Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football. Anonymous Scouting Reports abound! We work our way across the country learning exactly what coaches really think about your college football team. Defensive schemes, QB development, recruiting trends, locker room culture and university relationships - there are no holds barred in our annual anonymous scouting reports.

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football.

• Surprised by breadth of NIL rollout?
• The good, bad and future of NIL
• Reggie Bush's Heisman?
• Division-by-division summer storylines:
• ACC: Coastal QBs, Atlantic defenses, BC
• Big 12: WVU culture, middle tier QBs, TCU
• B1G: Nebraska, Nebraska, Nebraska (and IU, PSU)
• P12: Coaching evals in the North, ASU issues
• SEC: TAMU QBs, LSU, offenses and challengers

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football.

• What does the SCOTUS ruling mean?
• How will it impact college football structure?
• Our primary message to fans
• How will NIL laws be rolled out this week?
• Why some schools are ready but hesitant?
• Are there some schools that will benefit more?
• How much money changes hands?
• A theory on the Expansion Announcement

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall are joined by Mitch Light of The Athletic to conduct our (fifth annual) 2021 Dream Road Trip. The band is back together! The rules are simple: You get to go to any college football game every week of the season but you cannot see any team more than once. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and no other rules really apply. Send us your dream road trip on the socials.

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football.

• Expansion is here and we've got the deets
• How did we get here?
• Will the regular season actually be diminished?
• Are we okay with top six champs getting in?
• What about ONLY champions getting a bye week?
• Irish get docked (but it's not as bad you think)
• Timing and location are major issues
• How will this expansion look out of the athletes?
• Why in God's name would be use nuetral sites?
• A retroactive look at the last seven years
• Which teams would've gotten in?
• What do the Group of 5 bids look like?

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football.

• Important people want a 12-team playoff
• Who does this format benefit?
• Who does NOT benefit from this format?
• Why it will help college football
• The unintended consequences

Our Group of 5 rankings explained:

• Cincinnati leads healthy middle AAC class
• Two ranked Sun Belt teams, then... meh
• The Mountain West's return to form
• CUSA difficulties (and intrigue)
• NEW MAC PREDICTIONS
• Three really good Independents

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk Big Ten football.

• Is the Big Ten becoming the ACC?
• Can anyone chase down Ohio St?
• Wisconsin vs. Iowa in the West?
• Penn St's bounce back, Indiana's metrics
• Minnesota, Michigan lead middle class
• Northwestern is obviously underrated
• Are we breaking up with Nebraska?
• Purdue, Maryland, Rutgers aaaaand... ?
• Bert at Illinois

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk SEC football:

• Same teams at the top chasing Bama
• Strange QBs situations with the contenders
• The impossibility of projecting LSU
• A healthy middle class led by Ole Miss
• Kentucky's stability v. Auburn's insanity
• Bottom of the West is strong
• Bottom of the East is NOT strong

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk ACC football.

• Clemson, UNC and Miami on top tier
• Middle of the ACC's growth
• NC State, BC, Wake, UL, FSU
• Virginia Tech, Pitt and Virginia
• Chaos in both divisions
• Veteran QBs will be critical
• Who will surprise?
• Established coaching staffs
• One bottom feeder that could surprise

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk Big 12 football.

• Top tier: Oklahoma vs. Iowa State
• What to do with Texas?
• Are TCU and WVU contenders?
• KSU bounces back?
• Hot seat in Lubbock
• And, well, Kansas