David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterOct 27, 2024, 02:02 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. At first, it was a quaint footnote. Then, it was all vibes, the bandwagon filling up with wide-eyed joy riders, and all the breaks going their way. And now, nine weeks…
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterOct 13, 2024, 02:43 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Change can be scary. It’s easy to look around at the college football landscape in 2024 — realignment, playoff expansion, NIL, the portal, lawsuits, Michigan’s offense — and think the whole…
Oct 10, 2024, 07:20 AM ET Week 7 is here as we look toward some exciting conference matchups this weekend that you won’t want to miss. The Red River Rivalry game is Saturday as No. 1 Texas will face No. 18 Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. In just his second career start, Oklahoma’s…
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterOct 6, 2024, 02:55 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. If we are, as some scientists have hypothesized, living in a multiverse in which all possible outcomes occur along some timeline, then we can still rest easy knowing that our lives…
Sep 30, 2024, 08:20 AM ET On the heels of a weekend that brought more big developments than any other so far this season, the College Football Power Rankings have been shaken up accordingly. In a game fans won’t forget anytime soon, Alabama and Georgia put on a show that had us on the edge…
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterSep 29, 2024, 01:43 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. The king is dead. Long live the king. Also, that king is probably not entirely dead, which is either the fun or the flaw of a 12-team playoff. It’d be easy…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — As Donald Trump railed against immigrants Saturday afternoon in the Rust Belt, his supporters in the Deep South had turned his earlier broadsides into a rallying cry over a college football game as they prepared for the former president’s visit later in the evening. “You gotta get these people back where…
Sep 23, 2024, 09:00 AM ET Week 4 is in the books as we look back at surprising performances and key storylines from this weekend’s games. No. 1 Texas remained on top in the rankings with backup quarterback Arch Manning getting his first career start. As injuries affect multiple top-ranked teams this season, it shows…
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterSep 22, 2024, 01:51 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. With 40 seconds left, the world was unrecognizable. There was Michigan, the defending national champs, battered and bruised and teetering on the brink of a second loss in four weeks to…
Sep 16, 2024, 10:00 AM ET It was an eventful Week 3 filled with big wins, program records being set, an injury to an early Heisman Trophy favorite and performances that exhibited a needed improvement at quarterback. Texas’ Quinn Ewers suffered a noncontact injury, leaving the Longhorns’ quarterback responsibilities in the hands of Arch Manning…
