College Football

BATON ROUGE, La. — Desmond Howard picked Texas to win the national championship Saturday on ESPN’s College GameDay. The former Michigan receiver and 1991 Heisman Trophy winner made the pick during the show’s season-opening broadcast from the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, La., when the desk was asked which two...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Nick Saban said Saturday on ESPN’s College GameDay that he expects Texas to have better leadership this season than it had in 2025. The former Alabama coach made the comments from the show’s season-opening set on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, La., in a clip...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Kirk Herbstreit said Thursday that the 12-team College Football Playoff has broken the sport’s old order. He could not name a title favorite he would put money on. Herbstreit spent part of the morning working at the original Raising Cane’s on Highland Road with owner and...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Kirk Herbstreit worked the front counter at the original Raising Cane’s on Highland Road on Thursday morning, taking orders alongside owner and founder Todd Graves. ESPN’s College GameDay stages its 500th road show two days from now on the LSU campus. The shift ran from 9:30...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Baron Tipton caught 2 passes for 12 yards last season. On Saturday he goes into the North Texas Mean Green opener at Indiana as the receiver Neal Brown called the most consistent player in the room over the past nine months. Kickoff at Memorial Stadium is 11...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Neal Brown called the job Curt Cignetti has done at Indiana the most impressive coaching job he has seen in his lifetime, in any sport, four days before Brown’s North Texas Mean Green open the season against the defending national champion Indiana Hoosiers. Kickoff at Memorial Stadium...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Longhorns left tackle Trevor Goosby is good to go for Saturday's season opener against Texas State, Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said Thursday, 17 days after the senior went down with a non-contact knee injury in practice. Goosby was hurt during an Aug. 17 practice in Austin....

DALLAS — SMU Mustangs receiver Yamir Knight said Thursday that Kevin Jennings makes plays no one on the field expects, and that he has taken the argument to the Mustangs' own defensive backs during one-on-one drills. Knight's disagreement with SMU's secondary starts when the defensive backs tell the receivers a...

DALLAS — SMU Mustangs quarterback Kevin Jennings said Thursday the Mustangs intend to establish the run early at Florida State on Monday, with rain in the Tallahassee forecast and three running backs already ruled out. Last season the carries concentrated in fewer hands. Jennings expects a rotation this time. "It'd...

DALLAS — SMU Mustangs linebacker Alexander Kilgore will wear No. 23 this season, taking on the number the program awards each year in honor of Jerry LeVias, and SMU coach Rhett Lashlee said the team vote was unanimous. Kilgore first learned who LeVias was during his freshman year on campus...