News story: Calls about "throwing the game." Cash pickups outside town. A girlfriend placing prop bets on you. The NCAA completes more infractions cases in the gambling scandal, with former players at UNO, Mississippi Valley and ASU @Rosenberg_Mike bit.ly/4oCcld2

News story: Calls about "throwing the game." Cash pickups outside town. A girlfriend placing prop bets on you. The NCAA completes more infractions cases in the gambling scandal, with former players at UNO, Mississippi Valley and ASU @Rosenberg_Mike bit.ly/4oCcld2

🚨🏈 New pod. We tell the selection committee what they did wrong, discuss whether anyone can make the playoff every year, give last rites to Hugh Freeze at Auburn and discuss successors, make picks and further examine Holiday Creep. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Full Forde-Yard Dash is available, starting with a first quarter on Auburn's Hugh Freeze failure, Miami's fade, ACC mayhem and the way I saw the playoff bracket before the committee weighed in: bit.ly/47T65Yb

Overnight column: At No. 10, Notre Dame is in position to make the playoff, even if the Irish don’t deserve it (not yet at least). How they can be five spots ahead of Louisville makes little sense. bit.ly/43NCbC7

Forde-Yard Dash, Fourth Quarter: Beating the rush and getting pre-mad at the first College Football Playoff rankings. More transparency. That Bama loss. Notre Dame's spot. Ginning up a fourth Big Ten contender. How much AAC love? More. bit.ly/4oqCv2a

Overnight column: At No. 10, Notre Dame is in position to make the playoff, even if the Irish don’t deserve it (not yet at least). How they can be five spots ahead of Louisville makes little sense. bit.ly/43NCbC7

Watch @bryandfischer.bsky.social and I react react live to the CFP rankings and answer your questions. Tune in here: youtube.com/live/RS0YHgL...

NCAA News: Former Indiana volleyball assistant coach placed $327,000 in impermissible wagers on pro and college sports, including 27 bets on Indiana football and basketball. Two-year show-cause penalty for Brett Agne. web3.ncaa.org/lsdbi/search...

Forde-Yard Dash, Fourth Quarter: Beating the rush and getting pre-mad at the first College Football Playoff rankings. More transparency. That Bama loss. Notre Dame's spot. Ginning up a fourth Big Ten contender. How much AAC love? More. bit.ly/4oqCv2a

Forde-Yard Dash, Third Quarter: If going to the playoff every year is mandatory, everyone is set up for failure. Expect half the bracket to be playoff newcomers Tuesday night, as the sport flattens and more programs contend. bit.ly/3JFQ3aS

Forde-Yard Dash, Third Quarter: If going to the playoff every year is mandatory, everyone is set up for failure. Expect half the bracket to be playoff newcomers Tuesday night, as the sport flattens and more programs contend. bit.ly/3JFQ3aS

Forde-Yard Dash, Second Quarter: The disappearing coach hiring class of 2023, with 40 percent of the 25 hires already out and more likely. Who's gone, who could be going, who is thriving, who is hanging on. bit.ly/47ETgj5

Forde-Yard Dash, Second Quarter: The disappearing coach hiring class of 2023, with 40 percent of the 25 hires already out and more likely. Who's gone, who could be going, who is thriving, who is hanging on. bit.ly/47ETgj5

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: Auburn finally joins the carousel by firing Hugh Freeze, whose QB decisions backfired and offenses flopped. Plus another Miami fade, ACC mayhem and the current playoff bracket. bit.ly/47T65Yb

College basketball season starts now — really, the first game is at 8 am ET. There is a lot hovering over the season as it tips off. From @michael-rosenberg.bsky.social and I: www.si.com/college-bask...

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: Auburn finally joins the carousel by firing Hugh Freeze, whose QB decisions backfired and offenses flopped. Plus another Miami fade, ACC mayhem and the current playoff bracket. bit.ly/47T65Yb

Column: Ohio State was supposed to take a step back this season. Instead, repeat after me: the Buckeyes are a playoff lock and Julian Sayin might win the Heisman. bit.ly/4hAiGCK

Column: Ohio State was supposed to take a step back this season. Instead, repeat after me: the Buckeyes are a playoff lock and Julian Sayin might win the Heisman. bit.ly/4hAiGCK

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: Checking in on second-year head coaches. Who is crushing it, and who is being crushed? bit.ly/47aFJkf

This week's First to Forde picks. I'm 16-9 over the past five weeks; let's keep it rolling. www.si.com/betting/firs...

Story with @Rosenberg_Mike updated to reflect related situation at Eastern Kentucky with transfer guard Amarr Knox, who was the leading scorer at NCAA Tournament team Alabama State last year. bit.ly/4hBFa6l

That escalated quickly: re-grading the hits and misses, booms and busts from the momentous 2021-22 college football hiring cycle. With ⁦‪Bryan Fischer: www.si.com/college-foot...

