Happy holidays everyone! The College Football Playoff has kicked off, with a ton of top-end prospects taking part. Here’s our third 2025 NFL mock draft that we hope fills you with holiday cheer. Or at least doesn’t leave you wanting to give us lumps of coal. In this edition, Nate Tice makes the selection of … Read more
Dave Wilson, ESPN Staff WriterDec 24, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Dave Wilson is a college football reporter. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. AUSTIN, Texas — Peter Taaffe saw it early. Little Michael Taaffe, in the second grade, had a look in his eye in … Read more
Happy holidays everyone! The College Football Playoff has kicked off, with a ton of top-end prospects taking part. Here’s our third 2025 NFL mock draft to unwrap as a present, stuff your stocking, or do whatever else you want. In this edition, Nate Tice makes the selection of the odd-numbered draft picks while Charles McDonald … Read more
Laken Litman College Football & Soccer Analyst AUSTIN, Texas – On the eve of Texas’ opening-round College Football Playoff game against Clemson, Steve Sarkisian addressed his team, taking the guys through the last several months. From summer meetings when he instructed each player to write about the hardships in their lives, to fall camp when … Read more
AUSTIN, Texas — Give Clemson — especially quarterback Cade Klubnik — some credit for battling to give the College Football Playoff at least a pop of competitive, fourth-quarter juice on Saturday. The Tigers made it a one-score game early in the fourth and then sought to do it again by driving to the Texas 5-yard … Read more
Dec 21, 2024, 03:40 PM ET The most wonderful time of the year for college football fans — bowl season — is upon us. And this year, there’s more to get excited about than ever with the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff. In addition to the CFP, there will be 36 bowl games in all. … Read more
The 2024-25 College Football Playoff field features pairings with some numerical disparities, like the 14,000 student enrollment of Notre Dame versus the 48,000 of Indiana, the 32,000 stadium capacity of visiting SMU compared to the 107,000 arena of host Penn State, and the endowment of the University of Texas ($20 billion) compared to Clemson ($1 … Read more
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterDec 20, 2024, 11:46 PM ET Close College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame players and coaches linked arms in the northeast corner of the field late Friday, waiting to sing the alma mater for the final time at home in … Read more
Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer SOUTH BEND, Ind. — It was nearly midnight when the door to the visiting media room flew open and in walked Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti, the ripsnorting rabble-rouser whose trophy cabinet is bursting with national honors after guiding the Hoosiers to their best season in school history, … Read more
DaQuan Jones remembers the chaos. The uncertainty. The sanctions. The aftermath. How could he not? He and the rest of his Penn State teammates — those that stuck around anyway — lived through it. Jones was a sophomore defensive lineman in the fall of 2011 when the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal brought one … Read more