Nov 6, 2021 After his kickers missed all three field goal attempts in a 31-28 loss to Arkansas on Saturday, Mississippi State coach Mike Leach asked reporters on his postgame videoconference call to relay a message to the student body. “Announce this,” he said. “There’s an open tryout on our campus for kickers. Anybody that
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9:21 PM ET FORT WORTH, Texas — Jerry Kill notched his 153rd win as a head coach on Saturday, but he said this one might just mean the most. Kill, TCU‘s interim coach after the school and his longtime friend, Gary Patterson, parted ways after 21 years last Sunday, led the Horned Frogs to a
1:29 AM ET In the final three minutes of Saturday’s slugfest against Tulsa, Cincinnati had eight chances to lose a football game, and yet it won. There are two ways to tell this story. In one, Cincinnati failed miserably once more. By ranking the Bearcats sixth last week, the College Football Playoff committee sent a
1:00 AM ET ESPN staff The first round of the College Football Playoff rankings dropped on Tuesday and the annual poll appeared to motivate teams across the country — just not the ones you think. College Football’s Week 10 was filled with upsets, close calls and previously undefeated records crumbling as underdogs took over the
5:30 PM ET Coastal Carolina quarterback Grayson McCall will not play in Saturday’s game at Georgia Southern and is out indefinitely with an “upper body injury,” the school announced. Through eight games, McCall has thrown for 2,063 yards with 17 touchdowns and two interceptions, while completing 73.4% of his passes. Senior Bryce Carpenter is expected
10:32 AM ET Week 10 of the college football season comes on the heels of the first College Football Playoff rankings. The top four teams are all in action Saturday. The No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs face the Missouri Tigers in Athens. The No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide host the LSU Tigers, the No. 3 Michigan
9:00 AM ET ESPN Stats & Information Saturday Missouri Tigers at No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs (-38, 59.5), Noon ET on ESPN This would be the 4th-largest underdog Missouri has been in any game since the 1978 FBS/FCS split and the largest since 1996 (+50 at No. 5 Nebraska). This would be the largest favorite Georgia
7:11 PM ET Boston College quarterback Phil Jurkovec got the start Friday night against Virginia Tech after missing six games with a hand injury. Jurkovec, who threw for 2,558 yards and 17 touchdowns in his first season with BC in 2020, injured his hand against UMass in the season’s second week. He was initially expected
7:42 AM ET Paula Lavigne Close ESPN Staff Writer Data analyst and reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit. Winner, 2014 Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award; finalist, 2012 IRE broadcast award; winner, 2011 Gannett Foundation Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism; Emmy nominated, 2009. Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer
7:37 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN Multiple California players will miss Saturday’s game against Arizona after entering COVID protocols, the school said Thursday. Citing student privacy laws, Cal did not specify which players would miss the game, or how many are in the protocols. It did disclose that 99% of its players are fully vaccinated, and