ESPN and NCAA Agree to New Championship Rights Deal Through 2031-32
ESPN and NCAA have announced a new 8-year TV rights deal for NCAA Championships that will run from 2024 through 2031-32. The agreement covers 40 championships across the NCAA Division 1, 2, and 3 levels and will feature multiple national championship…
College Realignment Report for December 15, 2023
This is part of an ongoing series covering various college realignment news for all three NCAA Divisions as well as the NAIA. The roundup below will cover news and reports since November 30 and provide updates on previously discussed…
Realignment Continues to Change College Football in Texas
There are very few places in the United States that the latest realignment moves haven’t impacted. That includes Texas where the recent cascade of movements was kickstarted by Oklahoma and Texas leaving the Big 12 for the SEC. At least Texas is…
NCAA Proposes Sweeping Change to College Athletics
The NCAA introduced a proposal on Tuesday that would alter college athletics as we know it, according to Yahoo! Sports’ Ross Dellenger. The proposal would create a new subdivision within Division 1 athletics, which would be different from the…
NCAA Partners With Hudl to Stream Division 2 Championship Events
The NCAA has agreed to an exclusive partnership that will have more than 200 NCAA Division 2 Championship events streamed by Hudl. The partnership will be managed by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports with WBD Sports already holding the Division 1 NCAA…
Are the New Rules Shortening College Football Games in 2023?
Editor’s note: A 2024 version of this post has been published that looks at the impact of the two-minute warning on college football game length. The start of the 2023 college football season was marked by two big themes: realignment and new rules.…
How Do FCS-to-FBS Teams Perform?
With a new season upon us and two new teams in the FBS, we look at how teams coming from the FCS perform. We’ve researched this topic once before back in 2018 but we wanted to provide an updated article for a few reasons. First, there are more data…
15 Predictions for the 2023 College Football Season: 5 Through 1
We’re back with some predictions for the 2023 season as previously done in 2021, 2017, and 2016 although we have decided to provide 15 this year instead of 25 26. The first five predictions covering the Group of 5 conferences for the 2023 season…
15 Predictions for the 2023 College Football Season: 10 Through 6
We’re back with some predictions for the 2023 season as previously done in 2021, 2017, and 2016 although we have decided to provide 15 this year instead of 25 26. The first five predictions covering the Group of 5 conferences for the 2023 season…
More Thoughts on the Future of the College Sports After the Pac-12 Exodus
We’re back with some more thoughts in the aftermath of Friday’s realignment news that saw Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah leave the Pac-12 for the Big 12 and Oregon and Washington leave for the Big Ten. There have been thousands of these…
