College Football Playoff Bracket Week 7 Live Projections: Georgia Knocked Out of Top Seed Throughout Saturday’s games, Sports Illustrated projects the playoff seeding and matchups. Sports Illustrated · 21h ago
Heisman Race Midseason Check-in: Separating Contenders From Pretenders After Week 6 As we approach the midseason mark of the college football season, which stars have legitimate cases to win the nation’s most prestigious award, and which are on the outside looking in? Sports Illustrated · Oct 14
Forde-Yard Dash: College Football’s Nine Biggest Busts at Midseason From a preseason national title favorite to high-profile SEC programs, several teams have turned promising seasons into uphill battles. Sports Illustrated · Oct 12
College Football Playoff Bracket Week 6 Live Projections: Georgia Claims Top Seed Through Saturday’s games, Sports Illustrated projects the playoff seeding and matchups. Sports Illustrated · Oct 10
Pat Forde: The SEC’s Big-Win Hangover Is Becoming a Weekly Problem The chaos is handing contenders losses across the league, but those defeats could ultimately strengthen the conference’s case for multiple College Football Playoff bids. Sports Illustrated · Oct 4
Forde-Yard Dash: What, Exactly, Are These Words in My College Fight Song? “Hotty Toddy” might make the most sense of the incredible number of nonsensical sayings The Dash dug up. Let’s sing them together. Sports Illustrated · Sep 22
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
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
Forde-Yard Dash: Michigan’s Bail Mary Exposes College Football’s Credibility Crisis The Big Ten’s explanation only raised more questions, and the real problem goes beyond Michigan, replay officials and one inexplicable second. Sports Illustrated · Sep 7
Pat Forde: College Football Playoff Projected Bracket After Week 1 With the season in full swing, only the results at hand will be considered and preseason projections are out the window. Sports Illustrated · Sep 7
Trinidad Chambliss, the SEC’s Best QB, Passed a Test the Rest of the League Avoided While others played overmatched opponents, Ole Miss faced a real challenge and turned to a proven leader who delivered in a thrilling win over Louisville. Sports Illustrated · Sep 7
College football season opens with new coaches, eligibility chaos and a Top 25 showdown The college football season opened in late August but this is its grand opening weekend The Independent UK · Sep 5
Forde-Yard Dash: No Doubt Who Tops College Football’s Early Conference Power Rankings The Big Ten is No. 1 until proven otherwise, while Week Zero offered clues as to where the rest of the sport stacks up. Plus, four book recommendations and our first coaching fodder. Sports Illustrated · Sep 1
Sports Illustrated · Aug 30 Forde-Yard Dash: Gauging College Football’s 10 Biggest 2026 Pressure Points From LSU’s all-in gamble to Kalen DeBoer’s warming seat, these are the people and programs with the most at stake this season.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 24 Pat Forde: College Sports Has Abandoned Restraint With Its NFL-to-NCAA Pipeline What began as a fight over a fifth year has spiraled into a free-for-all where the boundaries between college and professional sports barely exist.
The Independent UK · Aug 17 Ohio State and Oregon are 1-2 in the AP preseason Top 25, SEC leads conferences with 9 ranked teams Ohio State and Oregon give the Big Ten Conference the top two teams in The Associated Press Top 25 preseason rankings for the first time in 65 years
Sports Illustrated · Aug 6 Pat Forde: The 25 Most Intriguing College Football Coaches for 2026 The confident reigning national champion and a controversial and brash boss lead the list of coaches who will define the season.
Sports Illustrated · Jul 23 Lane Kiffin Can Quit Social Media, But He Can’t Escape Himself The LSU coach’s latest self-improvement project won’t erase a career built on polarizing decisions and self-inflicted controversy.
Sports Illustrated · Jul 22 Pete Golding Has the Swagger to Match Ole Miss’s Expectations The first-year Rebels coach isn't afraid to speak his mind on tampering, Lane Kiffin or anything else in his first SEC media days.
Sports Illustrated · Jul 21 Why Auburn and Florida Hold the Keys to the SEC’s Football Revival New coaches Alex Golesh and Jon Sumrall inherit two of the SEC’s proudest programs, and their success could shape whether the conference regains its place atop college football.
Sports Illustrated · Apr 9 WNBA Mock Draft: Is There a Clear No. 1 Pick This Year? Here’s how the 2026 draft may unfold on Monday night.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 16 Top 2026 WNBA Draft Prospects to Watch During March Madness Before these players think about where they might be playing pro this summer, they’re on a quest for a national title.
The Independent UK · Jan 10 No. 1 Indiana adds to CFP dominance with crushing 56-22 Peach Bowl semifinal win over No. 5 Oregon Undefeated Indiana’s already impressive march through the College Football Playoff gained momentum as its dominant defense created three first-half touchdowns with turnovers, Fernando Mendoza threw five scoring passes and the Hoosiers overwhelmed No. 5 Oregon 56-22 in the Peach Bowl semifinal
The Independent UK · Jan 8 Ole Miss and Miami to play for a spot in the FBS national championship game at Fiesta Bowl Mississippi has kept winning despite its coach bolting for another program