The debut College Football Playoff rankings show the power of being unbeaten.
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- Blake Toppmeyer USA TODAY
Matt Jones’ experience hosting Kentucky Sports Radio told him to expect a few calls or texts about Kentucky basketball on his Monday morning show after UK’s first exhibition game.
- USA Today - Vertical
Josh Heupel has a good record in November (13-8) at Tennessee, but he's never gone undefeated in the month. UT likely need to do that to make the CFP.
- Mark Story, Lexington Herald-Leader
LEXINGTON, Ky. — There is a case that Saturday’s football game between No. 8 Kentucky and No. 16 Tennessee is the most significant contest ever played in a border rivalry that dates back to 1893. At the least, it will be the biggest UK-UT football matchup in 76 years. With the CFP format now…
- Sports Illustrated - Miami Hurricanes
A lot of fans will be overly focused to showdown in South Bend, but Christopher Walsh of Miami Hurricanes On SI says the next three games will be the key to navigating the CFP.
- Lia Assimakopoulos, The Dallas Morning News
DALLAS — The College Football Playoff committee unveiled its first rankings of the 2026 season Tuesday night, giving an early indicator of how the committee sees the top teams in the country weeks away from the start of the playoff. Only one Texas team cracked the top 12 — No. 7 Texas— with …
- Jon Hale, Lexington Herald-Leader
LEXINGTON, Ky. — If the 2026 college football season ended today, Kentucky would be in the 12-team playoff field. The Wildcats were slotted at No. 6 in the playoff committee’s first in-season ranking revealed Tuesday on ESPN. That is the highest ranking for the program at any point in the 12…
MIAMI — The Miami Hurricanes are entering their third week as the No. 1 overall team in the AP top 25 poll, a ranking they hadn’t had since the 2002 season. On Tuesday, they also found themselves atop another poll, one that plays a much more significant role in their season. The Hurricanes are the No. 1 team in the first of six weekly rankings released by the College Football Playoff selection ...
There's been countless hours, days, weeks and months trying to make sense of how the committee would analyze this season that has seen consistent inconsistency and strange results.
The Big Ten has spent the past three seasons atop college football, producing three straight national champions.
The Big Ten never trails the ACC on the gridiron, but it does at this moment in one key category: employing coaches who are failing at their jobs.
The 2026-27 men's basketball season tipped off Sunday with Notre Dame coming from behind to defeat Villanova in the Eternal City Tip-Off in Rome.
Could Alabama's College Football Playoff hopes collapse with a loss to LSU? PFN's SEC playoff predictions show Alabama jumping to an 80% playoff chance with a win but falling to 13% with a loss, according to the model discussed in the video. Georgia looks like the SEC's safest playoff conten…
Will Ohio State miss the College Football Playoff without Julian Sayin? PFN's Big Ten playoff predictions put the Buckeyes in danger despite their projected 65% playoff probability. Indiana has survived a string of close games and looks like the conference's safest contender. Undefeated UCLA…
Haunted houses are all the rage around Halloween. Apparently, a few college football programs decided to turn their stadiums into them.
A three-game skid has dropped Nebraska toward the bottom of the Big Ten and will raise the scrutiny on coach Matt Rhule to new heights heading into another decisive November.
The CFP committee will weigh in this week with its first set of rankings. We here at Overreaction HQ intend to overreact to them before they’re released.
Make no mistake, Brett Yormark saved the Big 12. He took it from a battered shell of itself and found a way to make it work.
SEATTLE — CBS Sports college football writer Tom Fornelli follows the same formula after every head-coaching hire. Regardless of who’s doing the hiring, or who’s getting hired, he inserts each into a recycled two-sentence structure on social media. [COACH] is a great hire for [SCHOOL]. I have no idea if it will work out. Some relevant regional examples: Jedd Fisch is a great hire for ...
Florida State president Richard McCullough and interim AD Bruce Warwick discuss the firing of Mike Norvell
SI writers discuss the latest in college sports
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The OU football team lost to South Carolina 42-25 on Saturday as the Sooners' offense struggled against, totaling just 359 yards and not scoring a touchdown until the fourth quarter. The Oklahoman's Jenni Carlson and Colton Sulley break things down.
CJ Bailey threw two touchdown passes and NC State dominated the second half against visiting Cal to begin the post-Dave Doeren era with a 31-10 win in Raleigh on Saturday.
Duke football ended the month of October the opposite way it started it. With back-to-back wins.
UNC football came close to making history, but couldn't close in a 38-35 loss to No. 1 Miami.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — For most of the first half, it looked like a struggling Navy football team might actually have a shot at upsetting mighty Notre Dame. Offensive coordinator Drew Cronic found a play-calling rhythm right out of the gate, and the Midshipmen began with three straight impressive drives that put the Fighting Irish defense on its heels. The Mids held the ball and chewed up the ...
The World’s Largest Cocktail Party — possibly still outdoor depending on the viability of opening the roof — will be at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta instead of Jacksonville.
When Notre Dame women’s basketball coach Niele Ivey first heard the idea, she was thrilled. With the election of Pope Leo XIV as inspiration, college sports event organizers wanted to host a pair of men’s and women’s basketball games in Rome. Villanova, the pope’s alma mater, would occupy one bench. Notre Dame, another of the United States’ prominent Catholic universities — only about 80 miles ...
Assess the national championship chances of Florida, Illinois, St. John's, UConn and other top college basketball teams, with odds, value and key players.