#BCS Championship Game

The TCU Horned Frogs are hoping to make history on Monday night as they try to pull off one of the biggest upsets in NCAAF National Championship Game history. Here are five other teams that beat the odds in college football's title game. When Texas Christian runs out onto the field against Georgia on Monday night to compete for college football's…

Live updates from the College Football Playoff semifinal game: No. 2 Michigan (13-0) vs. No. 3 TCU (12-1) at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl. The best thing to happen to Michigan during the first half of the 2022 Vrbo Fiesta Bowl happened on the final play. Kicker Jake Moody set a Michigan and Fiesta Bowl record with a 59-yard field goal to end the half. The…

Florida State, looking to take the next step towards winning a national title, with a game against the Oklahoma Sooners being that first move. A plot point that now is occurring for the fourth time since 2000 and multiple times over the course of the series' history, FSU and Oklahoma have met on the football field seven times overall with the…

They have been in this situation more than a half dozen times since the first year of the BCS (1998), and the odds are low it works out if history is any guide. Here is a look at past years Ohio State went into the last weekend of the season hoping the cards come out in their favor to keep their national championship hopes going through the…

In the way it ought to be every year, the champions of the Big Ten conference, the Michigan State Spartans, go up against the champions of the Pac-12, the Stanford Cardinal, in the latest edition of the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day in Pasadena. Stanford just won the Rose Bowl last year, its fourth straight bowl cover. Michigan State, meanwhile, is…

Following an offseason that again delivered a taste of conference realignment (USC and UCLA to the Big Ten in the future) and typical college football controversy (Nick Saban and Jimbo Fisher going at it over recruiting), time has come to concentrate on what's actually going to happen on the field throughout the 2022 season. There's no better way…

We are down to a Magnificent Seven: The seven teams with a realistic chance of advancing to the ninth College Football Playoff. The group is made up of the four remaining unbeatens, the only two one-loss teams left... and LSU. These seven also include the reigning national champions, a program aiming to make its second straight CFP after missing…

No. 2 Ohio State meets No. 3 Michigan at Ohio Stadium on Saturday in a clash of 11-0 teams. The Big Ten championship, College Football Playoff, Heisman Trophy and bragging rights in the greatest rivalry in college sports are among the stakes in Columbus. "One of the beauties of this thing is there are no second chances," New York Times bestselling…

The College Football Playoff and the Bowl Championship Series before it made No. 1 vs. No. 2 rather routine in the postseason. Before all that, back in the old bowl system, everything needed to fall into place just right so No. 1 could play No. 2 for a national title. Then the BCS-style postseason was built to create that outcome, which was a good…

Two weeks ago, Weekend Predictions was surging toward a fifth winning season in five in picking games against the spread. By Monday night, I was desperately hoping the Ravens would beat the Saints by at least a field goal so I could avoid my first-ever winless week. I cleared that low bar, at least, but terrible back-to-back weeks have dragged my…

The College Football Playoff and the Bowl Championship Series before it made No. 1 vs. No. 2 rather routine in the postseason. Before all that, back in the old bowl system, everything needed to fall into place just right so No. 1 could play No. 2 for a national title. Then the BCS-style postseason was built to create that outcome, which was a good…

The Heisman Trophy is given yearly to "the outstanding player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity." The first Heisman Trophy winner came in 1935 when it was awarded to Jay Berwanger, a halfback from the University of Chicago. . Here, we'll look at schools with the most Heisman trophy winners. 1944 | Les Horvath,…

Date: Monday, Dec. 30 | Time: 8 p.m. ET Location: Hard Rock Stadium - Miami Gardens, Florida [65326] Probable (3): DE Jabari Zuniga (ankle), WR Freddie Swain (knee), LB Amari Burney (knee) Questionable (1): DL Marlon Dunlap (undisclosed) Out for season (5): QB Feleipe Franks (ankle), CB C.J. McWilliams (Achilles), LB David Reese (Achilles), LB…

When: 11:00 a.m. Saturday at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin Records: Texas (1-0 overall, 0-0 Big 12); Alabama (1-0 overall, 0-0 SEC) Last meeting: Alabama defeated Texas 37-21 on Jan. 7, 2010, in the 2010 BCS Championship Game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. TV: FOX This game will be the first meeting between Alabama and…