Category: College Football

Colorado Athletic Director Rick George appeared with the Buffaloes for Big 12 media days, joining the DNVR Buffs Podcast to talk about Colorado football. When asked about the return of the Nebraska/Colorado rivalry, George said the Buffaloes would love to play the Huskers annually.

“We’d love to play them every year, because I think it’s good for the game,” George said. “I think it’s good for the rivalry that Coach McCartney and Tom Osborne started years ago.”

Nebraska and Colorado have clashed a total of 73 times since 1898, with the Huskers holding a 50-21-2 lead. The battle between the two teams became an annual event in 1948, before the rivalry erupted in the late 80s and early 90s when Bill McCartney took over in Boulder to match Tom Osborne’s Nebraska.

From 1989 to 1991, the Buffaloes won or shared the Big Eight Conference title and won the National Championship in 1990. The annual rivalry even replaced Nebraska’s clash with Oklahoma upon the emergence of the Big 12 Conference. Since the turn of the century, Nebraska went 7-4 against Colorado in Big 12 games.

The rivalry then took a hiatus following the Huskers’ departure from the Big 12. Nebraska and Colorado met again in 2018 and have played three more times since. The Huskers won their recent showdown with the Buffaloes, taking them down 28-10 this past September.

The Buffaloes’ three yearly nonconference slots have already been filled through the 2033 season, along with a few meetings against Colorado State through 2038. But thus far, there is no scheduling between Colorado and the Huskers in the near future.

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FRISCO, Texas — Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark has a history of speaking things into existence during his tenure with the league. And at his annual address at Big 12 Media Days, he did not shy away from setting big expectations. 

Last season, the Big 12 was the only power league to send only one team into the expanded College Football Playoff field. According to Yormark, that won’t happen again. 

“I believe we will be the deepest football conference in America,” Yormark said. “No league offers the competitive balance that we do. … I fully expect the Big 12 to earn multiple College Football Playoff bids this year and to show once again that we can compete.” 

Several Big 12 teams competed for CFP spots at the end of the year, but conference champion Arizona State was the only team to get in at No. 12. No. 17 BYU, No. 18 Iowa State and No. 23 Colorado were other ranked teams from the conference. The Cougars actually beat CFP team SMU on its own field in nonconference play to finish with an identical 11 wins, but the committee snubbed them. 

In general, the committee has not always treated the Big 12 with respect. The first CFP in 2014 saw Baylor and TCU nudged out at No. 5 and 6 in the rankings, missing the four-team field. TCU and Cincinnati are the only teams from the current crop to earn a trip to the four-team playoff, while Arizona State needed the 12-team field to get in as an auto-bid. 

Hanging over the conference is the negotiations for the future format of the College Football Playoff. The SEC and Big Ten have proposed a model that would guarantee four auto-bids for each of them, two for the Big 12 and ACC and one from the Group of Five as part of a 16-team field. It would codify the system as a multi-bid league,…

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𝑵𝑬𝑾𝑺: 2026 three-star LB Carson Crawford has committed to Colorado.

The 6-foot-3, 215-pounder recently decommitted from Texas State.

He totaled 22 TFLs and 9 sacks for a Texas 4A state championship team (Carthage) last season. pic.twitter.com/FlveI3SCyV

— Scott Procter (@ScottProcter_) July 10, 2025

Colorado football added two defensive commits to its 2026 recruiting class on Thursday.

The first recruit was three-star Texan linebacker Carson Crawford. He recently decommitted from Texas State on June 22 after his official visit with CU on June 20. The 6-foot-3, 215-pound linebacker totaled 91 tackles, 22 TFLs and nine sacks in his senior year at Carthage High School.

247Sports Composite had Crawford ranked as the No. 52 overall linebacker nationally and No. 104 player out of Texas. Crawford announced his commitment on social media.

