Scott Dochterman

1 week ago | dailyherald.com | Scott Dochterman

Iowa offensive coordinator Tim Lester is a Wheaton native who used to be the head coach at Elmhurst University. AP IOWA CITY, Iowa — For the better part of a half-decade, backhanded compliments have branded the Iowa football program as both a winner and a loser, none phrased better than the “Punting is Winning” T-shirts once sold by former All-America punter Tory Taylor. Taylor and his predecessors regularly blessed the Hawkeyes’ defense with great field position.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Scott Dochterman

Fox Sports and defending College Football Playoff champion Ohio State had an agreement to move the Buckeyes' season-opening game against Texas to Sunday in prime time, but Longhorns' brass vetoed the move, keeping the game at noon on the season's first Saturday. "There was a deal in place between Fox and Ohio State to move the game to Sunday night," Mike Mulvihill, Fox Sports' president of insights and analytics, told The Athletic.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Scott Dochterman

Four days after the NFL concluded its 2025 draft, the oldest and wealthiest league in college sports conducted its own version, without the chimes or flashing graphics. In the morning hours of April 30, Big Ten chief operating officer Kerry Kenny opened an all-day event simply known as "The Draft." From war rooms and offices scattered throughout the country, executives from Fox, NBC, CBS and Big Ten Network selected their preferred football games for the upcoming season.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Scott Dochterman

IOWA CITY, Iowa - For the better part of a half-decade, backhanded compliments have branded the Iowa football program as both a winner and a loser, none phrased better than the "Punting is Winning" T-shirts once sold by former All-America punter Tory Taylor. Taylor and his predecessors regularly blessed the Hawkeyes' defense with great field position.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Scott Dochterman

Conferences reveal their complete kickoff time and network placement schedules for the first three weeks of the college football season Thursday. At The Athletic, it has become an annual, if semi-futile, exercise to project at what time and on which network those games appear. Like an NFL mock draft, if we pick one incorrect time or network, it implodes much of the entire lineup. But nobody will (or should) remember this mini-mock draft once the full slate is unveiled.