Alabama Crimson Tide has won five of the six meetings with Texas A&M Aggies since the Aggies joined the SEC, but only one of the victories has been by at least 20 points. Alabama has been the dominant No. 1 team in the nation this season to-date, defeating its three opponents by a total score […]
Week 3 features matchups of division rivals from the NFC South (New Orleans-Atlanta, Sep. 23 1:00 PM ET on Fox) and AFC South (Tennessee-Jacksonville, Sep. 23 1:00 PM ET on CBS), as well as an inner-city rivalry of recently-transplanted squads: Los Angeles Chargers (formerly of San Diego) at Los Angeles Rams (formerly of St. Louis) […]
The Ohio Buckeyes-TCU (Texas Christian) Horned Frogs non-conference, ranked matchup (Sep. 15 8 p.m., ABC) will be played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The showdown will be just the seventh-ever matchup between the two schools and their first matchup outside of Columbus, Ohio. ESPN’s prime-time matchup features the top ranked Crimson Tide in their […]
Week 2 represents the first CBS national weekend with doubleheader games showcasing the Oakland Raiders at the Denver Broncos (4:25 PM ET) and the New England Patriots visiting the Jacksonville Jaguars at Jacksonville’s EverBank Field in a rematch of last season’s AFC Championship Game (4:25 PM ET). It’ll also be NFL Network’s first 2018 edition […]
In a matchup of SEC rivals, Georgia heads to Williams-Brice Stadium for a Week 2 match with South Carolina (Sep. 8 at 3:30 p.m. ET on CBS). The teams have met 70 times before with Georgia holding a 50-18-2 advantage, including wins in the past three games. Both teams won their home openers in Week […]
The season begins with the NFL’s annual primetime kickoff game, as the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles host the Atlanta Falcons at Lincoln Financial Field on September 6 (8:20 PM ET, NBC). Week 1 is a Fox network national weekend with key games on Sunday, September 9 featuring the Dallas Cowboys at the Carolina […]
The opening week of the college football regular season features many interesting cross-conference matchups: Louisville-Alabama, Miami-LSU, Washington-Auburn, Oregon State-Ohio State (sans suspended Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer) and Ole Miss-Texas Tech. But a matchup between two prominent and historically prestigious college football programs may be the highest profiled game of them all this week: Michigan […]
The networks of ESPN has exclusive live coverage of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Open, tennis’ fourth and final Major of the 2018 calendar year. The tournament, hailing from the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows (Queens) in New York City, begins August 27 and culminates with the Women’s Championship […]
Sports reporter, columnist, commentator and TV host Jemele Hill will officially depart ESPN, effective September 1, according to media journalist Jim Miller. After several years as a sportswriter for the Detroit Free Press and Orlando Sentinel, Hill was hired by ESPN in 2006. In 2013, she would join fellow ESPN personality Michael Smith on the […]
