2:52 PM ET Arizona football coach Kevin Sumlin has tested positive for COVID-19, the team announced Monday. Sumlin, 56, received the result following a recent round of testing of Arizona’s athletic department staff. He has entered self-isolation and is currently not experiencing any symptoms. Arizona immediately initiated contact tracing and determined that Sumlin’s positive test

7:30 AM ET Six years of the College Football Playoff have produced 24 playoff bids. Clemson, Alabama, Oklahoma and Ohio State have combined for 17 of them. This season, then, it was fair to assume once the Big Ten rejoined the fray and announced it would play later in the fall (Oct. 24) that these

12:00 PM ET ESPN Stats & Info Another week is in the books in college football. How will Saturday’s top games affect the College Football Playoff chase? What are the current odds for the top four? The Allstate Playoff Predictor has the answers. Check back every week as the odds are updated following that week’s

2:23 PM ET Associated Press Oklahoma dropped out of The Associated Press college football poll for the first time since September 2016 and No. 24 Iowa State jumped back into the Top 25 after a day of upsets. There largely was stability at the top of the rankings Sunday after No. 1 Clemson, No. 2

12:48 AM ET This season, more than ever, strength of schedule could mean strength of conference — though the 13 College Football Playoff selection committee members likely would never publicly admit it. Over the past six seasons of the playoff, committee chairs have insisted that the group ranks teams, not conferences, but during a season

9:00 PM ET Campus police cleared out the entire SMU student section during the first half of Saturday’s game against Memphis because a large majority in the crowd wasn’t following coronavirus protocols such as wearing masks or social distancing, a school spokesman confirmed to ESPN. SMU’s stadium policy allows up to 1,000 students in its

7:00 AM ET Auburn coach Gus Malzahn says No. 4 Georgia is “probably the most talented team overall in the SEC.” Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart calls Malzahn’s compliment nothing more than coach speak. “If you ask somebody the week of the game — the team they are playing will have the most talent in the

9:00 AM ET Welcome to college football’s Week 5! During which we ask, “Is this really Week 5?” But it is. And even though we’ve just passed the mark into October, we already have a top-10 matchup in the 125th meeting between Auburn and Georgia, the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry. It’s the teams’ first October

10:17 AM ET SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on Wednesday sent a two-page memo, which was obtained by ESPN, reminding coaches and players to wear masks while on the sideline during games and that “additional action” could be taken if they do not follow the conference’s COVID-19 protocols. The memo came on the heels of the

8:00 AM ET When Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott recently proposed expanding the 2020 playoff field to eight teams, he also was proposing — in a way — to bring Texas back. Because there is no team in the SEC, ACC, Big 12 or Big Ten that would have benefited more from an eight-team playoff field