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10:44 PM ET USC star Drake London, one of the top receivers in the country and a potential first-round NFL draft pick, will miss the rest of the season, Trojans interim coach Donte Williams said Sunday night. London suffered a fractured right ankle, Williams said, in the second quarter of Saturday’s 41-34 win over Arizona

7:55 PM ET Gary Patterson is out at TCU after 20 years as coach of the Horned Frogs, the school announced on Sunday night. In meeting with the longtime coach Sunday, school officials asked Patterson to finish this season, but he declined. Instead, Patterson, who coached in the Horned Frogs’ 31-12 loss at Kansas State

9:37 PM ET ESPN staff Rivalry games took center stage in college football’s Week 9. The Michigan State Spartans outlasted Michigan 37-33 to prove that they’re no one’s little brother — especially when you have Kenneth Walker III on the roster –while Georgia flexed its muscle against Florida to the tune of a 34-7 rout.

1:03 AM ET There’s a slogan that coaches repeat often: Good is the enemy of great. The idea is simple enough. To settle for good is to abdicate a quest for greatness. Coaches like great. Good is only important in contract negotiations. Aside from Georgia, which beat Florida easily on Saturday and appears destined for

4:06 PM ET Michigan State‘s Kenneth Walker III had a banner day in the Spartans’ 37-33 win over Michigan on Saturday, running for 193 yards and five touchdowns. It was his second game this season with four or more rushing touchdowns, which leads all running backs in the FBS. He’s only the third Michigan State

10:01 PM ET Jackson State coach Deion Sanders will miss his second consecutive game Saturday against rival Mississippi Valley State, the team confirmed to ESPN on Friday night. Sanders did not coach last week against Bethune-Cookman, tweeting that his doctors advised him not to work the game as he recovers from a recent foot surgery.

10:19 AM ET Michigan may be a state divided this week, but local bettors are leaning green on what is expected to be one of the most heavily bet college football games of the season nationwide. No. 6 Michigan is a 4-point favorite over No. 8 Michigan State for Saturday’s showdown in East Lansing between

3:45 PM ET Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — South Florida has been fined $10,000 and placed on three years’ probation for NCAA violations committed by the football and women’s basketball programs. The NCAA Committee on Infractions announced Friday its approval of a negotiated resolution with USF that ended an 18-month investigation. The school and NCAA

7:00 AM ET It was nighttime in New Orleans, on Jan. 13, 2019, shortly after the start of the fourth quarter of the College Football Playoff National Championship. Inside the Superdome the game was a rout, the LSU Tigers shocking the defending national champion Clemson Tigers 42-25 in a game that didn’t feel nearly that

11:05 AM ET Bowl Season executives who oversee the operation of 43 postseason bowl games sent a letter this week to hundreds of leaders in college football asking that any future College Football Playoff games in potential expansion models be held at bowl sites instead of on campus, according to a copy of the letter

8:30 AM ET ESPN staff This week’s slate of games will be the final opportunity teams have to make an impression on the College Football Playoff committee before the first set of rankings come out. A number of teams are still in the hunt for those top four spots, but no game this weekend has

7:00 AM ET GROWING UP, Jordan Davis was obsessed with mythology. He devoured books about ancient Greece and studied the Egyptians. He still downloads TED Talks on everything from ancient civilizations to modern religion. His favorite stories were the Percy Jackson novels, about a boy who discovers he’s part god then goes on mystical quests,

5:52 PM ET The LSU Tigers have so few players available because of injuries that they will be unable to hold a full football practice Wednesday, coach Ed Orgeron told reporters during a conference call. Orgeron added that a previously scheduled scrimmage on Thursday won’t be able to take place either. LSU, which has the

6:45 AM ET PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State student Katie Lane stood on the field at Martin Stadium and tried to keep it together. The last time she attended a Cougars game, she was with her dad. Now, she was accepting an honor on his behalf on Oct. 16, just weeks after he died at

9:00 AM ET [Editor’s note: The nation’s last two winless teams stayed winless while a pair of Big Ten teams played themselves into the Coveted Fifth Spot, though it took nine overtimes to get there.] Inspirational thought of the week: So close, yet so far from paradiseI hold, you in my arms, in paradiseIs mine,

2:16 PM ET Penn State coach James Franklin is aware of potential distractions about his future with the program but hasn’t seen them affect his team despite recent on-field struggles. Franklin’s name has been connected with the USC coaching vacancy since it opened in September. He also has been mentioned as a potential candidate at

1:16 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Steelers coach Mike Tomlin emphatically said Tuesday that he’s not contemplating a move to the college coaching ranks — not now, not ever. Tomlin shut down speculation he could be in the mix to fill college coaching vacancies at USC or LSU at the end of his weekly news conference

9:34 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s graduate assistant coach turned quarterback Zeb Noland will have surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee. The team said in a statement that Noland would have the procedure Tuesday and be available for the Gamecocks’ next contest against Florida on Nov. 6.