{"id":685934,"date":"2026-06-05T12:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685934\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:24:20","slug":"espn-debuts-2026-27-college-football-preview-magazine-with-three-different-regional-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685934\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN debuts 2026-27 College Football Preview magazine with three different regional covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESPN is introducing its new 128-page College Football Preview magazine delivering quality content from many of the network\u2019s most popular college football writers and reporters, ESPN announced Thursday<\/a>. The new 2026-2027 preview magazine will hit nationwide newsstands and Amazon on Friday, June 5.<\/p>\n

The 2026-27 edition of the magazine is being billed as \u201cthe ultimate guide to the teams, players, and storylines set to define the year ahead\u201d and will include three distinct regional covers featuring many of the biggest names in college football. <\/p>\n

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ESPN\u2019s regional covers will feature Texas<\/a> QB Arch Manning<\/a>, USC<\/a> QB Jayden Maiava<\/a>, and Oregon<\/a> QB Dante Moore<\/a> on the West region magazine; Notre Dame<\/a> QB CJ Carr,<\/a> Ohio State<\/a> WR Jeremiah Smith<\/a>, and Michigan<\/a> QB Bryce Underwood<\/a> on the Midwest\/Northeast region magazine; and Georgia<\/a> RB Nate Frazier<\/a>, Alabama<\/a> RB Daniel Hill<\/a>, and Miami<\/a> WR Malachi Toney<\/a> on the South region magazine.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s debut ESPN 2026-27 College Football Preview will highlight breakout stars, heated rivalries and the biggest questions facing the sport. It also include features previewing each team from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC, as well as a breakdown of the Group of Six leagues.<\/p>\n

There will also be a special \u201cBest Bets\u201d column, an article from Mark Schlabach previewing the preseason Top 25 and All-American teams, Adam Rittenberg evaluating the biggest offseason coaching hires, and a projection of the 2026 College Football Playoff bracket from Bill Connelly.<\/p>\n

Other ESPN contributors include Andrea Adelson, Kyle Bonagura, Heather Dinich, David Hale, Eli Lederman, Harry Lyles Jr., Ryan McGee, Pam Maldonado, Max Olson, Pete Thamel, Jake Trotter, Paolo Uggetti and Dave Wilson.<\/p>\n

By entering the preview magazine realm, ESPN is encroaching on territory that\u2019s been dominated by traditional magazine powers Athlon Sports, Lindy\u2019s Sports and Phil Steele.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN is introducing its new 128-page College Football Preview magazine delivering quality content from many of the network\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-685934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}