College Football Playoff Articles - Page 15

One notable Michigan football alumni was present to support Jim Harbaugh’s squad in the Rose Bowl. He goes by the name of Tom Brady. If you have not heard of him, he’s arguably the greatest and most winningest football player in the history of the game. One way he proved this was through his massive […]

The Alabama football team has not done much losing in Nick Saban’s time in Tuscaloosa. The Crimson Tide have won six National Championships and eight SEC titles, and have only lost 28 games since 2007, but something they have done even less than lose is be expected to lose by the folks in Vegas who make those […]

The Michigan football program is looking to take the next step this year and win the national championship after two unsuccessful trips to the College Football Playoff, and defensive tackle Kris Jenkins talked about how last year’s loss to TCU changes the mindset going into this year against Alabama. “Definitely how much more serious we […]

Is college football drifting too far off course from what made it a national phenomenon? From a business perspective, which the sport certainly is, things are going tremendously. But as revenue and ratings going up, prestige is seemingly going down. Massive conference realignment has left many fans feeling anxious about the future, and now, Alabama […]

This season, the Sugar Bowl is one of the most anticipated versions of the bowl game in history. Texas is set to take on Washington in the College Football Playoff Semifinal, and we will explain how you can watch that game. When and where is the Allstate Sugar Bowl? The Allstate Sugar Bowl is at […]

As most bowl games regularly change names or corporate sponsors and suffer from a parade of opt-outs, the Rose Bowl remains by far the most prestigious bowl game in college football, and this year it takes on extra meaning. As the host of one of the two College Football Playoff semifinal games, the winner of […]

Alabama head coach Nick Saban isn’t the least bit worried about the Michigan sign-stealing saga ahead of their Rose Bowl matchup on New Year’s Day. Saban was asked about the sign-stealing situation during his joint press conference with Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh by AL.com’s Joe Goodman. “We’re really not concerned about that. Integrity in the […]

The oldest and most prestigious bowl game in college football takes place this week. Alabama will face Michigan in the Rose Bowl, which will be the first game of the College Football Playoff. In this article, we will look at the history of the Rose Bowl and explain how you can watch this year’s version […]

Nick Saban’s Alabama football team took an interesting route to the College Football Playoff, starting the season with some rocky performances, especially in the loss against the Texas football program, but Saban opened up on the journey the team has been through and what is next for his team ahead of the Rose Bowl game […]

The Texas football team had a stellar season in 2023. The Longhorns won the Big 12 Conference, as head coach Steve Sarkisian has the Texas football team in the College Football Playoff, with a chance to win the national championship for the first time since 2005. The Longhorns got in with a 12-1 record ahead […]

With talks of college football adopting a 12-team playoff format in the future, Nick Saban shared his thoughts on the idea ahead of Alabama football’s College Football Playoff clash against Michigan. “The big games are going to be the big games and there’s always going to be speculation of who the best 12 teams are […]

During an appearance on ESPN’s College Game Day this Saturday morning, Alabama football head coach Nick Saban opened up on how he’s inspiring his team ahead of their Rose Bowl matchup against number one-ranked Michigan. When asked by Pat McAfee, “How many more times will you speak to your team before the game? And how […]

The Texas Longhorns are College Football Playoff bound and closer to the National Title than they have been in over a decade, and a big reason for their 2023 success is quarterback Quinn Ewers, who has taken the time to take care of his body, change his approach to the game, and emerge as one […]

Nick Saban has been in the world of college football for a really long time. At the age of 72, he has produced four Heisman trophy winners. Moreover, his great mind also continues to keep the winning tradition in the Alabama football program. So much so that his latest pursuit involves winning the Rose Bowl […]

I believe it was the wise philosopher Robert “Rocky” Balboa who once said: “The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. Nobody is gonna hit […]

Alabama football head coach Nick Saban has seen it all and done it all in college football. He’s also earned a reputation for his reluctance to show much emotion beyond anger on the sidelines. Jalen Milroe attested to the fact that Saban isn’t merely putting on an act for the TV cameras, and really isn’t […]

The Florida State football team is 13-0 and champions of the ACC, one of the “Power 5” conferences that supposedly exists within the NCAA on a plane higher than that of the rest of the college football world. It used to be that the notion of an undefeated Power 5 conference champion missing out on […]

The College Football Playoff is almost here and it will get started on New Year’s Day with the Rose Bowl between Michigan football and Alabama football. The Crimson Tide are ranked #4 in the country, and the Wolverines are the top team in the nation. It’s not often that Nick Saban and Alabama are underdogs, […]

Alabama football coach Nick Saban went viral for his appearance with Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh at Disneyland ahead of the College Football Playoff matchup in the Rose Bowl coming up on Monday, and Nick Saban opened up on what it has been like to be in that type of setting leading up to such […]

We’re just a few days away from the Rose Bowl Game, which this year doubles as a College Football Playoff semifinal between Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan Wolverines and Nick Saban’s Alabama Crimson Tide, but before the two teams took the field in Pasadena, they went on a class field trip together to Disneyland. If for lord […]

