College Football

College football starts Thursday, Aug. 27 with a 13-game FCS slate, nearly all on ESPN+ – two days before FBS Week 0. Full schedule and season dates.

Head-to-head first, then every conference runs its own cascade – while the CFP committee uses no tiebreakers at all. Both systems, explained.

One window: Jan. 2-16 for all FBS and FCS players. The CFP five-day carve-out, the coaching-change exception, and why the spring portal is gone.

What is a redshirt? The 4-game rule, medical hardship waivers, grayshirts and blueshirts – and how the NCAA’s new 2026 eligibility model changes the math.

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).

Every college football game this Saturday, September 12, with kickoff times in Eastern and the TV channel for each one, plus the Thursday and Friday slate. Headlined by No. 1 Ohio State at No. 4 Texas.

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.