’ve taken that 100 times out of 100,” he
7:37 PM ET ATHENS, Ga. — Defending national champion Georgia might not have been No. 1 in the first College Football Playoff rankings earlier this week, but the Bulldogs left little doubt Saturday who belongs in that top spot. Their 27-13 beatdown of No. 1 Tennessee before a deafening crowd at Sanford Stadium was about
9:22 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Star Ohio State tailback TreVeyon Henderson is not available for Saturday’s game against Northwestern, a surprise addition to the Buckeye injury report. Henderson is No. 2 Ohio State’s leading rusher this season with 552 yards. He’s averaging 5.8 yards per carry and has scored six rushing touchdowns. Henderson had 78
1:38 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — All-Pro defensive lineman and two-time Washington Super Bowl champion Dave Butz has died. He was 72. A spokesperson for the Washington Commanders confirmed that Butz’s family informed the team about his death Friday. It was not immediately known where Butz died or the cause of his death. Butz
12:53 PM ET Less than a month after an Alabama football player appeared to strike a fan who stormed the field at Tennessee, the SEC announced Friday that it is forming a working group to address fans’ access to playing fields and courts after games. The event-security working group will review and update field access
11:02 AM ET LSU got good news for the future of its quarterback room Friday, when Colin Hurley, one of the top signal-callers in the 2025 class, announced his commitment to the Tigers. Along with his commitment, Hurley also disclosed that he is reclassifying to the 2024 class, which will put him on campus a
8:00 AM ET ESPN staff November is officially here and with it comes a top 5 matchup that has all the stakes a fan could ask for. Tennessee will travel to Georgia on Saturday in what should be one of the most highly anticipated SEC East games in recent history. What’s on the line? Oh,