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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ESPN has a new No. 1 in college football power rankings after Championship Week
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 …
Read More »Things you might not have known about Michigan football’s Big Ten Championship win
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. …
Read More »No. 2 Michigan beats No. 18 Iowa 26-0 for Big Ten title, likely to claim top playoff seed
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 …
Read More »ESPN Playoff Predictor projects the four teams in the CFP based on results Saturday
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 …
Read More »Everything Kirk Ferentz said about Michigan football after the Big Ten Championship Game
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 …
Read More »ESPN predicts the final College Football Playoff rankings. Where is Alabama?
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 …
Read More »Bowl projections: Texas gets College Football Playoff bid over Alabama with Michigan moving to No. 1
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 …
Read More »College Football Playoff – How Final Four Should Be
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 …
Read More »Georgia football bowl projection after conference championships
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. …
Read More »Predicting what the final College Football Playoff rankings will be
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 …
Read More »No. 2 Michigan shuts out No. 16 Iowa to punch 3rd straight Playoff ticket
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 …
Read More »Watch St. Elmo sauce bring ex-NFL Pro Bowl running back, Heisman winner Mark Ingram to tears
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 …
Read More »Jalen Milroe quotes Jalen Hurts after Alabama’s SEC championship win: ‘I had my purpose’
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 …
Read More »More than 60 players knew only wins with UGA football until Saturday. ‘It sucks to lose’
ATLANTA—This was unfamiliar territory with Georgia football for 67 players. The sophomores, redshirt freshmen and true freshmen had only known winning for a program that won back-to-back national titles and entered Saturday on an SEC-record 29-game winning streak. Names most Georgia fans recognize — Mykel Williams, Malaki Starks, Dillon Bell, Brett Thorson, Oscar Delp and Peyton Woodring. Others that those …
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