College Football Reality Check

Send us Fan Mail College football is back, and the first thing we can’t stop talking about isn’t a depth chart, it’s who actually runs the sport now. We open with a quick roundtable warm-up, then jump into the headline that lit up our group chat: the Big Ten and SEC drawing a hard line on athletes who sign pro contracts or appear on pro rosters and trying to return to college. If that rule even needs to exist, what does it say about modern college athletics and the NCAA’s ability to enforce a...