playCollege football overtime rules explained (0:57)Find out how a winner is determined in NCAA football after a game goes to overtime. (0:57) ESPNJan 1, 2025, 04:49 PM ETEmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsOn a play-by-play basis, it's hard to beat the excitement of overtime in colle...
Regardless of how a team performed during the regular season, if they are eligible for postseason play and win their conference tournament, they receive a bid to the NCAA tournament. These teams are known as automatic qualifiers.The second avenue for an invitation is an at-large bid. ...
Nippert Stadium is the football home of theCincinnati Bearcats. Cincinnati began playing at the site in 1901, but there wasn't a permanent concrete stadium in the space until 1915. Construction on the stadium was completed in 1924. James Gamble Nippert Memorial Stadium is named after Jimmy N...
1 vs. No. 2, it has done little to appease those calling for a playoff system in college football similar to the exceedingly popular NCAA basketball tournament. The BCS has run into some sort of controversy several times in its brief history. The most notable was in 2003, Southern ...
NCAA High School GPA Rules Get Serious: The NCAA regulates admission into collegiate scholarship sports; individual colleges (sometimes conferences) regulate whether a player remains eligible. It's the latter that leads to most abuses -- football or men's basketball players being called eligible to...
Andy Wittry has written for Stadium, SI.com, Sporting News, the Indianapolis Star, Louisville Courier-Journal and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He is a graduate of Indiana University. The views on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of the NCAA or its member institutions. ...
In the NET Rankings developed and favored by the NCAA, the Illini are ranked No. 17. If the committee weighs seeding assignments as it claims to, a No. 7 seed simply isn't good enough for Illinois. And if the Illini put on another show Friday, decisively turning back Purdue in the re...
In January 2024, the NCAA penalized theFlorida State Universityfootball program for breaking that rule, alleging it used the promise of NIL money to secure an athlete's commitment in 2022. There are likely other examples of this happening at other schools that go undetected, ...
So Brent Venables and the OU staff landed another impactful haul out of the NCAA Transfer Portal for 2025 — 14 players so far, with the possibility of more still to come. This series begins Sooners On SI’s inside look at what OU is getting out of the portal for next season...
“When you look at all the prior years, Penn State would always finish anywhere from nine to 12 in the rankings,” Spikes toldCNN Sport. “This has been a high ranking to where they are now, and you’re fortunate enough to be able to get a home game. This is the thing that really...