Sam Khan Jr.
@skhanjr.bsky.social
✍🏽 Senior writer The Athletic
🏈 Covering CFB roster management + transfer portal
🤠 aka “the Texpert"
🌸 RIP Ed Aschoff
🔴 University of Houston alum
💰 #LongLiveTheSWC
🏈 Covering CFB roster management + transfer portal
🤠 aka “the Texpert"
🌸 RIP Ed Aschoff
🔴 University of Houston alum
💰 #LongLiveTheSWC
Lunch Winfield is a terrific football player name. I love it even more that it's a QB.
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Lunch Winfield is a terrific football player name. I love it even more that it's a QB.
Who built Texas Tech's big-budget roster? Meet the unlikely architect who bet on himself.
Our latest GM Spotlight Q&A with James Blanchard, his path from message boards to college scouting, why TTU hammered the transfer portal, the future of roster budgets and more @theathletic.com: nyti.ms/488Enpe
Our latest GM Spotlight Q&A with James Blanchard, his path from message boards to college scouting, why TTU hammered the transfer portal, the future of roster budgets and more @theathletic.com: nyti.ms/488Enpe
How Texas Tech GM James Blanchard went from message boards to building a big-budget roster
How James Blanchard went from promoting recruits on message boards to being the architect of Texas Tech's big-budget roster revival.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Who built Texas Tech's big-budget roster? Meet the unlikely architect who bet on himself.
Our latest GM Spotlight Q&A with James Blanchard, his path from message boards to college scouting, why TTU hammered the transfer portal, the future of roster budgets and more @theathletic.com: nyti.ms/488Enpe
Our latest GM Spotlight Q&A with James Blanchard, his path from message boards to college scouting, why TTU hammered the transfer portal, the future of roster budgets and more @theathletic.com: nyti.ms/488Enpe
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Big fan of Rice-Eccles, and of Milan Puskar Stadium. Chris Kamrani @davidubben.bsky.social & @skhanjr.bsky.social have their own opinions of which Big 12 football stadiums are the best, most underrated and overrated? www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
Big 12 stadium superlatives: Favorites, most intimidating (and underwhelming) and more
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Big fan of Rice-Eccles, and of Milan Puskar Stadium. Chris Kamrani @davidubben.bsky.social & @skhanjr.bsky.social have their own opinions of which Big 12 football stadiums are the best, most underrated and overrated? www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
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Six days after he was fired, James Franklin went on ESPN’s “College GameDay” and made it clear he wanted to coach again.
Now he's the first major hiring of the coaching carousel.
Details:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
Now he's the first major hiring of the coaching carousel.
Details:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
Virginia Tech finalizing hiring James Franklin to be next coach: Source
“We’re just going to go win the national championship somewhere else now," Franklin said a week after being fired.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Six days after he was fired, James Franklin went on ESPN’s “College GameDay” and made it clear he wanted to coach again.
Now he's the first major hiring of the coaching carousel.
Details:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
Now he's the first major hiring of the coaching carousel.
Details:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...
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NEWS: Virginia Tech is finalizing a deal to hire James Franklin as its new head football coach, a person briefed on the negotiations tells @chrisvannini.com.
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
NEWS: Virginia Tech is finalizing a deal to hire James Franklin as its new head football coach, a person briefed on the negotiations tells @chrisvannini.com.
Baylor gave up 380 rushing yards tonight 😬
November 16, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Baylor gave up 380 rushing yards tonight 😬
Incredible!
That was the first onside kick of Kirby Smart’s tenure, per the school’s communications team.
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Incredible!
Kirby Smart
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November 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Kirby Smart
Two Georgia drives, two Georgia touchdowns
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Two Georgia drives, two Georgia touchdowns
Baylor has allowed 180 rushing yards to Utah so far tonight.
There's still 4:28 left in the second quarter.
There's still 4:28 left in the second quarter.
November 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Baylor has allowed 180 rushing yards to Utah so far tonight.
There's still 4:28 left in the second quarter.
There's still 4:28 left in the second quarter.
kill the touchdown-commercial-kickoff-commercial broadcast sequence with fire please
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 AM
kill the touchdown-commercial-kickoff-commercial broadcast sequence with fire please
According to Fox Sports, Texas Tech LB Jacob Rodriguez is just the sixth player in the last 10 years to have an INT and a rushing TD in the same game.
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
According to Fox Sports, Texas Tech LB Jacob Rodriguez is just the sixth player in the last 10 years to have an INT and a rushing TD in the same game.
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Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world.
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world.
Did I just read the Texas Tech-UCF halftime score correctly? 38-2??
November 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Did I just read the Texas Tech-UCF halftime score correctly? 38-2??
USF-Navy and Arizona-Cincinnati going down to the wire
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
USF-Navy and Arizona-Cincinnati going down to the wire
From down 30-3 to leading 31-30 in the matter of 20 minutes.
What an incredible turnaround for Texas A&M.
What an incredible turnaround for Texas A&M.
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
From down 30-3 to leading 31-30 in the matter of 20 minutes.
What an incredible turnaround for Texas A&M.
What an incredible turnaround for Texas A&M.
lol Texas A&M might erase the entire deficit in a single quarter
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
lol Texas A&M might erase the entire deficit in a single quarter
Texas A&M creepin' 👀
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Texas A&M creepin' 👀
Arizona giving Cincinnati all it can handle in Nippert 👀
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Arizona giving Cincinnati all it can handle in Nippert 👀
A fumble returned for a TD, dropped passes (including a would-be TD), three near-interceptions, two missed field goals ... just a comedy of errors for No. 3 Texas A&M in the first 28 minutes today against South Carolina.
November 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A fumble returned for a TD, dropped passes (including a would-be TD), three near-interceptions, two missed field goals ... just a comedy of errors for No. 3 Texas A&M in the first 28 minutes today against South Carolina.
What the hell are these throws by Marcel Reed?
November 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What the hell are these throws by Marcel Reed?
Nothing puts a good team in hell quite like having to defend a well-run option offense.
USF going through it with Navy right now ...
USF going through it with Navy right now ...
November 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Nothing puts a good team in hell quite like having to defend a well-run option offense.
USF going through it with Navy right now ...
USF going through it with Navy right now ...
So ... Texas A&M ...
November 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
So ... Texas A&M ...
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Story on Texas A&M and Mike Elko close to finalizing a new six-year deal worth more than $10 million annually.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
November 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Story on Texas A&M and Mike Elko close to finalizing a new six-year deal worth more than $10 million annually.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/681...
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SOURCE: Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko is finalizing a new deal that will make him a top-five paid coach in the sport and keep him in Aggieland, @theathletic.com has learned.
Elko is 17-5 at A&M, including 9-0 this year, their best start since 1992. Yahoo first reported.
Elko is 17-5 at A&M, including 9-0 this year, their best start since 1992. Yahoo first reported.
November 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
SOURCE: Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko is finalizing a new deal that will make him a top-five paid coach in the sport and keep him in Aggieland, @theathletic.com has learned.
Elko is 17-5 at A&M, including 9-0 this year, their best start since 1992. Yahoo first reported.
Elko is 17-5 at A&M, including 9-0 this year, their best start since 1992. Yahoo first reported.