Here's everything you need to know for the start of the 2026 college football season. The first FBS games are scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 29, while FCS starts a couple of days earlier on Thursday, Aug.

The AFCA voted to recommend that college leaders implement an expanded playoff, discontinue conference championship games, shift the Army-Navy game up and end the playoff by the second week of January.

There's a new leader in college sports — the University of Texas at Austin.

While addressing the college football calendar at its recent AFCA Board of Trustees meeting, the association declared its formal support for an expansion to the current 12-team CFP, which just completed its second year after nearly a decade of a four-team format.

Some of college football's hopeful contenders resolved their offseason QB battles during spring ball. For others, the wait continues.

The still-far-off 2026 college football season has no shortage of compelling returning talent. Veterans who could have cashed NFL checks chose to come back. Transfer portal additions reshuffled programs overnight.

College football coaches are moving to support a 24-team College Football Playoff format. The American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), a group that represents many prominent college football coaches,