Jon Wilner

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…

The Hotline mailbag publishes weekly. 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 for…

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,”…

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…

The Hotline mailbag publishes weekly. 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 for…

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…

The Big 12 power rankings are published weekly by the Hotline throughout the regular season. They are the result of a deep dive into the analytics, an assessment of subjective factors and,…

Instant reaction to Week 10 developments … 1. And then there were four … The first Saturday in November was the last Saturday before the release of the College Football…