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On the recruiting trail
2027 recruiting classes: Alabama, UNC enter updated top 35
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2026 schedule in focus
ESPN's preseason schedule evaluation: The teams with the toughest and easiest stretches
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Bill Connelly's best games of the 2026 season
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Why Finebaum takes exception to Saban's DeBoer, Alabama comments
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Golic: Notre Dame can afford only 1 loss to get into CFP
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CFB's 40 most important players: Where Manning, Moore and other top QBs rank
From favorites to long shots
31 teams -- yes, 31 -- with the best chance to make the CFP
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High expectations for Buckeyes
Why Ryan Day is excited for QB Julian Sayin's sophomore season
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Empty the playbook
One Akron football season-ticket holder can design opening drive of game
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Making a difference
College football X factors: Key issues for Top 25 teams
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- Indiana's Daley limited in first practice after return
- LSU, top donors meet over new sports funding plan
- Freeman, Fighting Irish focus on opener, not CFP
- Buckeyes, Ducks lead off preseason coaches' poll
- Pac-12, MWC settle suit over 'poaching,' exit fees
- App State AD Gillin to CFP selection committee
- Sources: Cristobal secures extension with Miami
- Purdue hires McClelland from Rice as new AD
- 👀 Teams to break through, bounce back in 2026
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2026 college football Top 25: X factors for each team
The players, position groups or situations that could swing the season for each of the top teams.
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100 games that explain college football in 2026
TV, realignment, stars and legends, postseason quarrels. Those themes have set up epic games and made the current sport.
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How college teams embraced World Cup fever in 2026
Messi at Auburn. Germany at Wake Forest. Kansas' love affair with Algeria. Colleges got into the World Cup and also profited from it.
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Simulating the season using EA Sports College Football 27
After 26 simulations, we tallied the national titles, Heisman winners, coaching changes, transfers and more.
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Bill Connelly's 2026 FBS college football conference previews
From the SEC and Big Ten to the Sun Belt and MAC, we have projections, predictions and players to watch.
