The Miami Hurricanes are flirting with college football’s most sacred, exhausted status: back from the brink. With entire power conferences yet to take the field, no team has capitalized on an up-for-grabs national spotlight more than Miami. In his second season at the helm, head coach Manny Diaz has his team 2-0 and firmly ranked […]
While the Big Ten and Pac-12 elected not to compete this fall in college football, three of the sport’s five major conferences and more than 70 Football Bowl Subdivision programs will, with games outside the Power Five already underway. Many fans are thrilled. But epidemiologists are worried about the consequences of college football amid a […]
We begin, in fine Hot Takedown tradition, by talking about something that happened shortly after we recorded this week’s episode. The Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences have canceled college football for the fall, with the hopes of trying to play in the spring. We knew it was coming. But what’s interesting about where college football […]
The 2020 college football season is looking less and less likely, with Power Five conferences reportedly on the cusp of calling off or at least postponing fall sports. Cancellation has seemed inevitable as players across the country have tested positive for COVID-19, though the move would deal a crushing financial blow to athletic departments, costing […]
We begin with the latest developments and/or setbacks in college football’s attempts to get off the ground. Players from the Pac-12 have posted a list of demands around player safety, racial justice and economic opportunity that they want met to ensure their participation; the SEC admitted on a call that positive coronavirus cases on their […]