Football

CJ Carr leads the 2026 preseason Heisman board, chased by Dante Moore, Julian Sayin and Arch Manning. The full field, the tiers, and how the race gets won.

About 66 voters, 25 points to 1, updated weekly – how the AP Top 25 works, why the preseason poll keeps being wrong, and what it doesn’t decide (the CFP).

Who’s playing this Saturday? The full college football slate with times and TV – updated every week of the 2026 season. This week: Week 0, led by UNC-TCU in Dublin.

Belichick went 4-8 in year one at UNC. The full file: what broke, what changed for 2026, and why Saturday’s Dublin rematch with TCU is the first referendum.

12 teams, 5 auto-bids, straight seeding, byes for the top four and campus games in December – the full College Football Playoff format, explained.

SEC on ABC/ESPN, Big Ten split across FOX-CBS-NBC, weekly streaming exclusives – the full 2026 college football rights map and streaming decoder.

Notre Dame-Wisconsin at Lambeau on Sept. 6 is a COVID makeup six years in the making – with a Curly Lambeau-Knute Rockne twist. The full backstory.

Five straight seasons have opened in Dublin. The history from 1996 to the Aer Lingus Classic, the tourism economics, and why the Ireland game anchors Week 0.

Week 0 is college football’s exempted early start – and the games count fully. Why it exists, who qualifies, and the 2026 slate led by UNC-TCU in Dublin.