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Duke basketball roster breakdown, starting lineup prediction
Cameron Boozer, alongside his brother
Cayden Boozer, headlines another star-studded recruiting class entering the program that finished No. 1 in the 2025 recruiting cycle by 247Sports. The Boozer brothers and returning players
Caleb Foster, Isaiah Evans, and Patrick Ngongba will make Duke one of the top title contenders heading into 2025-26. (
CBS Sports)
Syracuse football coach Fran Brown makes entire team run sprints after overtime win in wild scene
Syracuse University might have won its first game of the season, but that didn’t mean the Orange’s coach was all that thrilled with the effort. Quarterback Steve Angeli’s touchdown pass in overtime helped Syracuse survive, 27-20, over UConn, but head coach Fran Brown said afterward it was not the overall result he was mad about. (
New York Post)
Explaining the College Football Playoff's new strength of schedule metric
The CFP announced that it will use an "enhanced" tool to further emphasize strength of schedule in its selection process. The new metric -- titled record strength -- will give further credit to how a team performs against its schedule. It will give extra credit for beating quality teams, while lessening the penalty for losses against tougher opponents. (
CBS Sports)
Is college hoops video game returning? 2K Sports teases 'experience' after EA Sports' pulls proposal
College basketball is making its way back into the virtual world. 2K Sports announced that it will soon include college basketball programs in its NBA video game franchise on the heels of EA Sports reportedly rescinding its licensing offer to create a standalone game. 2K revealed that its "college basketball experience" will feature more than 100 programs. (
CBS Sports)
College football Week 2 highlights: Top games, plays, stats
In Starkville, they stormed the field with cowbells. In Gainesville, they might soon be storming the castle with pitchforks. For the SEC's tale of two cities on Saturday, it was the best of times for Mississippi State and, if not the worst of times for Florida, it was perhaps the moment any hope for a revival under head coach Billy Napier reached its nadir. (
ESPN.com)
Lee Corso’s final ‘College GameDay’ picks were a perfect 6-0
In every way possible, Lee Corso went out on top. Corso’s final College GameDay on Saturday set viewership records for ESPN. Every team Corso played for or coached during his career won on Saturday. That included Florida State, which upset Alabama. Corso was the only person on the GameDay desk to pick the Seminoles to beat the Crimson Tide. (
Awful Announcing)
Six games in 5 days: What a college football road trip taught me about the state of the sport
College football is an assault on the senses. It’s the smell of gumbo simmering in a cauldron on a foreign campus, a literal melting pot of clashing cultures. It’s the sound of 20,000 voices carrying out the final stanzas of “Enter Sandman,” that Virginia Tech anthem, after the speakers cut Metallica’s guitars. College football is so many things. (
The Athletic)
College football Week 2: What to watch, TV channels, Saturday kickoff times
On paper, Week 2 may not be as alluring as the first week of the 2025 college football season. There's just one game featuring two ranked teams and some of the most prominent programs in America are playing tune-up games against FCS opponents before conference play begins. That doesn't mean it entirely lacks intriguing matchups. (
CBS Sports)
Lee Corso's College GameDay retirement: Fun moments, tributes from final show
The college football world said farewell to a true staple of the sport, as Saturday's Week 1 College GameDay broadcast was legendary broadcaster Lee Corso's last show — and, of course, his last iconic headgear pick. Corso delivered his final GameDay performance after being part of the network's college football coverage for 38 seasons. (
USA Today)
NCAA votes for single football transfer portal window
Major changes are coming to the transfer portal in college football after the NCAA FBS Oversight Committee voted Thursday to move to a January transfer window and eliminate the spring window. The proposed lone transfer window would be a 10-day period that opens Jan. 2, 2026, one day after the College Football Playoff quarterfinals are completed. (
ESPN.com)