The College Football Playoff has been highly acclaimed since its debut in the 2014 season. In every season starting in 2014, the nation’s top four teams have advanced to play in a playoff to decide the national champion. Prior to that, national champions were made with the Bowl Championship Series, Bowl Alliance, Bowl Coalition, and […]

Charles Barkley is no stranger to speaking his mind. He did so with such regularity during his sixteen-year NBA career that he was able to parlay that into a successful post-playing career as an analyst for Turner Sports. And in the two decades since he retired from the NBA, Barkley hasn’t limited himself to talking […]

A season-long chain of events has led us to the point where Florida State football is now left weighing their options regarding taking legal action against the ACC, and taking the first step toward potentially doing so. “Florida State has scheduled an emergency meeting of its Board of Trustees for Friday morning, the first concrete […]

As Michigan gets ready to take on Alabama in the College Football Playoffs on Jan. 1, several Big Ten coaches believe that Wolverines quarterback JJ McCarthy isn’t the same quarterback now that his team is (allegedly) no longer stealing signs from the opposition. McCarthy’s production declined significantly in the second half of the season, post-Jim […]

Despite their standing as the #1 team in the College Football Playoff rankings, the Michigan Wolverines do not seem to be seen in such high regard by the public. Though they aren’t quite an underdog in the Rose Bowl versus Alabama, the Wolverines are barely favored and most analysts are taking the Crimson Tide to […]

As the 2023 college football season quickly comes to a close, with only the bowl season remaining, there were a few teams, as always, that surprised all of us. These were the severely under-the-radar teams that no one really expected to do much given their circumstances, whether that was due to new coaching staffs, lack […]

As we approach the most celebratory time of the year, a multitude of games unfolds, featuring matchups between teams that might seldom cross paths in the regular season. All of these games will be part of the often amusingly named, advertisement-driven extravaganza that is college football bowl season. Then there are others, like the Capital […]

ESPN’s Paul Finebaum gave his ultimate prediction on the Rose Bowl in the College Football playoffs between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Michigan Wolverines. In what would be considered an upset, Finebaum said on the “McElory and Cubelic In The Morning” show that he has the Alabama football team advancing to the title game […]

The controversy over Alabama football making the College Football Playoff over undefeated Florida State football has taken over conversations this week. The Crimson Tide were the fourth team selected for the Playoff after defeating Georgia in the SEC Championship Game. Despite losing a game this year while the Seminoles went undefeated, Alabama now gets the […]

The Florida State football program got dealt a massive blow on Sunday afternoon when they became the first Power 5 conference champion to complete a perfect 13-0 season and be left out of the College Football Playoff. Boo Corrigan, the chair of the CFP, claimed that selection committee believed without starting quarterback Jordan Travis in the picture, […]

Bowl season is officially here, and we have all 42 bowl game predictions, including the New Year’s Six bowls and the College Football Playoff games leading up to the national championship. For these 82 teams, they had to reach the coveted six wins to earn bowl eligibility—unless you’re the Minnesota Gophers, who won only five […]

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has taken the Seminoles’ snub into legal matters. Florida State football was left out of the College Football Playoff, despite the team having an undefeated 13-0 season with an ACC title under its belt. “My first-grader, my fifth-grader, and my preschooler … they are all Noles and they are big-time fans […]

The sports world has been buzzing for days since the Selection Committee announced their choices for the College Football Playoff on Sunday, December 3rd. Most notably excluded from the list was undefeated Florida State football which became the first undefeated Power 5 conference team to go unselected.. It is worth noting that in the 12-1 […]

The Texas football team is in the College Football Playoff and will face the undefeated Washington Huskies in the Sugar Bowl. However, the Longhorns will be without safety Derek Williams for the first half of the game after his targeting appeal was denied, per Chip Brown of 247Sports. ‘BREAKING: #Texas S Derek Williams will miss […]

If you look at the front of the Washington football team’s helmets, it reads “Dawgs.” But by now, perhaps it should read “underdogs.” With the College Football Playoff top-4 set—controversy and all—it’s now left to two semifinal games with the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl to decide who will vie for the national championship. The […]

The College Football Playoff committee’s greatest fears came true last Saturday night when No. 8 Alabama upset No. 1 Georgia in the SEC Championship Game. How could the committee leave out the SEC Champion—something it had never done since the inception of the playoff—and, better yet, how could it then leave out Texas football, who […]

The discourse around Florida State being snubbed from the College Football Playoffs has taken over the sports world and injured quarterback Jordan Travis weighed in via Twitter/X. Travis was a key piece of the Seminole’s explosive offensive attack before his season-ending injury in his team’s 58-13 win over North Alabama. Travis tweeted, “Devastated. Heartbroken. In […]

An untarnished 13-win record will often make a team climb atop the College Football Playoff standings. Unfortunately, this was not the case for Mike Norvell and the Florida State football squad. The Seminoles came off huge wins against teams but just could not make the cut alongside programs like Alabama, Washington, Michigan, and Texas. Although, […]

With the regular season now concluded, we are now onto bowl season. Not including the national championship game, there will be 41 total bowl games played, starting on Dec. 16. The most coveted out of these games are the ones set for the best teams in the country, which become aptly known as the New […]