Pat Forde
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Cover Story: Fishing with Travis Hunter. He's not just a two-way star -- make it three. The Heisman Trophy winner, cornerback and wide receiver also has elite angling skills.
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Why Travis Hunter Is the Biggest Fish (and Fisherman) in the Pond
As the Heisman Trophy winner embarks on his pro career, it is clear heâs all of the above in a multiple choice test.
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Three bowl games today. Lock in with the Bowl Dash â vibe checks, commonalities, picks.
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Forde-Yard Dash: Vibe Check for Every Bowl Game and CFP First-Round Matchups
From player opt-outs to full-team bailouts, this seasonâs bowl slate delivers peak unpredictability plus plenty of bizarre matchups and postseason absurdity.
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And a column on the outsized outcry over letting the G6 participate in the playoff. In normal years, 50 percent of FBS is fighting for 8 percent of the bracket. And yet that's too much for some people who conveniently forget all the other blowouts.
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Think Blowouts Make the College Football Playoff a Joke? It May Be Selective Memory
Tulane and James Madisonâs admission to the 12-team bracketâand subsequent eliminationâwere unfairly scrutinized while past playoff results were ignored.
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Two from the weekend ... First: Life after Lane began with a proud, positive scene at Ole Miss, as it hosted the first campus playoff game in the Deep South. "This is the dream team we've been waiting for."
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Life After Lane Kiffin Begins With CFP Statement for Ole Miss, Pete Golding
In a historic playoff game in the Deep South, the Rebels and their fans turn the page with a decisive win over Tulane.
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Monday pod: Winners, losers and outrage from the CFP first round. Looking ahead at the second round. The ND-USC series demise. Where Michigan's search stands. Other bowls of interest. A guy stuck in a chimney.
@bryandfischer.bsky.social
& Geno
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CFP 1st Round Recap, G6 Outrage, ND to Play BYU, Michigan Coaching Latest
Podcast Episode ¡ Others Receiving Votes ¡ 12/22/2025 ¡ 1h
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News story: Notre Dame adds BYU series, sealing the fate of its longstanding rivalry with USC. It's over for now, with hope of resuming sometime in the future.
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Notre Dame Football Fills Future Schedule Signaling End to Historic USC Series
The Fighting Irish will play BYU the next two seasons with other marquee opponents already on the books until 2030.
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Two from the weekend ... First: Life after Lane began with a proud, positive scene at Ole Miss, as it hosted the first campus playoff game in the Deep South. "This is the dream team we've been waiting for."
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Life After Lane Kiffin Begins With CFP Statement for Ole Miss, Pete Golding
In a historic playoff game in the Deep South, the Rebels and their fans turn the page with a decisive win over Tulane.
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Column: While people overreact to a small segment of the College Football Playoff, keep in mind that blowouts happen in all playoffs, at all levels. Including to power-conference teams in the CFP.
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Think Blowouts Make the College Football Playoff a Joke? It May Be Selective Memory
Tulane and James Madisonâs admission to the 12-team bracketâand subsequent eliminationâwere unfairly scrutinized while past playoff results were ignored.
https://bit.ly/4ayohIB
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Column: While people overreact to a small segment of the College Football Playoff, keep in mind that blowouts happen in all playoffs, at all levels. Including to power-conference teams in the CFP.
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Think Blowouts Make the College Football Playoff a Joke? It May Be Selective Memory
Tulane and James Madisonâs admission to the 12-team bracketâand subsequent eliminationâwere unfairly scrutinized while past playoff results were ignored.
https://bit.ly/4ayohIB
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Column: The first on campus playoff game in the Deep South was a moment in the sun for Ole Miss. Faulknerian family drama wasnât going to ruin it. Life after Lane is off to a great start.
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Life After Lane Kiffin Begins With CFP Statement for Ole Miss, Pete Golding
In a historic playoff game in the Deep South, the Rebels and their fans turn the page with a decisive win over Tulane.
https://bit.ly/3Nb3XD7
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Column: The first on campus playoff game in the Deep South was a moment in the sun for Ole Miss. Faulknerian family drama wasnât going to ruin it. Life after Lane is off to a great start.
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Life After Lane Kiffin Begins With CFP Statement for Ole Miss, Pete Golding
In a historic playoff game in the Deep South, the Rebels and their fans turn the page with a decisive win over Tulane.
https://bit.ly/3Nb3XD7
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Story on Mississippi trying to replicate the Michigan basketball run of 1989. Can Pete Golding join Steve Fisher in the Emergency Coach Hall of Fame?
