The Best of the West offers fans a candid assessment of the top teams in the western third of the country — a collection that includes the Mountain West and…
Welcome to the latest installment of the Hotline’s Pac-12 men’s basketball power rankings, our weekly assessment of a conference that doesn’t exist (yet) using results, analytics and a dash of…
Mocked and humiliated for weeks after producing a five-loss champion (Duke) that did not make the College Football Playoff, the ACC grabbed the final laugh Saturday with Miami’s road win…
One of the most dizzying weeks in a wild college football season featured major news from the Big Ten, where Michigan fired coach Sherrone Moore for personal transgressions with a staff member,…
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 clarity…
Welcome the first installment of the Hotline’s postseason picks against the point spread, which covers the opening round of the College Football Playoff and notable the pre-Christmas bowl games. We were 4-2 last…
Welcome to the 2025-26 debut of the Hotline’s Big 12 men’s basketball power rankings, a weekly assessment of the conference using analytics and common sense, with a strand of pasta occasionally heaved…
Notre Dame was excluded from the College Football Playoff as the loser of a three-team resume showdown that propelled Miami and Alabama into the at-large field and left the Irish to whine, complain…
Whether it was intentional or not (probably not), the College Football Playoff selection committee ultimately acted out of self-preservation Sunday with the reveal of the 2025 field generally and the…
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…