Beginning this weekend and through the next few weeks, 12 of this season’s best college football teams will be competing for the National Championship. Those important games will offer fans a glimpse at some NFL stars of tomorrow. It is worth noting that Notre Dame cornerback Benjamin Morrison and Ohio State offensive tackle Josh Simmons … Read more
Jake Trotter, ESPN Senior WriterDec 20, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Jake Trotter covers college football for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2011. Before that, he worked at The Oklahoman, Austin American-Statesman and Middletown (Ohio) Journal newspapers. You can follow him @Jake_Trotter. KURTIS ROURKE’S GO-TO shirt around the Indiana football facility reads, “BRING YOUR EH … Read more
Rob Rang NFL Draft Analyst For fans of the holidays and NFL scouts, alike, it really is the best time of the year. The 46 bowl games this winter provide talent evaluators and college football fans with quite the smorgasbord of tasty matchups. And, of course, this year is different from the past, with the … Read more
Who will win the first 12-team College Football Playoff? Six teams received at least one vote in our survey of 30 college football writers and editors at The Athletic, a big change from 10 years of postseason tournaments in which only four teams were in the field. Though Oregon got a majority of the votes, plenty … Read more
After trading 2016 NFL MVP Matt Ryan to the Indianapolis Colts prior to the 2022 season, the Atlanta Falcons struggled to find a suitable replacement for the next two years. Marcus Mariota, Desmond Ridder and Taylor Heinicke were all given the chance to grab hold of the starting quarterback job but failed to impress during … Read more
Dave Wilson, ESPN Staff WriterDec 20, 2024, 07:21 AM ET Close Dave Wilson is a college football reporter. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun. AUSTIN, Texas — When the first 12-team College Football Playoff bracket was revealed, Cade Klubnik took one look at the screen, rubbed … Read more
Geoff Schwartz FOX Sports Betting Analyst As bowl season continues, the College Football Playoff is set to begin. Unlike with much of bowl season, there will be no players sitting out of these games as they look ahead to the NFL or to enter the transfer portal. Instead, for the first time in the history … Read more
A popular NFL betting strategy is to make predictions on divisional games since there are often NFL betting trends you can identify with these matchups. You can do that with your Week 16 NFL bets since several division rivalries will unfold on Sunday. One of the marquee matchups on the Week 16 NFL schedule is … Read more
The inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff (CFP) is officially here. Once seen as a complicated process that included math equations and plenty of disagreements, college football’s postseason structure has changed a lot over the past three decades. It started in 1997 when college football’s six biggest conferences joined forces to create the Bowl Championship Series, … Read more
Week 16 of the 2024 NFL season began with a “Thursday Night Football” 180-degree turnaround with the Los Angeles Chargers outscoring the Denver Broncos 21-6 in the second half of a 34-27 comeback victory over their AFC West rivals. That game snapped Los Angeles’ 10-game losing streak when trailing by more than 10 points, per … Read more