Forde-Yard Dash, Fourth Quarter: Now it gets real in the conference races. Four monster games in the Big Ten — Penn State finally enters the chat. Two big ones in the SEC, including another Kirby Psychoanalysis Game. Two in the Big 12. Traps in the ACC. bit.ly/47XjwH5

Forde-Yard Dash, Third Quarter: The SEC did the best it could in maintaining annual rivalries in its 9-game schedule, but LSU-Alabama is an unfortunate casualty. Assessing that and 11 other imperiled rivalries. bit.ly/4nkndeT

Forde-Yard Dash, Second Quarter: Re-examining the quarterback recruiting class of 2022, now that many of them are playing prominent roles this season. You knew about five-stars Allar and Klubnik, but QBs rated No. 124 and 134 are stealing the show. bit.ly/47WB866

Forde-Yard Dash, Second Quarter: Re-examining the quarterback recruiting class of 2022, now that many of them are playing prominent roles this season. You knew about five-stars Allar and Klubnik, but QBs rated No. 124 and 134 are stealing the show. bit.ly/47WB866

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: The ugly truth is coming home to roost for 10 disappointing teams. Plus this week's playoff bracket, and the Big 12's mop-up mission on the ACC. bit.ly/4gw0cmu

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: The ugly truth is coming home to roost for 10 disappointing teams. Plus this week's playoff bracket, and the Big 12's mop-up mission on the ACC. bit.ly/4gw0cmu

Column: Curt Cignetti stopped himself from trash talking Saturday night. He didn’t have to. Indiana’s obliteration of Illinois spoke volumes — the Hoosiers are playoff contenders again. bit.ly/4nG7E0M

Column: Curt Cignetti stopped himself from trash talking Saturday night. He didn’t have to. Indiana’s obliteration of Illinois spoke volumes — the Hoosiers are playoff contenders again. bit.ly/4nG7E0M

🏈🚨 New pod: historic lightweights invade the Top 25 -- trend or blip? Vandy surges. UCLA flounders. VT's search. What we know, and what we're not sure about. Game picks. Drunk driver in a Barbie jeep. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

New story: The serape, the street fighter and the Las Cruces swagger that transformed Vanderbilt. QB Diego Pavia is the driving force, but he leans on a father figure coach, Jerry Kill. “He’s just looked out for me, cared for me when no one did.” bit.ly/3K9E2KP

🏈🚨 New pod: historic lightweights invade the Top 25 -- trend or blip? Vandy surges. UCLA flounders. VT's search. What we know, and what we're not sure about. Game picks. Drunk driver in a Barbie jeep. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

New story: The serape, the street fighter and the Las Cruces swagger that transformed Vanderbilt. QB Diego Pavia is the driving force, but he leans on a father figure coach, Jerry Kill. “He’s just looked out for me, cared for me when no one did.” bit.ly/3K9E2KP

Forde-Yard Dash, Fourth Quarter: Illinois-Indiana matters once every 75 years, and this is that year. Plus some other prove-it games for unbeaten/untested teams. Comp car. Bus. Beer. Let's go. bit.ly/4nBR4PG

Forde-Yard Dash, Fourth Quarter: Illinois-Indiana matters once every 75 years, and this is that year. Plus some other prove-it games for unbeaten/untested teams. Comp car. Bus. Beer. Let's go. bit.ly/4nBR4PG

Forde-Yard Dash, Third Quarter: The Heisman race is in shambles (which is fine). The preseason favorites are almost all off to underwhelming starts, opening the door for some new names. bit.ly/46rUk9m

Forde-Yard Dash, Third Quarter: The Heisman race is in shambles (which is fine). The preseason favorites are almost all off to underwhelming starts, opening the door for some new names. bit.ly/46rUk9m

Forde-Yard Dash, Second Quarter: Six Degrees of Jimbo. His former QBs are thriving, his old rivals are struggling ... and would he be a good fit at Virginia Tech? bit.ly/3VfCLUT

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: Alabama top five and Florida State outside the top 25? That’s the stuff you get from early analytics ratings like FPI. It should change, but for now the oft-bashed human polls are better. Plus: new Dash playoff bracket. bit.ly/3JZKFiN

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: Alabama top five and Florida State outside the top 25? That’s the stuff you get from early analytics ratings like FPI. It should change, but for now the oft-bashed human polls are better. Plus: new Dash playoff bracket. bit.ly/3JZKFiN

Bad coverage. No sacks. A botched hold. A last-gasp TD by an anonymous tight end. If Notre Dame’s playoff hopes are already gone — which they might be — this was a heck of a way to go. bit.ly/46ebyZ3

Bad coverage. No sacks. A botched hold. A last-gasp TD by an anonymous tight end. If Notre Dame’s playoff hopes are already gone — which they might be — this was a heck of a way to go. bit.ly/46ebyZ3

Week Three pregame reads, starting with the Dash First Quarter: What to do when your Forever Coach stops winning? Plus some rapidly heating seats of non-Forever Coaches, and this week's playoff bracket. bit.ly/46aOx7O

Column: Alex Golesh and his family arrived in America with $400 and a work ethic. That's basically it. A football know-nothing from Russia became a coach, and now he leads the trendiest team in the country, South Florida. bit.ly/4migTTR

News story: 13 men's basketball players from six schools under NCAA investigation for gambling "integrity concerns." There are "overlapping" schemes and individuals involved with multiple players, sources say. bit.ly/3I7k02W

Column: Alex Golesh and his family arrived in America with $400 and a work ethic. That's basically it. A football know-nothing from Russia became a coach, and now he leads the trendiest team in the country, South Florida. bit.ly/4migTTR