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Ole Missâs CFP Coaching Chaos Has a Precedent ⌠and a Title
Before Pete Golding, there was Steve Fisher, who led the Michigan basketball team to the 1989 national championship as an interim head coach.
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College Football Playoff pressure gauge: a dandy dozen who REALLY need to show up and perform.
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Ranking the 12 People Feeling the Most Pressure in the College Football Playoff
Coaches, commissioners, quarterbacks and two entire schools have a lot riding on this playoff run that could end in gloryâor failure.
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Why did Susie Wiles let 'er rip in Vanity Fair?
@joelanderson.bsky.social
and I discuss on a new Press Box:
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Western Michigan playing with the expected verve of a MAC team that has been sent to a warm-weather bowl locale. Crushing Kennesaw State on the teal turf at present. Bowl Dash:
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Forde-Yard Dash: Vibe Check for Every Bowl Game and CFP First-Round Matchups
From player opt-outs to full-team bailouts, this seasonâs bowl slate delivers peak unpredictability plus plenty of bizarre matchups and postseason absurdity.
https://bit.ly/4pzgNcI
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College Football Playoff pressure gauge: a dandy dozen who REALLY need to show up and perform.
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Ranking the 12 People Feeling the Most Pressure in the College Football Playoff
Coaches, commissioners, quarterbacks and two entire schools have a lot riding on this playoff run that could end in gloryâor failure.
https://bit.ly/4pHOh8T
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đ¨đ New pod: Diving into the first-round games. Who has the most pressure? Who will win? Michigan mess/search. Coach Drink stirs the drink. Joel Klatt gets it wrong. And the most annoying sentence this time of year. âŚ
@bryandfischer.bsky.social
and Gene Woj.
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Sports Podcast ¡ Updated Weekly ¡ Sports Illustrated's Pat Forde and Bryan Fischer are joined by former longtime College GameDay reporter Gene Wojciechowski to bring you a weekly rundown of anything a...
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Column: Where does the most pressure lie in the College Football Playoff? On the shoulders of these coaches, players and administrators.
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Ranking the 12 People Feeling the Most Pressure in the College Football Playoff
Coaches, commissioners, quarterbacks and two entire schools have a lot riding on this playoff run that could end in gloryâor failure.
https://bit.ly/4pHOh8T
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Column: Where does the most pressure lie in the College Football Playoff? On the shoulders of these coaches, players and administrators.
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Ranking the 12 People Feeling the Most Pressure in the College Football Playoff
Coaches, commissioners, quarterbacks and two entire schools have a lot riding on this playoff run that could end in gloryâor failure.
https://bit.ly/4pHOh8T
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đ¨đ New pod: Diving into the first-round games. Who has the most pressure? Who will win? Michigan mess/search. Coach Drink stirs the drink. Joel Klatt gets it wrong. And the most annoying sentence this time of year. âŚ
@bryandfischer.bsky.social
and Gene Woj.
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Others Receiving Votes
Sports Podcast ¡ Updated Weekly ¡ Sports Illustrated's Pat Forde and Bryan Fischer are joined by former longtime College GameDay reporter Gene Wojciechowski to bring you a weekly rundown of anything a...
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New story: You think Ole Miss is navigating chaos by trying to win a championship with a brand new coach? It's pretty tame compared to what Michigan basketball went through in 1989. A look at the wildest title ride of them all.
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Ole Missâs CFP Coaching Chaos Has a Precedent ⌠and a Title
Before Pete Golding, there was Steve Fisher, who led the Michigan basketball team to the 1989 national championship as an interim head coach.
https://bit.ly/4qcR0a6
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New story: You think Ole Miss is navigating chaos by trying to win a championship with a brand new coach? It's pretty tame compared to what Michigan basketball went through in 1989. A look at the wildest title ride of them all.
bit.ly/4qcR0a6
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Ole Missâs CFP Coaching Chaos Has a Precedent ⌠and a Title
Before Pete Golding, there was Steve Fisher, who led the Michigan basketball team to the 1989 national championship as an interim head coach.
https://bit.ly/4qcR0a6
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Bowl doubleheader today: Cure Bowl at 5 pm ET (Old Dominion vs. South Florida); 68 Ventures Bowl at 8 (Louisiana vs. Delaware). Line up, sign up and re-enlist.
