If someone were to say ten years ago, during the dominance of Alabama and Clemson, that college football is as fair as it has ever been, most would not bat an eye. And yet, here we are. This divide between expectation and reality in college football right now is second to none in mind-blowing things. For starters, almost half of the teams ranked in the top 25 in the preseason are not ranked at all now. By this standard, everyone is correct in calling this era of college football the era of parity—and chaos!

If you were driving down Lookout Mountain a couple of weeks ago and saw a McCallie M flag on a truck bed or hanging from a tree a flag of the score of last year’s state championship game, something may have came in your head regarding McCallie football…

In September, it was announced after much preliminary discussion that the spring transfer portal would be done away with. After the old portal was done away with and each student was able to transfer an unlimited amount of times starting in 2022, the windows have shrunken each year.  From each year on, they have been at a combined (winter and spring) 60 days, reduced to a combined 45 days, down to a combined 30 days last offseason. However, with the ruling recently, the winter portal will be the standalone portal in which football athletes can announce their intentions to transfer.

On a crisp and calm Saturday morning at the Nature Valley Center just down the mountain, Covenant’s Mens and Womens Cross Country teams both opened their seasons on Aug. 30. While being voted preseason poll #1 by the Collegiate Conference of the South (CCS), the team was making sure to “not take other teams for granted,” according to Jacob Howington ’28.

On the heels of ESPN writer Bill Connolly’s new book entitled “Forward Progress” detailing the College Football’s significant changes in the past several years, there has never been a time of so much chaos and instability in the sport. And yet, the revenue from athletic programs has never been higher, the ratings on TV are reaching record heights, and conferences are only getting bigger.

As spring semester has started to draw closer and closer to spring break, so too has baseball season kicked off these past couple weeks! The baseball team is sitting on a three game winning streak, so far, having played both Greenville University and The College of Wooster in three game series’.

For those who were unaware of what some of our fellow students had the opportunity of doing this past week, look no further than this article filling you in. David Perry ’27, Sydney Jones ‘25 and Nicole Graubard ‘25 were those who attended. Perry spoke about his experience and what they all did as a group.