When the NFL realigned into eight four-team divisions to accommodate the arrival of the Houston Texans in 2002, the league adopted new tiebreaking rules for determining playoff teams. The seven postseason participants from each conference are to be seeded as follows: No. 1 seed: Best record in the NFC or AFCNo. 2 seed: Second-best record for a division winnerNo. 3 …

The Week 12 NFL schedule included games on Thursday, Friday and Sunday, and now it will wrap up with a rivalry matchup on Monday Night Football as the Chicago Bears visit the Minnesota Vikings at 8:15 p.m. ET. Chicago is 3-8, but looked dominant for about 55 minutes before a late-game collapse against the Lions last week. Minnesota, meanwhile, is …

PHILADELPHIA — Jalen Hurts is in the middle of a stretch no quarterback in the entire history of the NFL has accomplished. Hurts has eight consecutive wins in which his team trails by double digits, the most by any quarterback in NFL history — a mark so unprecedented that no other quarterback has more than four. As Hurts lead the …

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football’s leading receiver Donaven McCulley is entering his name into the transfer portal. McCulley is one of a dozen players to announce they were leaving the program in the wake of coach Tom Allen’s departure. The list includes starting quarterback Brendan Sorsby and leading rusher Trent Howland. The fall window for FBS football players to enter their …

Getty Images The wildest game of Week 12 happened in Philadelphia where the Eagles stunned the Bills 37-34 in overtime. It was a quarterback duel for the ages that saw Josh Allen total 420 yards and four touchdowns, only to be outdone by Jalen Hurts, who totaled five touchdowns for the Eagles.  There was a lot of history made in …

Tempest Tepper has once again blown through Charlotte without warning, carving yet another path of chaos and instability through one of the professional teams he owns. On Monday, the Carolina Panthers announced they’d fired head coach Frank Reich only 11 games into a fully guaranteed four-year contract, a tenure so short it has Josh McDaniels wondering how he can get …

Kim O’Reilly, CBS Sports His name is Bond. Isaiah Bond. Tell me you won’t hear that line about 1,000 times before Saturday’s SEC Championship Game. A 5-foot-11 wide receiver from Buford, Georgia, kept Alabama’s hopes alive of going to the College Football Playoff with a miracle catch to beat Auburn in the Iron Bowl. That’s right. A wideout from Georgia …

The New York Giants extended themselves last offseason and handed Daniel Jones a four-year contract worth $160 million. To this point, the organization hasn’t exactly received the caliber of play from the quarterback position that costs an average of $40 million per season. To make matters worse, Jones suffered a season-ending ACL tear in early November that puts his availability …

Getty Images Justin Jefferson was limited throughout the week of practice and the Vikings officially listed him as questionable for Monday’s matchup against the Bears to wrap up Week 12. While head coach Kevin O’Connell told reporters that the wideout is “getting closer” to getting back on the field, he is not going to be activated for this game vs. …

The Oregon Ducks are among the best teams in the nation this year, playing for a Pac-12 Championship this weekend against the Washington Huskies and potentially claiming a spot in the College Football Playoff with a win. That success on the field has led to success off of the field as well, where offensive coordinator Will Stein was named on …

On Monday morning the Panthers fired Frank Reich, just 11 games into his tenure, but the Panthers didn’t really have a Frank Reich Problem. They (probably) don’t have a Bryce Young Problem. They definitely have a David Tepper Problem. Carolina’s impetuous owner, a man who has shown a wild proclivity for firing people under his employ, is exactly why Reich’s …

Patriots-Giants Report Card: Woeful offense spoils stellar defensive effort originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The Patriots have allowed 40 points total over their last three games. They’ve given up just 10 points in each of their last two. And yet they’re 0-3 in that span and now 2-9 on the season. It’s been that kind of year in New …

BATON ROUGE – LSU football has concluded its second regular season under coach Brian Kelly with another 9-3 campaign. The Tigers had an uneven season, falling to Florida State, Alabama and Ole Miss away from Tiger Stadium. But they also sported a win over Missouri on the road and finished the year with an undefeated home record. LSU was not …

Patience is in short supply these days across the NFL when it comes to the tenures of head coaches. No more so is that the case than with the Carolina Panthers and owner David Tepper, who pulled the plug on head coach Frank Reich 11 games into his (1-10) tenure on Monday. A quick release given the team knew it …

Two-thirds of the NFL season have come and gone, with the full focus shifting to the wild playoff races in each conference. Five teams are within two games of the final playoff spot in the AFC while three teams are a game out of the final playoff spot in the NFC.  The NFC South is on pace to be the …