College Football

HOUSTON — There was a not-so-subtle question lingering Monday night as Jim Harbaugh walked off the NRG Stadium field after winning the College Football Playoff National Championship. The ultimate Michigan Man had become a maize & blue legend beating Washington 34-13 for Michigan’s first national title since 1997. Now what? That query will continue hanging in the air longer than some …

Michigan won the national championship without having to face Georgia, but would that have mattered? The Wolverines rattled off wins against Ohio State, Alabama and Washington. Cheating allegations aside, they’re deserving champs. And yet … we can’t help but wonder how a Michigan-Georgia national championship would have gone. The Bulldogs won 29 straight games (and two national championships) before losing …

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh could have a decision to make following his team’s 34-13 win vs. Washington in Monday’s College Football Playoff National Championship. As he has each of the past two years, Harbaugh is expected to draw serious interest from NFL teams searching for a new leader. Those talks are sure to reach a fever pitch after the Wolverines’ recent …

The college football season is complete and Michigan has been crowned national champions. Now the coaches get their say in where the rest of the teams will be ranked in the final US LBM Coaches Poll of the season. National runner-up Washington finishes second, but its position wasn’t unanimous among voters. After an Orange Bowl matchup between the teams, Georgia …

HOUSTON — Everyone will remember the interception, and rightly so. You don’t have to scan the web for long to find viral recordings of Mike Sainristil’s College Football Playoff title game-sealing theft, perhaps most memorably from the phones of Michigan football fans who recorded the defensive back’s pick while watching at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor on Monday night. …

The state champion Massillon Tigers football team is seeking an offensive line coach. Longtime area coach Jon Mazur resigned after nine years with the Tigers. “I want to thank everyone that has supported me on my football journey,” Mazur wrote on Facebook. “31 total years, 10 as a player and 21 as a coach. I have enjoyed every single second. …

Monday’s national championship game had to sicken the Alabama Crimson Tide. Take it from Terrion Arnold. “Watching this game hurt man,” the Alabama defensive back wrote on social media after Michigan dominated Washington, 34-13. Alabama was a fourth-down, fourth-quarter stop away from winning the Rose Bowl. Michigan converted fourth-and-2, scored the game-tying touchdown and beat the Tide in overtime. Too …

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh used the platform provided by his team’s national championship victory to advocate for player rights on Tuesday, calling unionization “the next step.” Speaking the morning after his team’s 34-13 College Football Playoff National Championship victory over Washington, Harbaugh made an impassioned case for continued player empowerment. “The thing I would change about college football is to …

Colorado football star quarterback Shedeur Sanders, the son of Buffs head coach Deion Sanders, has grown into a household name across the country. After Shedeur Sanders’ impressive start to the 2023 season, he was even in the Heisman Trophy Award conversation before taking a step back, mainly due to the poor performance of Colorado’s offensive line. Prior to Michigan beating …

Alabama’s loss to Michigan in the College Football Playoff Rose Bowl semifinal left the Tide short of returning to the top as champions, but the team did accomplish something great this season. Despite early struggles and many analysts, media members and fans calling Alabama done for, the team improved every week and ultimately won the SEC championship and made the …

The clock struck midnight on the four-team College Football Playoff model with the conclusion of Monday’s National Championship Game between No. 1 Michigan and No. 2 Washington at Houston’s NRG Stadium. The College Football Playoff will expand to 12 teams beginning with the 2024 season, although the exact formula for determining the number of automatic bids vs. at-large bids is …

The four-team College Football Playoff era came to an end Monday night when No. 1 Michigan polished off its undefeated season with a 34-13 win over No. 2 Washington in the College Football Playoff National Championship in Houston. The win bookended the era with Big Ten teams winning national titles; Ohio State won the first edition of the four-team event following the 2014 …

With the college football season officially over, Penn State can turn their attention towards making necessary upgrades to their roster that will help them compete in the Big Ten and nationally moving forward. Michigan hoisted the trophy and new conference opponent, Washington, was the opponent. Adding four teams from the Pac-12 conference puts that much more importance on landing some …

Dabo Swinney and the Clemson football squad had a decent run in 2023, but both the team and its fans were aiming for something bigger. Closing out the season with a thrilling 38-35 win in the Gator Bowl against Kentucky is a superb way to end, but the final 9-4 record, with a 4-4 standing in the ACC, has left …

Disappointment is high on the flights back to Seattle for a Washington program and fanbase that was along for the ride as a 21-game winning streak put the Huskies on the verge of a national championship. It hurts to see the season end the way it did in a 34-13 loss to Michigan in the College Football Playoff National Championship. …