2026 Week 4 Mountain West College Football Previews Stephen Vilardo previews this week's Mountain Wesst games and gives us his picks straight-up and against the spread. SuperWest Sports · Sep 23
Forde-Yard Dash: 10 Burning Questions That Could Define the College Football Season Is Gunner Stockton for real? Can Alabama put together a complete game? Will Bryce Underwood solve Iowa’s defense? We should get some answers in Week 4. Sports Illustrated · Sep 21
College Football Message Board: Arkansas Frustrations, Kentucky Breakthrough and Grumors at Oklahoma After Week 3, we examine the reactions fans had to their team’s play, coaching decisions and more to determine if the sentiment is warranted. Sports Illustrated · Sep 21
Forde-Yard Dash: 10 College Football Teams Whose Flaws Are Impossible to Hide The pretenders are running out of places to hide, with Texas A&M, USC and Arkansas among the teams facing harsh reality checks as power-conference competition intensifies. Sports Illustrated · Sep 21
Three Matchups That Will Decide LSU–Ole Miss, Plus 10 Other Can’t Miss Week 3 Games Lane Kiffin’s return to Oxford, Miss. for Tigers at Rebels headlines a strong Week 3 slate. Sports Illustrated · Sep 18
Ranking the Top 10 Quarterbacks in College Football Through Two Weeks From big-game performers to fast risers, this group of signal-callers has defined the early stages of the 2026 season. Sports Illustrated · Sep 16
Forde-Yard Dash: The SEC Is Back on Top of College Football’s Power Rankings Texas’s comeback over Ohio State and Mississippi State’s rout of Minnesota helped push the SEC past the Big Ten, which is struggling against Power 4 opponents. Sports Illustrated · Sep 14
Forde-Yard Dash: Three Major Problems That Could Derail These Power Teams Ohio State, Oregon and Oklahoma all found spectacular new ways to lose, raising serious questions about each program’s expectations and path forward. Sports Illustrated · Sep 13
Red Bandanna Game: Why Boston College vs. Rutgers Is About Far More Than Football On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, the Eagles and Scarlet Knights will meet in an emotional matchup to honor Welles Crowther, “the Man in the Red Bandanna.” Sports Illustrated · Sep 11
College Football Week 2 Watchability Guide: Conference Crossover Games Galore The football equivalent of the SEC–Big Ten Challenge takes center stage, while a handful of Week 1 darlings try to prove their legitimacy against significantly tougher opponents. Sports Illustrated · Sep 11
Group of 6 Power Rankings: What Boise State, Western Michigan’s Dramatic Week 1 Losses Mean for CFP Race After one week of FBS action, which G6 programs lead the pack for the automatic College Football Playoff bid? Sports Illustrated · Sep 10
College Football Quarterback Week 1 Rankings: Mason Heintschel’s Seven-TD Effort Edged Out for Top Spot For the first top 10 list, we select players who competed against FBS opponents. Plus, we examine the floundering five lowlights of the weekend. Sports Illustrated · Sep 9
2026 Week 2 Mountain West College Football Previews he Mountain West sees its second conference game of the season in Week Two when North Dakota opens conference play SuperWest Sports · Sep 9
College Football Message Board: Heat Check on Michigan’s Kyle Whittingham, Clemson and Rutgers Each week, we will examine the reactions fans had to their team’s play, coaching decisions and more to determine if the sentiment is warranted. Sports Illustrated · Sep 7
Sports Illustrated · Sep 6 College Football Week 1 Winners and Losers: The Saturday the Earth Stood Still They’ll be howling about that one in Kalamazoo, Mich., until the Last Judgment.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 4 College Football: Ranking the Top 25 Playing Careers of Current FBS Coaches The vast majority of current FBS coaches played college football themselves—with a Heisman winner, a Pro Football Hall of Famer and a number of All-Americans among their ranks.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 4 SI:AM | I’m in Love With Massachusetts The Minutemen—FBS’s worst team for north of a decade—pulled an upset Thursday that defied comprehension.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 4 One Big Question for Each of the Top 10 College Football Games to Watch in Week 1 A full slate is finally on the docket—and Sports Illustrated not only points you to the best matchups of the week but highlights the key storyline in each one.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 4 What Rutgers Did After Stunning Upset Loss to UMass Made Its Night Even Sadder College football is so back. And so are the unbelievable upsets that make the sport well worth watching.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 2 Inside the Mind of Curt Cignetti, College Football’s Most Relentless Winner Over 15 years, across four levels of college football, all he has done is win. Now, after a natty at Indiana, he won’t alter the script.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 31 The FCS Dynasty Is Moving Up: Inside North Dakota State’s FBS Leap and Statement First Win The Bison are leaving behind an unprecedented run of dominance for the unknowns of the highest level of college football, but nobody in Fargo is interested in taking a small step.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 30 Bill Belichick, North Carolina Are Bowl-Game Bound and Three More Overreactions to College Football Week Zero It's time to tap into that most familiar of college football headspaces. Let’s overreact to Week Zero.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 29 Three CFB Loopholes That Explain This Year’s Week Zero Slate, and Why It Won’t Ever Happen Again Here’s a brief explainer on why this year’s Week Zero college football slate will be the last of its kind.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 28 SI:AM | One Reason to Watch Each Week Zero Game Saturday will be a perfect appetizer before the season kicks off for real next week.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 26 Ranking College Football’s 25 Players With the Most to Prove—and the Most to Gain The pressure is on, from quarterbacks expected to lead title contenders to defensive wreckers capable of changing the course of a game.