Author: Adam Gibby

Normally, college football Week 0 is filled with games that don’t really matter but at least allow avid fans something to watch a week before the season really gets going. This year is already not the norm. Of course, the highlight of the day was when Georgia Tech took down No. 10 Florida State in Ireland, but other games had pretty big implications for the rest of the season. Here are the Top 3 takeaways from the weekend. The Transfer Portal Matters The biggest knock against the transfer portal is that it is tough to build a full-functioning team with…

We made it! College football is back, and wow—IT IS BACK. In the first major college football game of the year (which, for some reason, is being played internationally), Georgia Tech shocked Florida State 24-21 on a last-second field goal, sending the Seminoles home with their second straight loss to teams from Georgia. The win was an upset by all measures, but it is being treated as if it was a true Top 10 win for the Yellow Jackets because, technically, Florida State is a Top 10 team according to the AP Top 25 preseason poll. Again, this was a…

College Football is pumping all of its money into NIL and recruiting, but the Big 12 is looking in a different direction. The Big 12 Conference may not be the Big 10 or the SEC when it comes to creative initiative and trying out new things—no conference comes close. Whether it is looking into playing games internationally, working with a private equity firm for additional revenue, or hosting a conference-wide NFL Pro Day, the Big 12 is not afraid to try something new. This time, they are stepping away from the game and focusing more on the festivities with Big 12 Homecoming…

The AP and Coaches College Football Top 25 polls are out, and some wonder whether the poll represents the Top 25 teams rather than the 25 most prominent brands in the sport. For example, Miami has done nothing to prove that it should be ranked, yet it is ranked 19th in the nation. Regardless of how the pollsters arrive at the Top 25, it is clear that the Top 25 teams in the preseason are not the same teams at the end of the season. Nearly 50% of Top 25 Preseason Teams Don’t Finish Ranked College Football is a unique sport in that…

Oklahoma State may have just changed the college football uniform forever. Now more than ever, college football is about making every dollar possible whenever possible. Whether it is adding more commercial breaks, expanding the college football playoff, or using NIL to promote the sport and players, college football has officially crossed the line of amateurism and become a professional league. Last year, fans and the media thought it was crazy when Coach Deion Sanders and Colorado took the NIL world to another level by replacing players’ names on the back of practice jerseys with their X handles to help promote…

College Football depends heavily on high school recruiting, and even that can’t always be dependable. This seems to be the case with former No. 1 ranked player Malachi Nelson, who went from being the future of USC to now being a backup at Boise State. The Rise and Fall of Malachi Nelson First, to be 100% clear, this is not the end of Malachi Nelson. Nelson will get plenty of opportunities to turn his career around and eventually become a star, but those plans seem to be on hold for now. Boise State has named redshirt sophomore Maddux Madsen the starting…

The College Football Playoff is expanding to 12 teams this year, which means that for the first time ever, all 134 FBS schools have a shot at making the playoff. In the past, to make it, one of two things had to happen: either go undefeated and hope everyone else loses a ton of games (Cincinnati), or be a big enough brand and go undefeated or have one excusable loss. For teams like Appalachian State, UNLV, Boise State, and, in last year’s case, Florida State, nothing could be done to guarantee a spot in the Playoff. Now, if a team goes undefeated…

Last year, while Michigan was on its way to winning a National Championship, there was a lot of attention given to Connor Stallions, the lower-tiered staffer who was accused of sign stealing and was accused of even being on the sidelines of Central Michigan likely spying on other opponent sidelines. The situation blew up and dominated the college football headlines for a few weeks until finally, Michigan officially let Stallions go. Michigan went on to win a National Championship, but there were still questions as to whether there should be any asterisk next to the championship due to the allegations…

Week 0 of College Football can be best described as an appetizer before the real season begins. For the common football fan, week 0 often gets ignored and isn’t considered the ‘start’ of the season. If you’re reading this article, you probably aren’t a casual fan; you are a superfan who wants to take in every college football moment from Week 0 until the final whistle of the National Championship Game. Still, the selection of games is slim, and outside of one clear ‘must-watch’ game, it takes a bit of research to figure out which games are the most important…

As college football draws closer daily, conference commissioners already accept that their teams won’t have any real chance to play for a National Championship. And let’s be honest about it, they are right. There is almost nothing that specific conferences can do to realistically have a path to a National Championship. For example, the conference champion from the CUSA must be ranked higher than every other G5 champion before making the playoffs. If they make it that far, they would likely be the 12-seed and have to play the No. 5 seed in the first round, the 4th seed in…