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Paul Finebaum made an eye-opening “best” declaration on Texas football QB Arch Manning. The hype is real for the Longhorns going into the 2025 season as Steve Sarkisian’s squad has championship-or-bust expectations. The program is coming off two straight appearances in the College Football Playoff and returning a stacked team around its new QB1. Even […]

SEC media days are in full swing and have taken center stage as the season starts. The SEC is the center of the college football universe every season due to its fan bases, coaching talent, and talent across the conference. However, the biggest name in the room is Commissioner Greg Sankey, and he has been […]

Legendary and retired head coach Nick Saban accomplished everything there is to in college football, but apparently, one unnamed yet purportedly prominent source firmly believes the 73-year-old is interested in returning to the sidelines at some point in the future. Former Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy, who played under Saban for four years and won a […]

Lincoln Riley had a great thing going at Oklahoma not too long ago, and he made the shocking decision to leave the Sooners for the USC football team. He took the Trojans to the Pac-12 title game in his first season, but the last two years have not been good. Riley and USC have been […]

The Texas football team is expected to be one of the best teams in college football this year, and quarterback Arch Manning is a big reason why. Manning has more hype around him than any player that we have seen in a long time. Manning has patiently waited his turn behind Quinn Ewers, and now […]

Once again, Florida football has another tough schedule in 2025, and Paul Finebaum isn’t the least bit surprised. After Florida football had the toughest schedule in 2024, it might repeat itself. Most notably, there is a four-game stretch where they will play LSU, Miami (FL), Texas, and Texas A&M. As a result, it doesn’t have […]

If it was up to Paul Finebaum, the College Football Playoffs would never include automatic bids. Amid rumors of another potential CFP expansion, Finebaum rejected the idea of the postseason tournament giving the SEC and Big 10 a set number of guaranteed spots. While Finebaum agreed that the two conferences are already historically the two […]

Brent Venables is about to enter his fourth season as the head coach of the Oklahoma football team, and outside of a decent 2023 season, his tenure has been disappointing. The Sooners did go 10-3 with a win against Texas in 2023, but that season is sandwiched between two 6-7 years. Meanwhile, the Longhorns have […]

Following an unsuccessful 2024 campaign, longtime Georgia quarterback Carson Beck entered the 2025 college football transfer portal. ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum believes the move, which made Gunner Stockton the incumbent starter, may hurt the team in 2025, despite the popular opinion of Bulldogs fans. Finebaum predicted that while fans grew frustrated with Beck’s declining performance, […]

The first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff finished up a few weeks ago as Ohio State ended up beating Notre Dame in the national championship. There seem to be some kinks to work out with the seeding, auto-bids and byes, but it doesn’t seem like the 12-team playoff is going anywhere anytime soon. It doesn’t seem […]

The latest chapter of the Connor Stalions sign-stealing saga came to light last night as reports surfaced regarding the Michigan football team and their intention to fight back on the NCAA. The story got people talking about the sign-stealing situation again, and Illinois football head coach Bret Bielema decided to take a shot at former […]

The stage is set for the College Football Playoff national championship game between Notre Dame and Ohio State. However, college football analyst Paul Finebaum doesn’t think the matchup is close. He elaborated more on the Matt Barrie Show about why the Fighting Irish have no shot. I cannot imagine Notre Dame winning the game,” Finebaum […]

The Dallas Cowboys had a disappointing 2024 season. Dallas finished with a 7-10 record and missed the playoffs, thanks in part to several major injuries. Now the Cowboys are mulling over head coaching candidates for the 2025 season, which has created some interesting theories from sports writers around the country. Paul Finebaum connected the dots […]

As the Penn State football team lost to Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl, it adds another big loss to head coach James Franklin’s resume. There have been Penn State football team fans saying that Franklin should be fired due to his inability to win big games consistently as this was talked about by analyst […]

On Tuesday, the 2024 Alabama football season came to an end with a 19-13 loss to the Michigan Wolverines in the ReliaQuest Bowl from Tampa, Florida. Many of the same issues that plagued Alabama throughout the season, including most notably turnovers from quarterback Jalen Milroe, reared their ugly heads once again on Wednesday, and the […]

Michigan beating Ohio State was one of the most shocking results of college football Week 14 but the main story of the game was what happened after the final seconds ticked off the clock. After beating the Buckeyes for the fourth straight year, a handful of Michigan players attempted to plant their flag on the […]

It’s not easy being the head coach of Alabama football. After their third loss of the season against a not-so-good Oklahoma Sooners team, ESPN’s Paul Finebaum sharply criticized head coach Kalen DeBoer while on The Matt Barrie Show. “It was 2010 the last time Alabama lost three games. That was after their national championship season,” […]

The No. 9 ranked Ole Miss football program has a potential route to the SEC Championship. For head coach Lane Kiffin, he’s less than optimistic about making his conference title game. His reasoning has nothing to do with winning, but rather, the ramifications that come with it. “I’ve talked to other coaches so I’m just […]

LSU football coach Brian Kelly is not having a great year, and it may be getting even worse. College football analyst and ESPN commentator Paul Finebaum is going after Kelly after LSU lost their third straight game Saturday. The Tigers bowed to Florida on the road, 27-16. “Now, you just said you don’t want to […]

There were some shocking results across the SEC on Saturday, with Ole Miss football’s 28-10 domination of Georgia being one of them, and Alabama’s 42-13 thrashing of LSU being another. Paul Finebaum did not hold back when speaking on the performances from Georgia and LSU in their losses. First, he spoke on how shocking Georgia’s […]

