The Top 76 Players in Men’s College Basketball for 2026–27, Ranked In a nod to the expanded NCAA tournament, here are the 76 players projected to make the biggest impact this season. Sports Illustrated · 3h ago
College Football Playoff Eliminator After Week 8: Early Season Contenders Get Cut Eleven Power 4 teams are out of contention after another roller-coaster week in the sport, including one of the preseason favorites in Oregon. Sports Illustrated · Oct 27
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 · Oct 27
Dane Miller’s 2026-27 Big 12 Hoops Media Vote & Previews Dane Miller gives us his 2026-27 preseason Big 12 Conference men's basketball media vote and mini previews for each team. SuperWest Sports · Oct 27
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
2026 Week 9 Power Rankings for CFB Teams in the West Dane Miller's Week 9 power rankings for college football teams in the West after Utah beat Houston and BYU fell to UCF, leaving Utah and UCLA unbeaten. SuperWest Sports · Oct 26
Pat Forde: One Boast Made Texas Tech’s Loss to Cincinnati Even More Embarrassing Billionaire booster Cody Campbell promised retribution against the Bearcats. Instead, the Red Raiders were now have a loss and a much narrower path to the College Football Playoff. Sports Illustrated · Oct 25
College Football Week 8 Winners and Losers: Arch Manning Gets Loose vs. Ole Miss Plus: Big 12 favorites go down, Lincoln Riley struggles in the Midwest and a D-III power makes history. Sports Illustrated · Oct 24
Miami rolls in its first game as No. 1 team, No. 6 Indiana hangs on in OT and No. 8 Texas Tech loses Miami had no problem passing its first test as the No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 and No. 18 LSU, No. 23 SMU and No. 24 Northwestern also cruised to easy wins in the early window of college football games The Independent UK · Oct 24
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
Tennessee Pulls a Non-Upset Upset? Four Bold Predictions for College Football Week 8 Plus: near-revenge for Cincinnati, an Oklahoma letdown, and more USC roulette. Sports Illustrated · Oct 23
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
2026-27 College Hoops Schedule by Team for Teams in West ere’s the complete 2026-27 men’s basketball schedule for the top teams from the West, team by team. The breakdown includes SuperWest Sports · Oct 22
Ranking Men’s Basketball National Player of the Year Candidates by All-American Tiers David Mirković, Jeremy Fears Jr. and Thomas Haugh all return to their teams with eyes on elevating to the top of the sport. Sports Illustrated · Oct 21
SuperWest Sports · Oct 21 McLaughlin: Bison at Lobos is the G6 Game of the Week Spencer McLaughlin talks about why this week's North Dakota State at New Mexico contest is the G6 game of the week.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 20 College Football Playoff Eliminator After Week 7: Chaos Doesn’t Inflict Carnage While there were multiple upsets in the AP Top 25, no actual damage was done to many teams’ CFP hopes.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 19 College Football’s Week 7 Was a Reminder: Don’t Sleep on the Big 12 Quietly, the Big 12 has five top-25 teams and two teams in the College Football Playoff hunt.
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 18 Projecting AP Top 25 After College Football Week 7: SEC Hangover Comes for Georgia, BYU Cougars Roar Five of the top seven teams lost in Week 7. After the dust settled, here’s what we think the AP Top 25 poll will look like.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 16 2027 NFL Draft: Scout’s Take on Arch Manning, Plus Will Echoles Critiques EA Sports Portrayal Ole Miss’s star defensive tackle: ‘I’ve never worn knee braces in a game.’ Also, who’s rising, who’s falling and the games this week that could impact the draft.
SuperWest Sports · Oct 16 Nick Bartlett’s 2026 Week 7 Fearless Predictions Nick Bartlett looks at some factors that could affect the outcome of some of the regional contests this weekend.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 15 Sports Illustrated’s 2026 College Football Midseason All-Americans As we hit mid-October, these 54 college stars stand above the rest.
SuperWest Sports · Oct 15 2026 Week 7 Top Big 12 College Football Storylines Dane Miller analyzes the current state of Big 12 Conference football and some key games heading into the weekend.
Sports Illustrated · Oct 6 College Football Playoff Eliminator: One Conference Completely Out of Contention After Week 5 Plus, the Big 12 had its first teams exit the playoff picture and five other Power 4 teams said goodbye to their chances.