September is done. Up next is the key middle stretch of the regular season, when contenders appear, pretenders are revealed and a clear top group emerges in the race for the College Football Playoff.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — During his team’s win over Missouri State on Saturday night, SMU head coach Rhett Lashlee looked down the sideline to see some familiar faces. Former SMU wide receivers James Proche and Jordan Hudson were watching their former team from the sidelines, as they’ve stay…
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Wanna be a skunk at the party? Try bringing up chronic traumatic encephalopathy at a sports bar, tailgate, or family gathering while watching football. You won’t be appreciated.
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A major bipartisan bill to overhaul college athletics nationwide passed the Senate, clearing a key hurdle and setting up a potentially divisive political showdown in the House of Representatives.
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Did Georgia prove it belongs at No. 1 after dismantling Oklahoma? The Bulldogs make PFN's biggest move atop the Week 4 college football power rankings. Hosted by PFN's Cam Mellor and Oliver Hodgkinson. Georgia jumps Indiana and Miami after overwhelming an Oklahoma defense the hosts viewed as…
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Fans accustomed to seeing their Hoosiers dominate lesser opponents since Cignetti’s arrival were a bit nervous Friday when the Big Ten opener against Northwestern wasn’t secured until the final possession.
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The NFL managed to export a premier product to a new market that should be enthralled by what it witnessed. As for Week 3’s other winners and losers?
USA TODAY Sports' Madison Tenenbaum breaks down the biggest storylines from Week 3 in the NFL.
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Florida running back Jaden Baugh is making a case for himself after going for 142 yards and three scores in the No. 22 Gators’ 52-28 win against No. 6 Ole Miss.
Florida football running back Jadan Baugh spoke to the media following the Gators' victory over Ole Miss.
MLE Law Firm founder Michael discusses the challenges the Protect College Sports Act could face if it becomes a law.
If Florida State eventually fires football coach Mike Norvell, I have a wonderfully ridiculous idea for replacing him. Hire Jimbo Fisher. For $1 million a year. Go ahead and laugh and call me crazy. Tell me college football doesn’t work that way anymore. My response: Maybe that’s exactly the problem. First things first: The best possible outcome for Florida State is that Norvell starts winning ...
When Christian Sarkisian was considering leaving his scouting job with the Cincinnati Bengals to join Northwestern as its general manager in the winter of 2025, he asked himself which college jobs might persuade him to depart from the NFL. He knew the challenges that come with helping to lead a college athletic department now, the ever-changing rules and frequent lawsuits that affect player ...
Fan attendance has been a point of contention across the country amid high temperatures and uncompetitive buy games.
Darrell Waltrip, one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history, also happens to be one of its greatest storytellers. He no longer will be telling them in public.
Benchmark aims to streamline college athletics contracts, vendor agreements and game guarantees, helping programs maximize revenue amid evolving industry challenges.
NASCAR stands with Darrell Waltrip! Michael Waltrip shares an emotional response after Darrell Waltrip revealed his progressive brain disease diagnosis. The three-time NASCAR Cup champion continues to inspire fans, while Michael's heartfelt message has united the NASCAR community behind one …
With six games between teams in the US LBM Coaches Poll, the schedule represents a shift to serious business.
Several leaders of college athletes' rights organizations questioned if the Colorado football coach knew the details of the bill.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of South Carolina’s Social Media Insights Lab has created an analytics tool that measures in real time the social-media impact of major sports figures. You want to guess who is so far showing up shockingly well in those measurements? It’s new Kentucky football coach Will Stein. According to South Carolina’s “The College Sports Social Pulse™,” this past weekend’s ...
Mike Bianchi: ESPN’s ‘14 Days in Gainesville’ took me back to a time when fear and football collided
ORLANDO, Fla. — There are certain moments from your life that don’t feel like memories. They feel like places. You can go years without visiting them, and then something happens — a picture, a voice, a song, an old newspaper article or piece of television footage — and suddenly you are right back there. That’s what happened to me while watching ESPN’s recently released “14 Days in ...
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Long gone are the days where impulse buying meant grabbing an unplanned candy bar or magazine in the checkout line. Now, social media makes it quick and easy for us to purchase just about anything with the click of a button, whether or not it’s in the budget. And for some Americans, it’s hurting them...
Black Friday is fast approaching, and shoppers are gearing up. The National Retail Federation expects more than 183 million people to shop over the weekend spanning Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday this year. But fraudsters are preparing for Black Friday too, looking for opportunities to steal your money or personal information. Before you dive into holiday...
DALLAS — President Donald Trump will attend the first regular season meet up between No. 1 Texas and No. 14 Tennessee on Saturday, the White House told multiple news outlets Wednesday. The game kicks off at noon ET at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville as the marquee game following ESPN's "College Gameday." Both teams dubbed UT in their respective states are 3-0 this season, with Tennessee winning ...
STORRS, Conn. — The Protect College Sports Act has drawn passionate support, and just as passionate opposition as it works its way through congress. The bipartisan bill is meant to create unified standards for college athletics and end the perceived chaos of recent years. UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley weighed in after the Huskies’ practice Tuesday, offering support for the legislation. ...
EA Sports College Football 27 launched in July, but two months later, the work on the game is far from finished.
To think you can avoid a date in the USA TODAY Sports court is foolish thinking. It’s just a matter of when you’ll have to show up.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky’s third-quarter performance in a 31-21 road upset of then-No. 9 Texas A&M last Saturday left ESPN’s Greg McElroy marvelling. “For one quarter, Kentucky played football at a level that only two, maybe three programs in the SEC have played at in the last 10 years,” McElroy said on the “Always College Football” podcast. In breaking away from a 7-7 halftime tie, UK ...
FORT WORTH, Texas — Just in case, the excuses are in place, so it will not be Deion’s fault. Colorado is a hard job. They are not committed. We don’t have enough NIL money. Kids these days are different. Not enough support. The fourth year of one of college football’s great experiments is morphing into the self-serving money grab that it always was; the University of Colorado can only hope and ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — After waiting three years for his opportunity to start a college football game, quarterback Kenny Minchey’s first step into the national spotlight could not have gone much worse. In front of a sellout crowd at Kroger Field, Minchey threw a pick-6 and lost a fumble in a loss to Alabama. He completed 18 of 31 passes for 146 yards and one touchdown. He netted minus-19 rushing ...
IU football coach Curt Cignetti came equipped with stats on Northwestern, which comes to Memorial Stadium for a Big Ten opener.