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College Football Playoff tracker — OU is safe, while LSU, Ohio State and Clemson battle for top spot
GRAPEVINE, Texas — This might be the shortest meeting the College Football Playoff selection committee has had to date, as the conference championship game results did the bulk of the work for them, whittling the field down to an obvious top four. Oklahoma got the win it needed over Baylor in the Big 12 conference …
College football power rankings for Week 14
The 2019 regular season is complete and Championship Week is here. After 14 weeks, four teams seem to have a clear path to one of the four spots in the College Football Playoff. If Clemson, Georgia, LSU and Ohio State win their respective conference championship games this coming weekend, they’ll be among the four teams …
Underdogs thrive, the Pac-12 survives and more in a chaotic Week 8
Lovie Smith has the look of a man who has lived a full life. A man doesn’t grow a beard with that many grays unless he has had some real highs (he coached in a Super Bowl) and lows (with Rex Grossman as his QB). Smith, Illinois’ coach, has seen some things — horrible things, …
College football Power Rankings for Week 6
On a Saturday in which the top two teams in the AP and coaches’ polls didn’t play, the other College Football Playoff contenders behind Alabama and Clemson held serve without much drama. Georgia, LSU, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Wisconsin each won by 24 points or more. Florida made the biggest statement of Week …
College football Power Rankings for Week 5
If not for a failed 2-point conversion attempt, who knows where we’d be five weeks into the college football season? But Brent Venables’ Clemson defense made the play it had to make, and the defending national champion Tigers survived a 21-20 scare at North Carolina. The beauty of college football is the unpredictability from week …
College football Power Rankings for Week 4
A month doesn’t define an entire college football season, but there’s a distinct Deep South flavor to the top of the ESPN Power Rankings as we move closer to the calendar flipping to October. 1 Related In fact, four of the top five teams are from the SEC, and that’s not to mention the No. …
Early College Football Playoff questions after Week 1
Maybe, just maybe, Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields is that good. Maybe Auburn is capable of another special season under coach Gus Malzahn, and Oregon isn’t the Pac-12’s best hope. Or maybe it was all just another August mirage. Week 1 guarantees knee-jerk reactions and things you think you know — but storylines do emerge, …
