What are college football’s best rivalries? Readers share top 10 and favorite moments
What’s the best rivalry in college football? There’s been a lot of debate about The Athletic’s top 100…
Ranking college football’s 100 best rivalries. Who earned the top spot?
To understand what a college football rivalry means, walk into any bustling office building in Birmingham, Salt Lake…
From Chad Morris to Charlie Strong: College football’s top 25 worst coaching hires this century
Every school dreams of hiring the next Nick Saban who can transform its football program into a national…
Ranking all 18 Big Ten football programs by home attendance during 2024 season
The 2025 Big Ten football season is now less than nine weeks from kickoff. With official visits in…
Latest college football commitments, graded: Which recruits truly move the needle?
Not all commitments are created equal — and in today’s college football landscape, that’s truer than ever. With…
Top 25 true freshmen of the century: From Trevor Lawrence to Adrian Peterson, the best debuts since 2000
True freshmen have always played an outsized role in the direction of college football seasons. College football certainly…
How many college football teams could have won a national title with Nick Saban?
Editor’s note: This story is a part of No Wrong Answers, a series that explores the college sports…
Every Big Ten team’s best, worst case scenario in 2025: USC plays for league title? A three-loss Penn State?
While they don’t all root for the same schools, college football fans across the country are mostly similar.…
Not all commits are created equal: Our new score measures which ones really move the needle
Not all commitments are created equal — and in today’s college football landscape, that’s truer than ever. With…
2026 NFL Draft position rankings: multiple Oregon Ducks listed
Now that we are in the dog days of the summer, there is not much to report on…
From Bill Belichick to Rich Rodriguez: Grading first-year college football coaches’ 2025 rosters
When the dust settled on Deion Sanders’ first roster at Colorado ahead of the 2023 season, the Buffaloes…
From Nick Saban at Alabama to Jeff Brohm at Purdue: College football’s top 25 coaching hires this century
Every college football program has that one hire. It’s the moment that changes everything and kicks off an…