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- Jared Beilby USA Today
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?
- Gary Bedore, The Kansas City Star
Former UCLA and SMU football running back T.J. Harden, who was waived by the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks on Monday after playing in Seattle’s exhibition opener, entered the NCAA transfer portal on Wednesday. This, following a court ruling that has granted an additional season of eligibility to 16…
- Paul Myerberg USA Today
The USA Today Sports 2026 preseason All-America college football team features standouts from the favorites for this year’s College Football Playoff, with multiple selections from Oregon, Ohio State and Indiana.
- Blake Toppmeyer USA TODAY
College football coaches and the media who cover them agree — on a lot, apparently. But here’s a look at some of the biggest discrepancies between the two major polls.
- Blake Toppmeyer USA Today
Preseason polls are not a crystal ball. They might predict the national champion. They might not. That’s a good thing, despite what Scott Van Pelt thinks.
- Kamran Nia, The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC has named Wisconsin transfer Billy Edwards Jr. its starting quarterback, according to multiple reports. Edwards won a “close battle” with Texas A&M transfer Miles O’Neill for the job, ESPN’s Pete Thamel first revealed Tuesday. In 2024, Edwards threw for 15 touchdowns and nine interce…
- John Brice USA Today
The biggest ballroom in this downtown Nashville hotel is overflowing — standing-room-only — and College Football Hall-of-Famer Mack Brown is holding court.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — 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 — Mario Cristobal was 13, an age for dreaming, the night the University of Miami arrived as a national college football power. “My grandfather’s house, on a black-and-white TV, watching Kenny Calhoun bat down that ball,” he says now. He needn’t 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’s summer recruiting dead period, for vacation; BYU’s Kalani Sitake seized an opportunity to go back in time.
Curt Cignetti loathes wasting time, so let’s get straight to the point. Folks, no “next Indiana” looms on the horizon. There’s just Indiana.
College football’s regular season remains sacred, and this year’s 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?
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Assuming good health, we know who Kentucky’s 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’s new head coach. “Tangibles, he’s really accurate. He throws on time. He’s got great feet, and he’s mobile. I think those are critical factors in ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — It doesn’t matter if it’s 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’ 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’re focusing on the wrong people here, everyone. At the wrong time, and in the wrong moment with the never-ending mess at North Carolina.
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 Panthers unveiled a helmet sticker honoring Parker Sutherland, who died in February after his freshman season at UNI.
The perfect amount of risk accompanies an acceptable amount of access. Therein lies the beauty of college football’s 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 — We have approximately two months remaining of terrifying headlines, such as “Transgenders Taking Over Sorority RushTok?” and “The Next Regular Season WNBA MVP Will Be a Man.” Few words mobilize voters like “Trans,” and it doesn’t 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 ...
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Long gone are the days where impulse buying meant grabbing an unplanned candy bar or magazine in the checkout line. Now, social media makes it quick and easy for us to purchase just about anything with the click of a button, whether or not it’s in the budget. And for some Americans, it’s hurting them...
Black Friday is fast approaching, and shoppers are gearing up. The National Retail Federation expects more than 183 million people to shop over the weekend spanning Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday this year. But fraudsters are preparing for Black Friday too, looking for opportunities to steal your money or personal information. Before you dive into holiday...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — 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 — multimedia rights, licensing, ticketing, NIL, special events and the operations of Finley Golf Course — would be moved into a new limited liability company, ...
Sleeper teams are ready to pounce in every Bowl Subdivision conference. While the preseason favorites lead the way now, these dark-horse contenders look to complicate the playoff picture.
Here's a breakdown of why FSU fans should be excited about these players this coming season
WASHINGTON — After 16 wild hours that ended with a bipartisan college sports bill being punted in the middle of the night, President Donald Trump’s involvement was not enough to trigger votes on legislation he would like to add to his midterms and legacy sales pitches. As senators and senior aides bickered and postured all day and night Friday into Saturday morning, the so-called Protect ...
CHICAGO — Chicago State football players in green and white jerseys headed en masse toward the sideline of their turf practice field, which sits painted in the outfield of the Cougars baseball stadium. Their destination was Chicago State President Zaldwaynaka “Z” Scott, who was watching their Wednesday morning training camp practice on the Roseland campus alongside athletic director Monique ...
Exploring the Big Ten's rise: Recent football and basketball wins could soon surpass SEC's longstanding dominance. Will this turn around in the future?
The chances of the NCAA hosting a tournament and national championship for women’s flag football in 2028 are increasing.
CANTON, Ohio — Luke Kuechly gave his Pro Football Hall of Fame induction speech on Saturday, and it was just as authentic and appropriate as you’re imagining. The former Carolina Panthers linebacker spent his 15 minutes deflecting credit and thanking others, showering dozens of people from his life with praise. The speech was as well-prepared as Kuechly was every Sunday when he combined elite ...