Sometimes, we are the TV executives and they are us. We like to get after them and blame them for things, which they mostly deserve. But all of us — execs, fans, rights holders, stakeholders, headset holders, anyone who cares about college football and isn’t a college football coach — should gasp together at what…
Sticking his head underneath his desk for a moment, Joe Moglia popped back up holding a heavy binder. “See this file?” he said. “I have three of these.” Thousands of versions of Moglia lie between the lines of those pages: A 19-year-old college sophomore supporting his wife and newborn daughter by driving a cab and…
Baylor plays LSU on Tuesday night in the Texas Bowl, Dave Aranda’s team looking for its seventh straight win to finish the season in a matchup that sets the table for the Fiesta Bowl quarterfinal. The Bears bumping right up against a College Football Playoff game is fitting because one might argue Baylor could be…
Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. The first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff was an absolute success. Regardless of how the bracket plays out, it has already accomplished exactly what it was supposed to do. More regular-season games had more stakes. New faces made…
Sterling Sanders could feel the tears coming on. It was late October and Sanders was elated. He’d just committed to Boston College inside coach Bill O’Brien’s office. A handshake sealed the deal. The three-star defensive lineman from Blytheville, S.C., had always dreamed of playing at the Power 4 level but wasn’t sure whether the opportunity…
Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. It turns out the first 12-team College Football Playoff field may be mostly locked in before championship weekend. After weeks of twists, turns and hypotheticals, figuring out the 12 teams has become mostly pretty easy by the end. But seeding…
And now, 20 Final Thoughts from college football’s Rivalry Weekend, where many of the teams fought for 60 minutes, and then fought some more. 1. On his weekly coach’s show last Monday, Ohio State coach Ryan Day described his team’s losing streak to Michigan in stark terms. “It’s one of the worst things that’s ever…
IOWA CITY, Iowa — So people are wondering why the Nebraska captains refused to shake hands on Friday night before the coin toss at Kinnick Stadium. Let me try to explain. They do not like Iowa. Those Nebraska players didn’t want to engage in an act of good sportsmanship in the company of that opponent….
LINCOLN, Neb. — Harper Murray is smiling and laughing every day. And she’s playing her best volleyball in two seasons at Nebraska. This alone lifts spirits among Murray’s teammates. Her happiness matters to them. The Huskers saw Murray spiral last spring amid public struggles with her emotional health. Two legal incidents derailed her offseason after…
Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. Winning games is hard. That’s a press conference cliché you’ll hear from every coach, but it’s true, especially for coaches dealing with college athletes. How else can you explain what happened on Saturday? For two weeks, SEC fans beat the…