1+ mon, 2+ week ago (303+ words) Oct 15, 2025 " 6 minutes ago Elsewhere, the ACC holds its own with 10 appearances, even more impressive on its face considering all the ABC real estate that the SEC occupies. However, most of the ACC's appearances came through non-conference games -- Notre Dame at Miami, Alabama at Florida State, LSU at Clemson, Florida at Miami. The most-watched ACC conference game to date is Miami at Florida State, 18th on the list. Appearances by conference25: SEC12: Big Ten10: ACC1: Big 12 Appearances by program4: Alabama3: Georgia, Miami, Ohio State, Oklahoma2: Auburn, Clemson, Florida State, LSU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Ole Miss, Oregon, Texas1: Florida, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Penn State, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A&M, TCU, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, Washington Appearances by network:15: ABC3: CBS, ESPN2: Fox, NBC As stated previously, Fox's highly-controversial Big Noonwindow is often treated as a self-fulfilling prophecy. When the window wins a week, it's treated as proof…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago (130+ words) Sep 24, 2025 " 11:27 am So far, in the battle for eyeballs between college football's two super-conferences, 2025 is picking up where 2024 left off. The SEC is winning. Of the 10 most-watched games through the first quarter of the 2025 regular season, the only contest not'to involve the SEC was the standalone Sunday night clash between Notre Dame and Miami.' So, when the numbers for Oregon-Penn State and Alabama-Georgia come in during the middle of next week, Fox will be quietly rooting for the SEC to beat the Big Ten.' Top 10 appearances by conferenceSEC: 12ACC: 4Big Ten: 2Notre Dame: 2 Top 10 by networkABC: 8Fox, NBC: 1 Top 10 by time slotNoon: 1Afternoon: 3Night: 6 All data via Sports Media Watch...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago (200+ words) Jul 14, 2025 " 2 hours ago Maybe it's just me, but it certainly seems that over the last several decades that every new sports show that comes out is chasing the standard that had been set by HBO's Hard Knocks. Plenty have tried, from Amazon to NBC, but no other show has captured the same All-Access feel and wide appeal as Hard Knocks, which continues to be hit nearly 25 years after the first one featuring the Baltimore Ravens aired back in 2001. Streaming giant Netflix is the latest with an attempt to grab a piece of the pie with a show centering on SEC football called Any Given Saturday. The new series is set to offer an exclusive look at key matchups throughout the season, and boasts to bear "witness the unparalleled pressure, commitment, and raw emotion it takes to be a Division I…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago (491+ words) Oct 7, 2025 " an hour ago A single NCAA Transfer Portal Window is hours away from formal adoption." Late Tuesday afternoon, the NCAA's DI Administrative Committee approved the "notification of transfer window dates for DI football." It faces one more vote in Wednesday, again considered a mere formality, to be finalized upon conclusion of meetings at close of business Wednesday. Those dates, Jan. 2 through Jan. 16, 2026, were found as a compromise following an initial NCAA proposal"that would have reduced the Transfer Portal in football from its 30 total days across two separate windows in 2024-25 to just Jan. 2-11, 2026. The NCAA also revealed that it is further examining the head-coaching exception to the Transfer Portal. Per its Wednesday release: "In response to another referral from the Administrative Committee, the FBS Oversight Committee discussed the head coach departure exception to the notification-of-transfer period," the NCAA statement…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago (106+ words) Bob Booth/Special to the Star-Telegram Oct 1, 2025 " an hour ago Tired: High school football coaches in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex make a lot of money. Wired: Most of them are still underpaid. The Texas high school football reason runs from August to early November or the final Saturday before Christmas, depending on how far you advance in the playoffs, but the job never stops. Many of these men (most?) also have duties overseeing the other sports on campus, making their winter and their spring somehow busier than their fall. But it's more than that." (All salaries rounded to the nearest thousand.)...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago (184+ words) Sep 4, 2025 " 37 minutes ago When College Sports Commission was initially created, the number we were told of collective-created NIL deals that would have been approved was around 30 percent." A couple months into this new era of the House settlement, the CSC and its Deloitte-run NIL Go system -- "guardrails," in other words -- the actual number is closer to 96 percent. The most common reasons for denial, per the CSC, are: - Delay in attesting to or providing required information- Contradictory deal terms, misreporting of deal terms and/or mistakes made in entering deal terms- Deal does not satisfy valid business purpose requirement In total, 28,342 student-athletes have created accounts within the NIL Go system, 1,227 "institutional users" have joined, and 3,160 representatives and agents. The largest deal approved by NIL Go thus far was worth $1.6 million. Nearly $80 million has been "legally" transferred from businesses to student-athletes." While…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago (293+ words) Sep 22, 2025 " 22 minutes ago The last eight-game hold-out is no more. The ACC is conforming to the rest of college football's Power Conferences." In a Monday afternoon announcement, the ACC revealed that its league's athletics directors had voted to adopt a nine-game conference schedule plus a requirement for an additional non-conference game against an outside Power Conference opponent. The league will join the SEC in mandating a schedule that features at minimum 10 games against P-4 foes. "This positions the ACC as one of only two leagues committed to having every team annually play a minimum of 10 games against Power Four teams. There will be additional discussions and more details to be determined, but today's decision showcases the commitment and leadership of our ADs in balancing what is best for strengthening the conference and their respective programs. "As specified in the conference constitution,…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago (479+ words) Jul 3, 2025 " 2:29 pm Coaches around college football almost unanimously support a single NCAA Transfer Portal window -- even if different opinions remain on the optimal timing for such a move. But there's also a "third Portal window," as sources explained this week to FootballScoop. The NCAA calendar for the 2024-25 year had a pair of condensed Transfer Portal windows that operated from Dec. 9-28, 2024, and April 16-25, 2025. It turns out, in a bit of a little-known element, there's actually an additional window. It's essentially opening right now. As FootballScoop detailed in reporting last month, grandfathered student-athletes control their destiny -- at their current school or any future institution. A student-athlete in any sport who receives the "grandfathered" designation is then free to transfer -- pending eligibility to do so -- to any other institution and maintain that "grandfathered" status. He used an arbitrary example of a sport that…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago (900+ words) As college athletics, particularly football, continues its sea-change era, two key topics emerge after last week's National Football Operations Organization meetings: Transfer Portal Windows and agent ceritification. May 5, 2025 " 12:28 pm FRISCO, Texas -- With U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken again recently signaling her intent to formally ratify the House Settlement, pending modifications to the roster-limit agreements within the deal, there's an impending trickle-down effect for the NCAA's member institutions. A number of those topics -- financial literacy for student-athletes is a big one -- are being examined for potential changes moving forward, FootballScoop has learned on the heels of last week's National Football Operations Organization meetings at Dallas Cowboys headquarters. Two topics -- going to a single NCAA Transfer Portal Window and when it would occur -- as well as a certification process also in partnership with the NCAA for the agents representing collegiate student-athletes are…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago (461+ words) Sep 12, 2025 " 6 hours ago If you're not a fan of the college transfer portal, the Florida high school scene is going to blow your mind. A few weeks back, Teddy Bridgewater was suspended after controversially asking for donations after spending his own money to fund some unconventional things for his state championship Miami Northwestern (FL) program last season. Those unconventional expenses included things like a mobile recovery service and paying for Uber rides for players. Bridgewater was issued a suspension, and shortly after that decision came down, the veteran NFL quarterback decided to come out of retirement and re-enter the league, signing with the Tampa Bay Bucs. As with any head coach leaving a program coming off a state title, Bridgewater's decision was expected to have a ripple effect on the team's roster. The team entered the season led by senior…...