Ivy League football to compete in FCS playoffs beginning next season
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Ivy League football to compete in FCS playoffs beginning next season

Associated Press  

— The Ivy League will compete in the FCS playoffs beginning next season, the conference announced on Wednesday, ending a century-long postseason ban originally aimed at allowing the athletes to focus on their schoolwork. “For the future generations that are fortunate enough to represent the Ivy League in the FCS playoffs, go win us some hardware!” The 2024 Ivy League season ended with Columbia, Dartmouth and Harvard earning a share of the championship; it was Colombia’s first conference title since 1961. “Ivy League football is the most competitive it’s ever been and I’m excited for us to make some noise in the playoffs for years to come.” The schools that would later form the Ivy League were a force in college football in the leather helmet days that predated the forward pass, with Yale and Princeton winning 23 of the sport’s first 25 unofficial national championships in the late 1800s. Still, the Ivy League, which became a formal athletic conference in 1954, resisted the temptation of big-money college sports, forsaking bowl games and what is now the FCS playoffs to avoid the disruption on academics.

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Coast-to-coast conferences and expanded playoff mark a season of change in college football
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Coast-to-coast conferences and expanded playoff mark a season of change in college football

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! College Football Playoff The expanded playoff will be spread over a month beginning Dec. 20-21 and could require the last two teams standing to play an unprecedented 17 games. The 12 playoff teams will be the five conference champions ranked highest by the CFP selection committee, …

College Football Playoff moving toward agreement between conferences needed to complete ESPN deal
9 months, 3 weeks ago

College Football Playoff moving toward agreement between conferences needed to complete ESPN deal

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The College Football Playoff is moving toward a revenue-sharing agreement among participating conferences that is needed in order to finalize a new media rights contact with ESPN. Conference officials were meeting separately this week with their schools to consider a deal that would commit them to …

College Football Playoff approves 5+7 format and reduces spots for conference champions
10 months, 2 weeks ago

College Football Playoff approves 5+7 format and reduces spots for conference champions

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The field for the 12-team College Football Playoff beginning next season will comprise five conference champions and seven at-large selections after the university presidents who oversee the CFP voted unanimously Tuesday to tweak the format. The original plan for the 12-team format was to have the …

AP Sports Story of the Year: Realignment, stunning demise of Pac-12 usher in super conference era
1 year ago

AP Sports Story of the Year: Realignment, stunning demise of Pac-12 usher in super conference era

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The redrawing of the college sports map and demise of the Pac-12, a conference that claims the most NCAA championships and a legacy that includes the likes of Jackie Robinson, Bill Walton, Aaron Rodgers, Katie Ledecky, Tiger Woods and Cheryl Miller, made conference realignment The Associated …

American Athletic Conference adds Army in 2024 for football. Army-Navy to remain nonconference game
1 year, 2 months ago

American Athletic Conference adds Army in 2024 for football. Army-Navy to remain nonconference game

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The American Athletic Conference announced Wednesday it is adding Army as a football-only member starting in 2024. “I think army will be extremely competitive in our conference.” Army will replace SMU, which is moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference, to keep the American a 14-team football …

CFP puts off decisions on format tweaks with Pac-12 still in limbo, hears from potential TV partners
1 year, 3 months ago

CFP puts off decisions on format tweaks with Pac-12 still in limbo, hears from potential TV partners

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The number of spots reserved for conference champions when the College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams next year remained open for discussion Wednesday as administrators who manage the postseason wrapped up meetings that mostly focused on potential television partners. College Football Playoff Executive Director Bill …

With super conferences and CFP expansion on horizon, 2023 is the end of an era in college football
1 year, 4 months ago

With super conferences and CFP expansion on horizon, 2023 is the end of an era in college football

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “I’m resigned to it,” said ESPN’s Rece Davis on The AP Top 25 College Football Podcast. “This thing was driven by money and by football and to say these decisions benefit the student-athletes, in most cases, I’m not sure I believe that,” said Brian Polian, a …

College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams in 2024 season
2 years, 1 month ago

College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams in 2024 season

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The College Football Playoff announced …

CFP expansion ‘not finished,’ still working toward 12 in ’24
2 years, 2 months ago

CFP expansion ‘not finished,’ still working toward 12 in ’24

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The CFP management committee, comprised of 10 major college football conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director, met for six hours at an airport hotel to work on a plan to triple the number of playoff teams from four to 12 for the 2024 season. It’s …

College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams by ’26 season
2 years, 4 months ago

College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams by ’26 season

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! After 14 1/2 months of haggling over details and questioning motivations, a plan to expand the College Football Playoff to 12 teams was finally approved Friday, setting the stage for a multibillion-dollar tournament as soon as the 2024 season. “This was a very historic day for …

