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10:54 AM ET To see how a new development might affect the future, take a look at how it would have affected the past. That’s a go-to of mine — see: how larger playoffs would have worked in 2020 or how a much bigger, earlier playoff would have impacted things — and with the news

If there’s one headline that could have overshadowed Nick Saban’s extension at Alabama, it was College Football Playoff expansion news. My stars, June 7 feels like months ago.  But in a way, these are two compelling storylines that can be intertwined. College football is at a crossroads. A historically regional sport is now national, and

Coming off a 2021 NFL draft that quarterbacks dominated early, and with college and NFL people believing early QB runs will be more the norm going forward, we thought we’d start mapping out the 2021 college football season from a viewing standpoint. There are some terrific early matchups in the upcoming season from a team-vs.-team

Hello again everyone, it’s Shanna McCarriston wishing you all a glorious Friday.  I’ve been a bit sad these last few days because my Boston Bruins did not exactly have the game they needed on Wednesday night and were eliminated from the playoffs. It’s most definitely not how I saw it going, but alas, here we

5:00 PM ET Next week, the College Football Playoff management committee will consider a proposal to expand the CFP to 12 teams. The proposal calls for the bracket to include the six highest-ranked conference champions and the six remaining highest-ranked teams as determined by the CFP selection committee. So what happens now? First, the management

If you ask most college football fans — let alone coaches and players — they’ll tell you the best part of the sport is its pageantry-rich, on-campus gameday environments. The excitement of the action is amplified by everything surrounding it. This isn’t the NFL, where billion-dollar taxpayer stadiums are leveled and replaced every quarter century

Just 10 years old at the time, Matt Schembechler said that he summoned the courage to tell his new stepfather a horrific, uncomfortable and humiliating truth: During a physical examination he’d been fondled and digitally penetrated by a doctor, Robert Anderson. Anderson was the team doctor for the University of Michigan football team, which Matt’s

8:12 PM ET A jury in Houston took just a few hours on Wednesday to find Baylor University and three former football players not responsible for the alleged sexual assault of a former female student athlete in 2017. The trial, which started May 20, was presented as a test of whether Baylor had changed its

Prosecutors say suspended Virginia Tech linebacker Isimemen Etute beat a man to death after he discovered the victim was not a woman like he had been led to believe online.  Etute was charged with second-degree murder June 2 in the death of Blacksburg, Virginia, resident Jerry Smith. Etute, a member of Virginia Tech’s 2021 recruiting

USATSI Alabama has scheduled a future home-and-home series with Oklahoma State, adding to what is already an impressive and growing list of nonconference games over the next 10 years. A Tuesday announcement revealed the Crimson Tide will play the Cowboys during the 2028 and 2029 seasons. The first game of the series will take place

USATSi If you would have said 10 years ago that there are 15, 10 or even five transfer players who will have massive impacts in the SEC Championship Game race, you’d be called crazy. It simply didn’t happen.  This is a different era, though. The passing of the one-time transfer rule, relaxed transfer rules in

6:00 AM ET When splitting your conference into divisions, you can either let geography dictate the terms, or you can overthink. The ACC chose the latter when it broke into the Atlantic and Coastal divisions for football in 2005, presumably taking a stab at competitive balance (and, theoretically, annual Florida State–Miami title games). Competitive balance

The inevitability of the College Football Playoff expanding has been embraced around every corner of the sport. From the academic ivory towers to the athletic departments to the locker room, an evolution of some type has long been an expectation. The next three weeks offer a critical period in charting what the future of the

Getty Images One of the Pac-12’s best quarterbacks is looking for a new home as Colorado quarterback Sam Noyer, a second team All-Pac-12 selection from last season, has entered the transfer portal. Noyer, a 6-foot-4, 220-pound “super-senior” from Beaverton, Oregon, threw for 1,101 yards, six touchdowns and seven interceptions last season for the Buffaloes.  “From an

12:41 PM ET Nick Saban, who has led Alabama‘s football program to six national championships, has been rewarded with a contract extension that will take him through the Crimson Tide’s 2028 season. Saban is set to make $8.425 million this coming season, and his new deal will include annual increases in salary in addition to

Alabama has extended the contract of head coach Nick Saban through the 2028 football season. The new deal was announced by the university on Monday. It adds three seasons to his agreement, making it an eight-year contract in all. The updated contract extends through Feb. 28, 2029 — when Saban will be 77 years old.

9:09 PM ET Alabama secured its second ESPN 300 running back in the 2022 class on Sunday when Le’veon Moss committed to the Crimson Tide. Moss is the No. 49 ranked prospect overall and the No. 4 ranked recruit in the state of Louisiana. He’s a 6-foot, 190-pound back from Istrouma High in Baton Rouge,

Reuters Boxing-‘Weight don’t win fights’ says Mayweather as prepares to face Paul The “ceremonial” weigh-in on Saturday produced no surprises with the 6 feet, 2 inches (1.88 m) Paul always going to have an advantage on the scales coming in at 189.5 lbs with the 5-foot, 8-inch (1.73 m) Mayweather checking in at 155 lbs.