College Football Playoff Bubble Watch: SEC Strength, Notre Dame's Concern Headline First Rankings
Athlon Sports breaks down the myriad College Football Playoff scenarios and teams on the bubble after the release of the top 25 rankings on Nov. 3.

Athlon Sports breaks down the myriad College Football Playoff scenarios and teams on the bubble after the release of the top 25 rankings on Nov. 3.

The first College Football Playoff ranking of the season was released Tuesday night. Athlon Sports asks readers what issues they may have with the top 12.

It’s Election Day, but it’s also College Football Playoff ranking reveal day, and strong reactions to the ranking would have you believe those are the results determining the future of democracy. On Tuesday night, Rece Davis hosted ESPN’s College Football Playoff rankings show alongside Booger McFarland, Greg McElroy, and Joey Galloway. As the show wore…

The first College Football Playoff rankings are out, and we now have the first look at what this year’s selection committee thinks of the current field. Week 9 presented some big storylines that put some teams on the ropes heading into the first Saturday of November. Ohio State took its second loss of the season […] The post College Football Playoff rankings: Alabama shockingly lands in top 5, Notre Dame at No. 11 appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Athlon Sports ranks every college football team following Week 9 games.

The month of November is here, and on Tuesday we will finally have our first College Football Playoff rankings from the selection committee. When those rankings are out, we will have a better idea of how the committees stacks up some of the teams in the top 12 range. Until then, there are still a […] The post Week 10 College Football Playoff predictions: Ohio State on the ropes, Indiana survives appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Athlon Sports' Steven Lassan projects the College Football Playoff after Week 9.

Week 9 brought another round of upsets in college football, including Ohio State falling to USC. It was a 30-18 loss for Ohio State, their second loss of the year. Meanwhile, other top teams escaped with wins. Miami nearly fell to North Carolina, winning by just three points. Indiana needed overtime again but beat Minnesota […] The post ClutchPoints’ Week 10 2026 College Football Top 25 Power Rankings appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Athlon Sports' Steven Lassan, Tyler Schuster and Kyle Wood predict all 52 college football games for Week 9.

Athlon Sports ranks every college football team following Week 8 games.

Athlon Sports' Steven Lassan projects the College Football Playoff after Week 8.

As the college football season winds down, teams are playing for their College Football Playoff lives each and every week. While some teams rose to the occasion in Week 8 and stayed alive in the race to make the 12-team bracket, others fell by the wayside and now will be looking ahead to next season. […] The post Week 9 College Football Playoff predictions: Texas lives to see another week, Oregon’s season up in flames appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Week 8 of college football saw another week where a top team fell. This week, it was BYU losing to UCF in double overtime, as the team ranked number one in the College Football Power Rankings lost for a third straight week. It is also the third straight week that a team in the AP […] The post ClutchPoints’ Week 9 2026 College Football Top 25 Power Rankings appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Athlon Sports ranks the top 25 teams in college football after Week 8.

ESPN released its 2026 preseason All-America team Thursday, which means college football fans can officially begin arguing about which stars were disrespected before anyone has played a meaningful snap. ESPN also included a much funnier warning label this year while admitting it doesn’t have the best track record on that front. The college football preseason […] The post ESPN’s Preseason All-America Team Comes With A Pretty Brutal Warning About Its Preseason Predictions appeared first on BroBible.

Athlon Sports' Steven Lassan examines the returning production for all 138 teams in '26.

There’s still some work to be done if you’re one of the teams that make it to the Final Four, and while only one of them will walk away with a national championship, it’s hard to be too disappointed in any squad that manages to come that close to a title in the first place. […] The post The 12 College Basketball Teams That Have The Most Final Four Appearances appeared first on BroBible.

Fewer and fewer teams are holding traditional spring games, but they're still out there.

Will Howard is rooting for the Steelers to draft Carnell Tate as the Ohio State WR reveals his former QB's wish for a reunion.

The USC Trojans scored a recruiting coup Wednesday night, landing four-star cornerback Danny Lang, a standout from Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California. Rated as the No. 53 overall player and the No. 7 cornerback nationally in the 2027 class by 247Sports, Lang chose USC over Oregon and Ohio State. At 6-foot and […] The post USC Trojans score big in recruiting, lands 4-star CB over Oregon, Ohio State appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Kirk Barton, a former Ohio State offensive lineman and Buckeye Scoop owner, was sentenced Wednesday to 5 to 7.5 years in a Franklin County court after pleading guilty to one count of aggravated vehicular homicide in the June 2025 crash that killed 24-year-old Ethan Perry of Columbus. A second aggravated vehicular homicide count and two Read more... The post Former Ohio State star, Buckeye Scoop owner Kirk Barton sentenced to prison for fatal drunk driving crash appeared first on Awful Announcing.

Ohio State WR Carnell Tate cites Puka Nacua and Jaxon Smith-Njigba to argue the NFL Combine 40-yard dash is overvalued.

Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders should be pleased with the team's most likely course of action in the upcoming NFL draft. The post Shedeur Sanders Gets Good News After Browns’ Latest Draft Odds Revealed appeared first on Heavy Sports.

Former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith is opening up about why he chose to leave the NFL and join the Buckeyes. Smith was hired by Ohio State in January and recently spoke in a media availability about why he decided to join the team. Arthur Smith said he wanted to come to Ohio State […] The post Arthur Smith opens up on what convinced him to take Ohio State job appeared first on ClutchPoints.
