College Football Playoff

Thursday night’s clash between the Miami Hurricanes and Ole Miss Rebels will be remembered as the greatest College Football Playoff (CFP) game of the postseason thus far, and one of the best all-time.

Paul Finebaum, the ESPN analyst who strongly advocated for Alabama’s inclusion in the College Football Playoff (CFP), called the Crimson Tide “soft” after the program suffered its worst postseason defeat in history at the hands of Indiana on Thursday.

Alabama has been the most dominant college football program for the first quarter of the 21st Century. That is now over.

No one knows how competitive the upper level of college football is better than legendary former Alabama head coach Nick Saban. And it’s armed with that knowledge, that Sabam believes James Madison and Tulane don’t belong.

Much of the discussion about potential changes to the College Football Playoff (CFP) format centers on expansion. After all, who wants to see teams like Notre Dame, Texas, and Vanderbilt get excluded to make room for two Group of Five qualifiers who will end up being three-touchdown underdogs in their first and only round games?

ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips seems to be determined to repair his conference’s fractured relationship with Notre Dame.

Notre Dame Athletic Director Pete Bevacqua says his program was “mystified” by the pro-Miami hype campaign conducted by the ACC and its “attack” on his program, as it mounted a television and social media campaign aimed at promoting Miami over Notre Dame for the College Football Playoff (CFP).

Notre Dame was snubbed by the College Football Playoff (CFP) Committee this year. Hey, it happens to everyone. But it won’t happen to Notre Dame again.

Notre Dame is an independent team in football. Yet, the Irish have a partial relationship with the ACC. A relationship that Notre Dame Athletic Director Pete Bevacqua says has been “permanently damaged” after the ACC openly campaigned against the Irish in the run-up to the final College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings on Sunday.

Amid a torrent of insanity and head-scratching decisions that emerged from the College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings that were released this weekend, an actual good idea managed to find its way out.

The number of people upset about the College Football Playoff (CFP) Committee’s final rankings is innumerable. The number of people with solutions to the problem is smaller.

On Sunday, the College Football Playoff (CFP) Committee told Notre Dame that its presence in this year’s playoff was not needed. A couple of hours later, Notre Dame informed college football that if they weren’t competing for a national championship, they weren’t interested in playing at all.

In a move that shocked fans and media nationwide, the College Football Playoff (CFP) Committee left the Notre Dame Fighting Irish out of the 12-team playoff on Sunday.

One of the constant refrains from the social media war between Notre Dame and Miami fans, has been that the game on the field matters. If that were true, what happened to BYU and Alabama on Saturday should have clarified where everyone stands, but it likely won’t.

For the first four editions of the College Football Playoff (CFP) committee’s weekly rankings, the genuine anger and resentment centered around Notre Dame’s ranking ahead of Miami. And that’s still there, don’t get me wrong, because Notre Dame is still ranked ahead of the Hurricanes after the committee’s Week 5 installment of its Top 25.

College football is just as much politics as it is football, this time of year. So, naturally, some politicians are letting their opinions be known.

On Saturday, Lane Kiffin was serenaded with cheers, praise, and pleas not to leave, after the Rebels’ Egg Bowl victory over rival Mississippi State. Twenty-four hours later, Ole Miss fans bombarded him with boos, curses, and mockery as he boarded the plane bound for Baton Rouge.

The rampant rumor mill swirling around Lane Kiffin stopped turning on Sunday: Kiffin is officially bolting Ole Miss for LSU.

Lane Kiffin said he had a lot of praying to do when it came to deciding his future at Ole Miss, and God apparently told him to go to LSU and bring much of his offensive coaching staff with him.

Now that the regular season is over, it’s time for the politicking season to begin in college football, and Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is off to a strong start.

Notre Dame and Texas Tech are two of several teams fighting for playoff positioning in the upcoming College Football Playoff, and that fight just got a lot more personal. Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire used his post-game press conference

When it enters its second year, the new 12-team College Football Playoff will have an entirely new format and look.

The ratings are in from the CFP national championship game in the first year of the expanded playoff, and they show a 12 percent decline from last year.

C-SPAN’s Inauguration call-in show aired dozens of callers discussing the day’s vital topics: the inauguration, the economy, illegal immigration, and Alabama’s exclusion from the College Football Playoff?

In a move that may prove unwise, Penn State head coach James Franklin took a shot at Notre Dame by calling for “consistency” in college football and stressing that “everyone should be in a conference.”

When Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers walked into Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium for the opening round of the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff, he wasn’t just representing Texas but also showing support for President-Elect Trump.

The debate over Alabama’s inclusion in the College Football Playoff has led to many passionate disputes, including among ESPN personalities.

The first ever 12-team College Football Playoff bracket was revealed on Sunday, and based on the selection committee’s choices, it’s clear that past successes do not guarantee you a spot.

ESPN college football analyst and Ohio State alum Kirk Herbstreit is calling on college football administrators to suspend players involved in multiple brawls this weekend.

The NCAA and the nation’s five biggest conferences announced Thursday night that they have agreed to pay nearly $2.8 billion to settle a host of antitrust claims, a monumental decision that sets the stage for a groundbreaking revenue-sharing model that could start steering millions of dollars directly to athletes as soon as the 2025 fall semester.

The field for the 12-team College Football Playoff 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.

As the Michigan Wolverines headed into the Rose Bowl, their faith was also on their minds as seen in their pregame prayer circle.