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📈 We’re buying Fran Brown stock. Syracuse got absolutely hammered by injuries last season, but don’t let that make you forget what Fran Brown is building in Central New York. He can recruit. His players believe in him. And if Syracuse gets some better injury luck in 2026? 🍊 We’re…

College football is BACK — and so are Seth and James for Season 7 of yapping about it. Before the first full Saturday of the season, we’re putting some early 2026 takes on tape: the teams nobody is talking about enough, potential conference disruptors, a Group of Six playoff sleeper…

I ain’t real political, but if somebody ran under the Waffle House Party, they’d have my vote. Men and women of all races, colors and creeds, shoulder to shoulder, united in TouchTunes harmony. I pledge allegiance to the flag of scattered, covered and smothered. One nation, under waffle, indivisible, with…

Bloomington belongs in the conversation with the best college towns in America. @CFBTravelGuy Josh Sims explains why Indiana delivers an elite college football weekend — and why no trip to Bloomington is complete without a stop at Nick’s to play Sink the Biz. 🎙️ Full episode on The Preferred Walk-On…

@CFBTravelGuy Josh Sims explains why there’s nothing quite like arriving in a college town on Friday and feeling the energy of a football weekend begin to build. The game is still a day away — but the experience has already started. #CollegeFootball #CFB #CollegeFootballTravel #GameDay

College football is about a lot more than the three hours inside the stadium. It’s the college town on Friday afternoon. The bar that’s been there for generations. The tailgate you stumble into. The traditions you’ve only seen on television. The rivalry that divides an entire state. And the meal…

There are rivalry trophies. And then there’s Paul Bunyan’s Axe. 🪓 Minnesota’s Anthony Smith on what it means to beat Wisconsin, grab the Axe and carry it off the field as the victor. Years from now, the score might get a little fuzzy. But you never forget carrying the Axe.…

NIL. The transfer portal. Realignment. Revenue sharing. Washington head coach Jedd Fisch says the conversation around college football has become so consumed by the sport’s changing landscape that we’ve lost sight of the special young people at the center of it. A perspective worth hearing from Big Ten Media Days.…

Before becoming the lead play-by-play voice for SEC Network football, Matt Schumacker spent more than a decade betting on himself. His advice is bigger than broadcasting. “Nobody else has to see it as long as you see it.”

Matt Schumacker’s road to the SEC broadcast booth was anything but an overnight success story. Before becoming the new lead play-by-play voice for SEC Network football, Matt spent more than a decade grinding his way through sports broadcasting — calling minor league baseball for free, driving hours for $200 basketball…

“I win. Google me.” At the time, it sounded like one of the boldest quotes college football had heard in years. Then Curt Cignetti went out and backed it up. So much so that P.J. Fleck compared it to Babe Ruth calling his shot. That’s about as much respect as…

Dante Moore may be Oregon’s quarterback, but when it comes to golf… he’s one of us. We caught up with Dante at Big Ten Media Days to talk bucket-list golf courses, Bandon Dunes, Augusta National, and the confession every golfer can relate to: he slices the driver. 🎙️ The Preferred…

Charleston ➝ Chicago ➝ Charleston. Join me behind the scenes at my first Big Ten Media Days as I spend one whirlwind day meeting coaches, players, sports information directors and fellow media members while covering one of college football’s biggest preseason events. The countdown to kickoff is officially on. Subscribe…

SMU Rising. 📈🏈 “I don’t look at things for what they aren’t. I look at them for what they are, or what they could be.” That mindset says everything about Rhett Lashlee. While others focus on limitations, he sees opportunity. While others make excuses, he sees potential. It’s the same…

Sometimes your first opportunity changes the course of your life. For Kerwin Bell, that opportunity came as a graduate assistant under Steve Spurrier at Florida. Being around one of college football’s greatest coaches didn’t just influence his philosophy—it gave him clarity. That’s when he knew. This is what I want…