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Nicole Auerbach Press Box

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Huge wins from Vanderbilt and Ole Miss headline another chaotic week of college football.
Meanwhile, schools like Penn State and Florida are searching for new coaches. College football is upside-down in 2025.
Nicole Auerbach offers five key insights gleaned from a wild weekend around college football.
How many times do we see a coach take a program to new heights only to jump to a job he thinks is bigger and better?
Most of the quarterbacks who are writing the story of the 2025 season are not the ones who entered the season with the most hype. Here’s a midseason evaluation of the sport’s most notable signal-callers.
Like many of her peers, Nicole’s preseason predictions did not age well. So, here’s her second chance at the crystal ball.
Penn State’s willingness to pay the second-biggest buyout in college football history is an expensive reminder of the cost of doing business at this level.
Nicole Auerbach unpacks a thrilling Saturday around college football, where several programs went in opposite directions.
Neither team has a win over a Power 4 opponent. And now, the top two teams from the preseason AP poll are unranked.
A wild Saturday of upsets has Nicole Auerbach rethinking what we thought we knew about this college football season.
Nicole Auerbach jumped the Crimson Tide all the way up to No. 4 after the win in Athens. Why are her fellow AP voters hesitant to give Alabama more credit?
There’s not much else to say at this point. Everyone knows the narrative. Everyone knows the statistic. And here it is: Penn State head coach James Franklin is now 4-21 against AP top-10 opponents.
Dan Lanning can’t stop thinking about the Ducks’ CFP loss to Ohio State last season. A win against No. 3 Penn State could help him forget.
“I’m not going to act like there’s no pressure,” Franklin said of Penn State’s matchup with Oregon. "(But) this is why you choose Penn State. It’s why I came here as the head coach, to have these types of opportunities and to play these type of games.”
Clemson’s disastrous season can (and should) impact the way voters view LSU now. The latest AP poll reflects a market correction taking place for certain teams, like the Tigers.
College football is unpredictable and delightful, which is why we live for what happens on Saturdays. And Week 4 certainly delivered, from a shocking blowout in Bloomington to a nailbiter in Norman and everything in between.
Behind head coach Bret Bielema and veteran QB Luke Altmyer, Illinois enters Saturday’s matchup against Indiana hoping to display its contender credentials.
Nicole Auerbach analyzes the biggest names under center in the sport — and how they have fared through the first three weeks of the 2025 season.
The Fighting Irish become the first 0-2 team in nearly four decades to be ranked in the AP college football poll.
College football is unpredictable and delightful, which is why we live for what happens on Saturdays. And Week 3 absolutely delivered, from the field storm in Atlanta to a thriller in South Bend and everything in between.
The former Fighting Irish defensive coordinator is back in South Bend for the first time since the 2017 season. But this time, he’s the head coach of a team ready to make some noise.
The USF Bulls, 2-0 with wins over Boise State and Florida, clearly deserved to be ranked. But voters are always a little slow to react to big wins from a team outside of a Power 4 conference. Is USF’s ranking right?
Even though the Week 2 slate didn’t look as enticing as last week’s on paper, it’s precisely why it gave us some of the most interesting results of the season so far.
After four top-10 teams lost in Week 1, Nicole Auerbach explained how she evaluated the winners and losers in her AP ballot.