Zach Barnett

1 week ago | footballscoop.com | Zach Barnett

2025 SEC Football ScheduleIt's Schedule Season in college football, the time of year where we learn the schedule for the upcoming season and argue about how future schedules should be formed. Should the SEC play eight games, or nine? Should the Playoff contain 14 teams or 16? How should those 16 teams be selected? What are the scheduling implications of the different 16-team formats? Within the noise, LSU's Brian Kelly campaigned for an SEC-Big Ten scheduling challenge.

1 week ago | footballscoop.com | Zach Barnett

2025 College Football ScheduleThe 2025 college football season will begin with a bang. Three of them, in fact. The FBS season will officially begin with the first overseas edition of Farmaggedon, where Iowa State and Kansas State will take what's expected to be a ranked matchup in the first game of the season at noon ET on ESPN in Week 0. Week 1 then begins with a triple-header, pitting Boise State at South Florida, Buffalo at Minnesota and Nebraska vs. Cincinnati at Arrowhead Stadium.

1 week ago | footballscoop.com | Zach Barnett

EA Sports College Football 26After waiting more than a decade for a new college football video game, waiting merely 365 days for another feels like cheating. EA Sports will release College Football 26 in July, and the trailer dropped on Thursday. In our neck of the woods, the biggest development is the addition of coaches' likenesses to the game. Spotted in the trailer are Ryan Day, James Franklin and Steve Sarkisian. In all, EA says over 300 coaches are in the game:Suit up for Dan Lanning.

1 week ago | footballscoop.com | Zach Barnett

In professional sports, rings are limited to the eventual champions. That's not the case in college athletics, where jewelry is distributed to lots of teams: conference champions, bowl game winners, and the like. And even teams that do not win bowl games. Georgia Tech on Tuesday unveiled rings celebrating its 2024 campaign.

1 week ago | footballscoop.com | Zach Barnett

At the SEC spring meetings in Destin, Fla., on Tuesday, Steve Sarkisian denied the report that Texas was set to spend between $35 and $40 million on its 2025 football roster, while also kind of confirming it in a roundabout way. First, the context.