Jason Watkins Writing Samples

Judge Robert Whitwell shouldn’t have had to fix a problem created by the NCAA’s own governance, but his ruling exposed a credibility crisis ...

Jason Watkins’ The Playoff Industrial Complex, Part II, argues that the playoff controversy isn’t just about the format or committee—it’s dr...

Part I argues that the College Football Playoff hasn’t become unfair so much as it has become a lucrative content machine, where every resul...

Sooners Were Hard to Kill… But Not Built to Finish analyzes Oklahoma’s season-ending collapse as a slow, structural unraveling rather than a...

Gundy sat at the podium with his trademark squint, steering every question back to the same well-worn refrain: player mistakes, untimely pen...

In 2023, OSU played for a conference championship against Texas. In 2024, with the same roster, they didn’t win a single conference game. If...

Two truths—both valid—are staring us in the face. The SEC didn’t flip to a nine-game schedule for ESPN’s $5 million trinket. It did it to pr...

It’s no secret that Oklahoma isn’t throwing bags of NIL money at every kid with a high rating and an Instagram following. With the newly-imp...

Many observers believe the House settlement brings college athletics one step closer to formalizing this relationship, aligning the dynamics...