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Forde-Yard Dash: Vibe Check for Every Bowl Game and CFP First-Round Matchups
From player opt-outs to full-team bailouts, this seasonâs bowl slate delivers peak unpredictability plus plenty of bizarre matchups and postseason absurdity.
https://bit.ly/4pzgNcI
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Bowl games reactivate tonight with the Salute to Veterans Bowl, also known as the Battle of East Alabama, with Troy playing Jax State in Montgomery. Full Bowl Dash here (1-1 overall, 1-0 vs spread so far).
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Forde-Yard Dash: Vibe Check for Every Bowl Game and CFP First-Round Matchups
From player opt-outs to full-team bailouts, this seasonâs bowl slate delivers peak unpredictability plus plenty of bizarre matchups and postseason absurdity.
https://bit.ly/4pzgNcI
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ACC going with a combo platter football schedule in 2026 â 12 teams playing nine league games, five playing eight.
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Catch-22 was written in 1961, and yet this passage feels alarmingly current:
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Playoffs clinched. Eleven wins in a row. Closing in on the No. 1 seed. Bo was brilliant. Pass rush never rests. 15-2 until weâre not.
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How we voted on the Heisman, below. Here, how Fernando Mendoza went from the No. 134 QB in the recruiting class of 2022 to No. 1.
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Nice work here pointing out the egregiously bad call that decided the Celebration Bowl, and the context of it all for Prairie View. Those guys deserved better.
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Bowl games start today -- first the Celebration and then the LA Bowl. Thus, the Bowl Dash has been released. Get every pick and every vibe check here; check back throughout the coming weeks.
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Forde-Yard Dash: Vibe Check for Every Bowl Game and CFP First-Round Matchups
From player opt-outs to full-team bailouts, this seasonâs bowl slate delivers peak unpredictability plus plenty of bizarre matchups and postseason absurdity.
https://bit.ly/4pzgNcI
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Forde-Yard Dash, Bowl Edition: Vibe checks, commonalities and picks for 36 bowls and four first-round playoff games. The Dash never opts out.
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Forde-Yard Dash: Vibe Check for Every Bowl Game and CFP First-Round Matchups
From player opt-outs to full-team bailouts, this seasonâs bowl slate delivers peak unpredictability plus plenty of bizarre matchups and postseason absurdity.
https://bit.ly/4pzgNcI
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Sherrone Moore was charged with one felony and two misdemeanors Friday, two days after being fired as the football coach at Michigan. The program is a tawdry mess.
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Sherrone Moore Firing Proves Wolverinesâ Michigan Man Reputation Is Falling Apart
Michigan footballâs latest scandalâa head coach fired for misconductâunderscores how far the program has drifted in the last five years amid highs on the field.
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Catch-22 was written in 1961, and yet this passage feels alarmingly current:
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Forde-Yard Dash, Bowl Edition: Vibe checks, commonalities and picks for 36 bowls and four first-round playoff games. The Dash never opts out.
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Forde-Yard Dash: Vibe Check for Every Bowl Game and CFP First-Round Matchups
From player opt-outs to full-team bailouts, this seasonâs bowl slate delivers peak unpredictability plus plenty of bizarre matchups and postseason absurdity.
https://bit.ly/4pzgNcI
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đđ¨New pod. We address the Michigan debacle and also have a guest: Ivan Maisel, CFP selection committee member and book author. He tells us about the process and what happened with the ND bookstore. Plus other stuff.
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Sherrone Moore Fired & Ivan Maisel Joins The Show
Podcast Episode ¡ Others Receiving Votes ¡ 12/11/2025 ¡ 1h
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sherrone-moore-fired-ivan-maisel-joins-the-show/id1834741833?i=1000740869179
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đđ¨New pod. We address the Michigan debacle and also have a guest: Ivan Maisel, CFP selection committee member and book author. He tells us about the process and what happened with the ND bookstore. Plus other stuff.
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Sherrone Moore Fired & Ivan Maisel Joins The Show
Podcast Episode ¡ Others Receiving Votes ¡ 12/11/2025 ¡ 1h
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sherrone-moore-fired-ivan-maisel-joins-the-show/id1834741833?i=1000740869179
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Column: Notre Dame is distributing blame for its CFP snub to a variety of sources. Time to be like Clark Lea and take some internal ownership of not quite getting there.
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Notre Dameâs College Football Playoff Blame Game Is Missing One Critical Member
The Fighting Irish have spent the last 48 hours pointing the finger at everyone else and neglecting a key participant in their CFP exclusionâthemselves.
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Column: Notre Dame is distributing blame for its CFP snub to a variety of sources. Time to be like Clark Lea and take some internal ownership of not quite getting there.
