Elite defenses will clash on Monday night when Notre Dame faces Ohio State in the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship game. The Buckeyes are aiming for their first national title in 10 years after winning their first three playoff games by 14-plus points. They advanced to the championship with a 28-14 win over Texas in the Cotton Bowl. Notre …
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The College Football Playoff national championship game pits the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish against each other at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Monday. The Irish, led by quarterback Riley Leonard and head coach Marcus Freeman, are in the national championship game for the first time since the 2012 season while the Buckeyes, led by …
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The College Football Playoff expanded from four teams to 12 this season and now an exciting postseason will culminate with the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship game on Monday, Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m. ET. Ohio State cruised to victories of 14 points or more over Tennessee, Oregon and Texas to make the title game, while Notre Dame beat Indiana, …
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Former Florida football coach Urban Meyer was honored as a College Football Hall of Famer earlier this week. But one honor has eluded the 60-year-old former coach that guided the Florida Gators to national championships in 2006 and 2008. Meyer has yet to be inducted into the Gator Ring of Honor at The Swamp despite meeting the criteria as a …
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The best part of coming up with any kind of “keys to the game” is that there’s only one real key to a game: score more points than the other team. If you do that, nothing else matters en route to victory. So let me start by saying that the biggest key for 8-seed Ohio State in its quest to …
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College football coaches are flocking to Dunlap to see Mack Sutter. The four-star tight end recruit welcomed four coaches Friday from three of the schools on his list of 12 finalists. But the biggest visitor was Penn State head coach James Franklin, who is coming off a College Football Playoff semifinal appearance, and Nittany Lions tight ends coach, Ty Howle, …
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HONOLULU – The 2025 edition of the Polynesian Bowl was the first to have underclassmen as part of the festivities, and a number of the 2026 recruits on hand had standout performances on Friday night at Kamehameha High School on O’ahu. It always has the makings for a good event when the top players show up and make their presence …
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With Penn State’s football season now officially in the books, now is a good time to start putting the whole season into perspective. Although the season ended with the Nittany Lions coming up just short of playing for a national championship, there were a lot of good moments to reflect on positively from the 2024 season that ended with a …
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A couple of years ago, colleague Andy Nesbitt, writing for For The Win, authored an article arguing that college football’s national championship game being on Monday night is one of the dumbest things in sports. Somehow, the folks running the CFP have topped that. They had playoff games go up against the NFL. The CFP ratings in the opening round …
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College football’s champion will be crowned when the eighth-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes battle the seventh-seeded Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the 2025 College Football Playoff National Championship game on Monday. Ohio State advanced with a 28-14 win over Texas in the semifinals, while Notre Dame defeated Penn State 27-24. The Buckeyes (13-2, 7-2 Big Ten), who placed fourth in the …
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LANSING — Jonathan Smith’s annual stop at the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association’s winter clinic gave the Michigan State football coach a chance to reflect on a busy offseason. New assistants were hired. New players — transfers and early enrollees — are on campus. The work to rebuild the Spartans is well underway a little over two weeks into …
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The 12-team College Football Playoff works. I don’t mean it works like an old tube television that turns on if you bang on it in just the right spot. This format requires no pounding or modification. It works like a new 72-inch mounted flat screen TV that displays a crisp picture with the click of a button. Leave it be. …
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With Penn State’s football season now officially in the books, now is a good time to start putting the whole season into perspective. Although the season ended with the Nittany Lions coming up just short of playing for a national championship, there were a lot of good moments to reflect on positively from the 2024 season that ended with a …
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With Arch Manning under center and returning defensive stars like Anthony Hill Jr., Colin Simmons and Michael Taaffe, the sportsbooks made Texas football the early favorite to win the national championship next season. Coach Steve Sarkisian has elevated the Longhorns into regular contention, but their title charges have been stopped short in the semifinals of the College Football Playoff for …
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Seven months before Will Howard and Riley Leonard were to meet on the biggest stage in college football, they crossed paths in southern Louisiana. The quarterbacks attended the Manning Passing Academy at Nicholls State and roomed together for several days in June, along with Clemson’s Cade Klubnik and Wisconsin’s Tyler Van Dyke. “We probably wouldn’t have imagined that months later …
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