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Brandon Marcello

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Big Ten, SEC ban NFL players from returning to play: What to expect as power conferences threaten suspensions

The SEC and Big Ten moved quickly to keep teams from adding players who have played professionally

SEC expert picks 2026: Most overrated and underrated teams, projected order of finish, bold predictions

Taking a close, detailed and opinionated look at the SEC ahead of the 2026 college football season

Six steps brought Max Johnson and his father to tears. Two years later, he's a starting quarterback again

Five surgeries and four schools later, the former LSU quarterback has won Georgia Southern's starting job entering a seventh season made possible by a COVID waiver and two medical redshirts

Inside the Big Ten's money gap: $40 million roster has become simply the cost of admission in new era

As NIL and revenue-sharing spending soar, the Big Ten is increasingly divided into distinct financial tiers

The education of Jeremiah Smith: Ohio State's best player is still learning why he's this good

Smith could have made more than $10 million to leave Ohio State, but he stayed anyway, without the coach who taught him how to think about the game

Texas and Steve Sarkisian believe they built a championship roster, but the pollsters aren't sold

The standard is the standard, and at Texas that now means a national title or nothing

The Standard and the Strangers: Can Curt Cignetti, Indiana win big again with 17 newcomers?

Indiana rewrote what's possible when it won the national championship with 13 men who followed Cignetti to Bloomington, but now the Hoosiers have to do it with 17 new faces

College Football Playoff expansion talks heat up with 16-, 24-team formats taking center stage

The CFP management committee meets on Aug. 10 to discuss expanding the playoff field beyond 12 teams

Ted Cruz envisions Trump signing college sports bill during 2026 football season, but Senate hurdles remain

The Texas lawmaker and co-author of the Protect College Sports Act told CBS Sports he expects the bill to pass the Senate this week, but that process is far from finished

Big Ten, SEC join to support Protect College Sports Act, breathing new life into landmark legislation

The SEC and Big Ten held separate conference calls Friday and came to an agreement on the proposed bill

Kyle Whittingham came to Michigan to fix what the adults broke and his heavy lifting is already underway

After leading Utah for two decades, Whittingham faces a daunting task in turning the Wolverines around

Lincoln Riley could never solve Gary Patterson -- now he needs him to help save USC

Entering a must-win Year 6, Lincoln Riley is turning his defense over to one of his toughest former adversaries in hopes of finally breaking through to the College Football Playoff

Dante Moore turned down $55 million from the NFL to stay at Oregon, then shut off his phone and went golfing

Oregon's quarterback opens up on why he spurned a potential top-five NFL Draft slot and how he's preparing for his college football curtain call

College sports legislation on the brink: Big Ten, SEC await critical bill language as Senate clock winds down

With the August congressional recess deadline looming, parties are doing everything they can to put the final touches on legislation that could bring some sense of regulation back to college football

Three national titles and counting: The biggest questions facing each Big Ten team at 2026 media days

From Indiana's encore to Kyle Whittingham's Michigan debut, we've got one big storyline from every Big Ten team headling into media days in Chicago

Brandon is an award-winning national college football writer. He previously covered Auburn for AL.com, Mississippi State for The Clarion-Ledger, and Arkansas for the Northwest Arkansas Times and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

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