Conference championship Saturday featured four blockbuster games, which had significant implications for theCollege Football Playoff(CFP). The Big 12,Southeastern Conference(SEC), Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), andBig Tenchampionship game results provided near clarity on the 12-team CFP field...
There is still much to be decided in the final weeks of the regular season, however, and when all the dust settles only the Big Ten champion will receive a bye straight through to the quarterfinals of the 12-team playoff. In the CFP format, the top ...
Oregon Ducks Path In Inaugural 12-Team Playoff Ohio State Buckeyes wide receiver Jeremiah Smith (4) celebrates a first down catch during the second half of the College Football Playoff quarterfinal against the Oregon Ducks at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, C...
Less than a month removed from theconclusion of the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff, leaders from the SEC and Big Ten,the two most powerful conferences, will hold on Wednesday the second set of joint meetings to plot the next steps regarding the future of college football. It s...
This is the first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff. The four highest-ranked conference champions receive the top four seeds, with the fifth-highest-ranked conference champion also being guaranteed a playoff spot. PERFECT: Here are the remaining undefeated FBS teams...
College Football Playoff shifts to straight seeding model, no automatic byes for top league champions The new format was widely expected after last season’s jumbled bracket gave byes to Big 12 champion Arizona State and Mountain West champion Boise State, even though those teams were ranked ninth...
Warren represented the Big Ten's interests in the College Football Playoff expansion by securing a 12-team bracket that guaranteed automatic bids to the top six conference champions and first-round byes to the four highest-rated conference champs. More importantly, he oversaw the conference's ...
In the conference's first season without historic powers Texas and Oklahoma, we're getting quite the unlikely Big 12 championship game matchup as No. 15 Arizona State takes on No. 16 Iowa State with a College Football Playoff spot on the line.…
Football has already shown us the new world. On a stage where the SEC normally steals all the scenes, the College Football Playoff bracket will likely be one-third Big Ten. The Big Ten Championship Game Saturday will have Penn State and Oregon, one school that has been in t...
season climaxes. It would also decrease the impact of a poor start and late-season injuries that might slow a team's momentum. Both factors would, in theory, increase fan excitement and attention late in the season in the form of television ratings, attendance and other football-rela...