Yes. More than likely, the Texas Longhorns are afraid to play Notre Dame in a college football game. While that’s definitely a funny statement, it’s also further proof that Texas has no freaking clue about how pretty much anything works. The Longhorns are convinced that it was the loss to Ohio State in week one […]
Atlanta Hawks head coach Kevin Stefanski said Wednesday he feels quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has an "innate, God-given ability" to accurately throw a football.
Official visits are starting up for the Wisconsin Badgers this week, and it’ll be a crucial week for recruiting, as the program will have a ton of their top targets on campus. The Badgers are expected to have six visitors, as well as a bevy of commits on campus, as they look to add to […]
Looking at the current state of things at Georgia Tech and wondering if the hire of Scott Cross can really turn things around.
From the NCAA, we head abroad to check in with Latvian defender Alberts Smits, who’s made quite a name for himself in this class of the back of his unique style of play.
A quick riser through these draft rankings, Smits has done well to build up his stock coming off of successful stints internationally, first with the Latvian national team at World Juniors, and then ultimately at the Olympics. He’s established quite the impressive resume at such a young age, and while his play style might...
In three months and two days, the 2026 college football season will kickoff in Dublin, Ireland. That’s 94 days until football is back! With the season approaching, it’s time for some 2026 spring Big Ten Football power rankings. No. 1: Ohio State Buckeyes Ohio State isn’t just the team to beat in the Big Ten; […]
Clemson is replacing multi-year starter Cade Klubnik in 2026 The Dark Territory is upon us and unusually early thanks to Clemson baseball’s failure to even make a regional. Your resident STS historian is back to contemplate the changing of the guard at quarterback that Clemson will have in 2026. It is very likely that Christopher […]
From now until preseason camp starts in August, Land-Grant Holy Land will be writing articles around a different theme every week. This week is all about unpopular opinions. You can catch up on all of the Theme Week content here and all our “Unpopular Opinion” articles here. Ohio State’s receiver room has become so loaded with talent and recruiting […]
The NCAA denied an appeal for Miami Dolphins quarterback target Brendan Sorsby to play in the 2026 season. The supplemental draft could be next.
It’s shaping up to be a relatively quiet week for Indiana Athletics as the summer draws closer and major programs go into recruiting mode with most seasons having already wrapped up. There’s still news to talk about though, like the possibility of the NCAA moving to a new eligibility model that gives athletes five years […]
Is it weird that I feel…left out? The SEC is going through it right now. It’s SEC spring meetings, and just headline after headline has you wondering if we’re not watching a crack-up happen in real time. There’s Jon Sumrall, formerly of Tulane and Florida simultaneously, Tulane before that, and now just Florida, talking about […]
The careers of the Syracuse senior class of 2026 came to an end on Saturday in the loss to Notre Dame in the Final Four, bringing to a close one of the most scrutinized and complicated legacies in the history of Syracuse lacrosse. That class, headlined and represented by their leader, Joey Spallina, are the […]
Matt Brown is a managing editor for The Athletic College Football. He also created a site called Extra Points, a newsletter that he describes as covering “off-the-field stuff in college sports”. Right up my alley. Hold that thought. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about expanding the just-two-year old CFB from its current 12 […]
Believe in yourself or no one else will.-Star Wars, The Clone Wars, Season 2, Episode 5 Cristian Rolan surely believes in himself or he wouldn’t have been selected for the US Men’s World Cup team. Football Dots UW Athletics Dots
On a day when the big piece of news was supposed to be the pending decision coming from Jeremy Fears, Michigan State University was met with the blindside announcement that Kevin Guskiewicz, the school’s president, is resigning in order to take the same position at Clemson. Sports Illustrated has a good piece on it. For […]
Some schools are football schools. Some schools are basketball schools. Vanderbilt is a bowling school, and good for them I guess. But as this graphic making the rounds on Twitter makes clear, there are a vanishingly small group of athletic programs currently firing on all cylinders across the college sports landscape, and Georgia is one […]
Rutgers Athletics has been named one of the five finalists for the 2026 Community Service Award, presented by the Fiesta Bowl. The announcement came via the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and is designed to recognize Division I athletics departments that prioritize volunteerism and community service. Rutgers Athletics has supported a wide […]
WBC super featherweight champion O’Shaquie Foster puts his belt on the line this weekend when he takes on Raymond Ford, and ahead of the fight Foster speaks to Fight Hype about how this fight came to be when he was previously targeting a showdown with Shakur Stevenson. Here’s some of what he had to say. […]
The Pac-12 is set to get back on the college sports map as a real member in just over a month. With the addition of Texas State at the end of June last year, they met the minimum requirement of eight football-playing teams to qualify to be a full-fledged conference. Since then, things have been […]
This article was inspired by the discussion thread under an article I published early in the off-season. That article showed that Mike Sainristil was among the most productive CBs at intercepting the football in 2025, but was also well below average at rate of yardage allowed in coverage, and close to the worst in the […]
The Virginia Cavalier football family received unfortunate news on Tuesday afternoon: former Virginia football player, Donovan Johnson Sr., passed away after a nine-month battle with Leukemia. The official Virginia Football social media accounts broke the news shortly after 6 P.M. on Tuesday, and his coaches, teammates, and other athletes within the Virginia family reacted soon […]
IRVING, Texas (May 27, 2026) – The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame today unveiled the 66 members of the 2026 NFF Team of Distinction, honoring the nation's top high school scholar-athletes who represent the future leaders of the game and have excelled at the very highest levels in the classroom, on the field and by making an impact in their communities.
University guard River Sawyer to join Colorado State basketball Colorado State has filled out its basketball roster for the upcoming 2026-27 season, adding River Sawyer. ESPN’s 2026 MWC Football Preview The Worldwide Leader tries to nail down some early predictions of the Mountain West. New Mexico QB James Laubstein wins NCAA appeal, set to return […]
A couple of weeks ago, recruiting services started issuing their final rankings for prospects in the 2026 class. Over at 247Sports, the scouting staff wrapped up the cycle by handing out superlatives to top prospects. The one it handed Missouri signee Jason Crowe Jr. was obvious: The Bucket Getter. “He’s going to be asked to score […]
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