10:05 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pittsburgh‘s Kenny Pickett set two passing records in the first half of the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game on Saturday night. Pickett’s first touchdown pass of the game, a 22-yard toss on a swing pass to Rodney Hammond Jr. in the first quarter, broke Dan Marino’s school

8:06 PM ET ESPN staff With a trip to the College Football Playoff on the line, the SEC championship game between the Georgia Bulldogs and Alabama Crimson Tide lived up to its lofty expectations — until the second half. 1 Related Nick Saban and the Tide pulled off the upset and continued their dominance over

12:57 PM ET ESPN staff It’s champ week! Meaning it’s the last week of the college football season, which seriously flew by fast. Now, there were a bunch of surprising coaching moves earlier this week, starting with Lincoln Riley going to USC, Brian Kelly going to LSU and Notre Dame announcing Marcus Freeman as Kelly’s

2:14 PM ET Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — Mickey Joseph, who coached wide receivers the past five seasons at LSU, will return to Nebraska as receivers coach, passing game coordinator and associate head football coach under Scott Frost. Frost, who announced Joseph’s hiring Friday, still is looking to fill three other vacancies on his coaching

5:17 PM ET Virginia coach Bronco Mendenhall announced Thursday he will step down after the team’s upcoming bowl game. Mendenhall, 55, did not give a reason for his resignation. He is scheduled to have media availability later Thursday. The Cavaliers have gone 36-38 in his six seasons, including a 2019 Coastal Division championship and its

6:56 AM ET Notre Dame has named defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman as its next head football coach, the school announced Friday morning. Freeman, 35, will be introduced on Monday during a 2 p.m. ET news conference and will coach the Irish in their upcoming bowl game. Freeman was in his first season in charge of

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff For much of the past decade, Alabama has been the elephant-sized obstacle standing in Georgia‘s way of ending what is now a 41-year drought without a national title. The 2012 SEC championship game ended with the Bulldogs catching a pass at Alabama’s 5-yard line as time expired in the Tide’s

7:59 PM ET Michigan will wear a special patch in the Big Ten Championship Game on Saturday to honor the victims in the Oxford High School shooting that took place this week. The shooting occurred on Tuesday when a 15-year-old student at Oxford High School shot and killed four students and injured seven others, including

9:20 PM ET Notre Dame defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman, with mounting support from players and recruits, has emerged as the leading candidate to become the Fighting Irish’s head football coach, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. No deal has been finalized, and several steps remain before Freeman can be formally announced as head coach, sources said.

1:30 AM ET Kelly CohenESPN It’s a scene that sports fans hate to see. So, let’s set it up: Your team is having a successful season. The head coach’s name is floated for a position elsewhere. Slight panic sets in. But then that coach says everything the fans — and players, of course — want