Jon Wilner

Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.

Mailbag: Grading Pac-12 teams, the Big Ten on NBC, Washington’s roster, Oregon’s path, expansion cash, SEC self-governance and more

The Hotline mailbag publishes weekly. Please send questions to wilnerhotline@bayareanewsgroup.com and include “mailbag” in the subject line. Or hit me on the social media platform X: @WilnerHotline. Some questions have been edited…

Holy Score: On Utah’s new “normal” offense, the early blowouts and the challenges to come

Following the first road victory of his coaching career, Utah’s Morgan Scalley spent nine-and-a-half minutes Saturday afternoon fielding questions from the assembled media. Scalley discussed Wayshawn Parker’s touchdown run on the first…

Panic Meter: Five teams that have fading hope and reasons to worry

September was good to UCLA, which is relevant for the first time in eons. It was good to Utah and BYU, which confirmed their status as Big 12 contenders. And to Oregon…