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Shehan Jeyarajah
Shehan Jeyarajah
@shehanjeyarajah.com
National College Football Writer at CBS Sports
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Texas spent the first four games outrunning their flaws. Oklahoma exposed them. www.cbssports.com/college-foot...
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NEW: The early weeks of the college football season have gotten dangerously hot, and the heat is lasting longer. Shortened games, a band member dead, hundreds of medical calls. With the season moving up, it's a huge problem. And there's not an easy fix www.al.com/sec/2026/10/...
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Bill Bedenbaugh is Oklahoma’s highest-paid non-coordinator on staff at $1.2 million. Been a minute since his OLs have played to a commensurate level. Seventeen different starting combos since start of 2024. More misses than hits in the portal. As many HS signees as transfers since 2023.
Oklahoma has not produced a homegrown OL draft pick since 2023. They’ve regressing rushing every year since Lincoln Riley. Eight of 11 recruits in the Classes of 2022-24 transferred. Brent Venables is finally talking about it. www.cbssports.com/college-foot...
Oklahoma has not produced a homegrown OL draft pick since 2023. They’ve regressing rushing every year since Lincoln Riley. Eight of 11 recruits in the Classes of 2022-24 transferred. Brent Venables is finally talking about it. www.cbssports.com/college-foot...
To this point, everything around Arch has been picture perfect. He just has to play better. The flashes are nice, but flashes aren't enough.
ok, here's my One Arch Take: The Mannings clearly thought giving Arch 4 years at the same school with the same staff, not worrying about the rat race of playing time/the portal/NIL, would give him stability to develop, but for whatever reason he's still raw/toolsy 4 years in rather than polished
Before Cam Buffington starred at Iowa, he terrorized opponents on the eight-man football field. I collected tall tales from Winfield to learn how small school ball shaped the next great Iowa MIKE. “If he has that matchup, we’re throwing a go route.” www.cbssports.com/college-foot...
They gave him $200 billion to make the "I don't even know where I am right now" machine
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
Steve Sarkisian says Trump's departure disrupted Miami's headsets in CFP title game; sources differ on timing www.cbssports.com/college-foot...
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A forewarning that this one is difficult. But it’s a credit to Duncan Robinson and his family for telling it. They hope it’ll help others. And maybe it’ll be a good reminder that “we can all be a little less certain about knowing what someone is going through.” www.nytimes.com/athletic/761...
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ICE snatched up a Senegalese college basketball player with an ACL injury in a Kentucky airport. She’s “in so much pain” and needs surgery, but is being transferred from camp to camp with little more than ibuprofen. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
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Sooners Illustrated sources confirm that Oklahoma star defensive tackle David Stone — a projected first-round pick — sustained a serious lower-body injury in practice Monday evening.
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Confidence isn't necessarily a tangible thing, but it's a real thing. And for Oklahoma's offense, it's a fleeting thing after another lackluster performance, this time in a 14-6 win against New Mexico. "I expect more," Brent Venables said. "...That can't be the product."
Said this on the other app but I’m fascinated by Venables complete inability to hide whose fault he thinks it is when things go bad. I don’t know if he even means to, but he’s constantly throwing people under the bus.
Asked about his confidence in Ben Arbuckle as Oklahoma’s offensive coordinator, Brent Venables says: “I’m not going to talk about confidence. He’s our play-caller.”
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I don't know if I ever posted this one here, but it's one of my favorite stories I've ever gotten to write. Last year, I talked to the people of Grand Rapids about their native son Trinidad Chambliss, the brightest and most unlikely star in college football. www.cbssports.com/college-foot...
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New show: CFB is here so @machinesports.bsky.social and I called upon the dude @shehanjeyarajah.com to drop his big-time ball knowledge on the playoff, the contenders, the Heisman, SMU, TCU, UNT, and much more! m.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Wf...
You should read this one instead! www.cbssports.com/college-foot...
it's barely lunch time and we're already up to two national sports pieces that Don't Think You, The Reader, Is All That Smart
For 17 long years, Texas Tech fans have waited. When the time came, the whole community was ready for their close up. Inside 72 triumphant hours in Lubbock. “Everybody in West Texas deserved this.” #WreckEm🌵 www.cbssports.com/college-foot...
George Strait tequila truck you say? 🤔 @hollyanderson.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social
John Mateer's miraculous recovery at the hands of Dr. Steven Shin will go down in the Oklahoma history books. Only 17 days after hand surgery, he was back. But is a miracle of modern medicine enough to save the Oklahoma offense? It's complicated. www.cbssports.com/college-foot...
Actually so wild that this guy talks about nostalgia for something that he could literally go do right now, and then decides it’s no longer possible because there are people named “Mohammed.” Like, do y’all hear yourselves? bsky.app/profile/mugr...
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