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2:38 PM ET Associated Press Looking to address the growing number of transfers, the NCAA Division I Council approved a one-year waiver Tuesday that will allow college football teams to sign up to seven players to replace those who leave. Current NCAA rules state a team can sign no more than 25 players to a

1:08 PM ET Alabama outside linebacker Drew Sanders is expected to miss Saturday’s game at Texas A&M after having surgery on his injured hand. Alabama coach Nick Saban said Wednesday that Sanders is “probably going to be out” for the game. “It was maybe a little worse than we thought,” Saban said. “So he’s going

[Editor’s note: If you thought UConn-Vandy was big, how about UConn-UMass in maybe the biggest bad game of all-time? Those two are joined by Oregon and another three Power 5 interlopers.) “You just couldn’t let me go, could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. … You won’t kill

2:15 PM ET LSU coach Ed Orgeron said the responsibility for his football team’s performance during a loss to Auburn on Saturday rests with him. The 24-19 loss dropped the Tigers to 3-2 on the season. “Ultimately I’m responsible for the performance of the team,” Orgeron told reporters on Monday. “I always will be responsible.”

4:38 PM ET Minnesota running back Trey Potts remains hospitalized in Indiana for an unspecified medical issue that occurred late in Saturday’s game at Purdue. Potts left the field late in the fourth quarter of Minnesota’s 20-13 win and was treated by Minnesota’s medical staff before being transported to a local hospital. Minnesota said in

6:42 PM ET Associated press SALT LAKE CITY — Utah players and coaches returned to practice Monday grieving one of their own who was killed in a shooting at a postgame party. The team was on the field for the first time since sophomore defensive back Aaron Lowe was shot on Sept. 26, just nine

6:08 PM ET Associated Press ATHENS, Ga. — Quarterback JT Daniels was held out of throwing drills for No. 2 Georgia on Monday, leaving the junior’s status uncertain for Saturday’s SEC game at No. 18 Auburn. The Bulldogs leaned on their running game and defense to overwhelm No. 8 Arkansas 37-0 last week. Daniels was

3:27 PM ET Kentucky waited 35 years to defeat Florida at home and it will pay mightily for its post-victory celebration at Kroger Field on Saturday night. The SEC announced on Monday that Kentucky has been fined $250,000 for a third violation of the league’s access to competition area policy, which occurred when Wildcats fans

7:17 PM ET Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado football coach Karl Dorrell considers himself calm and collected on the football field. Except on Saturday, when he lost his cool and pushed a photojournalist’s camera on his way off the field following a 37-14 loss to Southern California. Dorrell apologized Sunday both publicly and privately,

5:23 PM ET Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin on Monday apologized for saying, “Get your popcorn ready” and then tossing his headset in an interview prior to Saturday’s game at Alabama. Kiffin made the comment to CBS sideline reporter Jamie Erdahl and then tossed the headset toward a cameraman as he prepared for the

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The Nos. 1 and 2 college football teams in the country look stronger than ever, while three other top-10 teams lost. Our reporters try to make sense of what happened in Week 5 of the college football season and what to look forward to. The great wide divide The narrative

1:16 AM ET Last week, the sport’s leadership met to discuss the merits of expanding the College Football Playoff. It amounted to nothing. On Saturday, Alabama and Georgia offered a convincing counterargument. Perhaps we should just end the 2021 season after the SEC championship game. For all the September buzz about chaos and parity in

7:45 AM ET In what is shaping up to be one of the weirder seasons in recent memory, allow us to introduce you to the weirdest one-sided matchup in the past decade. No. 7 Texas A&M and No. 16 Arkansas meet on Saturday having played each other 77 times dating back to 1903. The two

7:41 AM ET What if … we win out? Win our conference championship? Lose only a nonconference game? Do we get in? Fans start running the scenarios as soon as the college football season kicks off, and the game changes every week as the landscape shifts. What would happen to your favorite contender as a

5:43 PM ET Oklahoma football got a commitment from ESPN Junior 300 wide receiver Deandre Moore Jr. on Friday. Moore is the No. 11-ranked prospect overall in the 2023 class and the No. 1 receiver. He’s a 5-foot-11, 190-pound prospect from Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California. He is joining his high school

1:43 PM ET Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback C.J. Stroud will be used only in an emergency capacity on Saturday against Akron, coach Ryan Day announced on his weekly radio show on 97.1 FM The Fan. Stroud, according to Day, is nursing a shoulder injury, and the staff felt a week of rest would do the

11:39 PM ET ESPN News Services USC freshman quarterback Jaxson Dart had surgery to repair a meniscus injury and will be out indefinitely, a source confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. Three-year starter Kedon Slovis is expected to start against Oregon State on Saturday. Dart replaced Slovis during the Trojans’ 45-14 win at Washington State last

7:08 PM ET The battle of top-15 teams Alabama and Ole Miss is still a week and a half away, and already Rebs’ coach Lane Kiffin has some things to say about his former employer. Kiffin, who served as offensive coordinator at Alabama under Nick Saban from 2014-16, said on Wednesday that the No. 1