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    How the Big Ten rallied around a CFP plan the rest of college football isn’t sold on

    https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6518162/2025/07/28/big-ten-college-football-playoff-format/ Petitti continued meeting with his football coaches, athletic directors and others to devise a system that would reward the Big Ten for its success but would apply fairly throughout the sport. He...
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    2025 Big Ten football schedule breakdown: Predicting the first loss for all 16 conference teams

    https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/2025-big-ten-football-schedule-breakdown-predicting-the-first-loss-for-all-16-conference-teams/ Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti has pounded the strength-of-schedule drum throughout the summer, much like his SEC counterpart, Greg Sankey. When it...
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    P.J. Fleck confident Minnesota can vie for CFP spot in 2025

    https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/45808465/pj-fleck-confident-minnesota-vie-cfp-spot-2025 Since going 11-2 and finishing No. 10 nationally in 2019, Minnesota has been a consistent bowl team -- and champion -- but hasn't legitimately challenged for the College Football Playoff...
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    Oregon's Lanning: Tighten CFP to wrap by Jan. 1

    https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/45804775/oregon-dan-lanning-playoff-slate-mirror-other-sports Oregon coach Dan Lanning is advocating for college football to adopt an NFL-style schedule with limited open weeks, no long layoffs for playoff teams and a season that wraps on Jan. 1...
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    Curt Cignetti on IU’s notably soft non conference slate: “We figured we’d adopt the SEC scheduling model.”

    And having to play another conference game means only one conference team will win that game, so the other team will have have another loss.
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    College football program valuations: Ranking every Power 4 team by how much they’d sell for

    https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6500596/2025/07/21/college-football-program-valuations-rankings-2025/ How much would it take to buy your favorite college football program? As much as college football has drifted toward professionalization, one major difference remains: NCAA teams are not for...
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    Inside the contracts of college football's newest coaches: Off-the-wall perks, clauses and quirks

    What's in a deal? Well when it comes to college football coaches, quite a bit. They're often among the highest paid employees in a given state and their contracts are lengthy documents that can easily run over 20 pages long. CBS Sports went under the hood for the 2025 class of new coaches to dig...
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    AAC rebrands as 'American Conference,' adds eagle as mascot

    https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/45786752/aac-rebrands-american-conference-adds-eagle-mascot "Over the past year, we stepped back, listened and involved our community. That's how real, lasting identity is built. We're not slick, we're strong. This brand defines who we are, service...
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    2025 Big Ten college football projections, preview

    https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/45756799/2025-big-ten-college-football-projections-preview Gophers included in A couple of breaks away from a run Minnesota Golden Gophers Head coach: P.J. Fleck (ninth year, 58-39 overall) 2025 projection: 40th in SP+, 6.8 average wins (4.4 in...
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    College football 2025 quarterback tiers: Ranking the FBS’ projected starters from 1 to 136

    Tier 6 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6483745/2025/07/16/college-football-quarterback-tiers-rankings/ For this exercise, we surveyed more than 40 coaches and staffers from across college football, soliciting their opinions on the quarterbacks they faced, how the QBs in their conference stack...
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    President Donald Trump to sign executive order establishing national NIL standards amid evolving legislation

    SCORE Act, a bill alter that would the landscape of college sports, has been formally introduced in U.S. House https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/score-act-a-bill-alter-that-would-the-landscape-of-college-sports-has-been-formally-introduced-in-u-s-house/
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    President Donald Trump to sign executive order establishing national NIL standards amid evolving legislation

    https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/president-donald-trump-to-sign-executive-order-establishing-national-nil-standards-amid-evolving-legislation/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-plans-executive-order-college-sports-nil/ President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order...
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    One Big Ten game to watch each week of the 2025 season

    https://sports.yahoo.com/article/one-big-ten-game-watch-121530241.html Week 6: Ohio State vs. Minnesota Jan 1, 2020; Tampa, Florida, USA; Minnesota Golden Gophers head coach PJ Fleck (sunglasses) reacts during the fourth quarter of the game against the Auburn Tigers at Raymond James Stadium...
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    Inside the Big Ten’s love of traveling rivalry trophies — Pigs, axes, buckets and beyond

    https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6479031/2025/07/10/big-ten-rivalry-trophy-history/ On Halloween 1903, Michigan coach Fielding Yost bought an oversized water jug to sit on his team’s sideline during the Wolverines’ game at Minnesota. When the Gophers tied the score at 6-6 with two minutes...
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    The Athletic: The 25 best players in the Big Ten in 2025

    9. Koi Perich, S, Minnesota Perich joined Smith as the only two freshmen to earn first-team All-Big Ten honors in 2024. He started only three games in 2024 but still finished with 46 tackles and five interceptions. Perich was also a key contributor on special teams, becoming the first freshman...
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    72 or 76 team NCAA tournament.....NCAA determined to ruin one of the best things in sports.

    CBS Sports: Here's the math and data that prove why the NCAA Tournament doesn't need to expand https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/heres-the-math-and-data-that-prove-why-the-ncaa-tournament-doesnt-need-to-expand/
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    BYU QB Reportedly Transferring

    https://sports.yahoo.com/article/sources-byu-qb-jake-retzlaff-232320032.html The quarterback faces a civil lawsuit from a woman who said he “raped, strangled and bit” her in his bedroom after she and a friend visited him and his roommates the night of Nov. 22, 2023, to play video games and hang...
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    Every Big Ten team's best, worst case scenario in 2025: USC plays for league title? A three-loss Penn State?

    https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/every-big-ten-teams-best-worst-case-scenario-in-2025-usc-plays-for-league-title-a-three-loss-penn-state/ Minnesota Odds to win conference: +13000 Best Case 10-2: The Gophers do that thing they do where they aren't good enough to beat Ohio State...
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    Kirk Ferentz’s take on college’s new era may surprise you ahead of 27th Iowa season

    Excellent article. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6446598/2025/06/24/iowa-football-kirk-ferentz-interview/ In the era of college athletics defined by unlimited free agency, revenue sharing and an expanding playoff system, it may be stunning to some that the longest tenured person leading a...
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    Pac-12, CBS Sports extend media partnership through 2030-31

    https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/45568637/pac-12-cbs-sports-extend-media-partnership-2030-31 The Pac-12 has finalized an agreement with CBS Sports to extend their media partnership through the 2030-31 season, the conference announced Monday. As part of the deal, CBS will...



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