Dan Wetzel

Ranking teams before the season ends just opens the committee up to more criticism.

Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel and senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde to discuss the economic effects of head coach buyouts and how the transfer portal should change coaching contracts. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

What was once a coaching afterthought is suddenly something different.

All the ingredients are there for Elko to turn A&M into a national power.

The regular season is certainly different, but the 12-team playoff has made more games matter.

In declaring that the transactional nature of modern college sports is just too much, Bennett hit his own personal transfer portal, leaving everyone high and dry.

There are still too many unanswered questions before the he-put-12-players-on-the-field-on-purpose explanation makes complete sense.

New York is pretty much out of options, so it better hope Rodgers and Adams can relocate the magic they made together in Green Bay.

Hutchinson's brutal injury brings a cloud to a city that had been rolling through a glorious fall.

The Week 7 slate certainly lived up to the hype. On this week's overreaction show, Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger and SI's Pat Forde break down Oregon's strong home win over Ohio State and discuss how Dan Lanning has progressed Oregon to a position of national prominence.

Of course, on the week of the craziest college football game slate ever, the pod is filled with its own craziness. Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger, and SI's Pat Forde preview key matchups for the week, pitching the most intriguing games to know. All while this is happening, Dellenger is forced to evade the the staff of the hotel that is hosting the SEC and Big Ten's mega important meeting. They additionally predict what will happen in Ohio State vs. Oregon and Colorado vs. Kansas State.

Legends get compared to legends. Degrees of greatness matter. And thus far, Rodgers has yet to change the direction of the Jets like other recent greats did their franchises.

NIL and the transfer portal have ushered in a new era in college football, one where a perennial doormat like Vanderbilt can rough up mighty Alabama.

Did we just witness the craziest college football weekend ever? Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger, and SI's Pat Forde recap an upset filled Week 6 that featured 4 top 10 teams lose. They start off with the two most shocking outcomes: Alabama falling to Vanderbilt and Tennessee stumbling against Arkansas.

If Alabama can't handle Vanderbilt, how's it going to finish the SEC gauntlet still ahead?

On today's show, Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger and SI's Pat Forde discuss four games in Week 6 that are must win situations for Ole Miss, Missouri, Florida State, and Rutgers. They break down what is on the line for each team to either revive their season or bolster their playoff resume.

As we're quickly finding out, the regular season still matters plenty in this new era. In fact, it matters more and in more places than ever before.

It's better to have six relatively healthy non-power conferences than further separation.

Until college athletics wants to address the underlying problem and make the players employees, this is going to keep happening.

We figured Caitlin Clark's arrival in the WNBA would boost TV ratings. What we didn't see coming was the sustained magnitude.