It’s a loaded BIG MONDAY on Rise & Shine College Football as Jason Watkins takes on a wild weekend across sports and the latest storm clouds gathering over college football.
Oklahoma had a 1-0 lead in the Men’s College World Series Finals but failed to close out North Carolina on Sunday, falling 6-2 and setting up a winner-take-all Game 3 in Omaha. Can the Sooners get off the mat and finish the job, or did UNC steal all the momentum?
Jason also sounds off on the ugly scene at Shinnecock Hills, where Wyndham Clark survived a hostile final-round crowd to win his second U.S. Open championship. When did fans decide paying for a ticket gave them permission to act like the show?
Then it’s back to college football’s biggest governance fight: the Brendan Sorsby sports gambling debacle, Texas Tech’s role in the mess and the Senate Commerce Committee’s 19-9 vote to send the Protect College Sports Act to the Senate floor. Jason explains why a bill sold as “saving college sports” may actually freeze the sport in place, limit future conference movement and lock ambitious ACC and Big 12 programs — including Miami, Florida State, Clemson and Texas Tech — into a government-controlled version of college football.
Plus, Arch Manning is reportedly already being discussed as a possible fifth-year college quarterback at Texas, even with his fourth season in Austin still more than two months away. What would that mean for Steve Sarkisian, the Longhorns and the 2027 NFL Draft conversation?
Drop your thoughts in the comments: Is Congress about to protect college football, or shackle it?