News with @michael-rosenberg.bsky.social: The NCAA has informed Western Michigan that Robert Morris transfer Justice Williams is of interest in the ongoing probe of gambling in college basketball. The inquiry is continuing to spread nationwide. bit.ly/4hBFa6l

🚨🏈New pod: The literal political football in Louisiana. Which job should Lane take? What should Auburn, FSU and Wisconsin do? Peeking ahead at next week's CFP rankings reveal. Game picks. Loose monkeys! With Geno and @bryandfischer.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4pe9538z

News with @michael-rosenberg.bsky.social: The NCAA has informed Western Michigan that Robert Morris transfer Justice Williams is of interest in the ongoing probe of gambling in college basketball. The inquiry is continuing to spread nationwide. bit.ly/4hBFa6l

🚨🏈New pod: The literal political football in Louisiana. Which job should Lane take? What should Auburn, FSU and Wisconsin do? Peeking ahead at next week's CFP rankings reveal. Game picks. Loose monkeys! With Geno and @bryandfischer.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4pe9538z

Today, Shane Hennen is allegedly at the center of a sports-gambling scandal. Sixteen years ago, a former college basketball accused Hennen of cheating at a card game. What happened from there says a lot … and so did Hennen. With @bypatforde.bsky.social: www.si.com/nba/how-an-a...

News with @Rosenberg_Mike: Shane Hennen has made international news as a key player in the FBI gambling probe. But it's hardly the first time he's been accused of fraudulent gambling. His ability to stay out of prison will be tested now. bit.ly/3Wv6dqy

Full Forde-Yard Dash is operational. First Quarter: the second-year coaches who are crushing it, or being crushed. Plus the playoff bracket two-thirds of the way through the season. bit.ly/47aFJkf

Forde-Yard Dash, Fourth Quarter: with playoff bids on the line, which teams will move the needle (good or bad) in November? Plus comp car, bus, beer. bit.ly/4hPVgtz

Forde-Yard Dash, Fourth Quarter: with playoff bids on the line, which teams will move the needle (good or bad) in November? Plus comp car, bus, beer. bit.ly/4hPVgtz

News: Dayton is withholding Iona transfer Adam Njie upon information received from the NCAA. Sources tell SI this is related to the widening probe of gambling and performance manipulation in the sport. bit.ly/4obNrAF

Forde-Yard Dash, Third Quarter: If you think Curt Cignetti's work at Indiana is unprecedented, you're right. By winning percentage, he's outperforming his school's history like no one ever has. Plus some other data on the biggest winners in the sport. bit.ly/4oEI90i

Went hurry-up offense on the Forde-Yard Dash Second Quarter, given the news of the day: In a season of rapidly disintegrating teams and fast firings, Brian Kelly stands to be the most expensive yet. Money is no object, no matter what schools say. bit.ly/3WUvNFp

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: Grading second-year head coaches -- those crushing it, holding serve, not working out and TBD. Schadenfreude Meter included. And the latest playoff bracket. bit.ly/47aFJkf

Went hurry-up offense on the Forde-Yard Dash Second Quarter, given the news of the day: In a season of rapidly disintegrating teams and fast firings, Brian Kelly stands to be the most expensive yet. Money is no object, no matter what schools say. bit.ly/3WUvNFp

News: Dayton is withholding Iona transfer Adam Njie upon information received from the NCAA. Sources tell SI this is related to the widening probe of gambling and performance manipulation in the sport. bit.ly/4obNrAF

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: Grading second-year head coaches -- those crushing it, holding serve, not working out and TBD. Schadenfreude Meter included. And the latest playoff bracket. bit.ly/47aFJkf

Column: Two-thirds of the way through the season, Vanderbilt remains very much in the mix for the College Football Playoff. This is the new world, and the Commodores are capitalizing on their opportunity. bit.ly/3Jwyx8V

Column: Two-thirds of the way through the season, Vanderbilt remains very much in the mix for the College Football Playoff. This is the new world, and the Commodores are capitalizing on their opportunity. bit.ly/3Jwyx8V

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: the hot seats and big buyouts that could send an already busy coaching carousel spinning faster. Plus the current playoff bracket. bit.ly/3IVGZ1n

Went 1-1 last night, with a win in OT and a loss by the hook. Razor’s edge. Three more picks today. www.si.com/betting/firs...

Why @bypatforde.bsky.social is the 🐐: “[The Mafia Five Families] is the only place we haven’t had realignment.”

News story: The NCAA closed its first case in the basketball gambling scandal that has ties across the NBA and college levels, charging three Eastern Michigan players with Level I violations for refusing to cooperate. With @michael-rosenberg.bsky.social bit.ly/3KYv5EC

This was a fun, @sinow staff-wide story idea that ran into the wood chipper of breaking news. But: Inspired by Ohtani last Friday, what are the greatest individual performances in just about every sport? And were they better or worse than what he did? www.si.com/mlb/how-othe...

News story on the simmering NBA scandal that erupted Thursday: si.com/nba/chauncey...

News: the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York will have a 10 am press conference regarding its investigation of point shaving and performance manipulation in pro basketball. This is separate from the college investigation that is in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Full Forde-Yard Dash is available, and you cannot endure Wednesday without it. First Quarter addresses the hottest seats and massive buyouts that could be in play in the weeks to come. Plus the new playoff bracket after a slaughterhouse Saturday. bit.ly/3IVGZ1n