Tuesday was a national holiday. It was Blue-Chip Ratio Day. It’s the day we actually get to see the list of teams that can win the national title next season. If you’re not on the list, you’re not winning it all. Plain and simple. Bud Elliott, a national recruiting analyst at 247Sports, created the blue-chip …
The rich are richer than ever, but could a new team win the title in ’23? Read More »
On Monday’s episode of The Audible, a discussion about Arkansas quarterback KJ Jefferson led us to come up with our “QB Tiers” heading into the 2023 season. While we had a few disagreements, ultimately our lists were close enough to combine them into a consensus version. Heisman winner Caleb Williams is the obvious top pick, …
College football QB tiers: Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, Michael Penix, but who’s next? Read More »
Wednesday was Decision Day in college basketball. The NCAA’s deadline for underclassmen to withdraw from the NBA Draft struck at 11:59 p.m. ET. That landmark moment capped a fast and furious couple of months that saw thousands of players transfer, break and remake commitments, and move in and out of the draft. Now that all …
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On Wednesday, perhaps by the time you read this, ESPN, Fox and others will announce their kickoff times for the first three weeks of the season. You will read plenty of coverage about it on The Athletic. As for weeks 4-13, while there have been a few announcements of specific games, you mostly will have …
When I published my rankings for the 2023-24 season the morning after the NCAA championship game, we rightly called it the “way too early” top 25. Well, it got a lot less early Thursday night, which marked the deadline for undergraduate players to enter the transfer portal. Most of the nearly 2,000 players who have …
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After USC hired former star football players as athletic director three times in a row, from Heisman Trophy winner Mike Garrett to Pat Haden to Lynn Swann, it went outside the family in 2019 for a sitting AD with extensive administrative experience to lead its storied athletic department. That option, Mike Bohn, flopped too. Now, …
