Patrick Andres

The 2026 college football season features 138 teams competing at the FBS level. All but 15 programs are helmed by coaches who, years ago, suited up at the college level themselves.

They’ll be howling about that one in Kalamazoo, Mich., until the Last Judgment.

Do you know what a second is, actually? Scientifically? Michigan's army of researchers no doubt know: “The second [...] is defined by taking

The most powerful media outlet in the game's history is at a crossroads.

For Caleb Williams, Paige Bueckers and millions of others born at the turn of the century, the world created in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks is the only one they know.

None of the horror, none of the panic, none of the shock. None of the hours of time Americans spent glued to their televisions in the week afterward. None of the brokenness—the physical brokenness of the World Trade Center, the spiritual brokenness of a nation grappling with its place in a new, dangerous 21st century. No firsthand stories of the victims' heroism, none of the stories of the perpetrators' cowardice. None of the emotions that calcified and oozed into the art of the decade afterward— 25th Hour 's sadness, 's paranoia, The Dark Knight 's solemnity. And certainly none of the cancellations that roiled and rearranged the world of sports , a world that was about to change forever.

The Western Michigan-Michigan ruckus recalls a notorious 1940 game between Cornell and Dartmouth—let us explain. In today's SI:AM:

After a month of making national headlines, the Zips’ lovably bonkers publicity stunt is about to come to fruition.

The man who will script Akron's first drive against Robert Morris Saturday showed up to practice Friday with little technical football knowledge—and that was fine by Zips coach Joe Moorhead.

The story of the second week of the 2026 college football season can be told in two playcalls.