With two weekends remaining in the college football regular season, the Big 12 championship race is simple — and one false step away from complete pandemonium. BYU and Colorado, tied atop the conference standings at 6-1 in league play, both control their own destiny. The path to the Big 12 title game isn’t necessarily easy, … Read more
Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. It’s time to take notice of BYU. The Cougars are undefeated and have delivered Kansas State and SMU their only losses of the season. Yet BYU remains outside the top 10 in both the AP and Coaches polls. But not … Read more
More than 1,000 men’s Division I basketball players have entered the transfer portal since it opened in March. That is a lot of ground for you to cover, so we’re here to point you in the direction of the names you most need to track. Welcome to The Athletic’s transfer portal rankings. This is a … Read more
Those in the industry have always called this exercise the way-too-early Top 25. A more appropriate title in this transfer portal era of college basketball would be the almost-impossible Top 25. We realize this is a tough task, trying to speculate on who might return and who might leave and who might even be the … Read more
Let’s call this the star-power region. No. 1 Houston has to deal with No. 2 Marquette, No. 3 Kentucky and No. 4 Duke, all opponents that can be the last team standing and travel incredibly well. Seventh-seeded Florida is capable of making a big run, and so is No. 9 Texas A&M, coming off a … Read more
