Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love, Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza, Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia and Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayin are the finalists for the Heisman Trophy.
- Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — The great farce that’s playing out in the College Football Playoff is likely to do lasting damage to Notre Dame’s relationship with the rest of the world. But not everyone liked “Rudy” to begin with, so the idea that everyone would agree Notre Dame was unfairly bounced from the pla…
- JOHN DELL Winston-Salem Journal
Duke, NC State, East Carolina and Appalachian State also heading to bowl games.
- Jason Koon
In a post on X, Culliver thanked fans for support and the university for the opportunity to play.
- EDDIE PELLS Associated Press
The College Football Playoff selection committee's decision in 2025 has sparked controversy. Notre Dame was dropped from the playoff despite not playing last week.Â
- Jason Koon
The Bears finish their season with a 13-5-3 record and remain the only SAC school since 2017 to win a women's soccer regional.
- Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune
For weeks leading up to the College Football Playoff bracket reveal, Notre Dame looked like it was in good position to make its second straight appearance. The Irish had done everything they could after an 0-2 start to reposition themselves for a berth. They won 10 straight and were ranked n…
DALLAS — There’s a multitude of worthwhile reasons to revisit Texas A&M’s early-season statement road win over Notre Dame after Sunday’s College Football Playoff bracket reveal. For one thing: It undoubtedly had a say in where the Aggies are seeded and why the Irish were controversially omitted from the 12-team field. For another: It’s a reminder of what A&M will need to do to capitalize on ...
MIAMI — It’s official: The Miami Hurricanes are in the College Football Playoff for the first time. After being on the outside looking in for each of the first five rankings, Miami was the No. 10 team in the selection committee’s final ranking on Sunday afternoon to secure an at-large bid into the field. The five highest-ranked conference champions and the next seven highest-ranked teams ...
Alabama and Miami are in, Notre Dame is out and Indiana is No. 1 in the College Football Playoff’s 12-team bracket.Â
ATLANTA — It was a blocked punt that long will be remembered across Georgia. Georgia and Alabama were exchanging punts in the early going Saturday in the SEC championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, appearing to set up an old-fashioned defensive duel between the long-time opponents. Then came Cole Speer. Georgia’s nondescript reserve receiver flew off the edge and blocked Crimson Tide ...
ARLINGTON, Texas — Texas Tech took an aggressive approach last offseason with its sights already set on Dec. 6. The Red Raiders thought the 2025 season would be their year to finally overcome the hump and win their first Big 12 title nearly 30 years after joining the conference. On Saturday, they proved they thought right. No. 4 Texas Tech (12-1) put an exclamation mark on an outstanding 2025 ...
NEW ORLEANS — The Yulman Stadium lights briefly went out midway through a second-quarter North Texas drive. They went out on the Mean Green’s season two hours later. UNT’s historic season ended just shy of the College Football Playoff with a 34-21 loss to Tulane in the American Conference championship game Friday night. No. 24 North Texas (11-2, 7-2) turned the ball over five times and ...
Cinderella is usually the underdog, a team from a smaller conference, but that's usually in college basketball. Chelsa and Michael discuss if there could be a Cinderella run in this year's College Football Playoff.
Who doesn't love chaos, especially when it comes to college football. So Chelsa and Michael discuss what we could see bring about the most chaos on conference championship weekend.
The Big Ten will be the only conference with a sense of calm this weekend with No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Indiana squaring off in its championship game.Â
DALLAS — Now that LSU will pay Lane Kiffin for every postseason game Ole Miss wins this year without him, it seems like nothing’s out of the realm of possibility these days. Except Texas making the College Football Playoff. Unless you’re changing rules on the fly, that’s as it should be. Hunter Yurachek, CFP committee boss, didn’t officially rule out the possibility of the Longhorns sneaking ...
CHICAGO — The College Football Playoff committee injected a little extra anxiety into Notre Dame’s week of waiting. The Irish (10-2) dropped one spot to No. 10 on Tuesday — with Alabama (10-2) jumping to No. 9 after its 27-20 win over Auburn — in the second-to-last CFP ranking before the 12-team bracket is set Sunday. Because two spots are guaranteed to go to lower-ranked champions from the ...
Latest college football playoff rankings: Miami, Alabama, and Notre Dame compete for premier positions. Donnie and Joe break down the current rankings.
DALLAS — Cody Campbell is as Texan as they come. The Lubbock, Texas, native was a fourth-generation Texas Tech graduate, whose great-grandfather was part of Tech’s first class in 1925. He joined the Red Raiders program as an offensive lineman in 2000 as part of Mike Leach’s first recruiting class. After his brief NFL career was cut short due to injury, he and his business partner John Sellers ...
This was fitting, and probably to be expected: As Lane Kiffin boarded the private plane Sunday that would take him from Oxford, Miss., to Baton Rouge, La., and his next coaching adventure, a gathering of University of Mississippi football fans saw him off – with boos and extended middle fingers. Poor guy just doesn’t have much luck with airport tarmacs, does he? Of course, the record must be ...
FORT WORTH, Texas — Steve Sarkisian’s noble attempt to threaten the sport of college football is the 4-year-old who promises to stay awake all night to meet Santa Claus. The Texas coach wants everyone to know he won’t schedule big time nonconference opponents if his team is not invited to the College Football Playoff. His future nonconference schedule already includes dates with Ohio State, ...
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DALLAS — The penultimate College Football Playoff rankings were released Tuesday night, setting the table for conference championship week and Sunday’s final rankings. Rivalry week created some change atop the rankings and the playoff picture for local teams appears to be clearing up. Texas Tech and Oklahoma essentially locked up playoff bids with their respective wins over the weekend, but ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — You could construct an opening act of a movie from the path that has led Will Stein to becoming the next head football coach at the University of Kentucky. The son of former UK player Matt Stein, Will grew up attending Wildcats games at the venue then known as Commonwealth Stadium. After becoming a standout, if undersized, quarterback at Louisville’s Trinity High School, Will ...
MIAMI — The Miami Hurricanes ended the regular season with a 38-7 road win over a ranked Pittsburgh Panthers team for the final data point of its resume to make the College Football Playoff. But if Tuesday’s ranking is any indication, Miami will be on the outside looking in barring some help on conference championship weekend. For a second consecutive week, the Hurricanes on Tuesday checked in ...
EAST LANSING, Mich. — The doctor is in. No, Pat Fitzgerald doesn’t have a medical degree, but Michigan State’s new football coach says he’s gotten a Ph.D. in the ways of modern college football since Northwestern fired him in 2023. For a Michigan State football program desperate for him to turn things around, he made it clear in his first public comments that he has a plan to turn around one ...
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Playoffs? You kidding me? Jim Mora’s talking about playoffs? At Colorado State? “Yes. 100 percent,” Rams athletic director John Weber told me with a straight face Monday. “If other programs out of the Mountain West and the Pac-12 can do it, CSU can and will do it.” “You’re convinced Jim will get you there?” I asked. “Yes,” Weber replied. “Absolutely.” Didn’t blink. Didn’t ...
Thierry Darlan is making history as a former NBA G League player who has gone from the pros to a college court, the opposite of a typical progression.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — After insisting Saturday there was “0% chance” he was walking away, Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops is out as Kentucky football coach after all. “I want to thank Mark for his dedication and leadership over the past 13 years, and as importantly, the friendship that is marked by walking these journeys together,” UK athletic director Mitch Barnhart said in a statement posted ...
Depending on the outcomes of the Big 12, SEC and Big Ten title games, the Red Raiders could be as high as No. 2 in the final CFP rankings.