THE WIRE
General college-football news, running beside the desk pieces. Everything here is dated and filed as it arrives; the explainers in the sections above are written once and kept.
Fourteen runs on two clocks, and this page is the fast one.
The sections above hold explainers: pieces about how a rule works, what a passing line actually counts, why two record books disagree. They are researched once, dated, and left alone, because the answer to “what does intentional grounding require” does not change between Tuesdays. They sit under the rubric they belong to and they are meant to be found by search months after they were written.
The Sideline is the other clock. General college-football news lands here as it arrives, newest at the top, in the order it was filed — results, movement, the things that are true this week and superseded the next. Nothing on this page is edited into the explainers above, and nothing above is quietly re-dated to look like news. Keeping the two apart is the point of having two pages.
If the list below is empty, the wire is simply open and nothing has come through yet. New items appear at the top of it without anything else on this page moving.
Pro-Football-Reference defines completion percentage through a straightforward calculation: completions divided by passing attempts. ESPN records the metric under the abbreviation PCT in its…
Under the NCAA Football Statisticians’ Manual, total offense is defined as the combined result of rushing and forward passing only, calculated as the total of net gain rushing and net gain forward…
The NCAA pass-efficiency rating converts five box-score statistics into a single number using four weighted rate components. Defined in the 2022 NCAA Football Statisticians’ Manual, the calculation…