The solution to every problem in college football and basketball these days? Ask fans for more money. And Congress can't change that.

The best teams are, on average, the ones paying players the most, but there's a wide disparity between the schools at the top and the bottom of major conferences.

The best teams are, on average, the ones paying players the most, but there's a wide disparity between the schools at the top and the bottom of major conferences.

There's only one game left in a wild 2025 college football season. What was the best game? Here are our staff's favorites.

Michigan and Stanford met in Pasadena on Jan. 1, 1902, with many of the ingredients of a modern bowl game, just far ahead of its time.

Football on Thanksgiving is almost as old as football itself. Here's how the Princeton-Yale rivalry took over America in the late 1800s.

Special moments and memories attending college football games are priceless — until they aren't.

Indiana's Omar Cooper Jr. made a case for best catch ever with toe tap to beat Penn State. These are our college football staff's favorites.

College football has always been governed by emotion, not logic. This is what happens when you add chaos to it.

Kelly left the football facility, as did pretty much everyone else on the LSU staff, as they awaited resolution.

What makes a college football stadium great? We polled our staff to come up with The Athletic's Top 25 — with a clear No. 1.

Penn State seemed built to contend and riding recent good vibes. In reality, it was one of college football's most fragile teams.

It takes a lot for a game to truly qualify as one of the worst ever. There's a case for Centenary-Texas Tech in 1939.

We surveyed more than 40 coaches and staffers from across college football to support our assessments of the nation's best QBs.

How many teams could actually win the college football national title? Let's play the what-if game with the peak version of Nick Saban.

Cooper and Ellen Manning spoke to The Athletic about their rising star son, who prepared for an intense spotlight by avoiding it.

Who has been the best college football player of the 21st century thus far? Bruce Feldman talked to dozens of experts to form his top 25.

Best known for basketball success under John Calipari 30 years ago, UMass has won 26 football games in 13 years in the FBS. Can it change?

About the Role The Athletic seeks a Staff Editor for its colleges desk. The candidate will be involved in all the day-to-day coverage of college football and college basketball, including writer colla...

About the Role The Athletic seeks a Staff Editor for its colleges desk. The candidate will be involved in all the day-to-day coverage of college football and college basketball, including writer colla...

The unwritten history of Finell White, who went from Harlem playgrounds to South Carolina countrysides and rewrote the record book