Jason Kirk

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jason Kirk

Until Saturday Newsletter 🏈 | This is The Athletic's college football newsletter. Sign up here to receive Until Saturday directly in your inbox. Since the early 1990s, top-level college football has had the following championship formats. Mind you, this is just a basic summary:The Bowl Coalition, a 1992-94 attempt to establish an actual championship game within the bowl system ... but without having the Big Ten, Pac-10 or Rose Bowl as partners. Kinda important partners.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jason Kirk

Until Saturday Newsletter 🏈 | This is The Athletic's college football newsletter. Sign up here to receive Until Saturday directly in your inbox. Know how people like to complain about Notre Dame? Wait, I need to be much more specific. Know how people like to complain about Notre Dame still being an independent, decades after every other power decided to join one faction or another? "Their schedules are too easy!" First, their schedules are almost always fine overall.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jason Kirk

Until Saturday Newsletter 🏈 | This is The Athletic's college football newsletter. Sign up here to receive Until Saturday directly in your inbox. Earlier this week, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced Pete Rose (along with others) is now eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame, ending a 36-year ban against the late Rose for betting on baseball during his career. Why the sudden change? From Ken Rosenthal's story:"Did Rose's death soften Manfred?

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jason Kirk

Until Saturday Newsletter 🏈 | This is The Athletic's college football newsletter. Sign up here to receive Until Saturday directly in your inbox. Today in college football news, I've just been handed a tube of Pringles that are apparently Los Calientes Verde Pringles. This tube's minutes are numbered.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jason Kirk

Until Saturday Newsletter 🏈 | This is The Athletic's college football newsletter. Sign up here to receive Until Saturday directly in your inbox. Today in college football news, I finished a large order of Five Guys fries. I feel so fortified for the coming winter. Summer's next, you say? Yeah, that's how fortifying it was. Grad School: Diverging paths for Manning and EwersIn 2021, Texas high schooler Quinn Ewers was one of the highest-rated quarterback recruits ever.