GQ Bowl, fashion’s most football-forward night, returns on February 6. After a rollicking inaugural kick-off of our collaborative runway with designer Emily Bode last year, we’re bringing back the camaraderie during the big-game weekend in San Francisco with the one and only Thom Browne. At the event, Browne, preeminent suiting maestro and chairman of the CFDA, will present his fall 2026 collection, featuring both menswear and womenswear, at the City by the Bay’s Legion of Honor museum. Timed to the big football weekend, it’s a fitting union for the designer in more ways than one. Having grown up tossing the pigskin around on Thanksgiving in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Browne’s connection to the sport runs deep. (“Somebody usually got hurt, somebody usually broke something, somebody got pushed over the fence,” he once recalled to GQ.) Over the years, the designer has also served as his alma mater’s—the college football giant, University of Notre Dame—artist-in-residence. For years, he’s designed football-themed collections and even hosted annual pick-up matches on the campus—a tradition he began with his employees back in …