While most college football media and fans have been chasing Big 12 and Pac-12 expansion and realignment rumors, the truth of the matter is this: the future battles in college football expansion aren’t going to be fought in the Big 12 or the Pac-12, they’re going to be fought in the ACC. Because pretty much More
It’s July 4th, a day when Americans from all different backgrounds take a day to celebrate our good fortune to all live in the greatest country in the history of the world. Unless, that is, you work at ESPN, when July 4th represents an opportunity for you to trot out a woke albatross of a More
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A few weeks ago I wrote a column explaining the current conflict in college football between Alabama’s Nick Saban and Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher as a symptom of college football’s Berlin Wall collapsing. Just like when the Berlin Wall came down and communism was suddenly replaced by capitalism, after years of top college football players More
It’s Tuesday which means the Outkick anonymous mailbag is here to solve all your life’s problems. As always, you can send your anonymous mailbag questions to claytravis@gmail.com, anonymity guaranteed. Okay here we go: “A question came up on the golf course over the weekend and it left the group kinda stumped from a philosophical standpoint. More
Last year ESPN lost eight million cable and satellite subscribers, finishing 2021 with around 75 million total subscribers. That eight million subscriber loss, an average of nearly 22,000 people a day, represented 10% of ESPN’s overall subscriber base and accelerated a calamitous decline from over 100 million subscribers just over a decade ago. The loss More
As fans gleefully dissect the public attacks being levied by Alabama’s Nick Saban to Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher and vice versa, the larger context of their college athletics battle is being lost. Saban vs. Fisher, while wildly entertaining, isn’t just a personal feud, it’s symptomatic of the massive changes that have been wrought in college More
It’s Tuesday and the anonymous mailbag is here to solve all your life’s problems. You can send your anonymous mailbag questions to claytravis@gmail.com, anonymity guaranteed. And, as always, the quality of the anonymous mailbag has a great deal to do with the quality of your questions. So keep firing away. Here we go: “Clay, can More
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