The Big 12 champion Sooners fell to No. 4 after not playing in a conference championship game Saturday, where it will face undefeated No. 1 Clemson (13-0, 8-0 ACC), which won the ACC championship Saturday night with a 45-37 win over North Carolina, in the Orange Bowl semifinal...
If you love college football, you can’t look at the semifinal matchups and not get excited about New Year’s Eve. If the idle Sooners had stayed No. 3, they would have played three hours from campus against a higher seed.
While Clemson and Alabama caused hard work choosing between them the penultimate week, the committee widened them when Clemson tacked on a third win over a top-10 team, so that it has beaten the teams ranked No. 8 (Notre Dame), No. 9 (Florida State) and No. 10 (North Carolina).
Argentine midfielder Rodrigo De Paul, whose Valencia have lost back-to-back Champions League fixtures, added: “We will receive Gary Neville in the best possible way and we will do our best to work well with him”.
The College Football Playoff is in its second season as the deciding factor for the NCAA Division I Football Champion. But committee chairman Jeff Long said there was no debate this week.
Embattled world football chief Sepp Blatter’s grip on power faces a new threat after it was alleged that the FBI is investigating the Fifa president’s possible involvement in a $100m bribery scandal.
Then again, college football can always use a break from the annual pecking-order controversy. They have had an outstanding year, and we know there will be a very, very small margin of error – for both teams.
There are only two other entries from the SEC in this week’s rankings with in-state foes Ole Miss at No. 18 andMississippi State at No.21. You can be sure Coach Dabo Swinney has been working on his celebration dance for the conference title game. It’s another test,...
Iowa sits at 12-0 for the season while Michigan State is 11-1 with their lone loss coming at Nebraska by one point. After scoring their 11th consecutive victory, the Tar Heels rose to No. 10, just behind three teams with inferior records: Stanford (10-2), No. 8 Notre Dame (10-2)...