Group of 6 Power Rankings: A String of Upsets Leads to an Overhauled Top 10 After suffering their first losses of the season, are USF and UMass still top-10 G6 programs entering Week 6? Sports Illustrated · 9h ago
Indiana Created a Blueprint for an Impossible Turnaround. Now, Northwestern Is Building Even Bigger. The Wildcats have invested in a new stadium, solid leadership and their roster with ambitions set on going from the losingest college football program to one on the rise. Sports Illustrated · Sep 30
Forde-Yard Dash: The Best, Worst and Weirdest of College Football in September Texas is rolling, Jeremiah Smith looks unstoppable and LSU remains committed to making things weird. Here’s what we learned in the first month of the season. Sports Illustrated · Sep 28
Group of 6 Power Rankings: Four Teams Separating Themselves As Playoff Push Heats Up After a shaky outing against an FCS opponent, does Boise State still have a hold on the No. 1 spot? Sports Illustrated · Sep 24
Forde-Yard Dash: Separating the Unbeaten College Football Contenders From the Pretenders Perfect records can be deceiving, and these 10 teams are about to find out whether their starts mean anything. Sports Illustrated · Sep 21
College Football Week 3 Winners and Losers: Keep Louisville Weird The Cardinals, who flew under the radar in a chaotic week, are a delight to watch. Sports Illustrated · Sep 20
Group of 6 Power Rankings: How Oregon’s Loss Impacts G6 College Football Playoff Race Three new teams enter our top 10 after strong Week 2 performances. Sports Illustrated · Sep 17
Heisman Watch: How Texas’s Dramatic Comeback Shakes Up Race After Week 2 Jeremiah Smith dominated the first half, Arch Manning led the Longhorns back and Miami’s Heisman hopeful duo kept cruising. Sports Illustrated · Sep 16
2026 Week 3 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 16
College Football Playoff Eliminator: Which Teams Are Out or Alive for a Berth After Week 2 A handful of Group of 6 teams were eliminated from contention, while only the SEC and Big 12 in the Power 4 ranks have all teams still in the hunt. Sports Illustrated · Sep 15
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
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 Playoff Eliminator: Which Teams Are Out or Alive for a Berth After Week 1 Fourteen teams are already out of contention for the playoff, with a handful taking losses to FCS programs and UMass knocking out Rutgers. Sports Illustrated · Sep 8
College Fantasy Football Stars to Start, Sit in Week 1 From Each Power 4 League We evaluate the Week 1 matchups for 24 major players across college football’s power conferences. Sports Illustrated · Sep 3
Sports Illustrated · Sep 3 Indiana Created a New College Football Blueprint. How Will the Sport Respond? The Hoosiers’ improbable run showed that alignment, investment and the right coach can turn almost any program into a contender.
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 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.
SuperWest Sports · Aug 6 2026 Preseason Mountain West Football Previews Our Stephen Vilardo gives us his predicted order of finish and season outlooks for each team Mountain West football team in 2026.
Sports Illustrated · Jul 1 Moving Day: An Exhaustive Guide to the College Basketball and Football Programs Changing Conferences July 1 The start of the new academic year means it’s moving day in college athletics.
Sports Illustrated · Jul 1 Why North Dakota State Joined the Mountain West and Made the Jump to FBS Years of planning and millions in investment gave the Bison an avenue to pursue greater ambitions and an eventual shot at the College Football Playoff.
Sports Illustrated · Jun 24 NCAA Set to Change Unpopular Football Rule Just in Time for North Dakota State’s FBS Jump A provision that has flummoxed teams for years is reportedly on its way out the door.
SuperWest Sports · Jun 24 Ranking the Pac-12 Football Head Coaches for 2026 The Boise State Broncos football program has won three straight Mountain West titles under Spencer Danielson's leadership.
Sports Illustrated · May 27 No More November Cupcakes? SEC to Make Significant Change to Upcoming Football Schedules Starting in 2027, the SEC's nonconference cupcake games of late-November will be replaced by conference contests.