1:50 PM ET LSU has named Myles Brennan the team’s starting quarterback when the Tigers open the season on Saturday at home against Mississippi State. Brennan steps in for Joe Burrow, who threw 60 touchdown passes in 2019 and had perhaps the best season in college football history. Burrow, a former transfer, won the Heisman
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1:57 PM ET Mac Jones will be Alabama‘s starting quarterback when it opens the season Saturday against Missouri, coach Nick Saban announced Monday. Jones, a redshirt junior, started four games last season when Tua Tagovailoa was injured. Jones threw for 327 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions during a 35-16 win over Michigan in
10:28 AM ET UMass, which canceled its fall football season six weeks ago, reversed course and announced Monday that it intends to play a limited number of games beginning in mid-October. The announcement came after what the school said was a “positive review” of safety protocols and COVID-19 testing since players returned to campus in
2:00 PM ET The AP Top 25 college football poll is out, and this should be the last week it does not include Big Ten teams. So before next week’s shake-up — which will also include the first weekend of SEC play — here’s what’s on tap for each ranked team, starting with No. 1
5:14 PM ET North Carolina has been unable to secure an opponent for a game this weekend, so the Tar Heels will next play Oct. 3 against Boston College unless something changes. The school said Sunday that it had worked the phones all weekend but was unable to find a new nonconference opponent. North Carolina
Sep 13, 2020 The biggest ratings shifts early in the 2020 college football season have not come from top teams playing big games — they’ve come from teams being subtracted from the list, then added again. With the Big Ten announcing its late-October return, I’ve gone ahead and added those teams, with their preseason projections,
6:30 PM ET With most of the nation’s top contenders either off or, in Clemson’s case, facing an FCS foe such as The Citadel, the College Football Playoff picks were expected to remain unchanged. But with the Big Ten reversing course and unveiling its schedule earlier on Saturday, the Buckeyes have joined the field. How
7:22 PM ET Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Ian Book ran for three first-half touchdowns and No. 7 Notre Dame won its 20th straight home game 52-0 against South Florida Bulls on Saturday. Coach Brian Kelly’s Fighting Irish (2-0) led 35-0 at halftime and for the second year in a row posted a 52-point
11:00 AM ET The Big Ten football schedule is out, with play beginning Oct. 24, led by Nebraska at Ohio State and Michigan at Minnesota. A few highlights on the calendar: Ohio State at Penn State on Oct. 31, Wisconsin at Michigan on Nov. 14 and a big Ohio State-Michigan finale on Dec. 12. Our
7:50 AM ET Over the past couple of months, we’ve spent more time talking about the Big Ten not playing football than I ever thought possible. That’s coming to an end. The conference has announced it will resume play on Oct. 24. As for the Pac-12, that conference still has to deal with issues related