Pat Forde
@bypatforde.bsky.social
Senior Writer, Sports Illustrated
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Pat Forde
@bypatforde.bsky.social
· Apr 17
Why Travis Hunter Is the Biggest Fish (and Fisherman) in the Pond
As the Heisman Trophy winner embarks on his pro career, it is clear he’s all of the above in a multiple choice test.
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New @sportsillustrated.bsky.social Cover Story: Fishing with Travis Hunter. He's not just a two-way star -- make it three. The Heisman Trophy winner, cornerback and wide receiver also has elite angling skills. bit.ly/3Y38iv4
Playoffs clinched. Eleven wins in a row. Closing in on the No. 1 seed. Bo was brilliant. Pass rush never rests.
15-2 until we’re not.
15-2 until we’re not.
December 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Playoffs clinched. Eleven wins in a row. Closing in on the No. 1 seed. Bo was brilliant. Pass rush never rests.
15-2 until we’re not.
15-2 until we’re not.
How we voted on the Heisman, below. Here, how Fernando Mendoza went from the No. 134 QB in the recruiting class of 2022 to No. 1. bit.ly/4oTEsnS
December 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
How we voted on the Heisman, below. Here, how Fernando Mendoza went from the No. 134 QB in the recruiting class of 2022 to No. 1. bit.ly/4oTEsnS
Nice work here pointing out the egregiously bad call that decided the Celebration Bowl, and the context of it all for Prairie View. Those guys deserved better.
Today in the well-subscribed college football newsletter
- Celebration Bowl ends like most parties: someone dancing while someone else furious
- Diego Pavia keeps winning newsletter MVP awards, adding Until Saturday to his Channel 6 haul
- D2 flexbone team might rush for 7,000 yards this season lol
- Celebration Bowl ends like most parties: someone dancing while someone else furious
- Diego Pavia keeps winning newsletter MVP awards, adding Until Saturday to his Channel 6 haul
- D2 flexbone team might rush for 7,000 yards this season lol
College football’s most brutal call of 2025, plus Diego Pavia, this newsletter’s MVP
Until Saturday is The Athletic's free college football newsletter.
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December 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Nice work here pointing out the egregiously bad call that decided the Celebration Bowl, and the context of it all for Prairie View. Those guys deserved better.
Bowl games start today -- first the Celebration and then the LA Bowl. Thus, the Bowl Dash has been released. Get every pick and every vibe check here; check back throughout the coming weeks. bit.ly/4pzgNcI
Forde-Yard Dash: Vibe Check for Every Bowl Game and CFP First-Round Matchups
From player opt-outs to full-team bailouts, this season’s bowl slate delivers peak unpredictability plus plenty of bizarre matchups and postseason absurdity.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Bowl games start today -- first the Celebration and then the LA Bowl. Thus, the Bowl Dash has been released. Get every pick and every vibe check here; check back throughout the coming weeks. bit.ly/4pzgNcI
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Forde-Yard Dash, Bowl Edition: Vibe checks, commonalities and picks for 36 bowls and four first-round playoff games. The Dash never opts out. bit.ly/4pzgNcI
Forde-Yard Dash: Vibe Check for Every Bowl Game and CFP First-Round Matchups
From player opt-outs to full-team bailouts, this season’s bowl slate delivers peak unpredictability plus plenty of bizarre matchups and postseason absurdity.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Forde-Yard Dash, Bowl Edition: Vibe checks, commonalities and picks for 36 bowls and four first-round playoff games. The Dash never opts out. bit.ly/4pzgNcI
Sherrone Moore was charged with one felony and two misdemeanors Friday, two days after being fired as the football coach at Michigan. The program is a tawdry mess. bit.ly/4q8lDxL
Sherrone Moore Firing Proves Wolverines’ Michigan Man Reputation Is Falling Apart
Michigan football’s latest scandal—a head coach fired for misconduct—underscores how far the program has drifted in the last five years amid highs on the field.
