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.

Penn State and USC met in the first Rose Bowl in the current stadium in 1923 — a game delayed by traffic problems and coaches' near-brawl.

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.

We ranked our favorite college football stadiums. We want to hear what you, the fans, think too.

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.