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…
The 12-team College Football Playoff era has officially begun, and with it, a host of details with which fans will need to familiarize themselves. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about the sport’s new postseason. Feel free to bookmark and reference as December draws near. Why the new postseason? For most of its…
Michigan’s Donovan Edwards celebrates after Michigan’s NCAA championship last season. (Karen … [+] Warren/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) Houston Chronicle via Getty Images The College Football Playoff committee’s much-anticipated final reveal will be televised live Sunday, when the teams selected for the inaugural 12-team tournament field will be announced. Champions from the Atlantic Coast, Big…
It’s that time of year: the postseason – when evenly-matched teams face each other more often than not, meaning a higher chance at overtime. So what are the college football overtime rules? Are they different for the College Football Playoff? What’s the record for number of overtimes in a single game? Here’s everything you need…
College football has tripled the size of its Playoff field and, with that one move, it exponentially increased the angst and arguments related to the teams that should make it. On Sunday, the selection committee will unveil the first official 12-team College Football Playoff bracket. We’ll see four teams earn first-round byes, four other teams…
We’re down to the stretch drive in the battle to book spots in the first NCAA football 12-team playoff bracket. Nine conference championship games on Friday and Saturday will be the final chances for teams to earn conference-champion berths or make a case to the committee — which already has been heavily criticized by some…
Share The fifth College Football Playoff rankings of 2024 will be announced tonight, Tuesday, Nov. 30, and things are bound to change after seven ranked teams lost last weekend. Before the CFP committee unveils the next rankings, I predict where the top 25 teams will land, along with the bracket. Note that these are my…
Tennessee sent emails to season-ticket holders and students on Sunday to prepare them to buy tickets to the Vols’ College Football Playoff game. Tennessee will make the College Football Playoff, but the only question is whether it will play at home or on the road in the first round. The updated College Football Playoff rankings…
Sunray’s Erick Calsadillas wears a cross on his tape before the the Region I-2A Division I semifinal football game against Post, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024, at Patriot Stadium in Woodrow. Annie Rice/For The Avalanche-Journal Post’s head football coach John Wright walks along the sideline before the Region I-2A Division I semifinal football game against Sunray,…
