Dennis Dodd

CBS Sports Senior Writer /

24 compelling storylines, teams, coaches, players that will dominate the 2024 college football season

With less than a month until the season begins, let's take a deeper dive into what's ahead

Northwestern, coach David Braun rebuilding program from the ground up a year after Pat Fitzgerald's ouster

With facility and stadium renovations underway, Northwestern eyes a clean slate with its new full-time coach

Spiritual journey guides Caleb Downs to Ohio State as centerpiece of Buckeyes' pivotal offseason overhaul

After Nick Saban retired at Alabama, Downs landing with Ohio State was destined to become a reality

Why revenue sharing with college athletes remains complicated amid antitrust settlement pushing forward

Pay-for-play has nearly made its formal arrival, but athletes being left voiceless in the process has created confusion

Sherrone Moore pulls curtain back on ascension to Michigan job, which Jim Harbaugh put into motion last fall

Harbaugh had made it known to Moore he was going to have a "coach-in-waiting" clause written into the Michigan extension, had he stayed in Ann Arbor

Big Ten commish Tony Petitti addresses potential playoff expansion, ramifications of House v. NCAA settlement

Petitti sat down with CBS Sports to touch on some of the more pressing topics in an unprecedented era for college football

Lincoln Riley finding his voice at USC, but meeting $100 million expectations is not coming as easily

"We're coming quickly," Riley says, but at success-starved USC, it can't come quick enough

As Big Ten celebrates expansion, Ohio State vs. Michigan rivalry endures as league's preeminent storyline

The Buckeyes battle lofty expectations this season, but overcoming the Wolverines remains their primary focus

Meet David Miller, SMU's billionaire alum who spearheaded the Mustangs' return to big-time college football

Miller led the charge in raising funds to ensure the SMU football program would be among the elite once again

'Remember me': Dan Lanning revisits small-town roots as rising young star leads Oregon into Big Ten era

Lanning carries the same confidence he exuded in high school 20 years ago into leading the Ducks program

Could Arch Manning's extended wait at Texas mean his eventual reign as starter goes longer, too?

The 800-pound gorilla in the room at media days was also a 220-pound backup who actually wasn't in the room

Nick Saban has taken to covering college football as manically as he did coaching it for six decades

The greatest college coach of all-time has a new role in the game, and he's already thriving at it

How the NCAA's proposal to let the Power Four form its own governing body would change all of college sports

The NCAA is aggressively pursuing a new governance structure that would essentially split the FBS into two subdivisions

CFP or bust for Ole Miss? Lane Kiffin hype train rolls full steam ahead as Rebels face lofty expectations

Kiffin and Ole Miss are loaded with talent and expected to be a major factor under the new 12-team playoff format

Why Mountain West interest in long-term relationship with Oregon State, Washington State may be waning

The Mountain West has leverage on its side entering this season under a scheduling agreement with the Pac-12 holdovers

Dennis Dodd has covered college football for CBS Sports since it was CBS SportsLine in 1998. Since then, nearly every BCS/CFP postseasons in the championship era. He is one of only seven media members to cover all 16 BCS title games. Dennis has chronicled conference realignment as well as the start of the College Football Playoff. He's dabbled in March Madness, NFL, MLB, Stanley Cup Playoffs and believes the College World Series is severely underappreciated. A Missouri graduate and former award-winning FWAA president, he previously worked for numerous outlets including The National and the Kansas City Star.

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