The third College Football Playoff rankings propelled the event closer to an endgame guaranteed to roil the masses. Are you ready for five SEC teams? The conference took a giant leap toward…
Jon Wilner
With 11 days remaining before the Territorial Cup, Arizona and Arizona State have the same win total and equivalent momentum. That wasn’t on our Big 12 bingo card for 2025, but perhaps it should have…
Instant reaction to developments on the field … 1. Quantifying the chaos The 12th Saturday of the regular season brought the expected level of heart-stoppers and gobsmackers. Third-ranked Texas A&M…
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The drought lasted three years and 38 shows. But when it ended, it did so with a double shot of Big 12 football, Big 12 fans and Big 12 universities. ESPN’s “College GameDay,”…
The second installment of the College Football Playoff rankings was released Tuesday with no changes to the top five and only two newcomers. But there was no shortage of debate…
The Pac-12 dissolved in 2024, but one vestige of the former conference remains relevant to the college football season unfolding this fall: the bowl lineup. The legacy teams are locked…
Instant reaction to Week 11 developments on the field … 1. Meltdown in Madison Washington and Oregon flew across the country into brutal weather and experienced firsthand the weekly sinkholes that…
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After 10 weeks of utter mayhem across the sport, the initial College Football Playoff rankings unveiled Tuesday evening were comparatively sane and devoid of major controversy. Perhaps the tame reaction was rooted…