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…
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…
Sep 22, 2024, 01:25 PM ET When it comes to naming the top player in the WNBA, there’s no surprise: The Las Vegas Aces’ A’ja Wilson went wire-to-wire at No. 1 in ESPN’s top 25 rankings of WNBA players in 2024. Our playoff edition, which features four players who weren’t on our midseason list, includes…
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…
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterSep 8, 2024, 01:51 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. The best upsets are the ones no one sees coming. Northern Illinois’ stunning defeat of Notre Dame certainly fits the bill. Just a week ago, the Irish looked like a surefire…
After five straight days of college football, Week 1 is in the books. There was a school-record-breaking performance from Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava in his freshman debut, showing the preseason hype around him was warranted. Other programs didn’t have as ideal a weekend, but it’s only Week 1. Can Iamaleava maintain his performance when the…
