NEW YORK — The sounds coming outside of the Ohio State locker room at 8:25 p.m. after defeating No. 4 Kentucky 85-65 were boisterous and booming. These Buckeyes needed a win like this. The sounds surrounding the North Carolina locker room a little less than three hours prior, on the other side of Madison Square … Read more
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Are you not entertained? No, you’re probably not. Four College Football Playoff first-round games, four outcomes by at least two scores. Two of those were outright blowouts (in State College and Columbus), a third was a dud made closer with two late touchdowns (in South Bend) and a fourth in Austin featured … Read more
After the College Football Playoff began on Friday with No. 7 Notre Dame handling No. 10 Indiana, Saturday gives us an entire day of action with three games wrapping up the first round of the 12-team format. Penn State took care of business in Happy Valley to start the day, using two early pick-sixes to … Read more
The No. 8 seed Ohio State Buckeyes will try to avenge a loss to Michigan from their regular-season finale when they host the No. 9 seed Tennessee Vols in the first round of the College Football Playoff on Saturday night. Ohio State had only lost one game prior to its setback against the Wolverines, which … Read more
Nico Iamaleava and the Tennessee Volunteers will play Ohio State during the first round of the College Football Playoffs, here’s how to watch. (Johnnie Izquierdo/Getty Images) The regular season of college football is done and we’ve entered bowl game and playoff season now, baby! This weekend will see several major matchups during the first round … Read more
We are done screaming at each other over which teams do and don’t deserve a spot in the College Football Playoff. That time is gone. There’s no more need for hypotheticals, whether sensible or not, because it’s time to determine some winners on the field. The first round of the first 12-team College Football Playoff … Read more
Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer Donovan Jackson, the left guard-cum-left tackle for Ohio State, had begun to answer a question about the shuffling parts along the Buckeyes’ offensive line when he stopped himself and decided that chronology would reinforce the point he was trying to make. “We’ll start at the beginning,” Jackson … Read more