Football

10/15/2026 |  BYU Outperforms Its Budget As Notre Dame Showdown Arrives (Front Office Sports) BYU was presented with a unique opportunity last December, and it was too good for the Cougars to pass up. As Notre Dame and USC failed to agree on continuing their annual rivalry game in 2026 and 2027, the Irish needed an opponent to fill that void. Notre Dame reached out to BYU, and the offer was happily accepted. 

10/15/2026 |  College Flag Football Is Outgrowing Its DIY Era (Front Office Sports) More than 100,000 high school girls played flag football during the 2025–26 school year. That’s almost a 50% jump from 2024–25—which was already up by tens of thousands from just a few years before.
The growth of the sport is “nothing short of phenomenal,” according to a September report from the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). Approximately 4,000 high schools in 40 states now offer girls flag football, either as a formally sanctioned varsity sport or through independent pilot programs. 

10/15/2026 |  League pouring resources into flag football training, development ahead of LA28 (Reuters Sports) The NFL is developing a tech platform geared toward flag football training, the league's senior vice president for global flag football ​Brian Flinn said on Thursday, as it continues an aggressive push ‌into the game.
The platform will address the training and development gap in the sport, said Flinn, with the non-tackle form of the game seeing a surge in participation ahead of ​its Olympic debut at LA28.

10/14/2026 |  USA: Chicago Bears return to talks about a stadium in Illinois (StadiumDB.com) The future of the Chicago Bears’ new stadium is uncertain once again. Illinois has revived the idea of a publicly owned venue in Arlington Heights that could reduce the team’s property-tax burden, while the Bears continue advanced talks with Indiana over a potential stadium in Hammond.

10/14/2026 |  Marquee SEC rivalries help ABC win another top-heavy CFB weekend (Sports Media Watch) A pair of titanic SEC rivalries helped ABC win another top-heavy college football Saturday, while FOX “Big Noon Saturday” finally showed life after several low-wattage weeks.
Saturday’s Georgia-Alabama college football game averaged 12.24 million viewers on ABC, trailing only Ohio State-Texas on ABC in week two (13.99M) as the most-watched game of the season.