Coming off the program's biggest win in more than a decade, Tennessee must find a way to maintain its focus for yet another crucial SEC East showdown. Whoever made this schedule didn't do the Volunteers any favors. UT upended Florida after 11 years of futility, and now must travel to Georgia—a place it hasn't won at in 10 years—for its first true road test of the season.  Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart faces his first week coming off a ...

The Houston Cougars are a perfect 9-0 straight up at home under head coach Tom Herman but only 4-4-1 against the spread in part because they've faced some large spreads. They'll do so again when they welcome the Connecticut Huskies down to TDECU Stadium for a revenge match Thursday night.      Point spread: The Cougars opened as 24.5-point favorites, according to sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark. (Line updates and matchup report) College football pick, via Odds Shark ...

LSU Tigers defensive tackle Davon Godchaux was arrested Monday morning and charged with "domestic abuse battery/child endangerment and false imprisonment," according to Ross Dellenger of the Advocate. The junior was released from the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana on a $20,000 bond, according to Jim Kleinpeter of the Times-Picayune. Later in the day, LSU communications director Michael Bonnette confirmed to Billy Embody of Scout that Godchaux was indefinitely suspended in the wake of his arrest. Per Dellenger, the police report noted there were ...

Protests during the national anthem have become widespread in recent weeks, but so has the backlash that has followed. On Monday, Nebraska Cornhuskers linebacker Michael Rose-Ivey described the responses he has received since kneeling for the national anthem, per ESPN.com's Adam Rittenberg: Some believe DaiShon, Mohamed and myself should be kicked off the team or suspended, while some said we deserved to be lynched or shot like the other black people who have died recently. Another believed ...

After a week away from the field, Urban Meyer and No. 2 Ohio State will continue their march toward a potential Big Ten Championship and College Football Playoff berth when they host Rutgers for a noon ET showdown. The Buckeyes (3-0) had a bye week last weekend after throttling Oklahoma on the road in a convincing 45-24 victory. And while the Buckeyes were resting and preparing for the official start of Big Ten play, the Scarlet ...

One month of the 2016 college football season is in the books, long enough to start weighing in on which players and teams are making the biggest impact. It's along a large enough sample size to assess the play of the game's newest crop of contributors, the freshman class. Quite a bit of time is spent during the offseason raving about how good certain high-valued recruits might be right out of the gate, and the same ...

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will attempt to salvage a disappointing 2016 campaign when they challenge the Syracuse Orange in a neutral-site tilt on Saturday. Championship aspirations are long gone for Notre Dame, which has now opened a season 1-3 11 times in the program's 110-year history. The Irish lost to Duke 38-35 last week and will try to rebound at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Syracuse's (2-2) uptempo offense poses a legitimate threat to ...

The biggest news of the 2016 college football season broke Sunday afternoon, when LSU announced the firing of head coach Les Miles and offensive coordinator Cam Cameron. For those who know college football and recruiting, Miles and Cameron are two huge names in the game. Both are influential and well-liked in the eyes of athletes currently at LSU and prospects considering playing football in Death Valley. It wasn't the news several LSU commits wanted to hear on ...

One month of the SEC season is already in the books, and we've seen several stars emerge from seemingly nowhere to become household names.  Alabama freshman quarterback Jalen Hurts has become a potential superstar of the sport, Rawleigh Williams slid right into the feature back role at Arkansas and Georgia quarterback Jacob Eason emerged as the starter for first-year head coach Kirby Smart. Who made the all-conference team for the month of September? Our picks, which are ...

September can't always make a campaign, but the opening month sure can break one. Four weeks into the 2016 college football season, there are disappointments all over the country. While several are the result of preseason expectations going unmet, a couple of letdowns are strictly based on what a program has—or, perhaps better said, has not—accomplished. Additionally, a few teams expected to contend for the College Football Playoff are already effectively eliminated from the conversation, and one well-known ...