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College Football Playoff to Keep Current Model
The College Football Playoff (CFP) Management Committee had a decision with a due date of Friday, January 23, 2026, concerning the future of their postseason, and that decision has been made... for now. This committee includes all 10 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Commissioners as well as the University of Notre Dame's Director of Athletics. With representation from the entire FBS trying to find the best fit for the future, the committee determined that they will continue th

Dan Tortora
Jan 232 min read
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Indiana Hoosiers Win 1st Football Title in Undefeated Season
Despite each offense finding a way to a new set of downs to open the night, the defenses were the stars of the intro to the 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship, forcing each offense to punt away their first possession. Miami's second drive would end on just three plays, with two runs and an incomplete pass, before punting the ball back to Indiana. Unlike the Hurricanes, the Hoosiers would gain a first down on their second drive, actually four of them, and woul

Dan Tortora
Jan 197 min read
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Hoosiers Fly Past Ducks & Into the CFP Finale
With the Miami Hurricanes having already locked up half of the representation for the 2025-26 College Football Playoff National Championship as a result of their 31-27 victory over the Ole Miss Rebels in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl, all eyes and ears focused down south here in Atlanta, Georgia, for a rematch of the Oregon Ducks and Indiana Hoosiers in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. The last time these two teams met, they ran balanced offenses, with Indiana passing the ball 31 times and

Dan Tortora
Jan 98 min read
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Silenced at Hard Rock, Tech falls to Oregon
The Capital One Orange Bowl kicked off a trio of College Football Playoff Quarterfinal games as the eyes and ears of fans converged on Miami, Florida, at Hard Rock Stadium for the Oregon Ducks versus the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Oregon was the first to score courtesy of a 50-yard field goal off the foot of Atticus Sappington. The Red Raiders would punt the ball away in both of their first-quarter drives, and the Ducks would turn the ball over on downs in between those Red Raid

Dan Tortora
Jan 15 min read
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The U Thwarts A Buckeye Repeat
Here we are again, Texas. Back together for another chapter of the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic. It is hard to believe it has been almost a full calendar year since the Ohio State Buckeyes' victory over the Texas Longhorns in the College Football Playoff Semifinals, right here in Arlington, Texas. Fast forward to this the 2025-26 college football season and Ohio State is in the Cotton Bowl once more, this time for the College Football Playoff Quarterfinal Round, and against a

Dan Tortora
Dec 317 min read
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Penn State Wins Historic 1st CFB Playoff Game
On a day that brought true football weather to the state of Pennsylvania, a stadium full of onlookers watched history be made as the SMU...

Dan Tortora
Dec 21, 20247 min read
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