The NCAA Cross Country season is heating up, with top contenders like BYU and Oklahoma State leading the men’s race, and BYU and NAU battling for the women’s title. However, sleeper teams could shake up the standings. While rankings provide insight, teamwork and preparation will ultimately decide the national champions.

EA Sports College Football has returned, sparking debate over the accuracy of speed ratings given to college football players. especially those who also excel in track and field. Which players did they get right, and which ones did they get wrong?

Keep track of everything going on at the outdoor conference championships, all around D1. Remember that it is incredibly hard to win a championship anywhere in the NCAA, no matter what conference you are competing in.

The truth is that Parker Valby is the most dominant distance runner in college now. But it is also 100 percent of accurate that simply finishing the sentence there is an understatement.

Salif Mane is one of the best track and field athletes in the entire nation, and has been for a while now. But he competes for a program that almost nobody knew existed at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Christopher Morales Williams won the 400 meter indoors at the SEC championships in 44.49 seconds. That is a not only the fastest time in the NCAA, but the fastest one ever recorded all-time.

Keep track of everything going on at the conference championships, all around D1. Remember that it is incredibly hard to win a championship anywhere in the NCAA, no matter what conference you are competing in.

What Jameesia Ford is doing right now, is not only a problem for every team in the NCAA. It is a threat to every fast woman in America, which includes all the pros.

Wes Ferguson is one of the fastest 800 meter runners in all of college. He has been for some time now. But most fans don’t know who he is because he doesn’t run in Division 1.

Ethan Exilhomme was a five star recruit, and is now one of the best hurdlers in the NCAA. However, unlike most recruits like him, he chose to compete for Northeastern University in the CAA conference.

Isabella Whittaker runs in the Ivy League which doesn’t give out athletic scholarships. Which is why it seems to be a surprise that she is one of the fastest 400 meter runners in the NCAA!

Jonah Vigil is one of the fastest runners in college, regardless of division. He chooses to run for D2 Adams State University, but he could have transferred out a while ago.

Jacious Sears is currently the collegiate leader in the 60 and 200 meter dashes. She was always supposed to be this good, but did not perform like it until she transferred to the University of Tennessee.

Cheickna Traore is one of the best sprinters in all of college track and field, but he was not supposed to be this fast! Which is why he was never recruited to compete in Division 1, or Division 2.

Right now Alyssa Colbert of Texas Tech University is tied for the fastest woman in all of college. She arrived there via the transfer portal. And now she has a chance to embarrass every high level program who passed up on her, not once but twice.

Ryan Wilson ran his entire college career at D3 MIT. And he has been so dominant winning championships at the D3 level, that he likely could have won an NCAA championship by now in Division 1. Which is finally where he will be competing this season.

Tye Hunt was a football player who was not even supposed to be a track athlete in college. But now he has a chance to shock the world, and every college coach who passed up on him, by out jumping the entire nation.