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BYU went 11-1 in 2024 and watched three teams from the same conference that beat them walk into the College Football Playoff. The committee called it a schedule problem. I call it something else.
By Rook Calloway · 3 min read
Nebraska announced a $600 million privately funded stadium renovation days after cutting $30 million from academics. The optics are ugly. But $200 million in deferred maintenance was already unavoidable, and the revenue model behind the rest of the project actually pencils out.
By Jax Moreno · 3 min read
CBS Sports ranked Arch Manning the No. 1 SEC quarterback. He has never played in a CFP game. Trinidad Chambliss threw for 774 more yards last season and nearly won a national title. The line on Texas is built on hype, not proof.
By Nina Torres · 3 min read
The CFP committee publishes its rankings, names its members, and lists its criteria. None of that explains how the decisions actually get made. Thirteen seasons in, the process is visible and still mostly illegible.
By Jax Moreno · 3 min read
The NIL clearinghouse got hit with legal pressure yesterday over rejected deals while Arch Manning earns $5.4 million and nobody can legally define what a prohibited payment looks like. This is not an enforcement problem. It is a taxonomy problem, and building rules on undefined terms produces exactly the chaos we are watching.
By Jax Moreno · 3 min read
Fernando Mendoza skipped the Combine, the critics woke up, and none of it matters. A 72nd-ranked recruit who went 16-0, won the Heisman, and ran in the national championship-winning touchdown already made his case. The Raiders know it. The market knows it. The question is whether you trust your eyes.
By Rook Calloway · 3 min read
NIL corrected a century of exploitation and put real money in athletes' hands for the first time. It also unleashed a lawless marketplace that is litigating itself into incoherence and hollowing out the locker room culture that made college sports worth caring about. Both things are true, and pretending otherwise is a failure of nerve.
By Rook Calloway · 4 min read