College Football Playoff Bracket Week 9 Live Projections: Tracking Games Ahead of Committee’s First Rankings Throughout Saturday’s games, Sports Illustrated projects the playoff seeding and matchups. Sports Illustrated · 2h ago
Forde-Yard Dash: The Best and Worst College Football First-Year Coaching Jobs Bob Chesney’s remarkable UCLA turnaround leads the success stories, while Matt Campbell’s struggles at Penn State stand out among the season’s biggest disappointments. Sports Illustrated · Oct 26
Forde-Yard Dash: Nine Wild, Theoretical Coaching Moves That Could Shake Up College Football As the carousel starts to spin with three dismissals over the past week, here’s how we envision the dominoes falling of coaches parachuting out of a deteriorating situation for a fresh start. Sports Illustrated · Oct 26
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
Pat Forde: College Football Playoff Projected Bracket After Week 8 The country’s final three unbeaten teams land in the top 12 as the field dwindles heading into the second half of the season. Sports Illustrated · Oct 25
College Football Playoff and Bowl Projections After Week 8: Texas Back in CFP Mix Plus, a new bowl game was added to the slate while unbeaten UCLA could host at first-round playoff game. Sports Illustrated · Oct 25
Projecting AP Top 25 After College Football Week 8: Bedlam in the Big 12, Texas Strikes Back Week 8 of the college football season reinforced a very important lesson. Here's what it means for the AP Top 25 poll. Sports Illustrated · Oct 25
College Football Playoff Bracket Week 8 Live Projections: Texas Tech Drops First Game and Out of Bracket Throughout Saturday’s games, Sports Illustrated projects the playoff seeding and matchups. Sports Illustrated · Oct 24
The 15 College Football Games We’re Most Excited to Watch in the Second Half of the Season Though it’s still too early to tell exactly which games will be the most consequential for the College Football Playoff race, these matchups over the next six weeks have caught our attention. Sports Illustrated · Oct 23
Big Blue Belief: Inside Will Stein’s Remarkable Kentucky Homecoming The first-year head coach’s lifelong Kentucky loyalty, audacious swagger and stunning 6–1 start have sparked a football frenzy at a school better known for basketball. Sports Illustrated · Oct 23
2027 NFL Draft: For the Chargers, It Should Be Jeremiah Smith or Bust The Ohio State wideout could solve L.A.’s offensive issues. Plus, who’s rising, who’s falling and the games this week that could impact the draft. Sports Illustrated · Oct 23
The 15 Men’s College Basketball Coaches Facing the Most Pressure in 2026–27 Several high-profile coaches have plenty to prove, while others could be nearing retirement. Here are the names to keep an eye on ahead of the season. Sports Illustrated · Oct 22
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
The Largest Buyouts in College Football and Men’s College Basketball History Math is never as backward as it is when talking about college coaching buyouts. Here are the largest calculator-busting buyouts ever. Sports Illustrated · Oct 21
SuperWest Sports · Oct 20 McLaughlin: Chad Ochocinco’s $2M offer to Jesse Legree BYU has the opportunity of a lifetime against Notre Dame on Saturday—are the Cougars ready for it?
Sports Illustrated · Oct 19 Forde-Yard Dash: The SEC Is More Competitive Than Ever, and It Might Be a Bad Thing Four factors have compressed the SEC where almost anyone can win, but with no clear heavyweight, a national title isn’t guaranteed.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 18 Pat Forde: College Football Playoff Projected Bracket After Week 7 BYU takes over the top seed after beating Notre Dame at home, while Kentucky and Texas Tech enter the fray.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 18 College Football Playoff and Bowl Projections After Week 7: Title Game Rematch on Tap BYU vaults to the No. 1 playoff seed, while the bowl games see Bill Belichick’s North Carolina in the Mayo Bowl and North Dakota State’s FBS postseason debut.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 16 The 24 Worst Teams That Would Have Made the College Football Playoff in New 24-Team Format Concern is mounting about how the new structure will dilute the caliber of teams playing for a national championship.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 12 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.
SuperWest Sports · Oct 12 McLaughlin: Oregon State’s Impressive Offense and Season Spencer talks about WR Jesse LeGree and the Beavers' rise under JaMarcus Shephard,
Sports Illustrated · Oct 9 Three Matchups That Will Decide Georgia vs. Alabama, Plus 10 Other Can’t Miss Games in Week 6 The cream of the crop in the SEC meets in a potentially tropical storm–impacted Tuscaloosa on Saturday and a few key factors could decide which team grabs the reins.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 6 Forde-Yard Dash: Six Games That Will Tell Us What College Football Contenders Are Real Undefeated records, preseason expectations and early hype will be tested in a weekend packed with revealing matchups.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 5 Forde-Yard Dash: The Winners and Losers of College Football’s Hot Seat in Week 5 Mike Norvell and Luke Fickell helped themselves Saturday, while Shane Beamer took another step toward the exit. Plus, football in the state of Colorado is in shambles.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 4 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.