Elizabeth Merrill Close Elizabeth Merrill ESPN Senior Writer Elizabeth Merrill is a senior writer for ESPN. She previously wrote for The Kansas City Star and The Omaha World-Herald. Stephen Holder Close Stephen Holder ESPN Stephen joined ESPN in 2022, covering the Indianapolis Colts and NFL at large. Stephen finished first place in column writing in…
Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterJan 13, 2025, 08:00 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Mid-January is always a period of great adjustment. That icy time when we hopefully have finally started ending dates with ’25 instead of ’24 and…
Dec 29, 2024, 12:47 AM ET The 2024 bowl season is underway, with several games already in the books. Our college football experts provide their thoughts on all 36 bowl matchups, including key storylines to follow and a player to keep an eye on in every game, followed by a takeaway and the MVP as…
Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterDec 20, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Heading into the 2024 FCS playoffs, the top four teams in the country were pretty clear. Not including games against FBS opponents or each other, Montana State, North Dakota State, South Dakota State and South Dakota…
Bill Connelly, ESPN Staff WriterDec 13, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Every tournament takes on its own personality. Sometimes we get a load of early-round upsets, which can often lead to later-round blowouts of Cinderellas. Sometimes we get early chalk, which isn’t particularly entertaining but produces some…
The debut of the 12-team College Football Playoff is upon us, and after the field was finalized Sunday, we are now just days away from arguably the best part of this new format: the first-round games. If one were to hand-pick four locations for the first-ever on-campus playoff games, you’d be hard-pressed to select a…
Champ week is just around the corner, and the stakes are high as teams look to gain one of the College Football Playoff’s first-round byes. No. 2 Texas and No. 5 Georgia will meet again for a second time this season in a rematch at the SEC championship game. Georgia handed Texas its only loss…
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterDec 1, 2024, 01:45 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. We all have baggage. It’s the cost we pay for choices made, experiences endured, a life lived. For some, it might be the girl who got away. Maybe it’s the job…
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterNov 24, 2024, 12:55 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Somewhere, Greg Sankey is asking ChatGPT to write an argument in favor of the SEC still gobbling up every vacant playoff spot despite Saturday’s results, and a bunch of servers in…