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December 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Sherrone Moore was charged with one felony and two misdemeanors Friday, two days after being fired as the football coach at Michigan. The program is a tawdry mess. bit.ly/4q8lDxL
Catch-22 was written in 1961, and yet this passage feels alarmingly current:
December 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Catch-22 was written in 1961, and yet this passage feels alarmingly current:
Forde-Yard Dash, Bowl Edition: Vibe checks, commonalities and picks for 36 bowls and four first-round playoff games. The Dash never opts out. bit.ly/4pzgNcI
Forde-Yard Dash: Vibe Check for Every Bowl Game and CFP First-Round Matchups
From player opt-outs to full-team bailouts, this season’s bowl slate delivers peak unpredictability plus plenty of bizarre matchups and postseason absurdity.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Forde-Yard Dash, Bowl Edition: Vibe checks, commonalities and picks for 36 bowls and four first-round playoff games. The Dash never opts out. bit.ly/4pzgNcI
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🏈🚨New pod. We address the Michigan debacle and also have a guest: Ivan Maisel, CFP selection committee member and book author. He tells us about the process and what happened with the ND bookstore. Plus other stuff. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Sherrone Moore Fired & Ivan Maisel Joins The Show
Podcast Episode · Others Receiving Votes · 12/11/2025 · 1h
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December 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🏈🚨New pod. We address the Michigan debacle and also have a guest: Ivan Maisel, CFP selection committee member and book author. He tells us about the process and what happened with the ND bookstore. Plus other stuff. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
🏈🚨New pod. We address the Michigan debacle and also have a guest: Ivan Maisel, CFP selection committee member and book author. He tells us about the process and what happened with the ND bookstore. Plus other stuff. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Sherrone Moore Fired & Ivan Maisel Joins The Show
Podcast Episode · Others Receiving Votes · 12/11/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🏈🚨New pod. We address the Michigan debacle and also have a guest: Ivan Maisel, CFP selection committee member and book author. He tells us about the process and what happened with the ND bookstore. Plus other stuff. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Column: Notre Dame is distributing blame for its CFP snub to a variety of sources. Time to be like Clark Lea and take some internal ownership of not quite getting there. bit.ly/48EnjYA
Notre Dame’s College Football Playoff Blame Game Is Missing One Critical Member
The Fighting Irish have spent the last 48 hours pointing the finger at everyone else and neglecting a key participant in their CFP exclusion—themselves.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Column: Notre Dame is distributing blame for its CFP snub to a variety of sources. Time to be like Clark Lea and take some internal ownership of not quite getting there. bit.ly/48EnjYA
Column: Notre Dame is distributing blame for its CFP snub to a variety of sources. Time to be like Clark Lea and take some internal ownership of not quite getting there. bit.ly/48EnjYA
Notre Dame’s College Football Playoff Blame Game Is Missing One Critical Member
The Fighting Irish have spent the last 48 hours pointing the finger at everyone else and neglecting a key participant in their CFP exclusion—themselves.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Column: Notre Dame is distributing blame for its CFP snub to a variety of sources. Time to be like Clark Lea and take some internal ownership of not quite getting there. bit.ly/48EnjYA
50 will have to wait. Florida State wins, 1-0.
Column: Stanford plays FSU tonight for the women's soccer NCAA championship. If the Cardinal win, it extends the most remarkable streak in college sports -- 50 straight seasons with at least one national title. On the school that hangs banners every year. bit.ly/48UkJip
The Mind-Boggling History Behind an Almost 50-Year Run of NCAA Titles
Stanford has won at least one team championship in every season since 1976, more than doubling the second-longest streak of 19 years by USC.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
50 will have to wait. Florida State wins, 1-0.
Reposted by Pat Forde
Column: Stanford plays FSU tonight for the women's soccer NCAA championship. If the Cardinal win, it extends the most remarkable streak in college sports -- 50 straight seasons with at least one national title. On the school that hangs banners every year. bit.ly/48UkJip
The Mind-Boggling History Behind an Almost 50-Year Run of NCAA Titles
Stanford has won at least one team championship in every season since 1976, more than doubling the second-longest streak of 19 years by USC.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Column: Stanford plays FSU tonight for the women's soccer NCAA championship. If the Cardinal win, it extends the most remarkable streak in college sports -- 50 straight seasons with at least one national title. On the school that hangs banners every year. bit.ly/48UkJip
Column: Stanford plays FSU tonight for the women's soccer NCAA championship. If the Cardinal win, it extends the most remarkable streak in college sports -- 50 straight seasons with at least one national title. On the school that hangs banners every year. bit.ly/48UkJip
The Mind-Boggling History Behind an Almost 50-Year Run of NCAA Titles
Stanford has won at least one team championship in every season since 1976, more than doubling the second-longest streak of 19 years by USC.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Column: Stanford plays FSU tonight for the women's soccer NCAA championship. If the Cardinal win, it extends the most remarkable streak in college sports -- 50 straight seasons with at least one national title. On the school that hangs banners every year. bit.ly/48UkJip
On a calm, rational Day After Selection Sunday, a couple weekend links:
The column on the bracket, the damage from the weekly TV show, the tortured resume comparisons and an SEC championship game that might as well have not been played.
bit.ly/44goFY5
The column on the bracket, the damage from the weekly TV show, the tortured resume comparisons and an SEC championship game that might as well have not been played.
bit.ly/44goFY5
How Alabama’s College Football Playoff Gift Exposed the Committee’s Worst Flaws
The Tide were rewarded after a blowout loss in the SEC title game, even as BYU’s Big 12 defeat reshaped the rankings and pushed Miami past Notre Dame.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
On a calm, rational Day After Selection Sunday, a couple weekend links:
The column on the bracket, the damage from the weekly TV show, the tortured resume comparisons and an SEC championship game that might as well have not been played.
bit.ly/44goFY5
The column on the bracket, the damage from the weekly TV show, the tortured resume comparisons and an SEC championship game that might as well have not been played.