News story: 13 men's basketball players from six schools under NCAA investigation for gambling "integrity concerns." There are "overlapping" schemes and individuals involved with multiple players, sources say. bit.ly/3I7k02W

News story: Three men's college basketball players permanently banned by the NCAA for placing wagers on themselves and each other, and manipulating performances. bit.ly/460IAvz

News story: Three men's college basketball players permanently banned by the NCAA for placing wagers on themselves and each other, and manipulating performances. bit.ly/460IAvz

Forde-Yard Dash, Fourth Quarter: A deep week of intrigue in CFB. Back-to-the-wall games. Nemesis games. Sneak-attack games. Body clock games. Yardstick games. Previewing and picking 16 of them. bit.ly/4gco3ay

Forde-Yard Dash, Fourth Quarter: A deep week of intrigue in CFB. Back-to-the-wall games. Nemesis games. Sneak-attack games. Body clock games. Yardstick games. Previewing and picking 16 of them. bit.ly/4gco3ay

Forde-Yard Dash, Third Quarter: Nick Saban says "generational wealth" has tilted the sport in favor of the Big Ten over the SEC. An examination of whether rich alums are really the deciding factor in who wins. bit.ly/3Vb01Dk

Forde-Yard Dash, Second Quarter: ACC crunches numbers in quest for 10 power-conference opponents every year. Plus a conference call update on how well (or poorly) every FBS league is doing so far. bit.ly/3IcEh76

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: What to do when your Forever Coach stops winning. Plus other coaches who have quickly put themselves on the hot seat, and this week's playoff bracket. bit.ly/46aOx7O

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: What to do when your Forever Coach stops winning. Plus other coaches who have quickly put themselves on the hot seat, and this week's playoff bracket. bit.ly/46aOx7O

Column: Joe Castiglione might be the last of his kind in college athletics — a career campus administrator. Oklahoma has hired a new-era search firm led by a former NFL exec to find a new AD, a sign of where the industry is headed. bit.ly/4ncYM2j

🚨🚨🎙️New pod🎙️🚨🚨 @bypatforde.bsky.social, Geno and I discuss Oklahoma-Michigan from all the angles, holding/selling on Arch and Chapel Bill, QB chatter, plus Week 2 picks and more. 🍎 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... 🟢Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4MVo...

🚨🏈New pod: Ratings. All things OU-Michigan. Geno does QB math. ACC 8/9. Hold/fold on Arch, Hoodie, Bama, Clemson, ND, Puddles the Duck. Game picks. Airplane window seat lawsuit, and whether to open or close that window shade. With @bryandfischer.bsky.social and Geno. tinyurl.com/fty23wss

The full Forde-Yard Dash is available, and in living color. Start here, with a First Quarter on the fading power of two programs that dominated the four-team playoff era, Alabama and Clemson. bit.ly/45WDu1Z

News: USA Swimming (at last) has a new CEO: Kevin Ring, whose primary career stops have been the PGA of America and IMG. Thus ends a process beset with palace intrigue and infighting. Now an overhauled organization hits the accelerator to play catch-up for L.A.

Forde-Yard Dash, Fourth Quarter: Michigan keeps appealing everything. Picking Sooners-Wolverines, plus a few neighborhood scraps -- Border War, CyHawk, Baylor-SMU, USF-Florida, Red Wolves-Hogs. A rescheduled game from 2018. Comp car, bus, beer. bit.ly/4n5GwIi

Forde-Yard Dash, Third Quarter: With conference strength arguments looming, a breakdown of how every league performed in Week Zero/One. Overall records, best wins, worst losses, key takeaways. Plus: current playoff bracket. If you ain't played nobody, you ain't ranked. bit.ly/4mV6e2g

Forde-Yard Dash, Third Quarter: With conference strength arguments looming, a breakdown of how every league performed in Week Zero/One. Overall records, best wins, worst losses, key takeaways. Plus: current playoff bracket. If you ain't played nobody, you ain't ranked. bit.ly/4mV6e2g

Forde-Yard Dash, Second Quarter: Best and worst debuts -- head coaches, coordinators, quarterbacks, freshmen, etc. A lot happened in Week One. bit.ly/4mJM4Zi

Column: After that debacle — no, during it — would anyone blame Bill Belichick if he’s regretting what he got himself into? On a weekend of harpooned hype in college football, nobody fell harder than Chapel Bill. bit.ly/4lT5BoM

Column: After that debacle — no, during it — would anyone blame Bill Belichick if he’s regretting what he got himself into? On a weekend of harpooned hype in college football, nobody fell harder than Chapel Bill. bit.ly/4lT5BoM

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: the 2015-20 era of Alabama-Clemson dominance continues to recede. The Tide keeps getting housed by mediocre teams, and the Tigers don’t win the big ones anymore. bit.ly/45WDu1Z

Forde-Yard Dash, First Quarter: the 2015-20 era of Alabama-Clemson dominance continues to recede. The Tide keeps getting housed by mediocre teams, and the Tigers don’t win the big ones anymore. bit.ly/45WDu1Z

Column: The SEC was staring at a flop trifecta of major proportion Saturday. Until LSU came through. bit.ly/3Vvnuiw

Column: The SEC was staring at a flop trifecta of major proportion Saturday. Until LSU came through. bit.ly/3Vvnuiw

Love this video from my sitdown with Marcus Freeman, which includes a live reading of the letter he wrote to his staff and team after the Northern Illinois loss last year. Notre Dame followed that with 13 straight wins. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF1k...