Let's say college football did go to a 24-team playoff. Percentage of teams that make the playoffs ... NBA 67% NHL 50% NFL 44% MLB 40% NCAA Tournament: 19% College Football (at 24): 18% If CFP is out of all the Power 4 plus Notre Dame plus 2 throw-them-a-cookie Gof6 teams: 34%

Everyone’s knee-jerk reaction is to hate the Big Ten’s 24-team playoff idea, BUT … Championship games are tired and unnecessary. Ditching them makes the regular season MORE meaningful Replace them with a CFP first round, and then it becomes a 12-team playoff - that’s not awful

I'm just a simple guy with simple thoughts ... If someone is a full-time undergraduate student in good academic standing with a full credit load, like any other regular student, then fine ... eligible to play college sports. Anything else ... no.

Bad Bunny halftime show … dude nailed the spike at the end Seriously, as anyone who has ever spiked a football knows, if you’re off by the slightest bit, that thing can go anywhere That had the potential to go very, VERY wrong in an all-time Football In the Groin sort of way

To everyone complaining about how bad and boring this Super Bowl was, I’d like to introduce you to most of the first 30ish of these things. The Super Bowl didn’t start getting consistently good until 2000.

Ha ha, very funny ... With ABC getting the game next year, ESPN will start Super Bowl LXI pregame show tonight ... The SVP SportsCenter is broadcasting outside in front of SoFi Stadium, and it's followed by a Super Bowl Live show ... for next year Always, be promoting ... ALWAYS, Be Promoting

LOVE the McEnroe brothers, but 1) their voices sound EXACTLY alike, and after 5 hours seemed more tired than Alcaraz and Zverev 2) Finally through the 4th set of this Djokovic-Sinner classic ... having a pro's pro like Chris Fowler on the call raises the event and moment so much

You want to know who some of the best fans in the world are? The sports media types who stayed through all of Alcaraz-Zverev - it’s why they got into this business in the first place.

If this isn’t the best sporting event we’ll see all year … Carlos Alcaraz and Sascha Zverev for this five-hour-plus Australian Open semifinal Thank you

The Hall of Fame criteria for all things should be simple. If you have to make an argument why someone should be in a Hall of Fame, the answer is no.

That just sucks. It's amazing how fast high-end tennis can turn on one wrong step. Novak Djokovic is in the Australian Open Semifinals without winning a set in either of his last two matches. (It's why being in otherworldly shape is everything ... just stay out there)

Seriously, if six months ago you told a million people that they had to bet their right legs on Indiana football winning the national title OR Bill Belichick making the Pro Football Hall of Fame on the first ballot, 999,999 (Curt Cignetti the lone outlier) would’ve picked ….

Aaron Rodgers sure believed in body autonomy on that tackling attempt

I'm old enough to remember five hours ago when teams that got a first round bye in the College Football Playoff couldn't play because, you know, rusty, and we needed to overhaul the entire system (There is no excuse for that first half other than Miami, Ohio State)

The Alabama schedule "gauntlet" - and remembering it lost to Florida State, Wisconsin was bad, and ... Bama COULD beat IU Georgia - see SEC Championship Vandy - lost bowl Missouri - lost bowl Tennessee - lost bowl South Carolina, EIU, Auburn - no bowl LSU - lost bowl Oklahoma - lost bowl (I know)

There is no better bowl tradition than the winning head coach of the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl getting a bucket of intelligence analysis and warfighter support dumped on him It's what bowl season is all about

I get what Miami is doing, and as we saw last night, one play can change everything, but on the flip side of this game plan, if your D is playing THAT well, tell Carson Beck to let it rip. Miami is going Iowa, and leaving itself wide open to have this game stolen away.

Has it really been only nine days since the College Football Playoff final rankings came out?! Oddly enough, this would've been the easiest cut-and-dry four-team CFP ever - Indiana vs Texas Tech, Ohio State vs Georgia, and zero serious controversy whatsoever.

Would be the funniest thing in the history of the world if Lane Kiffin, after praying on it, left for the Michigan job

Why the CFP Committee Got It Wrong on Alabama, Notre Dame and Miami collegefootballnews.com/college-foot...

It is sort of hilarious/sad that so many 5-7 teams can't field a bowl team because there aren't enough COLLEGE FOOTBALL players around ... and as we speak, every other college student in America is studying for finals (or should be)

I am guessing here, trying to read how this committee rolls It's been telling us from jump that it likes Notre Dame WAY more than Miami (ND 10, Miami 18 in first CFP) It flips back to the previous week with Notre Dame 9, Alabama 10, and whatever happens with BYU doesn't matter

THESE ARE NOT MY RANKINGS. I'm GUESSING the CFP told us last week what they're going to do, and the insulation will come from Bama & ND flipping back 1 OSU/IU 2 Georgia 3 Texas Tech 4 OSU/IU 5 Oregon 6 Ole Miss 7 Texas A&M 8 Oklahoma 9 Notre Dame 10 Alabama 11-seed Virginia 12-seed Tulane

Bottom line, this should be the College Football Playoff top 12 RIGHT NOW had it done this right from the start (keeping this within its own pattern) 1 Ohio State 2 Indiana 3 Oregon 4 Georgia 5 Ole Miss 6 Texas A&M 7 Texas Tech 8 Oklahoma 9 Miami 10 Notre Dame 11 Alabama 12 BYU

I’m the “respect the results” head-to-head guy, but DEAR LORD … the Miami win over Notre Dame thing has gotten out of hand. No one seems to remember this game IT WAS AUGUST. Miami won at home on a late field goal for a 27-24 win It’s not like it was a blowout vs Florida State

Seriously, Ohio State, it's low rent to want to plant the flag on the Michigan Stadium sacred and iconic M Just trespass later and have sex on it like everyone else

Virginia Tech vs Virginia Prediction: Can the Cavaliers Get to the ACC Championship? collegefootballnews.com/college-foot...

