College Football

Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel talks during an interview with the Free Press Michigan beat writer Tony Garcia at U-M’s Weidenbach Hall in Ann Arbor on Monday, April 22, 2024. Can you taste it> We are into that part of the college football season where the rankings matter. No, not the traditional polls, but the CFP Rankings. We’ve now seen …

We’ve reached Rivalry Week! On today’s episode of The College Football Enquirer, Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger and SI’s Pat Forde prepare you for what is about to be a tense finish to the 2024 college football season. To kick off the show with a reaction to the latest College Football Playoff Rankings. Then, they dive in on Texas A&M hosting …

The Big 12 is slowly creeping up on Boise State in the College Football Playoff rankings, but it might not be enough for the power conference champion to secure a first-round bye. In recent weeks, the selection committee has made it clear the Big 12 needs an emphatic, overwhelming champion to leapfrog No. 11 Boise State. It could happen, but …

Walk together with me, everyone, down the road of College Football Playoff confusion. No. 4 Penn State has one win against a team in the College Football Playoff rankings. No. 3 Texas, No. 6 Miami, No. 9 SMU and No. 10 Indiana have none. What those five teams have in common: one loss. Meanwhile, I give you those with wins …

As recently as a week ago, the SEC was arguing it deserved five teams in this year’s College Football Playoff. There have already been proposals where the league (along with the Big Ten) would get four automatic bids in future years. Well, if you want to know the nightmare scenario for the SEC in the 2024 12-team field, it’s this: …

As the college football regular season comes to a close, the weekly College Football Playoff rankings reveal becomes more important. As a result, it draws increased scrutiny. Just when it seems like the college football world has an idea of how the bracket will unfold, chaos ensues to create even more questions as to which teams will be in the …

The latter half of the projected College Football Playoff bracket experienced a major shakeup after the chaos of Week 13. Three teams featured in the previous bracket cycled out of the field after getting upset to bring in a new round of contenders.  Ole Miss fell to Florida and Alabama lost a stunner against Oklahoma to knock both out of …

Nov 23, 2024; Athens, Georgia, USA; Georgia Bulldogs defensive back Malaki Starks (24) returns a punt against the Massachusetts Minutemen during the second half at Sanford Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-Imagn Images The Georgia Bulldogs are rising in the College Football Playoff bracket after a blowout 59-21 win against UMass Minutemen. Georgia rises to the No. 8 seed and are …

CBS Sports design The fourth edition of the College Football Playoff Rankings were released Tuesday night with undefeated Oregon maintaining its spot at No. 1 as has been the case in every set of rankings during this initial year of the expanded 12-team field. Off to a dominant start this season, the Ducks sit in the top slot seeking to …

Five-star prospect David Sanders Jr. and Ohio State offensive line coach Justin Frye leave the field together after the Buckeyes’ 38-15 win over the Indiana Hoosiers in an NCAA football game at Ohio Stadium on Nov. 23, 2024. A former All-USA TODAY HSSA Offensive Football Team player might be reconsidering his college choice, and its got Tennessee Vols fans very …

Nov 30, 2019; Auburn, AL, USA; View of the line of scrimmage during the second quarter between the Auburn Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Mandatory Credit: John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports Across the entirety of college football, there are few rivalries, if any, greater than the Iron Bowl, which pits a pair of in-state foes, the …

Only five days before the final week of the regular season, North Carolina became the first power conference school to enter the market. Legendary coach Mack Brown will not be retained in 2025, clearing the way for UNC to be by far the top option on the market for prospective candidates.  However, 14 jobs overall have opened heading into the …

Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter have at least two more college football games left to play. Colorado football coach Deion Sanders on Tuesday said the Colorado superstar duo will play in a potential bowl game for the Buffaloes, even if the team fails to make it to the Big 12 Conference championship game. Not making the conference championship game would …

The college football schedule was rife with chaos in Week 13, with several College Football Playoff-hopeful teams suffering upsets and hurting their bids to make the 12-team playoff. For the Big Ten, however, Week 13 was mostly business as usual. The only game of note between CFP-hopeful teams saw No. 2 Ohio State withstand an early score from No. 10 …

Mack Brown is going to be upset. At his firing Tuesday, sure. So much for the North Carolina Hall of Fame coach going out on his own terms.  Less than 24 hours after saying he would return to North Carolina for a seventh season, Brown’s bosses overruled him. The firing of the 73-year-old had a sordid quality to it. It …