bit.ly/44goFY5
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Column: A good team had to go, that's the hard truth. But Alabama's free pass after being smoked in the SEC title game -- the meeting that could have been an email -- doesn't make sense. Neither does the tortured process of comparing ND and Miami. bit.ly/44goFY5
How Alabama’s College Football Playoff Gift Exposed the Committee’s Worst Flaws
The Tide were rewarded after a blowout loss in the SEC title game, even as BYU’s Big 12 defeat reshaped the rankings and pushed Miami past Notre Dame.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Column: A good team had to go, that's the hard truth. But Alabama's free pass after being smoked in the SEC title game -- the meeting that could have been an email -- doesn't make sense. Neither does the tortured process of comparing ND and Miami. bit.ly/44goFY5
🏈🚨New pod. Reaction to the playoff bracket, with @bryandfischer.bsky.social and @genowoj. Get it right or wrong? Winners and losers. Best matchups. Picking a national champion. tinyurl.com/5awrbsjc
The CFP Field is Officially SET!
Podcast Episode · Others Receiving Votes · 12/07/2025 · 49m
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December 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
🏈🚨New pod. Reaction to the playoff bracket, with @bryandfischer.bsky.social and @genowoj. Get it right or wrong? Winners and losers. Best matchups. Picking a national champion. tinyurl.com/5awrbsjc
Column: A good team had to go, that's the hard truth. But Alabama's free pass after being smoked in the SEC title game -- the meeting that could have been an email -- doesn't make sense. Neither does the tortured process of comparing ND and Miami. bit.ly/44goFY5
How Alabama’s College Football Playoff Gift Exposed the Committee’s Worst Flaws
The Tide were rewarded after a blowout loss in the SEC title game, even as BYU’s Big 12 defeat reshaped the rankings and pushed Miami past Notre Dame.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Column: A good team had to go, that's the hard truth. But Alabama's free pass after being smoked in the SEC title game -- the meeting that could have been an email -- doesn't make sense. Neither does the tortured process of comparing ND and Miami. bit.ly/44goFY5
New: Quick-turn College Football Playoff bracket picks, from @bryandfischer.bsky.social and myself. bit.ly/3KNmnJt
2025 College Football Playoff Bracket Revealed: SI Experts Predict Every Matchup
Pat Forde and Bryan Fischer make their picks for all four rounds and 11 games including picking which of the 12 teams will win the national championship.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
New: Quick-turn College Football Playoff bracket picks, from @bryandfischer.bsky.social and myself. bit.ly/3KNmnJt
Top of the hour: the College Football Playoff bracket drops. Last brackets from @BryanDFischer and I before the real one comes out. bit.ly/48zrvJ6
Projecting College Football Playoff Bracket: What to Know About the Bubble Debate
Alabama, Notre Dame and Miami each have a case for the final at-large bid, while ACC champion Duke could be left out of the field in favor of a second G5 team.
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December 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Top of the hour: the College Football Playoff bracket drops. Last brackets from @BryanDFischer and I before the real one comes out. bit.ly/48zrvJ6
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Also: @bryandfischer.bsky.social r and I submit our last playoff brackets before the real reveal Sunday: bit.ly/48zrvJ6
Projecting College Football Playoff Bracket: What to Know About the Bubble Debate
Alabama, Notre Dame and Miami each have a case for the final at-large bid, while ACC champion Duke could be left out of the field in favor of a second G5 team.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Also: @bryandfischer.bsky.social r and I submit our last playoff brackets before the real reveal Sunday: bit.ly/48zrvJ6
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Column: Indiana is No. 1, the Big Ten champion and will be the top playoff seed. Fernando Mendoza might have won the Heisman. All of that is impossible. Curtis Cignetti is authoring the most incredible story in college football history. bit.ly/48oInDB
Indiana Caps Unthinkable Rise From Losingest Program to Top CFP Seed
Heisman hopeful Fernando Mendoza delivers on Curt Cignetti’s bold vision as Hoosiers win first Big Ten title in 80 years.
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December 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Column: Indiana is No. 1, the Big Ten champion and will be the top playoff seed. Fernando Mendoza might have won the Heisman. All of that is impossible. Curtis Cignetti is authoring the most incredible story in college football history. bit.ly/48oInDB
Column: Indiana is No. 1, the Big Ten champion and will be the top playoff seed. Fernando Mendoza might have won the Heisman. All of that is impossible. Curtis Cignetti is authoring the most incredible story in college football history. bit.ly/48oInDB
Indiana Caps Unthinkable Rise From Losingest Program to Top CFP Seed
Heisman hopeful Fernando Mendoza delivers on Curt Cignetti’s bold vision as Hoosiers win first Big Ten title in 80 years.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Column: Indiana is No. 1, the Big Ten champion and will be the top playoff seed. Fernando Mendoza might have won the Heisman. All of that is impossible. Curtis Cignetti is authoring the most incredible story in college football history. bit.ly/48oInDB