The college football season kicks off with several changes
3 months, 3 weeks ago

The college football season kicks off with several changes

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The college football season kicks off with several changes It's time for college football, and this year it's going to be quite different. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: College football is going to look a whole lot different this fall. And for the first time ever, we are going to be seeing West Coast teams like UCLA and Oregon playing in conferences. So take a school like Florida, which is no slouch - right now, they look to have the toughest schedule in college football, and there's a real chance they may struggle to even get to six wins.

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College playoffs looks for good matchups after snoozy first round of blowouts
1 day, 2 hours ago

College playoffs looks for good matchups after snoozy first round of blowouts

Associated Press  

For those who dozed through it, or flipped to more compelling fare in the NFL, here’s a brief recap of the rollout of the much-anticipated College Football Playoff. One part that did feel like a success was that the stands were full in all four stadiums — at Texas, Notre Dame, Penn State and Ohio State. “I think college football …

12-team college football playoff arrives after 100 years, a few billion dollars and many detours
4 days, 3 hours ago

12-team college football playoff arrives after 100 years, a few billion dollars and many detours

Associated Press  

It took more than 100 years, a few billion dollars and the cold, hard realization that you can’t fight progress forever. The first 12-team College Football Playoff kicks off Friday and Saturday with four first-round games on campuses steeped in gridiron tradition: Texas, Penn State, Notre Dame and Ohio State. A deal struck decades ago as part of the NFL’s …

5 takeaways from the unveiling of the 12-team College Football Playoff field
2 weeks, 1 day ago

5 takeaways from the unveiling of the 12-team College Football Playoff field

CNN  

CNN — The field is set, the games are scheduled, and college football fans have an absolutely scrumptious holiday buffet of playoff games set out in front of them. Oregon offensive lineman Iapani Laloulu celebrates after the Big Ten championship NCAA college football game against Penn State, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, in Indianapolis. Darron Cummings/AP The top four seeds are …

College football: Florida State’s disaster season of losses is historic.
1 month, 1 week ago

College football: Florida State’s disaster season of losses is historic.

Slate  

College football has never had a disaster season like the one the 2024 Florida State Seminoles are putting on right now. Florida State is one of roughly 14 championship-capable programs at the sport’s top level, part of the select few who can recruit enough elite players to win the whole enchilada when enough things go right. While much of FSU’s …

College football Week 11 odds, picks against the spread: Ole Miss-Georgia, Alabama-LSU and more
1 month, 2 weeks ago

College football Week 11 odds, picks against the spread: Ole Miss-Georgia, Alabama-LSU and more

New York Times  

The initial College Football Playoff rankings have been released, and several games on the Week 11 slate will significantly impact the eventual 12-team field. 16 Ole Miss 3:30 p.m. on Fubo, ABC The big change with the expanded playoff in college football isn’t that it cheapened the regular season. So it’s pretty simple — win on Saturday night to keep …

This College Football Season Is Anarchy
54 years, 11 months ago

This College Football Season Is Anarchy

Slate  

There’s half a college football season left to play, and among the wide range of possible story arcs is this fun one: Alabama and Notre Dame could miss the playoff, while BYU and James Madison could make it. But upsets this season are different from upsets in any other one, because nobody has a road map for how the College …

College football Week 4: As conference play ramps up, more mismatches are on the slate for top teams
3 months ago

College football Week 4: As conference play ramps up, more mismatches are on the slate for top teams

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! We aren’t quite in the throes of conference play as the first month of the college football season winds down. Utah hopes to have quarterback Cam Rising back, though true freshman Isaac Wilson filled in admirably against Utah State last week in his first start. USC …

The Worst Thing About This College Football Season Is a Win for Most Teams
3 months, 3 weeks ago

The Worst Thing About This College Football Season Is a Win for Most Teams

Slate  

In late September 2008, the fourth-ranked University of Florida football team hosted unranked Ole Miss in Gainesville. For a team aiming to win it all, one loss could mean the end and a second almost always did, and that was a unique feature of college football. The College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams this year. Whoever loses Sunday night’s …

College football Week 1: Race for the 12 playoff spots is on with Clemson-Georgia topping schedule
3 months, 3 weeks ago

College football Week 1: Race for the 12 playoff spots is on with Clemson-Georgia topping schedule

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! College football season begins in earnest this week with a full slate of games highlighted by three Top 25 matchups. The Seminoles’ 24-21 loss to Georgia Tech last week as a double-digit favorite dropped their odds of getting picked this year from 3-2 to 5-1, according …

2024 college football season: Here’s what to expect
3 months, 4 weeks ago

2024 college football season: Here’s what to expect

CNN  

CNN — Welcome to the 2024 college football season, where everyone makes the playoffs! With realignment, fans have been forced to say goodbye to one of the college’s best rivalry games: “Bedlam.” Oklahoma will no longer be playing Oklahoma State after the former’s move from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference. We will have our latest College Football National …

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

Expanded College Football Playoff will begin with 1st-round game on Dec. 20 in prime time
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Expanded College Football Playoff will begin with 1st-round game on Dec. 20 in prime time

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff will kick off with a first-round game on Dec. 20 and conclude with the title game one month later in Atlanta. ABC and ESPN will televise games on Friday and Saturday night with an 8 p.m. EST …

College football postseason changes have all but ended the chances of a split national championship
11 months, 3 weeks ago

College football postseason changes have all but ended the chances of a split national championship

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “Much like the selection process itself, the exercise is who, in my judgment, is the best team.” In reality, though, the current state of college football’s postseason all but renders the conversation moot. In that regard, well, I’ll factor it in,” Matt Brown from the The …

College football is as scared of the unknown as the known, and rightfully so
1 year ago

