Beyond excited to cover the Winter Olympics with the incredible NBC Sports team! You’ll see me in Italy reporting on cross country skiing and ski jumping: www.nbcsports.com/pressbox/pre...

🎧 NEW Rushing The Field 🎧 Manny Navarro joins us to preview Ole Miss-Miami & Zach Osterman joins us to break down Indiana-Oregon! TONS of great insight. Highly recommend a listen ahead of the CFP semis: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Bryce Underwood announces he is staying at Michigan under Kyle Whittingham.

Clemson has officially announced Chad Morris as offensive coordinator (again).

Indiana is the best team in college football. Curt Cignetti is the best coach in college football. We have to get used to saying these things.

Hope they’re stirring the mayo right now, getting it ready.

From 2015-2020, just 9 teams played in a semifinal, with Bama, Clemson, Ohio St & Okla. accounting for 18 of 24 spots. From 2021-2025, 14 different teams have appeared in a semi, with Michigan the only team with more than 2 appearances.

🎧 NEW Rushing The Field 🎧 @mrjoshuaperry.bsky.social and I recap the wild CFP quarters — from Indiana’s dominant 🌹 win over Bama to an all-time performance from Trinidad Chambliss & everything in between. What to make of this final foursome & more: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Kansas has announced that Andy Kotelnicki is back — and will serve as associate head coach under Lance Leipold.

So ... should we *actually* worry about the teams with byes losing in the CFP quarters? Is it a curse — or is it all overblown? I dove into the issue + proposed some potential fixes (from moving the CFP up a week to moving quarters to campus): www.nbcsports.com/college-foot...

When the new single transfer portal got approved for college football, everyone knew that four teams would have to deal with it being open while preparing for CFP semifinal games. And here we are.

7 out of the 8 teams that earned byes to the quarterfinals in the 12-team CFP era have now lost.

The final four teams in the College Football Playoff: Indiana Oregon Ole Miss Miami

COLLEGE KICKERS

This play calling …

BAD missed facemask.

OLE MISS!

Trinidad Chambliss was playing Division II football last season.

Trinidad Chambliss is having a legendary night. Unreal.

This game is so awesome.

Gunner Stockton is a stud.

Curt Cignetti looks kind of annoyed he has to be on the stage celebrating the Rose Bowl win instead of being able to watch film already.

No one is more excited about anything than Fernando Mendoza is about everything.

FINAL: Indiana 38, Alabama 3. The top-seeded Hoosiers will face Oregon in the Peach Bowl. The Big Ten is guaranteed a participant in the national championship game.

Trying to figure out how to blame the Group of 5 for these CFP quarterfinal blowouts

Indiana having to go through Alabama to try to win a national championship felt important — and meaningful — for a program that’s flipping the sport on its head. And what a statement it is that Indiana is beating Alabama like *this.*

Austin Mack now in the game at quarterback for Alabama.

Last year’s Indiana team was very good and an amazing college football story. But the jump from last year to this year is truly remarkable. These Hoosiers can beat teams with lots of NFL talent now — and they can blow out a team like *Alabama.*

I know Indiana is, like, very good at football now. But — still — WOW.

Indiana is such a well-prepared and balanced team. Hoosiers don’t beat themselves. They’re aggressive but always under control.

Indiana will take a 17-0 lead over Alabama into halftime. Hoosiers were coming off a bye — and clearly not rusty.

Wow.

Fabulous throw by Fernando Mendoza and great catch by Charlie Becker. Becker has had a heckuva second half of the season.

Wow, what a stop by the Indiana defense.

Final: Oregon 23, Texas Tech 0. Ducks will face the Indiana-Alabama winner in the CFP semis.

That might do it.

Finally, Oregon gets into the end zone — just one play after Uiagalelei’s forced fumble. 13 points feels insurmountable with this Texas Tech offense.

Oregon offense has run nearly 50 plays in the first half. Texas Tech defense has been very good in big moments, but will it wear down in the second half? Been on the field almost all day.

Fake!!!

Texas Tech’s defense has been on the field basically the entire first quarter. They’re going to need the offense to sustain some drives at some point.

Joey McGuire was a Texas high school football coach. Curt Cignetti’s first head-coaching job came in Division II. Kalen DeBoer’s career began in the NAIA. My story on the coaches with unconventional paths to the CFP quarters — and why that matters: www.nbcsports.com/big-ten/news...

That will do it. Such an impressive performance tonight by Miami. Canes will face the winner of Georgia-Ole Miss in the CFP semis.

MIAMI WOW

What a performance by Arch Manning.

This reliaquest bowl game has been awesome. All I want for the midafternoon bowl games!

Vandy fighting back into this game 👀

Iowa piling it on Vanderbilt. Now 21-3 midway through the third quarter.

WHAT A CATCH

"Breaking In with Kevin Fishbain" episode 39 Guest: @danrubenstein.solidverbal.com As we get into the CFP quarterfinals, thought it was a great time to learn Dan's origin story, and how @solidverbal.com began

You're going to see some coaches on the sidelines of these CFP quarterfinal games that have taken unconventional paths to get here. And they wouldn't have had it any other way: www.nbcsports.com/big-ten/news...