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Where IU football stands in CFP projections following 7-0 start  Inside the Hall AP Week 8 poll reaction: What’s next for each Top 25 team  ESPN AP Top 25: Indiana up to No. 2 as Vanderbilt reaches top 10 in poll for first time since 1947  The New York Times AP Top 25 gets an overhaul behind No. 1 Ohio State; Vandy is …

TUSCALOOSA — Did you expect anything else from college football? As we’ve discussed every weekend this season, the race toward the playoff is wide open. Maybe outside of Ohio State, Alabama and Indiana, there is an argument to be made for plenty of teams and the postseason.  The preseason polls are aging poorly, and that’s a good thing. We’re heading …

The Athletic has live coverage of Texas vs. Oklahoma from the Red River Rivalry. DENTON, Texas — There have been some days when the fraternity tailgate field on the hill at North Texas looked like it outnumbered people in the stadium. But not on Friday, with the biggest game in program history and so much on the line. The College Football …

The hangover effect is real in college football, as are offensive lulls when your team’s shown a habit of ineptitude in that department this season. James Franklin and No. 7 Penn State found out the hard way during a stunning 42-37 upset loss Saturday at UCLA, a setback that severely damages the Nittany Lions’ playoff hopes. No. 9 Texas will …

Tone Deaf Tony’s hearing seems to be improving. The commissioner of the Big Ten, Tony Petitti, spent months failing to hear the college football world’s loud-and-clear message: Nobody liked his payoff proposals. Not the 16-team model with the four automatic bids for the Big Ten and the SEC, with two apiece for the Big 12 and ACC, plus one for …

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where all the power conferences can now count to nine. First Quarter: It Was All a Lie. Second Quarter: Reexamining the Quarterback Recruiting Class of 2022. Third Quarter: The Perils of Rivalry Preservation. The Big Ten has spent the first four weeks of the season playing with its food, …

One of college football’s preseason playoff contenders, South Carolina faces a season-defining game Saturday night at Missouri following a 24-point loss to Vanderbilt made worse by an injury to quarterback LaNorris Sellers. The media’s preseason first-team All-SEC selection, Sellers left the game late in the second quarter with a head injury and did not return as the Gamecocks offense sputtered …

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where season-opening struggles can even extend down to the mascots. First Quarter: This Is Not an Overreaction—It’s Legit Bad at Alabama. Second Quarter: Debuts, Good and Bad. As stated in last week’s Dash, the College Football Playoff posturing over strength of schedule and quality wins will be pervasive throughout …

No matter your take on how many teams should be included in the College Football Playoff (it better not be 28), we can all agree that one of the most insufferable portions of last year’s season was the discourse around the final two spots in the final rankings. Five auto-bids and five teams between the Big Ten, SEC, and Notre …

College football programs with tougher schedules will be rewarded. PublishedAugust 20, 2025 1:37 PM EDT•UpdatedAugust 20, 2025 1:37 PM EDT Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link The offseason talk surrounding how the college football playoff committee ranks teams was one of the main talking points for a number of teams across the sport, but clearly, the SEC was leading the charge …