Mike Norvell, Luke Fickell and Lincoln Riley lead the list of coaches facing pressure entering the 2026 college football season.
- Scooby Axson USA Today
In "UNTOLD: The Testimony of Vince Young," Young offers more than a series of apologies for the mistakes that punctuated his college and professional careers.
- Sofia Schwarzwalder, The Seattle Times
SEATTLE 鈥 The Seattle Seahawks on Monday waived former Oregon State running back Anthony Hankerson after signing the undrafted rookie last week. Hankerson, 22, intends to enter the transfer portal and return to the NCAA, according to a report from CBS Sports鈥 Matt Zenitz. The report comes on…
- Matt Hayes USA Today
Now we鈥檙e shocked that 16 players in a Louisiana court were given the ability to return to college football 鈥 even though some are currently on NFL training camp rosters.
- SportsGrid
2026 college football: Top teams shine, Notre Dame excels, CJ Carr's Heisman quest, and exceptional coaching. The Philly Godfather weighs in on the top teams.
- Matt Hayes USA Today
Pipe down, SEC snobs. This whole strength-of-schedule thing is way overblown.聽Like many things of the not-so-distant past, the argument has been blown away by a Big Ten revival.聽
- Sean Keeler, The Denver Post
DENVER 鈥 Deion Sanders鈥 lawyers sure ain鈥檛 hard to find these days. We kid, of course, but goodness gracias 鈥 this Colorado football season, which is slated to open on Sept. 3 in Atlanta against Georgia Tech, can鈥檛 get here quick enough for Buffs fans. Just so they鈥檒l have something to talk …
The litigious world of college sports got even more confusing with another major court ruling two weeks before the college football season begins. On Friday, the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the NCAA a stay in an order that reverses a Colorado judge鈥檚 recent decision granting players from the class of 2022 one last season of eligibility in the upcoming academic year. ...
Last year, Indiana went 16-0 and won the national championship. To start this year, the Associated Press Poll has them ranked outside the top five at No. 6. How frequent is such a drop?
Former UCLA and SMU football running back T.J. Harden, who was waived by the NFL鈥檚 Seattle Seahawks on Monday after playing in Seattle鈥檚 exhibition opener, entered the NCAA transfer portal on Wednesday. This, following a court ruling that has granted an additional season of eligibility to 16 members of the recruiting class of 2022. The fact some NFL players could be playing for colleges again ...
The USA Today Sports 2026 preseason All-America college football team features standouts from the favorites for this year鈥檚 College Football Playoff, with multiple selections from Oregon, Ohio State and Indiana.
College football coaches and the media who cover them agree 鈥 on a lot, apparently. But here鈥檚 a look at some of the biggest discrepancies between the two major polls.
Preseason polls are not a crystal ball. They might predict the national champion. They might not. That鈥檚 a good thing, despite what Scott Van Pelt thinks.
UNC has named Wisconsin transfer Billy Edwards Jr. its starting quarterback, according to multiple reports. Edwards won a 鈥渃lose battle鈥 with Texas A&M transfer Miles O鈥橬eill for the job, ESPN鈥檚 Pete Thamel first revealed Tuesday. In 2024, Edwards threw for 15 touchdowns and nine interceptions during his 2,881-yard season at Maryland. After transferring to Wisconsin last season, he spent most ...
The biggest ballroom in this downtown Nashville hotel is overflowing 鈥 standing-room-only 鈥 and College Football Hall-of-Famer Mack Brown is holding court.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas 鈥 Every offseason, college football coaches like Rhett Lashlee now face the same challenge. They have to recruit their own roster all over again. The transfer portal gives players a chance to chase more playing time, more money or a better fit. And for the best players, there is rarely a shortage of programs willing to make a pitch. Over the last five years, SMU has been ...
The preseason College Football Playoff landscape highlights blue-bloods, but several unranked teams have potential paths to shake up the chase with strong coaching and talent across conferences.
MIAMI 鈥 Mario Cristobal was 13, an age for dreaming, the night the University of Miami arrived as a national college football power. 鈥淢y grandfather鈥檚 house, on a black-and-white TV, watching Kenny Calhoun bat down that ball,鈥 he says now. He needn鈥檛 recall that moment 42 years ago, because the memory is always there. Calhoun, a defensive back, deflects a last-second two-point conversion pass ...
Plenty of college football coaches long have used the sport鈥檚 summer recruiting dead period, for vacation; BYU鈥檚 Kalani Sitake seized an opportunity to go back in time.
Curt Cignetti loathes wasting time, so let鈥檚 get straight to the point. Folks, no 鈥渘ext Indiana鈥 looms on the horizon. There鈥檚 just Indiana.
College football鈥檚 regular season remains sacred, and this year鈥檚 schedule is packed with marquee matchups, making it tough to whittle down a list of the best games.
Did you ever stand in your living room, yell at the TV after a busted play, and insist you could call plays better than the coach paid to call plays?
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LEXINGTON, Ky. 鈥 Assuming good health, we know who Kentucky鈥檚 starting quarterback will be when the Wildcats kick off the Will Stein coaching era against Youngstown State on Sept. 5. Notre Dame transfer Kenny Minchey gets glowing reviews from UK鈥檚 new head coach. 鈥淭angibles, he鈥檚 really accurate. He throws on time. He鈥檚 got great feet, and he鈥檚 mobile. I think those are critical factors in ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. 鈥 It doesn鈥檛 matter if it鈥檚 January, with a Super Bowl on the line, or an August preseason game where half the stadium is empty and the other half is thinking about beating traffic. Chaos will find the San Francisco 49ers鈥 quarterback room. On Thursday night, the Niners tempted fate by suiting up only two quarterbacks against the Titans. By halftime, one was at the ...
We鈥檙e focusing on the wrong people here, everyone. At the wrong time, and in the wrong moment with the never-ending mess at North Carolina.聽
College football rosters have taken a hit in the depth department during the transfer portal era, allowing true freshmen to earn playing time earlier at some of the biggest programs.
The perfect amount of risk accompanies an acceptable amount of access. Therein lies the beauty of college football鈥檚 12-team playoff.
Just as Bobby Kennedy arrived as a Stanford assistant in 2018, he knew of a highly touted recruit out of vaunted Southern California powerhouse Mater Dei: Solomon Tuliaupupu.
FORT WORTH, Texas 鈥 We have approximately two months remaining of terrifying headlines, such as 鈥淭ransgenders Taking Over Sorority RushTok?鈥 and 鈥淭he Next Regular Season WNBA MVP Will Be a Man.鈥 Few words mobilize voters like 鈥淭rans,鈥 and it doesn鈥檛 matter if the population of this community can fit in the standard living room. The November midterms are coming, and the people who need to win ...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. 鈥 North Carolina athletic director Steve Newmark presented a plan Tuesday to house revenue-generating parts of the UNC athletic department within an associated entity. If approved, six pieces of the athletic department 鈥 multimedia rights, licensing, ticketing, NIL, special events and the operations of Finley Golf Course 鈥 would be moved into a new limited liability company, ...