After discussions over one-loss teams making the College Football Playoff dominated the conversation over recent weeks, there will be an undefeated national champion after No. 1 Michigan plays No. 2 Washington in the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship game. Both teams enter at 14-0 after knocking off previous one-loss teams in the CFP semifinals in dramatic finishes. Michigan defeated …

Chargers linebacker Khalil Mack, who increased his career-high sack total for a season to 17 with one against the Chiefs, tries to strip the ball away from quarterback Blaine Gabbert. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Where it all went wrong for the Chargers this season was the logical topic to discuss after players exited the field at SoFi Stadium …

Kalen DeBoer was a high school football player in Milbank, South Dakota when he received his first recruiting letter. It has accompanied him on each of his seven coaching stops, including to Seattle about two years ago when he took over as head coach at the University of Washington. “This letter … sits behind my desk in a drawer usually …

Rams coach and quarterback Jared Goff reached a Super Bowl together. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Matthew Stafford will return to Detroit, but that story already is written. Stafford has won. He became a Super Bowl champion with the Rams and remains beloved in his previous hometown. That won’t change, regardless of whether he leads his current …

Michigan vs. Washington will have a strange aura to it during Monday’s College Football Playoff championship. It’s a Big Ten-vs.-Pac-12 game for a championship, but it won’t take place in Pasadena, home of the traditional Rose Bowl meeting between the two conferences. It’s a sign that the times, they are a-changing. And they’ll be even more drastically different after this …

Quarterback Dak Prescott and the rest of the Cowboys made an emphatic final statement in the regular season on Sunday. Prescott threw four touchdown passes and the Cowboys scored the final 31 points of a 38-10 road win over the Commanders that ensured they would be the NFC East champs and the No. 2 seed in the conference for the …

The No. 24 Auburn Tigers are one of the hottest teams in college basketball. Auburn smacked around Arkansas last Saturday, 83-51, for its seventh-straight win to open the SEC slate. During the stretch, Auburn has won each game by a margin of 28 points. The stretch can be credited to Auburn’s road loss to Appalachian State on Dec. 3, which …

Matthew Stafford has played a lot of games in Detroit, but none of them have been anything like the game he will be playing there next Sunday night. Stafford was the Lions quarterback every other time he played at Ford Field, but he’ll be leading the Rams into the playoff matchup with the NFC North champs. That’s one big change …

Monday night’s game between Michigan and Washington will do more than just determine a national champion for the 2023 college football season. It will mark the end of an era in the sport. The matchup between the Wolverines and Huskies will be the final game of the four-team College Football Playoff format, a system that has been in place since …

The Bills were 6-6 when they lost in overtime to the Eagles in Week 12 and no one was giving them much chance of winning the AFC East, but things play out on the field rather than the court of public opinion in the NFL. An offside penalty on Chiefs wide receiver Kadarius Toney helped them to a win coming …

Ohio State landed Kansas State transfer quarterback Will Howard from the portal on Thursday, putting an end to weeks of speculation after incumbent Kyle McCord transferred from the program. After years of pinpoint drop-back passers running the show for the Buckeyes offense, coach Ryan Day opted to go in a different direction with Howard.  Howard’s experience ranks among the best …

Dan Whelan’s appearance for Green Bay Packers in September meant he became the first Irish-born player in the NFL in 38 years Dan Whelan is set to become the first Irish-born player to play in the NFL play-offs for 41 years. The County Wicklow native’s Green Bay Packers side defeated the Chicago Bears 17-9 at Lambeau Field on Sunday evening …

On Monday night, Michigan football will aim to capture just its second national championship since the 1948 season, and first since 1997, when it takes on Washington in the College Football Playoff title game in Houston. It will mark the end of a 2023 season that has been as turbulent as it has been successful. The Wolverines have been the …

Four home teams are favored in the opening round of the playoffs, while two wild card teams are favored to win on the road against the division winners. In the playoff opener, the Browns are 2.5-point favorites at the Texans on Saturday afternoon. On Christmas Eve Cleveland won by 14 at Houston, and the Browns had a better record than …

Michigan football quarterback J.J. McCarthy is zoned in on defeating Washington in the College Football Playoff championship, but his impending draft status is still a major question mark ahead of the 2024 season. McCarthy is a junior with another year of eligibility left in his college football career. He has amassed 6,086 passing yards, 49 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in …