Fernando Mendoza is a business school grad who spends his summers interning at investing firms and maintains an active LinkedIn profile. He’s also a leading contender for the Heisman Trophy.

Let's start in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where Hugh Freeze takes an Auburn team that is winless in SEC play against interim coach Bobby Petrino's Razorbacks. Freeze is desperate for a win to keep his job. Petrino is desperate for a win to get the permanent job.

With a top-to-bottom standard of quality football teams — 12 of the 16 members of the conference are ranked in the ESPN FPI top 30, more than any other league — conference play becomes an unavoidable gauntlet where teams can only hope they don’t draw matchups with all the top contenders.

FOX is sending its Big Noon Kickoff circus to Bloomington on Saturday for Indiana's game against UCLA. ESPN's College GameDay is pitching tents in Nashville for Vanderbilt-Missouri. What bizarro world have we entered?

Ole Miss may be walking into an early kickoff buzzsaw in Norman on Saturday if oddsmakers and computer nerds are right with its predictions. FanDuel Sportsbook lists the Sooners (6-1, 2-1 SEC) with a -5.

Few coaches face more pressure than those at powerful programs that have gone a long time without winning a championship.

After Indiana faced criticism for its lackluster performance against ranked opponents a year ago, the Hoosiers needs to prove themselves against Oregon. Saturday’s game is a draft nerd’s dream with Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza and Oregon QB Dante Moore going head to head.

Texas vs Mississippi State preview, prediction, and betting lines. The Bulldogs are good, but they need to win now against the shaky Longhorns to turn everything back around.