Month: August 2025

Arch Manning’s future at Texas, the SEC football docuseries Any Given Saturday on Netflix, and the biggest college football power moves headline tonight’s live show. We dig into whether Arch Manning will “stay in school” beyond 2025 after Archie Manning reportedly told teams to take him off 2026 draft boards (with a hat tip to Bill Parcells’ patience playbook) — and whether that’ll actually be Arch’s choice given Texas’ win-now culture. We also unpack a Wall Street Journal deep-dive on how the NCAA lost control of college football 40 years ago (Oklahoma/Georgia vs. NCAA TV rights), why conferences and the College Football Playoff now dwarf the NCAA in revenue, and what that means for NIL, antitrust, and the coming era of player power.

College Football fans—AP Top 25 vs Coaches Poll, the ESPN–FOX streaming bundle, and SEC/Big Ten/ACC/Big 12 storylines are all on deck. We break down why the polls see Texas, Ohio State, Clemson, Georgia, Notre Dame, Oregon, Alabama, LSU, and Miami so differently—and what that means on the field. Plus: Oklahoma headlines (John Mateer Venmo noise), Oklahoma State’s hire of Todd Grantham after a rough 2024, and Michigan recruiting talk with 2027 QB Peter Bourque.

College football Week 1 is loaded: Michigan’s looming Connor Stallions sign-stealing punishment, Nebraska punter Archie Wilson’s emotional press moment, Kansas’ $300M mega-gift, and a spicy Hugh Freeze vs. Lane Kiffin subplot—plus my “10 things I’m watching in Week 1,” from Arch Manning vs the defending champs, LSU at Clemson, and Florida State vs Alabama, to Colorado’s first post-Shedeur/Travis look, Boise State at USF, and UCLA–Utah transfer QB debuts. We sort what should happen vs what will happen with Michigan, why investigations often punish the wrong people, and why college football needs a single football-specific governing body with real enforcement—think NFL-style clarity for the Big Ten, SEC, ACC, and Big 12.