“First off, I want to thank to God for putting me in the position to be able to play this game at the next level. Next, I want to thank my parents and my support system for always supporting me in every decision I have made,” Crawford wrote in his announcement on X. “Next, I want to thank my coaches for helping me along this journey. With all this being said, I will be committing to the University of Colorado.”

The Buffaloes added their second commit of the day just hours after Crawford flipped his commitment. Three-star defensive back D’Montae Tims committed to Colorado after decommitting from Missouri back in April. The Tigers tried to make a second push for the DB, but Colorado swooped in and earned his commitment after his visit on June 13.

According to 247Sports Composite, he is the No. 95 overall safety in the 2026 class and No. 134 prospect in Florida. He chose Colorado over strong programs, including Georgia and Miami, as well as other Big 12 schools such as Iowa State and…

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FRISCO, Texas — Much mystery has surrounded Deion Sanders’ health, whereabouts and day-to-day involvement as Colorado’s head coach this summer. Still, one constant remains: Whenever Coach Prime appears, the cameras usually follow.

Sanders, 57, made his long-awaited appearance Wednesday at Big 12 Media Days, ending a months-long absence from the spotlight as he deals with an unspecified health issue. Fittingly, he was the main act, the 14th of 14 head coaches to address reporters at the two-day event, and it didn’t take long for the cameras to spot him when he arrived at The Star, flanked by former Dallas Cowboys teammate Michael Irvin, athletics director Rick George and his creative media team.

“I’m not here to talk about my health,” Sanders told reporters. “I’m here to talk about my team.” 

He added: “I’m looking good, I’m living lovely. God has truly blessed me. Not a care in the world, not a want or desire in the world.”

Deion Sanders at 2025 Big 12 Media Days: Unpacking the best and worst from Colorado’s polarizing coach

Carter Bahns

The Colorado coach revealed in May he was facing an unspecified health issue and said he lost 14 pounds. He didn’t offer more clarity at the Big 12’s event. What was clear was that Wednesday was a reunion with his players. Quarterback Kaidon Salter said it was the first time he’s seen Sanders in person since the Buffaloes’…

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For the second year in a row, Yahoo Sports is in the lab — er, on the couch — running a simulated season in EA Sports’ new college football video game, appropriately named “College Football 26.” Last year, things were a little wonky to say the least. In the three simulated seasons we ran last July, one had zero SEC teams make the College Football Playoff and all failed to accurately predict either the Heisman Trophy winner or the eventual national champion.

This time around, we’re mostly sticking to last year’s formula, with the biggest tweak being us running just a single simulated season. It’s more in line with the simulations we’ve run for Madden, NBA 2K and MLB The Show in recent memory, and after seeing the results, it appears as if College Football 26 is more in line with what’s reasonably expected for this coming season.

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Here were the parameters for the simulation:

One season in Dynasty mode was simulated, with pauses before the Bowl Game schedule and after the national title game for data collecting. We needed to select a team at random and received Kansas State for the simulation.

Quarters were set to 15 minutes, to generate the most realistic statistics possible.

Recruiting and other settings were set to “simple,” essentially fully automating the experience.

With all that out of the way, let’s fire up the fight songs and jump into what everyone is really here for — the results!

Screenshot from EA Sports College Football 26. (Credit: EA Sports)

Power conference champions

Things were fairly straightforward when it came to the champions of the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC, with two repeat champions predicted for the 2025 season. Clemson and Oregon each won their respective conferences with matching 12-1 records, while Florida took home the SEC title and Texas Tech captured the Big 12 championship…

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FRISCO, Texas — Iowa State had a truly historic season in 2024, setting a program record with 11 wins. The Cyclones played in the Big 12 Championship Game for the first time and went on to defeat Miami in the Pop-Tarts Bowl. Around the program, though, it still feels a little unfulfilling. 

“There’s a lot of guys coming back to a team that feels like they underaccomplished,” offensive lineman Tyler Miller told CBS Sports. “Yeah, it’s a great season in Iowa State history, but at the end of the day, our goal is to win the game in December at the Big 12 championship and we didn’t do that.” 

