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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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By Luke Fletcher | Atlanta, GA The 36th annual Pop-Tarts Bowl (though only the third under its current name) will kick off on Saturday, December 27, 2025, at 3:30 p.m. ET from Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. The game will be nationally televised on ABC and match two ranked teams looking to end their…
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By Luke Fletcher | Atlanta, GA The expanded College Football Playoff was supposed to end the annual arguments. Instead, it simply moved the debate further down the rankings. Now the controversy isn’t about who belongs in the top four—it’s about bubble teams, automatic bids, and whether the “best” teams are being punished for scheduling tough…
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By Luke Fletcher | Atlanta, GA The Pop-Tarts Bowl has a colorful history. Originally founded in 1990 and played in Miami until 2000, the game has cycled through a series of sponsors, including the Blockbuster Bowl, Carquest Bowl, MicronPC Bowl, and Champs Sports Bowl, before becoming the Camping World Bowl. In 2023, it was rebranded…
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By Luke Fletcher | Atlanta, GA After several reports hinted at a potential BYU–Notre Dame bowl matchup in Florida, Notre Dame abruptly shut the door on that idea, announcing it would withdraw “as a team” from bowl consideration. For both No. 12 BYU and No. 11 Notre Dame, programs left on the outside looking in…