College football is as scared of the unknown as the known, and rightfully so

New York Times  

Mack Brown is 72 years old. College football is changing faster than anyone can keep pace with, and it doesn’t figure to take its foot off the gas pedal anytime soon. “It’s literally open free agency for all of college football, and so our guys are no different than anyone else’s that are going to be in that conversation,” Mike …

Transfer portal chaos is overwhelming the college football calendar — and it’s going to get worse
1 year ago

Transfer portal chaos is overwhelming the college football calendar — and it’s going to get worse

New York Times  

College football’s calendar offers a uniquely chaotic challenge. GO DEEPER Tracking the transfer QB market: Best players available, decisions to watch College football is not a pro sport, no matter how much more it resembles one by the day. The day that does still have juice happened Monday when a flood of big-name quarterbacks highlighted the opening of the portal, …

Column: College football delivers the perfect fiasco to cap the four-team playoff era
1 year ago

Column: College football delivers the perfect fiasco to cap the four-team playoff era

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference got it all wrong when he sent out a defiant statement Sunday claiming “college football deserved better.” Actually, college football got just what it deserved. The 12-team playoff will finally arrive with the 2024 season, but that’s too late …

NCAA Football: Why you should cherish this college football season
1 year, 3 months ago

NCAA Football: Why you should cherish this college football season

CNN  

CNN — When it comes to tradition, passion and rivalries, there is nothing quite like college football. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images That set off an avalanche as Arizona, Arizona State and Utah then said, “The Big 12 sounds nice, we’ll go there too.” As the Pac-12 was in free fall, Washington and Oregon jumped ship and landed in the Big 10. …

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 …

Ubben: College football’s ruthless next step is a matter of when, not if
1 year, 4 months ago

Ubben: College football’s ruthless next step is a matter of when, not if

New York Times  

In the 2022 fiscal year, the 11 Big Ten schools receiving full shares of revenue earned $58.8 million. Or the SEC surpasses the Big Ten and its members become the sport’s highest earners, edging out the clear other college football superpower. The Pac-12’s most valuable properties — USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington — are already headed to the Big Ten. …

Column: Football rules, and every other sport will suffer from realignment frenzy
1 year, 4 months ago

Column: Football rules, and every other sport will suffer from realignment frenzy

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! $$$$$$$$$$ No one in a position of authority seems to care that Arizona State’s softball squad, the one that Cunningham plays for, will go from a sensible conference schedule comprised of long-time regional rivals, like UCLA and Stanford, to taking on far-flung Big 12 schools it …

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

College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams in 2024 season

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Over the past 25 years, college football’s postseason format for crowning a national champion has grown from two teams to four and now, starting in 2024, to 12. “The BCS for the first time gave an opportunity to decide a national champion on the field every …

What To Watch: Playoff picture already close to settled
2 years ago

What To Watch: Playoff picture already close to settled

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Rarely does a college football season enter the weekend of conference championship games with its playoff picture this clearly in focus. Because the Trojans are the one team in the top four that isn’t unbeaten, they probably can’t afford a loss The Pac-12 championship game is …

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 …

Analysis: Will a bigger College Football Playoff be better?
2 years, 3 months ago

Analysis: Will a bigger College Football Playoff be better?

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! While enthusiastically announcing plans to expand the College Football Playoff, those in charge of the postseason system downplayed the revenue windfall that will come with tripling the number of participants and declined to speculate about whether a new format will tap the brakes on conference realignment. …

CFP board chair: New format ideally in place by June 2023
2 years, 6 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 …

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, 1 month 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 …

Successful season? College football played 500-plus games
4 years ago

Successful season? College football played 500-plus games

Associated Press  

Back in August, when there was still doubt about whether a college football would be played during the pandemic, Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said he would look at the season as a success if he could hand out a championship trophy in December. “I think we all agreed that, three months ago, if you would have told us this …

The NFL and College Football Are Competing for the Most Absurd COVID Denial in Sports
54 years, 11 months ago

The NFL and College Football Are Competing for the Most Absurd COVID Denial in Sports

Slate  

Whatever America’s central problem is, football is probably the best metaphor for it. “We are hopefully providing our fans a small but welcomed respite from the critical matters at hand with some exciting football news and optimism,” Goodell said in mid-March, when trains-running-on-time NFL free agency was hammering the sports news tickers into complete surreality: “Yet another league has canceled …

College football picks: Football feast missing some dishes
4 years ago

College football picks: Football feast missing some dishes

Associated Press  

The Thanksgiving weekend football feast will be missing a few of the dishes that have become mainstays. Schedules altered and seasons delayed by the pandemic have taken off the table a bunch of rivalry games that have become a staple of the last weekend in November, including Michigan-Ohio State and all those in-state matchups of ACC and SEC schools such …

Reverse: Big Ten will try to play fall football after all
4 years, 3 months ago

Reverse: Big Ten will try to play fall football after all

Associated Press  

Even the president was pleased. The College Football Playoff selections are scheduled for Dec. 20, which means the Big Ten’s best should be back in the hunt for a national championship — if all goes well. “And so I take that from a positive standpoint.” The Big Ten postponed fall sports just six days after unveiling a modified, conference-only schedule …

Saturdays without football? Pac-12 and Big Ten canceling seasons leaves huge void
4 years, 4 months ago

Saturdays without football? Pac-12 and Big Ten canceling seasons leaves huge void

LA Times  

The Pac-12’s cancellation of the fall sports schedule, including football, makes this the second consecutive season to be lost after spring sports were called off in March. !” “There is some emerging data about some health risks that affect athletes, specifically cardiac side effects of COVID infections that we don’t know much about,” said Dr. Doug Aukerman, the Pac-12’s medical …

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