College Football Playoff will expand from four to 12 teams by 2026
2 years, 4 months ago

College Football Playoff will expand from four to 12 teams by 2026

LA Times  

The university presidents who oversee the College Football Playoff voted Friday to expand the postseason model for determining a national champion from four to 12 teams no later than the 2026 season. If the new format can be implemented before the current 12-year contract with ESPN expires after the 2025 season, the conferences could make an additional $450 million over …

College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams by 2026
2 years, 4 months ago

College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams by 2026

New York Times  

Follow The Athletic’s live coverage of Week 1 of the college football season. The College Football Playoff will expand to 12 teams by 2026, the CFP Board of Managers announced Friday. 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: College Football Playoff Board of Managers Votes to Expand Playoff to 12 Teams Details on today's meeting » https://t.co/x77b7YFPbt#CFBPlayoff 🏈🏆 pic.twitter.com/M6LbtdGaEj — College Football Playoff September 2, 2022 …

CFP board chair: New format ideally in place by June 2023
2 years, 7 months ago

CFP board chair: New format ideally in place by June 2023

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The CFP management committee, comprised of 10 FBS conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director, spent the final six months of 2021 trying to come to unanimous agreement on a 12-team plan — but never got there. “Whether or not that comes back and how this …

As leaders lobby, NCAA searches for ways to rein in boosters
2 years, 8 months ago

As leaders lobby, NCAA searches for ways to rein in boosters

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “As we have observed activity emerge that is very different from original ideas around Name, Image and Likeness, it is important we continue to pursue a national NIL structure to support the thousands of opportunities made available for young people through intercollegiate athletics programs across the …

NCAA rewrites constitution, sets stage for transformation
3 years, 1 month ago

NCAA rewrites constitution, sets stage for transformation

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The next phase of the NCAA’s transformation figures to be more difficult: a reshaping of Division I that will tackle revenue distribution, how rules are made and enforced, access to the most-high profile and lucrative NCAA events — such as the men’s basketball tournament — and …

College Football Playoff expansion talks to continue Dec. 1
3 years, 2 months ago

College Football Playoff expansion talks to continue Dec. 1

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! DALLAS — The administrators in charge of the College Football Playoff plan to meet again on Dec. 1 to continue expansion talks, which need to reach a consensus by the end of the year if a new postseason format is to be implemented for the 2024 …

For CFP to expand by 2024, plans need approval in 4 months
3 years, 3 months ago

For CFP to expand by 2024, plans need approval in 4 months

Associated Press  

ROSEMONT, Ill. — The college sports leaders who run the College Football Playoff have about four months to come to an agreement on a new format if expansion is to be implemented for the 2024 season. “We have time,” CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock said Tuesday after a four-hour meeting with the management committee. So, we have the luxury of …

College football 50 things countdown: The Ivy League is back and starting to feel like normal at last
3 years, 4 months ago

College football 50 things countdown: The Ivy League is back and starting to feel like normal at last

New York Times  

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of personal essays celebrating 50 things we’re looking forward to in college football leading up to the Week 1 kickoffs Sept. 4. The return of Ivy League football as the FCS gets back to a unified fall schedule is yet another part of the sport that was gone last year and back …

Pick Six: Picking the playoff and the national champion
3 years, 4 months ago

Pick Six: Picking the playoff and the national champion

Associated Press  

At this time last year, trying to make predictions about college football started with guessing whether the season would actually reach a conclusion. UNDERACHIEVERS/OVERACHIEVERS Three teams that will start the season unranked, but will finished ranked: TCU : Coach Gary Patterson seems due to have a surprise Big 12 contender with breakout candidates at running back and receiver. The Hoosiers’ …

Ivy League suspends fall sports due to coronavirus pandemic
4 years, 5 months ago

Ivy League suspends fall sports due to coronavirus pandemic

Associated Press  

The Ivy League on Wednesday became the first Division I conference to suspend all fall sports, including football, leaving open the possibility of moving some seasons to the spring if the coronavirus pandemic is better controlled by then. Dr. Chris Kratochvil, the chair of the Big Ten’s infectious disease task force, said there is no “hard deadline” for a decision …

O’Neil: The Ivy League did wrong by its athletes in sticking to an archaic rule
4 years, 9 months ago

O’Neil: The Ivy League did wrong by its athletes in sticking to an archaic rule

New York Times  

I live not terribly far from Princeton University and frequently drive down the streets that cut through campus. Rather than offer a blanket waiver for spring sports eligibility, as the NCAA allowed on Monday, those in the ivy-towered office took Marie Antoinette’s route. The league statement: “After a number of discussions surrounding the current circumstances, the Ivy League has decided …

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