A “great season” is selling quite short. The program is undergoing an unprecedented period of success under coach Matt Campbell. The 11-2 campaign was the seventh winning season in eight years, matching the previous 35 years of pre-Campbell Iowa State football. 

2025 Big 12 football preseason poll: 247Sports expert panel picks Arizona State to repeat as league champions

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But still, for the 113th year in a row, it didn’t end with a conference championship. The Cyclones have not won a conference crown since 1912. 

To get another chance, Iowa State’s roster did something unusual. According to Campbell, more than 20 players on the roster took less money to return for additional years of eligibility. Despite building a conference title-caliber roster, Iowa State is…

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Coaches with A+ Prestige According to CFB 26:

– Kalen Deboer
– Marcus Freeman
– Ryan Day
– Kirby Smart
– Lincoln Riley
– Lane Kiffin
– Dan Lanning
– Brian Kelly
– Dabo Swinney
– Steve Sarkisian
– James Franklin

— CFBudge (@CF_Budge) July 7, 2025

We know some of you already purchased the Deluxe Edition of ‘College Football 26’ and are already enjoying many of the features on the newest release of the game, and battling it out with friends and foes alike across the country. We’re also pretty sure most of you visiting this homer Ohio State site are using the Buckeyes to dominate the competition.

If so, then there’s no doubt you’ve noticed some of the ratings now visible and available in the game, including where Ohio State ranks, who the top players are in the game, what Buckeye players are rated, and much more. One thing many fans may not know, however, is that the head coaches in the game are also ranked and rated, and that includes OSU head coach Ryan Day. But what does EA Sports think of Day?

Coming fresh off a College Football national championship, you would expect Day to be highly rated in the game, and that’s definitely the case. In fact, Day is rated as the third best coach in the game behind only Kirby Smart of Georgia and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney. All three have a “prestige” of an A+, but Smart and Swinney both have an overall rating of 80, while Day has a rating of 72.

Rounding out the top ten behind those three are Steve Sarkisian of Texas (68), Oregon’s Dan Lanning (66), Penn State head coach James Franklin (64), Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman (63), Kalen DeBoer of Alabama (62), LSU’s Brian Kelly (62), and Lane Kiffin of Ole Miss (61).

Of note, Michigan man Sherrone Moore is nowhere to be found. I think there are a lot of folks around the country who would want Day over Swinney because it sure feels like the way things are…

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This is an article version of the CBS Sports HQ AM Newsletter, the ultimate guide to every day in sports. You can sign up to get it in your inbox every weekday morning here.

🏌 Good morning to everyone but especially to …

BRIAN CAMPBELL

It took some extra golf, but Brian Campbell got his second PGA Tour win of the season at the 2025 John Deere Classic.

Following 72 holes in at TPC Deere Run, Campbell and Emiliano Grillo were locked atop the leaderboard at 18 under. Through the first 13 holes of the final round, it looked like Campbell might cruise to a win, but disaster struck on No. 15 when he put a double bogey on his scorecard.

That opened the door for Grillo to pull even with Campbell, and he did just that. That forced Campbell into a playoff with Grillo, but he was unfazed. Campbell scored a par on the playoff hole while Grillo recorded a bogey, and Campbell sealed his second win of the year.

Campbell’s last win came at the Mexico Open back in February just a couple weeks after Punxsutawney Phil came out of hiding. It was a long wait, but it was a worthwhile one, says Patrick McDonald.

McDonald: “In between the two starts, Campbell collected no finish better than a T32, which he accomplished in back-to-back weeks at the Masters and RBC Heritage. No matter, with his latest entrance into the winner’s circle, he joins Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Ben Griffin, Sepp Straka and Ryan Fox as players to win multiple times this season.”

With his win, Campbell also pocketed just over $1.5 million. Not bad for 73 holes of work.

Grillo may have finished second, but he still aced the test in our tournament grades. Max Homa did the same, but Griffin scored poorly as he cooled off in a big way by missing the cut.

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