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Pat Forde

About Pat Forde

Pat Forde is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who covers college football and college basketball as well as the Olympics and horse racing. He cohosts the Others Receiving Votes podcast for SI and is a regular contributor to the Tony Kornheiser Show podcast. He previously worked for Yahoo Sports, ESPN and The (Louisville) Courier-Journal. Forde has won 28 Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest awards, has been published three times in the Best American Sports Writing book series, and was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize. A past president of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and member of the Football Writers Association of America, he lives in Louisville with his wife. They have three children, all of whom were collegiate swimmers.

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The old Big Ten West struck back with a vengeance with signature victories from Iowa and Wisconsin, while USC and Maryland have coaching hot seat questions.
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Florida’s hot start to the season vaults the Gators to a first-round bye amid a host of SEC teams in the field.
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The USC QB grew up in public housing with 15 to 20 family members in one home. Now he carries the values of community that shaped him.
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“Hotty Toddy” might make the most sense of the incredible number of nonsensical sayings The Dash dug up. Let’s sing them together.
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Is Gunner Stockton for real? Can Alabama put together a complete game? Will Bryce Underwood solve Iowa’s defense? We should get some answers in Week 4.
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Perfect records can be deceiving, and these 10 teams are about to find out whether their starts mean anything.
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The pretenders are running out of places to hide, with Texas A&M, USC and Arkansas among the teams facing harsh reality checks as power-conference competition intensifies.
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Ole Miss’s win over LSU vaults the Rebels to the No. 1 seed through Saturday’s games.
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The LSU coach left the Rebels amid a storm of bitterness last season that built a 10-month grudge. In their first meeting, his former team sent him home with a definitive loss.
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Sports Illustrated’s college football writers predict the score of Week 3’s most highly anticipated game.
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