James Franklin

Preseason 2026 college football hot takes are supposed to play it safe, pick the 4 teams everybody already has in their top 5, name a Heisman favorite the whole country already knows, call it a day and move on, and I’m not doing any of that. Here are 5 things I actually believe are going...

College football “experts” are stealing money. Straight up. They’re getting paid millions to do what every drunk guy at a bar does every Saturday: guess. The difference is these guys get a camera, a suit, and an ESPN paycheck to tell you things they don’t even believe. Every year it’s the same circus. Same faces...

Watching Penn State get steamrolled by UCLA today and then remembering last week’s collapse to Oregon, you can’t help but think this program is addicted to a very specific kind of denial. When you ask a Penn State fan an actual question about what’s going wrong, half the time the reply is some glazed, tribal...