With the Big 12 desperately hoping to be a two-bid league, two Top 10 programs state their case. Plus, Indiana’s last roadblock and an SEC rivalry dims—for now.

On a sideline of a recent Big Ten football game between visiting Indiana and host Oregon, while Indiana led and Oregon travailed through the waning stages, there stood a 53-year-old man whose role in college football has gone from traditional and important to traditional and even more important.

Under the current CFP rules, 12 teams receive bids, with the five highest-ranked conference champions earning automatic spots. But as conference realignment and playoff expansion reshape the sport, Meyer says what college football truly needs is a clear, consistent path to the playoff, not more teams.

Conference expansion has resulted in leagues going to a one-division format but that could cause tiebreaker chaos for championship games.

In the modern era of the Southeastern Conference, only four times has a coach willingly left one job in the conference to take another. To this day, the incident that stands out in SEC lore occurred in 1998

In the final weekend of October, the Boston College Eagles went on the road to face the then No19-ranked Louisville Cardinals in Kentucky, ultimately losing 24 – 38.

College football’s coaching carousel hit full speed after Week 10, reshaping the landscape across every power league. The firings of Brian Kelly at LSU, James F

College football has always been governed by emotion, not logic. This is what happens when you add chaos to it.

For college football, the impacts of realignment are worsening the impacts of private travel gone amok. What once were regional leagues with rivals a mere 50 or 100 miles away now feature frequent matchups like the Southeastern Conference's Florida vs. Texas game.