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An emotional day for the Beamer family as South Carolina beats Virginia Tech

After taking part in a postgame trophy presentation on the Mercedes-Benz Stadium field, South Carolina Gamecocks football coach Shane Beamer walked over to his father and gave him a hug. After Shane walked away, his father, legendary former Virginia Tech Hokies football coach Frank Beamer, brushed a tear from his eye. (Roanoke Times)

Florida State's Upset of No. 8 Alabama Leaves College Football World Stunned

The Florida State Seminoles went 2-10 a year ago, putting head coach Mike Norvell squarely on the hot seat entering 2025. Norvell brought in Tony White at defensive coordinator, Gus Malzahn at offensive coordinator and transfer quarterback Tommy Castellanos to help flip the script. Flipping the script got off to a great start on Saturday. (Sports Illustrated)

College football Week 1 highlights: Top games, plays, stats

On Saturday, college football's truth still seemed hard to believe. We've spent the summer laughing incredulously at Florida State's Tommy Castellanos, seemingly the only player foolish enough to poke the bear by taunting Alabama when, in fact, he was a fortune-teller. Nick Saban couldn't bail out the Crimson Tide on Saturday. (ESPN.com)

Lee Corso's impact felt far beyond 'College GameDay' audience

In a business full of phony, Lee Corso has always been the genuine article. And in a world full of awful, Lee Corso has always been fun. All at once so irresistibly relatable but also larger than life. So, now, imagine my through-the-looking-glass moment of that first time I heard him speak to me directly. That October Saturday in 1994. (ESPN.com)

A College Sports Fan’s Lament

The disconnect between college sports fans and their teams has been long-brewing, especially as conferences have expanded and regional rivalries have diluted in the pursuit of larger and larger TV contracts. The Atlantic Coast Conference during the 1970s had seven schools in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. (The Assembly)

How Rich Rodriguez made his way back to West Virginia, & made up with most (not all) of the fan base

This is a love story gone bad — a man who felt unfairly vilified by his own people; a people who felt cruelly betrayed by a man. Seventeen years later, they are reunited, both seeking the same successful results as their previous time together. Rich Rodriguez describes his 17 years away as a sort-of nomadic venture, the consequence of leaving home. (Yahoo! Sports)

The tall tales of Lee Corso: Friends, colleagues remember ESPN College GameDay legend

How do you begin to spell out that someone has meant so much? So much to a show. So much to a sport. So much to the world. Lee Corso isn’t interested in such conjecture. Legacy, fame — forget about it. This is entertainment, sweetheart. Football is just the vehicle, he (and everyone who’s ever been associated with “College GameDay”) will tell you. (Sports Business Journal)

College football Week 1: What to watch, TV channels, streaming, Saturday kickoff times

College football is back. After an intriguing slate of Thursday and Friday games, the first full Saturday of the season is almost upon us. After several years following dramatic changes and upheavals, college football is at least somewhat stable as the calendar turns to fall. All of the Power Four conferences remain unchanged from the 2024 season. (CBS Sports)

Ten bold predictions for the college football season: Arch Manning for Heisman, ACC gets No. 1 seed

The ACC will send just one team to the CFP — but it’ll be the No. 1 overall seed - I’m all-in on Clemson, and I’ve got a ton of questions for everybody else in the ACC. The Tigers checked in at No. 4 in the preseason AP poll, with Miami (No. 10) and SMU (No. 16) landing as the next-highest ranked ACC teams. Preseason polls are notoriously unreliable. (NBC Sports)

Is this college football’s best Week 1 ever? From Columbus to Clemson to Miami, buckle up

It hit Dabo Swinney when the Clemson coach woke up this past Sunday: Game week. The season opener, the end of eight months of talking and preparing and practicing, and now a real football game that counts. “Then you look up and go, oh man, we’re playing LSU on national TV, at home,” he said. “It’s awesome. It’s a lot of juice. You can just feel it.” (The Athletic)

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