College Football

Sports leadership at Texas Tech on Wednesday defended their plans to play quarterback Brendan Sorsby next season while he treats his gambling addiction, insisting they are not trying to "engineer his eligibility" through the courts and dismissing widespread criticism t hat includes the president of the NCAA. Speaking to the Houston Touchdown Club, coach Joey McGuire acknowledged the "rage" surrounding the situation, with athletic directors across college football saying that […]

College football has a commissioner, and his name is Local Judge. The system we've seen built around college football in the 21st century won't break because of the money, but because we allowed a player to gamble on the sport without the penalty of banishment. This system won’t break because one judge in the next county over made one ruling, but because college football’s most powerful individuals will not come […]

Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby has won a temporary injunction against the NCAA that allows him to remain eligible even after he acknowledged making thousands of impermissible bets worth at least $90,000 on college and pro sports. Those include some bets on his own team when he was a freshman at Indiana. The court order sent shockwaves through college sports since one of the NCAA’s foundational rules, and one found […]

Think back to this time a year ago. Penn State entered the 2025 season as a top-10 team and a trendy national title pick. By the second week of November, the Nittany Lions were 3-6, their head coach had been fired, and a season filled with promise had unraveled during a six-game losing streak. That's a reminder of how quickly fortunes can change in college football. The teams generating offseason […]

Brendan Sorsby has been granted a temporary injunction against the NCAA that could clear the way for him to play for Texas Tech this fall, even after the transfer quarterback was declared ineligible for wagering on college sports. Some of the bets were made on his own team while at Indiana. The ruling Monday by Judge Ken Curry immediately prevents the NCAA from being able to block Sorsby's eligibility for […]

The N.C. State vs. Virginia football game set to take place in Brazil as the first college football game played in South America, is being relocated to the Cavaliers' home field after organizers determined the game could not be conducted in Rio de Janeiro. Wednesday's announcement came less than three months before the Wolfpack and Cavaliers were set to open the season in Rio. The Atlantic Coast Conference said in […]

Former Alabama Crimson Tide football coach Nick Saban and other college sports figures testified Wednesday in support of a bipartisan bill aimed at overhauling a system where players can increasingly earn millions of dollars while moving freely between schools. The leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee held the hearing as they push legislation unveiled last week that supporters hope can break the congressional gridlock over how to regulate college athletics. […]

Three straight national championships. A 4-0 record against the SEC in the College Football Playoff over the last three seasons. Two of the three largest CFP victories against a Power 4 team during that span. Those are just some of the reasons why the conversation around college football's top conference has shifted toward the Big Ten. But despite the Big Ten's recent dominance, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey isn't ready to […]

The College Football Playoff, ESPN and TNT Sports on Monday announced kickoff times and broadcast information for the 2026-27 CFP. First-round games on campus sites begin Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN and continue Dec. 19 at noon, 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. ABC and ESPN will broadcast the first game of the Dec. 19 tripleheader and the other two games will be on TNT and truTV. The […]