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https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6558436/2025/08/18/college-football-rankings-preseason-136/ Welcome back to college football, and for the first time in a long time, the sport didn’t reshape itself in the offseason. No major conference realignment. No major changes to the College Football...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6568408/2025/08/22/sec-football-annual-rivals-schedule/ They finally landed the plane. Four years since the debate over going to nine games heated up, and more than two years after SEC commissioner Greg Sankey compared the decision to landing a plane and saying...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6551090/2025/08/14/koi-perich-minnesota-football-travis-hunter/ Koi Perich looks different from his Minnesota teammates in practice, and it’s not because of his 6-foot-1, 200-pound frame. Outside of the quarterbacks, half the Gophers wear maroon jerseys, while...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6527033/2025/08/14/college-football-coach-tiers-rankings/ Tier 3: High–level consistency Coach 2024 Tier 1 Bret Bielema 4 Jeff Brohm 3 Troy Calhoun 3 Matt Campbell 3 Jamey Chadwell 3 Mario Cristobal 3 New Spencer...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6553536/2025/08/15/arch-manning-bill-belichick-james-franklin-college-football-2025/ Koi Perich, DB/WR, Minnesota It’s not like Travis Hunter brought two-way stardom to college football, but he did it at the highest level possible and no doubt inspired others to...

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https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-rankings-texas-leads-the-way-penn-state-tops-ohio-state-in-preseason-cbs-sports-136/ Preseason college football rankings have always been a challenging exercise, but never has it been more of a guessing game than the modern era...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6527935/2025/08/01/college-football-transfer-portal-numbers/ With the turnstiles of the NCAA transfer portal spinning, it seems a good time to ask: How many teams do football players join during their college careers? The Athletic dug into the data, examining...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6508606/2025/07/29/power-4-transfer-portal-additions-2025/ Rosters are constantly evolving in college football. Recruiting is still vitally important, but every team (yes, even Clemson!) needs to plug some holes via the transfer portal each offseason. As camp...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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/