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https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6741983/2025/10/23/college-football-coach-firings-success/ In the SEC, where several teams expect 10-win seasons every year, the math just doesn't work out. Justin Ford / Getty Images Almost overnight, 8-4 became the new 10-2 in college football, and it is...

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/sec-fines-texas-a-m-50000-issues-public-reprimand-of-mike-elko-for-having-player-fake-injury/ The SEC fined Texas A&M $50,000 fine and coach Mike Elko received a public reprimand Tuesday after the National Coordinator for Football Officiating...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6711911/2025/10/13/college-football-team-rankings-indiana-ohio-state-oregon/ Gophers 53 Nebraska 22 Iowa 39 MSU 69 Oregon 9 Northwestern 59 Wisconsin 84 Indiana 1 OSU 2 USC 15 Michigan 21 Illinois 26 Cal 52 Maryland 55 Penn State 60, Wow how they've fallen...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6700272/2025/10/09/sorting-through-the-big-tens-second-tier-who-still-has-a-shot-at-contention/ Minnesota (3-2, 1-1) Path to contention: The Gophers have an advantageous schedule. Only one of their final seven opponents is ranked, and five of them played in the...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6666264/2025/10/06/college-hockey-chl-rule-change-gavin-mckenna/ Adam Nightingale, Michigan State’s head coach, grew up in Cheboygan, in Northern Michigan. An hour to the north was Lake Superior State University. A few minutes past that, across the Canadian...

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/ucla-fires-head-coach-deshaun-foster-after-0-3-start-170636578.html UCLA has fired head football coach DeShaun Foster following an 0-3 start to the season. UCLA announced the decision Sunday morning via a statement from athletic...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6609141/2025/09/08/big-ten-starting-quarterbacks-stats/ Transfers and impact freshmen soaked up most of the offseason conversation about the Big Ten quarterbacks, but after two weeks of action, the league’s holdovers have far outperformed the newcomers. By...

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/minnesota-football-rowing-buffalo-opponent-163848792.html The Minnesota Golden Gophers kick off the 2025 college football season by hosting the Buffalo Bulls at 7 p.m. CST on Thursday, Aug. 28 at Huntington Bank Stadium. Can Buffalo score on offense? From an...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6569243/2025/08/24/big-ten-vs-sec-challenge-who-would-win-a-16-game-showdown/ LSU coach Brian Kelly is getting ready to coach a mammoth season opener at Clemson. The SEC versus the ACC. Earlier this summer, however, Kelly lobbied for the SEC to play a more...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6570309/2025/08/26/big-ten-football-schedule-strength-rankings/ With 18 teams under the Big Ten umbrella, the conference’s schedules have more disparity now than ever before. Eight of Wisconsin’s nine conference opponents this fall ranked in the top 50 of Chris...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6560979/2025/08/19/college-football-playoff-heisman-conference-predictions/ Bold predictions and hot takes Lastly, we asked our panelists to submit their bold predictions for the season. Here’s a selection of the best: Austin Meek: One of these four teams will...

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/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...

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...