Before they take the field as college football players on Saturdays, some of the top recruits in the 2023 ESPN 300 are playing underneath the lights on weeknights. Texas recruit Arch Manning (No. 2, 2023) set the Isidore Newman School (Louisiana) school record for career touchdown passes Friday and he won’t be lacking targets when … Read more
We’ve reached the midpoint of the 2022 college football season, and some new faces — both teams and players — have navigated their way to the front of the line. Tennessee is unbeaten and ranked No. 3, the Vols’ highest in-season AP ranking since 2001. Ole Miss also is unbeaten and the No. 7 Rebels … Read more
Before they take the field as college football players on Saturdays, some of the top recruits in the 2023 ESPN 300 are playing underneath the lights on weeknights. Arch Manning added to the Manning family record book on Friday during Isidore Newman School’s (Louisiana) 52-22 victory over Pearl River High School. The Texas-bound Manning tossed … Read more
Every top-10 college football team won by double digits, and still, Week 3 had its moments of absurdity and amazement. The Nos. 11, 12 and 13 teams were all upset on the road. There were walk-off field goals (Indiana), walk-off Hail Mary touchdowns (App State), field storms (also App State … and Washington), rain delays … Read more
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o, runner-up to Texas A&M‘s Johnny Manziel for the Heisman Trophy in 2012, made his first public appearance on campus in nearly a decade since it was disclosed he was the victim of a bizarre high-profile catfishing scheme involving a fake girlfriend. “It’s always good to … Read more
12:00 PM ET ESPN staff Week 2 of college football really brought the heat. Not one, but two top-10 teams got upset by — drum roll, please — the Fun Belt. Texas still isn’t back (yet), but it hung in there with Alabama the whole game and gave the Tide a run for their money. … Read more
Georgia reclaimed the top spot in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday, and Kentucky, Oklahoma State and Arkansas moved into the top 10 after an upset-filled weekend across the country. The defending national champion Bulldogs, who started the season at No. 3 in the AP Top 25, took two weeks to get back to … Read more
Texas is not back. Not on Saturday, anyway. Not without its burgeoning star QB, Quinn Ewers. Not on Nick Saban’s watch. But for 59 minutes against Alabama, Texas seemed astonishingly close to turning the page on a decade of heartbreak, embarrassment and jokes before falling to the Tide 20-19. It was, it turns out, a … Read more
Let’s be real: The Week 2 college football slate’s impact on the playoff race is … minimal. Of the 82 contests featuring FBS teams, there are only two games — two! — in which both teams have College Football Playoff leverage of at least 1%, according to the Allstate Playoff Predictor. In other words, there … Read more
11:30 PM ET ESPN staff The Week 1 college football slate was loaded with top-tier matchups to officially kick off the season while ushering fans back into stadiums and onto message boards. Some games lived up to the hype — No. 5 Notre Dame went toe-to-toe with No. 2 Ohio State for three quarters and … Read more