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Notre Dameâs College Football Playoff Blame Game Is Missing One Critical Member
The Fighting Irish have spent the last 48 hours pointing the finger at everyone else and neglecting a key participant in their CFP exclusionâthemselves.
https://bit.ly/48EnjYA
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50 will have to wait. Florida State wins, 1-0.
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Column: Stanford plays FSU tonight for the women's soccer NCAA championship. If the Cardinal win, it extends the most remarkable streak in college sports -- 50 straight seasons with at least one national title. On the school that hangs banners every year.
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The Mind-Boggling History Behind an Almost 50-Year Run of NCAA Titles
Stanford has won at least one team championship in every season since 1976, more than doubling the second-longest streak of 19 years by USC.
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Column: Stanford plays FSU tonight for the women's soccer NCAA championship. If the Cardinal win, it extends the most remarkable streak in college sports -- 50 straight seasons with at least one national title. On the school that hangs banners every year.
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The Mind-Boggling History Behind an Almost 50-Year Run of NCAA Titles
Stanford has won at least one team championship in every season since 1976, more than doubling the second-longest streak of 19 years by USC.
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On a calm, rational Day After Selection Sunday, a couple weekend links: The column on the bracket, the damage from the weekly TV show, the tortured resume comparisons and an SEC championship game that might as well have not been played.
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How Alabamaâs College Football Playoff Gift Exposed the Committeeâs Worst Flaws
The Tide were rewarded after a blowout loss in the SEC title game, even as BYUâs Big 12 defeat reshaped the rankings and pushed Miami past Notre Dame.
https://bit.ly/44goFY5
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Column: A good team had to go, that's the hard truth. But Alabama's free pass after being smoked in the SEC title game -- the meeting that could have been an email -- doesn't make sense. Neither does the tortured process of comparing ND and Miami.
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How Alabamaâs College Football Playoff Gift Exposed the Committeeâs Worst Flaws
The Tide were rewarded after a blowout loss in the SEC title game, even as BYUâs Big 12 defeat reshaped the rankings and pushed Miami past Notre Dame.
https://bit.ly/44goFY5
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đđ¨New pod. Reaction to the playoff bracket, with
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and @genowoj. Get it right or wrong? Winners and losers. Best matchups. Picking a national champion.
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The CFP Field is Officially SET!
Podcast Episode ¡ Others Receiving Votes ¡ 12/07/2025 ¡ 49m
https://tinyurl.com/5awrbsjc
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Column: A good team had to go, that's the hard truth. But Alabama's free pass after being smoked in the SEC title game -- the meeting that could have been an email -- doesn't make sense. Neither does the tortured process of comparing ND and Miami.
bit.ly/44goFY5
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How Alabamaâs College Football Playoff Gift Exposed the Committeeâs Worst Flaws
The Tide were rewarded after a blowout loss in the SEC title game, even as BYUâs Big 12 defeat reshaped the rankings and pushed Miami past Notre Dame.
https://bit.ly/44goFY5
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New: Quick-turn College Football Playoff bracket picks, from
@bryandfischer.bsky.social
and myself.
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2025 College Football Playoff Bracket Revealed: SI Experts Predict Every Matchup
Pat Forde and Bryan Fischer make their picks for all four rounds and 11 games including picking which of the 12 teams will win the national championship.
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Top of the hour: the College Football Playoff bracket drops. Last brackets from @BryanDFischer and I before the real one comes out.
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Projecting College Football Playoff Bracket: What to Know About the Bubble Debate
Alabama, Notre Dame and Miami each have a case for the final at-large bid, while ACC champion Duke could be left out of the field in favor of a second G5 team.
https://bit.ly/48zrvJ6
16 days ago
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Also:
@bryandfischer.bsky.social
r and I submit our last playoff brackets before the real reveal Sunday:
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Projecting College Football Playoff Bracket: What to Know About the Bubble Debate
Alabama, Notre Dame and Miami each have a case for the final at-large bid, while ACC champion Duke could be left out of the field in favor of a second G5 team.
https://bit.ly/48zrvJ6
17 days ago
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Column: Indiana is No. 1, the Big Ten champion and will be the top playoff seed. Fernando Mendoza might have won the Heisman. All of that is impossible. Curtis Cignetti is authoring the most incredible story in college football history.
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Indiana Caps Unthinkable Rise From Losingest Program to Top CFP Seed
Heisman hopeful Fernando Mendoza delivers on Curt Cignettiâs bold vision as Hoosiers win first Big Ten title in 80 years.
https://bit.ly/48oInDB
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