Nearly everywhere except Chapel Hill, gridiron elites avoided upsets this weekend — but their up-and-coming opponents made ’em work for it.

On Friday, Red Rocks junior and two-time Team USA World Champion Kara Eaker, a member of Utah’s 2023 national third-place squad, announced her retirement from women’s gymnastics and her withdrawal from the university, citing abuse from an unnamed male coach.

Four of the Power Five conferences are entering their last weekend of regular-season play, so the races for regular-season champ (and the all-important conference tourney No. 1 seeds that accompany that title) are tighter than a Traylor hand hold.

The college football season’s officially past the 50-yard line, and its behemoths have never looked more vulnerable.

The peak of fall tennis — the ITA National Fall Championships — begins in exactly two weeks, which means players are frantically trying to win their ITA Regionals (aka the main route to the tourney) right now.

Yesterday, NCAA president Charlie Baker tried a new strategy: He asked Congress to affirm that student-athletes (SAs) are not school employees, a move that would help keep regulation under the NCAA’s umbrella, instead of the judicial system’s.

Basketball season doesn’t start partying for three more weeks, but the Iowa Hawkeyes are celebrating early with a record-breaking crowd at their Crossover at Kinnick event.

With every jaw-dropping win, the Heisman Trophy race grows clearer, and this weekend’s chaos saw one superstar emerge as the talk of the town — and the favorite to become the Heisman House’s newest resident.

Heisman hopefuls weren't the only ones fighting for their football lives this weekend: Between four Top-25 upsets by unranked foes and three undefeated seasons down the drain, Division I served up plenty of blockbuster action on Saturday.

At least one undefeated record will bite the dust, and at least one underperforming team will be redeemed.

Taking their cues from the pros (in scheduling only, we hope), the men’s hockey season began last weekend with a mix of exhibition games and official regular-season matchups.

Yesterday’s poll drop was characteristically chaotic, meaning everything’s up for grabs with only three regular-season weeks left.