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Beginning in 2026, every Power Four conference will require its members to play nine league games. Three of the four NCAA leagues will also mandate at least one non-conference matchup against another power opponent. The Big Ten will be the only one that does not. The Big 12 already enforces the 10-game standard, and the […]

Every week, we are getting closer and closer to the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season, and we are also getting closer to the actual CFP. We continue to get a better idea of what the field will look like as there are now big conference games every single week. There were a […]

Indiana football took Illinois to the woodshed on Saturday. The Hoosiers posted 63 points on the scoreboard, en route to a 63-10 victory. It was a powerful statement. Curt Cignetti, in his second season, has his Indiana team again looking like a College Football Playoff contender. While Indiana shocked the college football world in its […]

College football podcaster Joel Klatt thinks that Notre Dame is one of the best 0-2 teams to ever take the field. Klatt thinks though that despite their talent, the Fighting Irish have a very slim chance to make the College Football Playoff. Klatt says wins have to come right away for this team, and they […]

There is still a long way to go in the college football season before the College Football Playoff field is revealed, but we continue to get a better idea of who are the contenders and who are the pretenders. South Carolina seems to be trending toward the pretender category after an embarrassing home loss to […]

It feels like déjà vu for Wisconsin football. A year after losing its starting quarterback to injury against Alabama and watching the season collapse, the Badgers once again limped into a matchup with the Crimson Tide short-handed and walked away embarrassed. Alabama rolled to a 38-14 win, handing Luke Fickell another lopsided defeat in a […]

Notre Dame football dropped to 0-2 on the season after losing a heartbreaking game Saturday to Texas A&M. The Aggies defeated the Fighting Irish in South Bend, 41-40. Notre Dame’s chances of making this year’s College Football Playoff are now slim to none. Following the game, On3 reporter Brett McMurphy made a humorous post online […]

Former college football coach Nick Saban made a bold prediction on Saturday about the Notre Dame football team. Saban thinks Notre Dame will win their remaining games and make the College Football Playoff this season. “Marcus Freeman is the man that will bring [Notre Dame Football to the playoffs],” Saban said Saturday on ESPN’s College […]

We are now through two weeks of the college football season, and there are some big changes in our Week 3 College Football Playoff predictions. There are teams that have dropped from the projected field, and with that, there are going to be some newcomers as well. The biggest results of the weekend were Oklahoma […]

Texas football suffered a disappointing loss in its season opener vs. Ohio State, but Steve Sarkisian is still a believer that the Longhorns can make it back to the College Football Playoff. Following the 14-7 defeat, in which preseason Heisman favorite Arch Manning struggled, Sarkisian spoke on the impact of the CFP’s expansion from four […]

Week 1 is in the books, and there have already been multiple games that had major College Football Playoff implications. There were three different matchups between top 10 teams, so that means that three squads with CFP hopes already have losses. With the playoff expanded to 12 teams, it’s okay to suffer an early season […]

The 2025 college football season kicked off with a bang, and nowhere was the drama more pronounced than in the Group of Five (G5) battle for the coveted automatic berth in the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff. Forget the Texas-Ohio State showdown. While preseason favorites like Boise State entered the year with high expectations, Jon […]

Week 1 of the college football season had some surprising results, with Arch Manning’s play in Texas’ 14-7 loss to Ohio State as one big one. Another was Alabama losing to unranked Florida State, 34-17, as questions swirl about the Crimson Tide program. Both teams were ranked in the top 10 in the AP preseason […]

The 2025 college football season is underway, and in a few months, the second 12-team College Football Playoff will begin. The format shifted from four teams to 12 last season, and it was clear that some kinks needed to be worked out. There are some changes this year, for example the fact that byes no […]

With the 2025 season set to begin this coming Saturday with five Week 0 matchups, college football is almost back. As fans settle into an opening week set led by a Big 12 conference matchup featured ranked Kansas State and Iowa State in Ireland, the excitement inside the college football world continues to build. A […]

The changing landscape of college football has revolved around two conferences: the SEC and the Big Ten. Due to those two conferences, the College Football Playoff moved from four to 12 teams, but there has been a holdup in increasing the number of teams since the Big Ten plays nine conference games and the SEC […]

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish enter the 2025-26 season ranked within the Top 10 (No. 6 in AP Poll and No. 5 in Coach’s Poll). Expectations are high after the program reached the national championship, which resulted in a 34-23 loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes. With a new season ahead, it sounds like one […]

Ever since news was reported a few days ago that the Big Ten was exploring a College Football Playoff that is expanded to 24 or 28 teams, the college football world has been abuzz with possibility. Although a lot of executives aren’t in favor of the expansion proposed by the Big Ten, not all of […]

Big Ten officials want to pitch an idea that would expand the College Football Playoff from its current 12 team format to potentially up to 28. The problem is that administrators around the college football landscape aren’t thrilled with the league’s execution. News of the Big Ten’s plan leaked before commissioner Tony Petitti was able […]

