Dan Mullen's UNLV team tops Utah State in double OT. The Rebels improve to 8-2 in Mullen's first year

Ole Miss goes for it and fails on fourth and goal. Gators get the ball left with 2 minutes and change trailing 27-24...

In other news, Florida State's Randy Pittman just rushed for a score. Seminoles up 24-7 on Virginia Tech. Noles doing what they should do there

Lane Kiffin just burns a timeout before the first play of the fourth quarter....🤨

Utah gets a 74-yard TD rush by the awesomely named Byrd Ficklin.

Ole Miss converts twice on fourth down this drive but not the third time. Gators get the stop inside the 5, and Florida's still leading 24-20

Totally normal play

Some takeaways from Notre Dame crushing Pitt: www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...

Navy tried to help USF out by giving the Bulls one more play. But USF's pitchy pitchy woo woo fails. Navy wins 41-38. Midshipmen remain in the American Conference title race. USF's CFP hopes almost certainly end

Well well. USF gets a 41-yard touchdown (equal parts a nice play by the Bulls and bad tackling by Navy). Not over...

Another explosive TD rush for Navy, which extends its lead to 41-30 on USF with 3:59 left.

Holy cow, Aggies

Pitt gets a pick-six...and then Notre Dame intercepts the 2PC attempt in the end zone and takes it to the house. Totally normal football thing that just happened. Irish up 30-9

Byrum Brown with a breakaway 60-yard TD for USF. Bulls cut Navy's lead to 27-24 early in the fourth

Pitt misses on fourth and goal, then gets another set of downs because of a Notre Dame penalty. The Irish stop Pitt on that set, too.

USF gets a little cute on fourth and short, and the Bulls get stuffed. If you had to draw up a loss to Navy in the lab, it ... looks a lot like what's happened so far.

Pitt's defense gets a stop on fourth and goal. Can the Panthers make it interesting here at the end of the first half?

Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi, you might recall said this week that he didn't care if Notre Dame put 100 on them. Good thing. The Irish are on pace to score 120

Goodness gracious, Jeremiyah Love.

As we reported Friday, James Franklin is Va. Tech’s top target for its head coaching vacancy, according to multiple sources. The Hokies are hoping a deal can get done with the former Penn State head coach by the end of this weekend. www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...

This Clemson-Louisville game is…it’s something

We started in Week 1 with a simple question: Is college football pricing out the middle class? Our answer involves 9-figure stadium renovations, rev-sharing and a lot of people like Ann, an 83 YO retired grade school teacher who's been going to games since 1960. www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

The Pac-12 has added USA Sports (USA Network) to its new media rights deal next year. All Pac-12 football will be available on linear TV, including 22 games on USA. Details: www.nytimes.com/athletic/680...

✍️ This week's coaching carousel notes: - LSU's strange Brian Kelly pivot - The Lincoln Riley buzz - The D3 coach whose offense averages 600 yards per game - Oregon State's free search And more here: www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

just caught an 89 yard TD

Is Auburn still a national championship caliber program, or doomed to the SEC's second tier? The pros and cons, and why this hire is so important for the program's direction. www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

Brian Kelly's lawsuit against LSU states that LSU offered him a $25/30 million payment instead of $53m buyout w/ offset. He declined but was open to more offers. Then LSU said they didn't actually fire him but still could for cause. Our updated story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

USF coach Alex Golesh on star QB Byrum Brown: "He's the best version of him right now." Brown *only* went 14-of-15 for 239 yards plus 109 rushing yards the other night.

Continuing our college football stadium series...who has the most underrated home in the ACC? Overrated? Plus, my defense (sorta) of Miami: www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

I covered Kafka as a student reporter at The Daily Northwestern in 2007, when he was a backup. Many people are saying that one time I interviewed him about starter C.J. Bacher led him to this very moment. (But seriously good for him! How cool)

Behold, ACC chaos in all its glory! www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

The ending of Louisville-Cal is ... it's something. Cal's punt goes only 18 yards, gifting the Cardinals great field position. And then they're sacked on the next play

Mike Norvell's tenure, to some degree, started to turn around with a fourth-and-14 play against Miami in 2021. Jordan Travis converted. The Noles won. On fourth and 14 at Clemson moments ago, Tommy Castellanos slipped and fell. FSU's headed for a fifth loss...

Cal commits THREE false start penalties on one drive but still get a FG out of it. Golden Bears go up 23-20 at Louisville late in the third...

Kentucky scores with 1:26 left in the half to go up 24-7 on Florida. For *this* Kentucky team to be doing that to *any* Florida team...

Still TONS of time, but 👀 in the closing seconds of the first half: Cal 17 Louisville 13

A week after getting crushed at Florida State, Wake Forest just ripped off an 88-yard punt return touchdown to take a 7-6 lead at Virginia late in the first half

After Omar Cooper Jr.'s game-winning catch for Indiana, we put together our list of greatest catches in CFB history: www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

In the ACC's Misery Bowl, Clemson scores early on Florida State and then fakes the PAT. 8-0 Tigers

Congratulations to Wisconsin, which, after 29 minutes, finally completed one (1) successful forward pass against Washington

What a pretty play for a JMU touchdown. The Dukes are up 2 scores on Marshall and, barring an epic collapse today, will remain in the CFP picture

Indiana can't let a pesky, upstart team like Penn State hang around, especially on the road

G5 CFP watch: Marshall, led by former Dan Mullen/Florida signee Carlos Del Rio-Wilson, just kicked a FG to cut James Madison's lead to 28-23 with 10 minutes and change to go...

Jeremiah Smith, man. He's very, very good. #analysis

Houston and UCF both have pick-sixes. Memphis and Tulane both have TDs of 50+ yards An excellent Friday evening

Why is this not on Wednesday night, as God intended?

The ACC standings have six teams with 0/1 conference loss. None are FSU, Clemson or Miami. Yes, those 3 have underachieved, but here's another idea: The rest of the league has gotten better because the ACC's long-term plan is working. www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...

Wow. USF is going up 14-0 and has yet to run an offensive play.

With Fickell and Wisconsin, the QB injuries and schedule have undoubtedly been bad luck. But the player evaluation and development have not been good at all. Can they pull a Virginia and spend enough money to build a better team? We'll find out. www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...

From @theathletic.com: No college campus has mastered going viral quite like Alabama. When LSU parades into town this Saturday, sorority row will have been in motion for a week — outfits curated, salon appointments booked and social media primed for the show.