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The 2026 college football season officially kicks off on Saturday, August 29, when San Jose State takes on USC at 2:30 PM ET — the first of 11 Big Ten and Notre Dame football games across NBC and Peacock in the first four weeks of the season.

The Huskers open conference play on the road against a familiar Big Ten head coach at anew school.

An expanded College Football Playoff might help non-elite programs, but it might not save coaches' jobs as much as they think. Ishika Samant / This week’s mailbag questions were predominantly centered on the sport’s most pressing concern right now: How do we stop this 24-team monstrosity?

There was a time when the Ohio State Buckeyes were hot after former Penn State EDGE Chaz Coleman. Now, it appears the Buckeyes were better off by not getting involved with the now Tennessee pass rusher.

Being a winning football team is both a blessing and a curse for BYU football, a program whose slightly-above average history and lack of a conference affiliation in recent years had typically shoved the Cougars to the 8:15 PM MT timeslot.