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Shehan Jeyarajah

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Baylor fires Dave Aranda: Lincoln Riley, Spencer Danielson among candidates to replace 7th-year coach

Aranda led the Bears to the 2021 Big 12 title, but finished with four losing seasons

Utah emerges as new Big 12 standard-bearer after outlasting Houston

With BYU and Texas Tech tumbling, Devon Dampier took over in the second half to keep the Utes unbeaten and establish them as the Big 12's most complete team

College football winners, losers in Week 8: Big 12 loses momentum amid upsets, Miami's dominance continues

BYU and Texas Tech dealt a massive blow to the Big 12's playoff hopes, the Hurricanes rolled behind a dominant offense and Dave Aranda's Baylor tenure reached a breaking point

Houston vs. Utah prediction, pick, odds, spread: Cougars, Utes meet with CFP and Big 12 title implications

Big 12 playoff positioning is on the line in Salt Lake City as Conner Weigman leads a surging Cougars squad against the Utes' creative two-quarterback offense

UCF stuns No. 2 BYU in double overtime for first top-five win in program history

Backup quarterback Keyone Jenkins accounted for four touchdowns, and the Knights secured their first top-five victory in program history with a goal-line stand in double overtime

NC State fires Dave Doeren: Wolfpack coach out amid 14th season after brutal loss to Stanford

A shocking loss to the Cardinal dropped the Wolfpack to 3-4 on the season, ending a 14-year tenure that produced 98 wins and 11 bowl trips

Texas Tech's Big 12 hopes hinge on solving the Brendan Sorsby-sized hole at QB

Two costly turnovers and persistent red-zone struggles from Will Hammond in Saturday's loss to Cincinnati exposed a glaring offensive void after Sorsby's sudden departure

Week 8 College Football Playoff impact games: Texas-Ole Miss, Houston-Utah lead slate

Texas fights to save its season against Ole Miss while Utah, BYU and LSU navigate dangerous tests with postseason survival on the line

Which college football coach will be fired next? The Power Four's hottest seats by tier

Massive buyouts and soaring roster payrolls have slowed the coaching carousel, but Dave Aranda and Mike Norvell headline a complicated list of names on the hot seat

Big 12 midseason grades: BYU earns 'A++,' Deion Sanders and Colorado get 'D'

Individual grades on the midseason report card for all 16 Big 12 teams

Ranking college football's best coaches-in-waiting: Where Utah's Morgan Scalley fits

A dominant 7-0 start has the Utes in the playoff hunt while reviving a succession model that most of college football abandoned years ago

What's next for Nico Iamaleava? From prized recruit to Tennessee exit, UCLA rise and ACL tear

The injury dims an undefeated start under Bob Chesney and adds another dramatic chapter to a college career defined by massive NIL stakes, a messy divorce and a Westwood revival

How CJ Carr's rough night vs. BYU raises new doubts about Notre Dame's title ceiling

The Notre Dame quarterback struggled downfield against an elite defense, leaving the Irish with no room for error as an early-November clash with No. 1 Miami looms

Texas star pass rusher Colin Simmons expected to miss Ole Miss game with high ankle sprain, per report

The nation's sack leader leaves a massive void for a reeling Longhorns defense that has managed just one other multi-sack contributor this season

College football winners, losers in Week 7: BYU is the toast of historic weekend, Texas has a Sark problem

BYU makes its case as a national title contender, Auburn stuns Georgia in Athens and Sarkisian searches for answers after another ugly Longhorns loss

Shehan Jeyarajah is a college football writer for CBS Sports. He serves on the national board of the FWAA and previously worked as the a college football insider at Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine where he was the youngest writer honored by the FWAA's Best Writing Contest in 2020. Shehan lives in Texas with his wife, Bhargavi.

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