How does 9-3 Texas get into the College Football Playoff? Three of these six things have to happen: Oklahoma loses to LSU, BYU loses to UCF, Miami loses to Pitt, Alabama loses to Auburn, Michigan loses to Ohio State, Notre Dame loses to Stanford. That isn't THAT insane

I'm normally with those who do the "If we had scheduled (insert Cream Puff Tech here) instead of (insert National Title Powerhouse here) ..." thing, but not with 9-3 Texas If Texas was College Football Playoff good, it loses to a tough opener to Ohio State ... and beats Florida

Alabama fans ... ROOT HARD AGAINST BYU Yes, the CFP doesn't "punish" conference championship losers, but if Bama gets to the SEC title game at No. 10, and loses, and BYU beats No. 5 Texas Tech, Bama gets pushed to the 11, and is out.

Hands down, the BEST tradition in college football is at Iowa, where before every fourth quarter, the sick kids scream, "THROW THE DAMN BALL!!!" You're not human if that doesn't make you tear up a little bit

If these Terry Crews RAM ads don't mark the lowest point in the history of this great country, they're making a hard push for the honor

Oh I ain't sayin’ Lane Kiffin is or isn’t leaving Ole Miss. All I'm saying is that he could go to LSU, sold dope or stole your grandmother's pension checks and none of us would have minded. But not coaching his team through the CFP (if he doesn’t), man that's un-American.

Best guess on the FINAL College Football Playoff rankings (remember, the CFP doesn't punish conference championship losses AND it rewards wins) 1 OSU/IU 2 Texas Tech 3 Alabama 4 OSU/IU 5 Texas A&M 6 Georgia 7 Ole Miss 8 Oregon 9 Oklahoma 10 Notre Dame 11 Virginia 12 North Texas

I've given up the love to the College Football Playoff committee over the first few weeks. It mailed in this latest Top 25. It turned off its collective brain.

Iowa is better than the bottom nine teams in the College Football Playoff. Its sin is that it lost two close, tough games to Oregon and USC (It was intellectually lazy by the CFP to drop the Hawkeyes out of the top 25 just because they lost to USC)

Georgia Tech still at 16 ... CFP committee ... bubby ... Tell me you didn't watch the game against a Boston College team that doesn't have an FBS win this season without telling me ... #Collegefootball #CollegeFootballPlayoff

I've been bullish on Notre Dame from jump after the 0-2 start. BUT ... Explain how it deserves to be in the CFP over BYU if the Cougars end up 11-2 with two losses to the now No. 5 team, and with a win over No. 12 Utah?

What I've learned over the last week and a half ... I'm actually shocked that I don't consume a single second of ESPN programming other than college football and basketball games, and if I remember, SVP after MNF. That's really it. (I NEVER had the channel off in the 1990s)

2014 mock College Football Playoff session in Grapevine before it all began. (We played roles of the real committee) I’ll ride with my side any day of the week - and argue that it would be the Dream Team CFP committee

The Luke Fickell era begins 1-0

Nice job, Oregon. You just made all those sick kids you waved to super sad.

Ladies and gentlemen, your Indiana Hoosiers

Greatest ... catch ... ever ...

America, welcome to Double-Digit Home Dog week ... Boston College +10.5 vs SMU, hard no, but ... Penn State +14.5 vs Indiana Marshall +13.5 vs USM Purdue +29.5 hanging in there ATS vs Ohio State There's only one left, but I can't ... Wisconsin +10.5 vs Washington

The Fumble the Ball Through the End Zone Touchback that gives the possession back to the other side continues to be the worst rule in all of sports

The "Ryan Fitzplastic" line from the State Farm ad is funnier and more entertaining than anything that has ever come from the Amazon Prime pregame/halftime/postgame shows

Not sure why so many are going SO hard against Notre Dame CFP ranking, especially compared to Texas Learn how the CFP rolls. ND lost to great teams by 4 points - Irish could EASILY be 8-0. Texas lost to Florida, who got thumped by Miami. Irish beat USC, all 6 wins by double digits (And ND is GOOD)

Technically, the 5 Best Wins of the 2025 season so far (according to the CFP) 1. FSU over Bama 2. Bama over Georgia 3. Georgia over Ole Miss 4. Arizona State over Texas Tech 5. Indiana over Oregon

Nothing stops. The College Football Playoff will be ... 12 USF at 5 Texas Tech or A&M/Bama 11 Notre Dame at 6 Georgia 10 Miami at 7 Oregon 9 Ole Miss at 8 Louisville 4 SEC Runner-Up or Big 12 Champ 3 Big Ten Runner-Up (IU or OSU) 2 SEC Champ 1 Big Ten Champ