Forde-Yard Dash: This Weekend Could Reshape the Big Ten and Big 12 Races Ohio State will break in a new quarterback and Texas Tech is trying to avoid another stumble among the notable games in Week 9. Sports Illustrated · 2h ago
Forde-Yard Dash: Assessing College Football’s Actual National Title Contenders The field is thinning, but convincing championship contenders are hard to find with one unbeaten team emerging as the favorite and an unexpected SEC team making a serious push. Sports Illustrated · Oct 25
College Football Keeps Expanding, But the Sport Is Struggling to Keep Quarterbacks on the Field Top quarterbacks continue to go down every week, with nearly a third of FBS programs starting multiple QBs through the first eight weeks of the season. Sports Illustrated · Oct 25
Buying or Selling 10 High-Profile College Football Quarterbacks in Need of Bounce-Back Games From Arch Manning’s alarming regression to Gunner Stockton’s costly meltdown, 10 quarterbacks face critical tests as the regular season enters its final stretch. Sports Illustrated · Oct 21
Heisman Rankings After Week 7: How the Most Chaotic Weekend in Years Shakes Up Race Many of the nation’s powerhouse programs are reeling after losses, and many of the Heisman favorites now have to bounce back. Sports Illustrated · Oct 21
Pat Forde: Why Indiana’s Loss to Ohio State Was a Milestone for the Hoosiers After Nick Marsh’s cleat landed out of bounds, angry fans’ profanity was evidence that the unlikely transformation into a program that expects to win is complete. Sports Illustrated · Oct 18
College Football Week 7 Winners and Losers: Making Sense of One of the Most Chaotic Weeks in History Saturday’s games weren’t artistic, but out of the chaos sprung a week for the ages. Sports Illustrated · Oct 17
Ranking Every Power 4 Quarterback at the Halfway Point of the 2026 College Football Season While many of the sport’s best players have risen to the occasion, there’s a new No. 1, a huge drop for Arch Manning and four new entries in the top 10. Sports Illustrated · Oct 14
Forde-Yard Dash: Five-Star QBs Are Struggling, While the Underdogs Are Thriving Arch Manning and other elite recruits aren’t meeting expectations, while Josh Hoover, Darian Mensah and a collection of unlikely stars are rewriting the quarterback pecking order. Sports Illustrated · Oct 11
2026 Week 6 Selected Big Ten College Football Previews Stephen Vilardo previews six of the Week's Big Ten College football games and gives us his game predictions. SuperWest Sports · Oct 8
College Football Quarterback Rankings: Quarter-Season Grades for 15 Highly Touted Transfers With the first month of the college football season in the rearview mirror, we grade the starts for the nation’s 15 most significant transfer quarterbacks. Sports Illustrated · Oct 1
Heisman Rankings Week 4: Trinidad Chambliss Takes Loss, Jeremiah Smith Explodes As Race Remains Wide Open Florida’s win over the Rebels has the Heisman race wide open one month into the season. Sports Illustrated · Sep 30
2026 Week 4 Selected Big Ten College Football Previews Stephen Vilardo previews six of the Week 4 Big Ten College football games and gives us his picks straight-up and ATS. SuperWest Sports · Sep 24
Heisman Rankings After Week 3: A Clear Favorite Emerges for College Football’s Top Honor Coming off an explosive Week 3 across college football, headlined by Ole Miss’s massive win over LSU, Sports Illustrated ranks 16 players in the mix for the vaunted trophy. Sports Illustrated · Sep 23
Sports Illustrated · Sep 16 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 13 Projecting AP Top 25 After College Football Week 2: Texas Stuns Ohio State, and There’s a New No. 1 After a week in which multiple high-profile teams were upset, here’s how we believe the AP Top 25 poll should look.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 9 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 Heisman Watch: Whose Stock Is Falling, and Who Burst Onto the Scene in Week 1 Pitt quarterback Mason Heintschel threw seven touchdowns, Georgia running back Nate Frazier ripped off a string of long TD runs and more players to watch.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 8 Projecting the AP Top 25 After College Football’s Week 1: LSU Rises, Michigan Falls While it was cupcake-smashing week for many of college football’s top teams, some suffered near scares. Here’s how we see the AP Top 25 poll playing out as a result.
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 5 Pat Forde: Josh Hoover’s Bloody Debut Was an Oath to Indiana’s Football Standard The TCU transfer might have broken his nose, but it didn’t stop him from delivering a four-touchdown debut that suggests the Hoosiers may have found their next star quarterback.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 31 Forde-Yard Dash: 10 QBs With a Chance to Make the Mendoza Leap While Fernando Mendoza’s remarkable rise from two-star recruit to No. 1 NFL draft pick may not be replicable, these quarterbacks could be in line to make a jump.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 30 College Football Week Zero Winners and Losers: Virginia Demands to Be Taken Seriously The Cavaliers stole the show on a busy day in the ACC.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 13 Pat Forde: The 25 Most Intriguing College Football Quarterbacks for 2026 A controversial in-conference move, a famous name looking to take a leap and a signal-caller with another year of eligibility top our list.
SuperWest Sports · Aug 13 2026 Preseason Big Ten Football Previews and Predictions The league that owns the last three national championships could have as many as four teams that could make it four in a row.