College Football Week 2 Winners and Losers: Oregon’s Dan Lanning Leads a Saturday of Overthinking Fortune favored the bold, but not the reckless. Sports Illustrated · Sep 13
College Football Week 2 Takeaways: Arch Manning Erases Ohio State Nightmares With 20-Point Fourth-Quarter Comeback After rough Week 1 games, Michigan and Oklahoma State taught us to take the openers with a grain of salt, and the Longhorns stunned the Buckeyes with a furious comeback. Sports Illustrated · Sep 12
2027 NFL Draft: Gilberto Manzano Unveils His WR Tiers, Week 2 Risers and Fallers There could be plenty of shuffling in a deep wideout class. Plus, other QBs made a strong push to be our mystery third-ranked signal-caller. Sports Illustrated · Sep 11
Nick Bartlett’s 2026 Week 2 Fearless Predictions Nick Bartlett looks at some factors that could affect the outcome of the tio regional contests this weekend. SuperWest Sports · Sep 11
Group of 6 Power Rankings: What Boise State, Western Michigan’s Dramatic Week 1 Losses Mean for CFP Race After one week of FBS action, which G6 programs lead the pack for the automatic College Football Playoff bid? Sports Illustrated · Sep 10
2026 Week 2 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. SuperWest Sports · Sep 10
2026 Week 2 Selected Big Ten College Football Previews Stephen Vilardo previews six of the Week One Big Ten College football games and gives us his picks straight-up and ATS. SuperWest Sports · Sep 10
Previewing the Top 2026 Week 2 Pac-12 Football Games Nick Bartlett highlights the top four Pac-12 Conference football matchups involving conference teams this weekend. SuperWest Sports · Sep 9
Forde-Yard Dash: Rating First-Year Coaches’ Debuts From Dream Starts to Total Disaster Memphis’s Charles Huff is 2–0 this season with a huge game against Boise State looming, while Oklahoma State’s Eric Morris had the worst weekend of the bunch. Sports Illustrated · Sep 8
Two Overrated Teams, Three Underrated Teams From Week 2 AP Top 25 College Football Poll The Week 2 AP Top 25 college football poll has dropped. Here’s where we think the voters got it wrong. Sports Illustrated · Sep 8
College Football Playoff Eliminator: Which Teams Are Out or Alive for a Berth After Week 1 Fourteen teams are already out of contention for the playoff, with a handful taking losses to FCS programs and UMass knocking out Rutgers. Sports Illustrated · Sep 8
Projecting the AP Top 25 After College Football’s Week 1: LSU Rises, Michigan Falls While it was cupcake-smashing week for many of college football’s top teams, some suffered near scares. Here’s how we see the AP Top 25 poll playing out as a result. Sports Illustrated · Sep 8
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
Sports Illustrated · Sep 7 College Football Playoff and Bowl Projections After Week 1: Notre Dame Remains Top Team The first full weekend of the season is nearly over, and Sports Illustrated has updated its projections for every postseason game.
SuperWest Sports · Sep 7 2026 Week 2 Power Rankings for CFB Teams in the West Dane Miller looks at how the top programs in the region stack up in his 2026 Preseason Power Rankings for CFB teams in the West.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 6 College Football Week 1 Winners and Losers: The Saturday the Earth Stood Still They’ll be howling about that one in Kalamazoo, Mich., until the Last Judgment.
SuperWest Sports · Sep 4 Nick Bartlett’s 2026 Week One Fearless Predictions Nick Bartlett looks at some factors that could affect the outcome of the tio regional contests this weekend.
SuperWest Sports · Sep 3 McLaughlin: G6 College Football Needs its Own Playoff Boise State AD Jeramiah Dickey floated the idea of promotion/relegation for the G6 so it can have its own Playoff.
SuperWest Sports · Sep 2 Previewing the Top 2026 Week One Pac-12 Football Games Nick Bartlett analyzes four high-stakes Pac-12 football games that could transform the perception of the conference.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 1 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.
SuperWest Sports · Aug 31 2026 Week 1 Power Rankings for CFB Teams in the West Dane Miller looks at how the top programs in the region stack up in his 2026 Preseason Power Rankings for CFB teams in the West.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 28 How New Mexico’s Key Injury Shakes Up the CFP Race Right Away The Lobos had, and still have, potential for a huge 2026.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 28 SI:AM | One Reason to Watch Each Week Zero Game Saturday will be a perfect appetizer before the season kicks off for real next week.
Sports Illustrated · Aug 24 College Football 2026 Schedule: Ranking Every Single Week of the Regular Season Not every college football Saturday is built the same. Here are the weeks you absolutely can’t miss, and the others where you can probably make some other plans.