Senators Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell introduced the Protect College Sports Act in late May as an attempt to legislate some reform and guardrails into the current landscape of college athletics following the introduction of NIL compensation for athletes. The legislation proposes ideas such as limits on coaching moves, multi-transfer eligibility, and the protection of…

Thanks to a state court injunction, Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby is currently set to become the first U.S. athlete who admitted to betting on his own team and be allowed to continue playing. Texas Tech was thrilled by the news, but just about everyone else in college football is horrified or disgusted. That’s led…

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NCAA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Michigan fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby is a highly lucky individual after a court ruling went in […]

The reinstatement of Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby is one of the most resoundingly unpopular sports stories to come around in a long time, and veteran radio host Dan Patrick is concerned about the precedent the university and its supporters are setting by supporting Sorsby despite what Patrick called “a pattern over years and years.”…

Four of the top wide receivers taken in the 2026 NFL Draft came from the Big Ten. The best player in the entire 2027 draft will be a wide receiver from the Big Ten. And with three straight national titles, the road to the top of college football in 2026 likely winds through the Big […]

On Monday, a judge granted Texas Tech Red Raiders quarterback Brendan Sorsby a temporary injunction against the NCAA that will allow him to play during the 2026 season despite admitting to thousands of bets on sports, 40 of which were on his own team. The decision quickly sparked outrage, and some teams are now flatly…

After winning the last three national championships, the Big Ten has become college football’s premier conference. Entering the 2026 season, there are legitimate contenders once again all across the conference. While Ohio State, Oregon, Indiana, Michigan, USC and Penn State all have aspirations of making the College Football Playoff, the beauty of this sport is […]

After a judge granted an injunction allowing quarterback Brendan Sorsby to play despite betting on his own team, some athletic directors are reportedly threatening a nuclear option: refusing to play against Texas Tech. The reporting comes from Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports. According to court documents, Sorsby admitted to placing bets on his own team…

Brendan Sorsby won the latest round in his fight to suit up come fall. On Monday, a Texas court granted the request from Texas Tech’s allegedly gambling addicted bonus baby quarterback for an injunction preventing the NCAA from barring him for the 2026 season and beyond.

Sorsby transferred to the Red Raiders in January after two years at Cincinnati, a move that reportedly would net him a $6…

Monday saw one of the most controversial rulings in the history of college football be reported. Earlier in the offseason, it was announced that Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby would be seeking treatment for gambling addiction. It was reported that he had bet on college football games, including Indiana Hoosiers games, when he was a…

Heads were turned when Texas Tech Raiders quarterback Brendan Sorsby announced that he was seeking treatment for gambling addiction, and it was revealed that he placed bets on the Indiana Hoosiers while he was still a rostered member of the team. After appealing to be reinstated so that he could compete in the 2026-27 season,…

Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby has won a temporary injunction in his fight with the NCAA, and under the terms of the order issued by Judge Ken Curry in the District Court of Texas for Lubbock County, he is eligible to play for the Red Raiders during the 2026 season. Sorsby sought the injunction after […]

Longtime Auburn broadcast voice Paul Ellen has died. He was 75. Ellen was part of the broadcast team for Auburn baseball, basketball, and football, notably serving as the football radio host since 1990 and as the football radio play-by-play announcer from 1979-80. “For five decades, Paul was a trusted voice of the Auburn radio broadcast…

Earlier this week, EA Sports revealed the covers for the video games Madden NFL 27 and College Football 27. Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams graces the cover of Madden NFL 27. And College Football 27 features various star players on its covers, as well as Indiana national championship-winning head coach Curt Cignetti as part of…

It will be much easier to watch University of Hawaii athletics this season, both in and out of the state. Beginning this season, the University of Hawaii will move its broadcasts from Spectrum Sports to Hawaii News Now, a group of over-the-air stations owned by Gray Media. Gray will also have the opportunity to distribute…

The official reveals of both College Football 27 and Madden NFL 27 will come on Thursday night as EA Sports holds back-to-back livestreams of the new features in the games beginning at 8 p.m. ET. Ahead of the release we got some new screenshots from both games, and they are absolutely fascinating to diagnose. Kicking […]

The Big Ten has almost always been synonymous with a ground-and-pound style of play, so it’s no surprise the conference has produced some great running backs over the years. There was a bit of a mass exodus at the running back position this offseason, but the cupboard isn’t totally bare. Here’s who we believe are […]

Wednesday is a big day for the future of college athletics, as the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee will be holding a hearing on a transformative new bill that is quickly making its way through Capitol Hill. The Protect College Sports Act is a bipartisan federal bill introduced in Congress by Senators Ted Cruz and Maria […]

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EA SPORTS has unveiled the cover athletes for EA SPORTS College Football 27 ahead of the game’s full reveal on June 4. The Standard Edition cover features three of college…

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Last week, the Big Ten Conference announced the kickoff times and TV designations for the first three weeks of the regular season. The Michigan Wolverines will be kicking off their season under the lights for the third straight season on NBC against an inferior non-conference opponent. This isn’t a surprise, as I actually predicted in […]

The 2026-27 College Football Playoff television schedule is now official, and it includes some changes from last year. ESPN revealed dates, times, and television assignments for the upcoming College Football Playoff. Among the changes from last season are the number of games ESPN has sublicensed to TNT, and the number of games that will be…

College football has spent two years convincing itself that the 12-team playoff was the right call, and the sport’s loudest skeptic thinks the coverage that followed has only made the next bad idea easier to sell. Paul Finebaum has been waging a one-man war against expanding the College Football Playoff to 24 teams since the…

Every day, we hear a new explanation for why expanding the College Football Playoff to 24 teams is good for the game. It’s not often that any of those explanations hold much water. The latest angle comes courtesy of Oklahoma Sooners coach Brent Venables, who said this past week that an expanded CFP wouldn’t damage…

As officiating and replay decisions become more integral to sports, some leagues are finally willing to open up and be more transparent about the entire process, including the Big XII. According to a report from The Athletic, the conference will take fans behind the curtain of their replay center, offering fans live video and audio…

About a week ago, I took to The Feed on Maize n Brew to ask readers who they thought the worst head coach is in Michigan Football history. While it was a pretty tight vote, 43 percent of you chose Rich Rodriguez. Taking over for Lloyd Carr would have been difficult for any coach, but […]

As college sports face numerous existential crises to try to map out a coherent path forward, the SEC is already signaling their opposition to one idea floated as a potential problem solver. There has not been much agreement throughout the past several months as power brokers across college sports and the government have failed to…

The scheduling of two early-season Arkansas football games led athletic director Hunter Yurachek to release a statement this week blaming ESPN and urging the network and the SEC to “aggressively pursue an alternative solution.” The Razorbacks are scheduled to play at Utah at 10:15 p.m. ET on Sept. 12, then at home against Georgia at…

Lane Kiffin ensured that he’s going to get booed as few people have ever been booed, the next time he walks onto the field at Ole Miss’s Vaught–Hemingway Stadium, with his recent comments about Oxford, Mississippi, in a Vanity Fair interview. Now, his replacement has offered some thoughts. Kiffin, who left Ole Miss for LSU…

Even though SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has come out against a 24-team College Football Playoff expansion, the word on the street is that many coaches in the league would be happy to do so. And when you couple that with the many coaches and ADs on the record around the country wanting a 24-team playoff,…