As analyst Joel Klatt is going all-in on the Clemson football team this season, the hype around the team continues as the former quarterback for the University of Colorado makes a bold prediction for the program. Correspondingly, with the Clemson football team looking to rank high on the AP Poll throughout the season, Klatt would […]

At the moment, the Big Ten holds NCAA football’s top prize: the College Football Playoff National Championship trophy. The golden piece of hardware resides in Columbus, Ohio, home of the Ohio State football program. The Buckeyes won the CFP’s first 12-team playoff in January, defeating Tennessee, Oregon, Texas and Notre Dame to capture the title. […]

It is year two for Indiana football under Curt Cignetti. The first year was a massive success. It was the first time Indiana had ever won 11 games in a season, and they would qualify for the College Football Playoff. The Hooisers would fall to Notre Dame in the first round of the playoffs. Indiana […]

The amount of conference games a college football team plays each year depends on what conference the team is in. In the Big Ten and Big 12, every team has nine conference games. In the ACC and SEC, teams only play eight. Obviously, that gives teams in the ACC and SEC a bit of an […]

The talk of the offseason in college football is the proposed expansion of the College Football Playoff, and the ACC seems to be getting left behind in some of the potential scenarios. Not that the conference would b entirely left out, of course, but the Big Ten and the SEC are pursuing automatic bids into […]

Ohio State football comes into the 2025 season as the hunted after winning the College Football Playoff National Championship last season, running the expanded CFP gauntlet with very impressive wins over Tennessee, Oregon, Texas and Notre Dame. Now, everyone is gunning for the Buckeyes heading into 2025. While Ohio State was the first team to […]

There’s a lot of talk in college football about proposing additional changes to the College Football Playoff. Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti added more fuel to all that fire on Tuesday, when he made a bold statement at Big Ten Media Day. “To be clear, any college football playoff format that increases the discretion and […]

The Penn State football team made its first appearance in the College Football Playoff last season, and expectations for the program are even higher this year. The Nittany Lions are bringing back loads of talent, and most importantly, their quarterback is returning. Drew Allar is back for another season, and having an experienced QB is […]

The College Football Playoff Committee has been discussing a possible expansion to change the 12-team format to 16. However, the two biggest conferences in the nation, the Big Ten and SEC, are at odds over one request that would ultimately make the change. Reports indicate that the Big Ten gave the SEC an ultimatum in […]

SEC media days are in full swing and have taken center stage as the season starts. The SEC is the center of the college football universe every season due to its fan bases, coaching talent, and talent across the conference. However, the biggest name in the room is Commissioner Greg Sankey, and he has been […]

The first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff was a success, as teams battled throughout the regular season to make it into the expanded field before providing fans with a dramatic postseason. However, the world of college football is already looking for tweaks and improvements. Expansion has been a hot topic once again this […]

The college football season is right around the corner, and the start of conference media days really signifies that the 2025 season is close. Big 12 Media Days got underway on Tuesday from Frisco, Texas, and commissioner Brett Yormark took to the podium to discuss the upcoming season. He had a lot to talk about, […]

More changes are coming to the College Football Playoff as player availability reports will be required for CFP games next season. This is something that the the Big Ten and the SEC have done, so it’s not a big surprise to see the CFP make the change as those two conferences have the majority of […]

A lot of the news in college football on Wednesday has surrounded what will happen with the College Football Playoff. The 2026 format for the playoffs has been a hot topic due to its expansion to 16 teams in 2026 and how it should work out. The key argument stemmed from two different formats, the […]

Texas Tech football head coach Joey McGuire fired off a stern warning Wednesday. One directed toward the College Football Playoff committee. And he’s sending this “bias” statement in defense of his conference. McGuire appeared on Sirius XM radio to state his case. He’s calling for a new solution moving forward. “We’ve got to take some […]

The future of the College Football Playoff has been a hot topic in the offseason, and the model for what the expanded model should look like is making all sorts of headlines. The two proposed models are a 4-4-2-2-1-3 model and a 5-plus-11 model. The 5-plus-11 model is gaining much more traction recently, especially among […]

It’s unclear what the College Football Playoff is going to look like down the road, but it’s becoming more clear that changes are coming, and they’re coming soon. Expansion has been a hot topic in recent weeks, and it sounds like the sport is trending toward a 16-team CFP. That could end up being great […]

These last few days, much has been made about what a 16-team College Football Playoff would look like and what the power conferences want to do. The Big Ten wants a 4-4-2-2-1-3 format with each conference guaranteeing a certain number of teams. The other format gaining traction recently is a 5+11 format for every conference […]

College football, as it has been for numerous years now, is in a precarious place. Many of the stakeholders have different agendas and visions for college football in the immediate and long-term future, and that may lead to some even more significant changes, specifically to the College Football Playoff (CFP). A growing divide in the […]

Big changes are coming to college football in the near future. From College Football Playoff expansion to scheduling partnerships, things could look very different in a few years. One change that has been discussed is an alliance between the Big Ten and SEC. The two teams are discussing a model that would give each team […]