On Tuesday night, the first batch of College Football Playoff rankings were revealed. There were some surprises, including Indiana and BYU. However, Indiana and Penn State did not deserve a place in the College Football Playoff rankings in the eyes of CFB analyst Paul Finebaum. The Hoosiers and the Nittany Lions were ranked at No. […]

The Georgia football program came away with an emphatic 30-15 win over No. 1 Texas on the road on Saturday, and after the game, Paul Finebaum compared head coach Kirby Smart to Nick Saban in how they both used everything to make their teams believe that they were doubted. “It reminded me of stuff I’ve […]

Alabama football fought through rumblings of concern in the national media and an injury to Domani Jackson to secure a thrilling win over South Carolina on Saturday afternoon in Tuscaloosa. While it wasn’t exactly an encouraging performance, the Crimson Tide were able to get back in the win column after last week’s shocking road loss […]

The hot takes are raining down on Alabama football, who had the audacity to lose a game they should’ve won against the Vanderbilt Commodores. SEC Network’s Paul Finebaum appeared on ESPN’s First Take with Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe and berated the performance of the Crimson Tide. “That’s why this was so debilitating and […]

As the college football world was going crazy with the Georgia football-Alabama game, it still resulted in a disappointing loss that starts the team 0-1 in conference play. While Georgia football head coach Kirby Smart and company is ready to move on from it, college football analyst Paul Finebaum has sent a warning to the […]

If there has been an interesting story in college football to say the least, it has been UNLV football quarterback Matthew Sluka deciding to sit out the rest of the season due to his side saying that the school didn’t come through on NIL money. This has even prompted UNLV football running back Michael Allen […]

Alabama and Georgia are set to collide on Saturday in a highly anticipated, high-stakes Southeastern Conference (SEC) matchup. But the details of the battle are different this time around, with new Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer taking on Kirby Smart and the Bulldogs for the first time, and according to Paul Finebaum, Smart has the […]

Later this week, the No. 2 ranked Ohio State football will travel to Lansing, Michigan to face the Michigan State Spartans. This marks the Buckeyes’ first intra-conference game against the Big Ten. It will also be Ohio State’s first game against any Power Four opponent. That’s because Ohio State football padded their schedule with three […]

The Carolina Panthers stunned the NFL community this week with the news that they would be benching 2023 No. 1 overall pick Bryce Young. The Panthers, at least for the time being, will roll with veteran quarterback Andy Dalton. They have a Week 3 date with the Las Vegas Raiders, where the trade speculation on […]

In a heated debate over Deion Sanders’s recent criticism of the media, Paul Finebaum questioned Stephen A. Smith’s defense of the Colorado coach and even suggested he return his HBCU degree. The panel discussed Sanders’s recent remarks at a press conference where he alleged that college football reporters are jealous of players receiving money from […]

The Michigan football program did something last weekend it hasn’t done often recently: lost. After winning the national championship eight months ago, the Wolverines suffered a brutal 31-12 home loss to Texas, handing Sherrone Moore his first defeat as the team’s new head coach. And Paul Finebaum sure didn’t mince words when talking about the […]

The Colorado football team shockingly fell in a Week 2 clash against an old rival, Nebraska football in a 28-10 loss. Following an embarrassing Week 2 loss, Paul Finebaum dropped quite the quote regarding head coach Deion Sanders and his football program during an episode of ESPN’s Get Up. “This thing feels like it’s heading […]

The Auburn football team fell to Cal in a shocking result in Week 2. After the loss, Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze faced some criticism from Paul Finebaum following his team’s 21-14 loss against the Cal Golden Bears on ESPN’s Always College Football with Greg McElroy show. “I think he’s made some mistakes, his demeanor […]

College GameDay announced that they would be headed to Columbia, South Carolina for the Week 3 matchup between South Carolina and LSU, and Paul Finebaum wasn’t happy. The plan originally was for ESPN to bring College GameDay to Lexington for the game between Kentucky and No. 1 ranked Georgia, Finebaum revealed on The Matt Barrie […]

Clemson’s 2024 football season didn’t get off to the hottest start, as they were run off the field by Georgia 34-3 on Saturday in Atlanta. The loss continued a troubling trend of lopsided losses to the top teams in college football in recent years. Dabo Swinney and company haven’t been to the College Football Playoff […]

The Colorado football program started the 2024 season with a win Thursday night. The Buffaloes defeated the visiting North Dakota State Bison 31-26 at Folsom Field, so head coach Deion Sanders’ second season at the helm began with success. On Friday, football analyst Robert Griffin III fired back at ESPN’s Paul Finebaum on X, formerly […]

When discussing Alabama football and Kalen DeBoer, former Notre Dame star Brady Quinn showed some trepidation about the Crimson Tide game plan via a rhetorical question posed to ESPN’s Paul Finebaum. Quinn wondered if Alabama football quarterback Jalen Milroe fit DeBoer’s game plan, considering how the coach used Michael Penix Jr. at Washington the last two seasons. “I […]

Colorado’s ban of Denver Post columnist Sean Keeler over critiques of Deion Sanders drew an honest take from ESPN’s Paul Finebum on ESPN’s Get Up. The ban, announced by the Colorado Buffaloes athletic department on August 23, against Keeler, has sparked debate across sports circles, with Finebaum weighing in on Sanders’ underlying motives. The decision […]

The USC football program is about to embark on its inaugural season in the Big Ten, with head coach Lincoln Riley looking to lead his team to the newly expanded 12-team College Football Playoff. Riley and USC do have at least one critic though as they look to undertake this mission. That critic? None other […]