Outside of a 18-15 Week 3 loss to a 10-2 BYU team, SMU (11-2) ran through their 60th ranked ACC schedule to go undefeated in conference play during their maiden Power Four campaign. A 28-27 victory over @Duke (9-3) carried the lowest win expectancy of SMU’s wins at 74%, which showcases the dominant nature of…
The athletes whose lawsuit against the NCAA is primed to pave the way for schools to pay them directly also want a players’ association to represent them in the complex contract negotiations that have overtaken the sport. Grant House, Sedona Prince and Nya Harrison wrote to the judge overseeing what’s known as the House settlement,…
CBS Sports Graphic We have now moved into the postseason schedule for the 2024 college football season where the rest of the calendar year and first month of 2025 will be filled with bowl games and the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff. Conference championship weekend marks the true conclusion to the season that was, as…
9:04 pm, December 8, 2024 No. 7 Notre Dame will host No. 10 Indiana in the first game of the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff. The game will be played on Friday, December 20 at Notre Dame Stadium. WHEN: 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, Dec. 20 TV: ABC/ESPN STREAMING: WatchESPN 8:20 pm, December 8, 2024 The…
Following the second 10-win regular season in three years under head coach Josh Heupel, the seventh-ranked Tennessee Volunteers have officially punched their ticket to their first College Football Playoff. The ninth-seeded Volunteers will travel to take on eighth-seeded Ohio State at 8 p.m. ET in the first round of the College Football Playoff on Saturday,…
The College Football Playoff unveiled its first 12-team bracket on Sunday afternoon, ushering in with it a new era for the sport’s marquee postseason event. Big Ten champion Oregon earned the No. 1 overall seed, with SEC champion Georgia next as the No. 2 seed. Mountain West champion Boise State was the third-highest ranked conference…
The new, 12-team College Football Playoff brings with it a promise to be bigger, more exciting, more lucrative. Perfect or 100 per cent fair? Well, nobody ever believed that. The first expanded playoff bracket unveiled Sunday left a presumably deserving Alabama team on the sideline in favour of an SMU squad that finished with a better record after playing a schedule…
The expansion to the 12-team College Football Playoff could not have arrived at a better time for the CFP committee. If you thought the committee had difficult decisions for a potential 12-team field, it looks even more challenging to decide based on a four-team field. There has never been a two-loss team to make the…
We’ve had March Madness. Now there is December Drama. On Sunday afternoon, there will be a college football bracket: 12 teams in the first year of the expanded College Football Playoff. After a decade of four schools getting chosen, the sport adopted expansion to give more programs a shot. It created additional interest in the…
The SMU versus Alabama debate for the final at-large bid in the 2025 College Football Playoff has understandably stolen the spotlight entering Selection Sunday. There is also significant consternation about how the first few teams outside the top four conference champions will be decided. Ultimately, how the committee interprets those league title game results will…
