Jake TrotterOct 11, 2025, 07:40 PM ET Close Jake Trotter is a senior writer at ESPN. Trotter covers college football. He also writes about other college sports, including men’s and women’s basketball. Trotter resides in the Cleveland area with his wife and three kids and is a fan of his hometown Oklahoma City Thunder. He covered the Cleveland Browns and …
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Penn State quarterback Drew Allar, a potential first-round pick in the 2026 NFL draft, suffered a season-ending injury late in the fourth quarter of today’s loss to Northwestern. Allar ran the ball and was hit by two Northwestern players, with one defender hitting him high and one hitting him low. Allar immediately grabbed his ankle and had to be helped …
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We have officially reached a breaking point. Six weeks into the 2025 college football season, we are finally ready to abandoned our preconceived notions and our preseason perceptions. Texas and Penn State are no longer ranked in the new AP Top 25, which came out one day after both teams picked up their second loss of the season. The Longhorns …
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CBS Sports Graphic The new No. 1 in the CBS Sports Power Rankings probably should have never surrendered its perch. Penn State blew up the top three with the season’s most shocking result, a 42-37 collapse at UCLA. The ripple effect dented Oregon’s résumé and, in turn, boosted Miami back to No. 1 after dropping to No. 3 just a …
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Welcome to This Week in Our Dumb Beautiful Sport, a weekly look at the chaos that reigns over the most perfectly imperfect world of college football. Is anyone good anymore? It’s hard to say for sure, but it’s getting easier each week to say who isn’t. Hello, Penn State and Texas! UCLA RISES FROM THE DEAD Here’s an important lesson …
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Miami (Fla.) moved back to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday, Texas Tech has its highest ranking since 2008 and Penn State and Texas fell all the way out of the Top 25 for the first time since 2022 after the two top-10 teams lost to unranked opponents. No. 1 Ohio State was dominant in …
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Texas and Penn State plummeted from the AP Top 25 on Sunday after both lost to unranked opponents, leaving the preseason Nos. 1 and 2 teams out of the rankings. Ohio State remained No. 1 with 40 first-place votes. Miami jumped past Oregon back to No. 2. The Hurricanes received 21 first-place votes after winning at Florida State on Saturday …
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TUSCALOOSA, AL — Another college football weekend that didn’t disappoint — unless you were on the wrong side of an upset that has playoff hopes on the ropes. Yes, we’re looking at you, Penn State and Texas. Down in Tuscaloosa, turnovers doomed any chance Vanderbilt had at pulling off an upset. Diego Pavia’s mistakes inside Alabama’s red zone proved costly, …
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