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By Luke Fletcher ｜ Ft. Collins, Colorado A new identity, the same passion that has defined Mountain West football in the past. On July 1, 2026, the Mountain West officially turns the page. Gone is the familiar “At the Peak” branding that helped define the conference for nearly a decade. In its place comes a…
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By Luke Fletcher ｜ Atlanta, Georgia New-Look Conference USA Ready for Another Wide-Open Race Conference USA enters the 2026 football season looking much different than it did just one year ago. Following the departures of Louisiana Tech and UTEP, the league has settled into a streamlined 10-team conference that should produce one of the most…
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By Luke Fletcher ｜ Atlanta, Georgia For much of the past decade, college football realignment has been driven by one question: What do the Big Ten and SEC do next? As television contracts, streaming platforms, and playoff expansion continue to reshape the sport, many industry observers believe the next major wave of realignment could arrive…
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By Luke Fletcher ｜ Atlanta, Georgia The financial gap between the Power 2 and everyone else still exists. That part hasn’t changed. But what has changed over the last few years is the growing separation between the ACC and the Big 12 and why the ACC increasingly looks like the conference best positioned to own…
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By Luke Fletcher ｜ Atlanta, Georgia When SMU announced it was joining the ACC, the headlines focused on one thing: sacrifice. The Mustangs agreed to forgo their Tier 1 media-rights revenue for the first nine years of conference membership in order to secure a spot in one of college athletics’ Power conferences. Critics questioned whether…
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By Luke Fletcher ｜ Atlanta, Georgia The ACC Baseball Championship has delivered exactly what fans wanted: two of the league’s hottest teams meeting with a trip to the title game on the line. On Saturday afternoon in Charlotte, top-seeded Georgia Tech will face No. 5 seed Miami in the ACC Tournament semifinals at Truist Field.…
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By Luke Fletcher ｜ Ft. Collins, Colorado For a while, the Mountain West looked like the next conference headed toward collapse. Programs were leaving. The Pac-12 raid created uncertainty. National analysts questioned whether the league could maintain relevance in an era dominated by billion-dollar television contracts and nonstop expansion rumors. Instead, something unexpected happened. The…
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By Luke Fletcher, Ft Collins CO For months, the rebuilt Pac-12 has been fighting two battles at once. One was on the field, trying to convince the college sports world that the conference still mattered after losing nearly all of its legacy members. The other was in court and today, Pac-12 fans on Twitter celebrated…
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By Luke Fletcher Ft Collins, Co When the Pac-12 came for the Mountain West, most people around college athletics assumed the outcome was already decided. Five schools were leaving. The conference looked vulnerable. The money gap seemed impossible to overcome. And after what happened to the old Pac-12, it felt like another western league was…
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By Luke Fletcher | Atlanta, GA A few years ago, if you told college football fans that The CW would become a major national sports broadcaster, most people probably would have laughed. This was the network associated with teen dramas, superhero reruns, and syndicated programming, not Saturday college football and basketball. But fast forward to…
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