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Jake Trotter
ESPN Senior Writer
- 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 NFL for ESPN for five years, moving back to college football in 2024. Previously, Trotter worked for the Middletown (Ohio) Journal, Austin American-Statesman and Oklahoman newspapers before joining ESPN in 2011. He’s a 2004 graduate of Washington and Lee University. You can reach out to Trotter at jake.trotter@espn.com and follow him on X at @Jake_Trotter.
OKLAHOMA CITY — On June 6, 2024, the Texas Longhorns wandered through the concrete hallways beneath Devon Park while their archrivals hoisted yet another national championship trophy on the softball diamond above them.
There, the Longhorns were left grappling with the reality of the program’s latest gut-wrenching disappointment at the…
