The final College Football Playoff Rankings will be released Sunday, setting the stage for the playoff itself as well as the New Year’s Six bowls. At least one team will fight for its first national championship of the playoff era, and the decisions made Sunday by the CFP Selection Committee will not only determine which teams get to compete for …
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After being basically a runner-up or worse for the entire 2023 college football season, something had to give for the Michigan Wolverines. The maize and blue at No. 3 beat No. 2 Ohio State and still only moved up one spot in the College Football Playoff rankings and stayed at No. 2 in the ESPN power rankings. But then Saturday …
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INDIANAPOLIS– Michigan football pitched its second shutout of the year, this time in the Big Ten Championship Game against No. 16 Iowa. The Wolverines stymied the already abysmal Hawkeye offense while struggling to put together drives against the stingy Iowa defense. Still. the maize and blue prevailed, 26-0, to win their third straight Big Ten Championship in as many years. …
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INDIANAPOLIS — Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh celebrated his return to the sideline Saturday by hugging players and evasively running to avoid a Gatorade bath. Blake Corum and J.J. McCarthy were already reflecting on bigger goals. And when the confetti came streaming down over the Wolverines, they made sure everyone knew they were no longer the nation’s second-best team. Corum scored …
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Well, it’s going to be a very interesting Sunday when the College Football Playoff committee unveils the four teams that will be a part of the journey to a national championship. Why? Because it’s the most chaos we’ve seen since the start of the playoff and there’s going to be some legitimate concerns and some very reasonable arguments against at …
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INDIANAPOLIS — Michigan football played against a tough Iowa team in the Big Ten Championship and ran into all sorts of problems. Namely, it couldn’t run the ball. Still, the Wolverines emerged victorious thanks to a stellar defensive performance which saw the maize and blue net three turnovers. The offense struggled after the first few possessions, yet Michigan managed to beat …
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No. 8 Alabama’s 27-24 win over No. 1 Georgia in Atlanta for the 2023 SEC Championship has the nation talking about how this impacts the College Football Playoffs. Does the Crimson Tide deserve to be in the top four? Questions will be answered at noon ET when the College Football Playoff Committee reveals its final rankings, setting the stage for …
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Claire Komarek, CBS Sports It was a wild Championship Week with Alabama taking down Georgia in the SEC Championship Game punting the Bulldogs from competing for a third straight national championship and putting the Crimson Tide in a head-to-head debate with the one team that defeated them this season, Texas. The Longhorns, which thoroughly took down the Tide by 10 points …
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College football’s conference championship weekend has come and gone. With it came Alabama ending Georgia’s extensive winning streak. Did the Tide kill the Bulldogs chance of a College Football Playoff berth in doing so? Will Alabama get in with the SEC championship, even though they were rated eighth in the most recent rankings? Will Texas get credit for the early …
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The (12-1) Georgia Bulldogs lost to the (12-1) Alabama Crimson Tide in the SEC championship. Thanks to wins from (13-0) Florida State and (13-0) Michigan, the SEC is expected to be left outside of the College Football Playoff. The College Football Playoff is expected to look like this: 1. Michigan Wolverines 2. Washington Huskies (13-0) 3. Florida State Seminoles 4. …
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After a wild championship week in college football, all of the games and results are now complete that will be used in determining which four teams will make the College Football Playoff. And boy are there some hard decisions to make. In some ways, it might be fitting for chaos to be a part of the ending equation to this …
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Iowa had nothing against the Michigan defense in the Big Ten championship game. (Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images) Funnily enough, everyone could have told you what was coming from No. 2 Michigan and No. 16 Iowa in the Big Ten title game. The Wolverines participated in the Big Ten tradition of overwhelming the Iowa offense in a 26-0 win …
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Mark Ingram couldn’t handle the heat. Before the Big Ten Championship game between Michigan and Iowa at Lucas Oil Stadium, Fox analyst Mark Ingram tried a shrimp cocktail from St. Elmo’s in Indianapolis. It didn’t go well. “I’m breathing smoke out of my nose, dawg,” said Ingram, who won the 2009 Heisman Trophy playing for Alabama. “Straight dragon.” “Big Noon …
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Alabama football quarterback Jalen Milroe channeled former Crimson Tide great Jalen Hurts both during and after his team’s 27-24 victory over No. 1 Georgia in the SEC championship game on Saturday. After powering the Tide to its ninth SEC championship under coach Nick Saban, Milroe reiterated a line that Hurts said days before his Philadelphia Eagles took on the Kansas …
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The legality of the “tush push” – or “brotherly shove” – has been debated for well over a year as the Philadelphia Eagles have found great success running the play. However, if the NFL’s most important voice gets his way, the debate could end soon. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wants the play to be permanently banned from the league, according …
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