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College football

July 2024

  • Pressure on players to compete while they’re still hurt can be huge

    ‘Play hurt, practice hurt’: How life-threatening injuries became normalized in college football

  • Colorado’s Travis Hunter is one of the cover stars of the new EA Sports college football game.

    EA Sports College Football 25: could this be the US’s most anticipated sports video game ever?

June 2024

  • Compelling evidence suggests that the NCAA, the main governing body of college sports, has long understood the magnitude of the danger posed by football.

    ‘I started crying. I lost my breath’: the long toll of concussions in college football

    Traumatic brain injuries are common among young players, who are left dealing with them long after their athletic careers are over

May 2024

  • A $2.8bn deal signals the end of the NCAA’s bedrock amateurism model that dates to its founding in 1906.

    NCAA and Power Five conferences agree to deal that will let schools pay athletes

    The NCAA and the nation’s five biggest conferences have set the stage for a revenue-sharing model that could start steering millions of dollars directly to athletes

April 2024

  • Caleb Williams walks onto the stage as the first overall pick in the 2024 NFL draft.

    NFL draft 2024: Falcons shock with Penix Jr quarterback pick – as it happened

    As it happened: The NFL draft kicked off with the first round before an estimated crowd of 275,000 in Detroit. Oliver Connolly was watching
  • (Left to right) North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye, Caleb Williams of the USC Trojans, LSU Tigers quarterback Jayden Daniels.

    NFL draft 2024 predictions: the stars, the needs and the lower-round gems

    Our writers take a look at the best prospects coming out of college, and which teams needs to nail their picks over the coming days
  • FILE - Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush of the University of Southern California smiles while posing for photos after a news conference in New York, Dec. 10, 2005. Reggie Bush has been reinstated as the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, more than a decade after Southern California returned the award following an NCAA investigation that found he received what were impermissible benefits during his time with the Trojans.(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

    Reggie Bush reinstated as Heisman winner after ‘enormous change’ in college sports

    Bush forfeited the award in 2010 after an NCAA investigation into impermissible benefits during his time with USC

March 2024

  • Arkansas State defensive back Blaise Taylor (1) scoops up a fumble and runs for a 63-yard touchdown during a 2017 game against Nebraska.

    Ex-Arkansas State football star faces murder charges in poisoning deaths

  • Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s much-ballyhooed war on wokeness has spilled over into college sports.

    The NAACP is taking Florida’s woke war to sports. Will unintended casualties follow?

    Andrew Lawrence
  • Teams such as the University of Florida Gators attract huge support in their home state

    NAACP urges Black student-athletes to reconsider attending Florida universities

  • Top college programs bring in tens of millions of dollars of revenue every year

    Dartmouth’s vote to unionize could help end college sports’ plantation dynamics

February 2024

  • LSU football coach Brian Kelly expressed regret that his players at Notre Dame learned of his departure for the Baton Rouge school through social media.

    The myth of the college football family has nothing to do with love

    Tracie Canada
    Nick Saban’s departure from Alabama shocked me as a football fan. But as an anthropologist and ethnographer, I was more concerned with what the news meant for the players

January 2024

  • Jim Harbaugh.

    Jim Harbaugh leaving Michigan to become LA Chargers head coach

  • Washington Huskies head coach Kalen DeBoer looks on against the Michigan Wolverines late in the fourth quarter of the College Football Playoff national championship game at NRG Stadium last week.

    Washington’s Kalen DeBoer to replace Nick Saban as Alabama coach

  • Nick Saban is the only coach to win seven national titles in the poll era of college football: six with the University of Alabama and one with Louisiana State University.

    Nick Saban, architect of Alabama football dynasty, announces retirement

  • Michigan running back Blake Corum celebrates after scoring against Washington

    College Football Playoff championship game: Washington 13-34 Michigan – as it happened

  • Michigan overwhelm Washington to claim first national title in 26 years

  • Michigan and Washington prevail to reach College Football Playoff title game

December 2023

  • Heisman Trophy finalists, from left, LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels, Ohio State wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr, Oregon quarterback Bo Nix and Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr pose with the trophy after attending a news conference ahead of the award ceremony on Saturday.

    LSU’s Jayden Daniels wins Heisman Trophy as college football’s best player

  • Florida State will not play in the College Football Playoff despite going 13-0 this season

    Unbeaten FSU attack ‘destructive’ CFP after being left out of postseason

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