Jason Watkins Writing Samples

The piece argues that Brendan Sorsby’s gambling on Indiana and other college games while he was a quarterback crosses a non-negotiable line ...

The Protect College Sports Act raises NIL and athlete rights concerns by capping athlete pay, limiting transfer freedom and protecting the N...

Owen Heinecke won the biggest fight of his football career Thursday, when Cleveland County Judge Thad Balkman granted the Oklahoma linebacke...

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...