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Post-Week 9 Bowl Projections for the 2024 College Football Season

Here's where the postseason puzzle stands as the calendar turns to November.

Sports Illustrated · Oct 29, 2024

Ranking Group of 5 College Football Playoff Contenders

Ahead of the selection committee’s first ranking next week, here are 10 mid-major teams in the hunt for a spot in the 12-team field.

Sports Illustrated · Oct 28, 2024

Forde-Yard Dash: Each Conference’s Ad for the College Football Playoff

The first CFP rankings reveal will happen on election night, so The Dash created how the conferences might attempt to swing hearts and minds in their favor—or against the opposition.

Sports Illustrated · Oct 28, 2024

College Football Week 6 Takeaways: Upsets Abound for AP Top 25 Teams

Four of the top 11 teams lost to unranked teams in a weekend that did not look exciting on paper coming in.

Sports Illustrated · Oct 6, 2024

Big Ten, SEC Take Next Step Toward Control Over College Football

The conferences can further shape the playoff as they see fit and plot ways to further gerrymander the selection process in their favor.

Sports Illustrated · Oct 1, 2024

Forde-Yard Dash: Undefeated Service Academies and October Story Lines to Watch

Two monster weekends of games, cross-country travel effects and two soaring teams that are trying to shake up the College Football Playoff.

Sports Illustrated · Oct 1, 2024

Mountain West and Pac-12: The Battle for Conference teams

Why Does the Pac-12 Need to Expand & add more schools? Conference realignment continues to stir confusion, especially for those outside the West. Why didn't the two remaining Pac-12 schools merge with the Mountain West? And why are there nearly $150 ...

USA Today Sports Media Group · Sep 26, 2024

Forde-Yard Dash: Georgia-Alabama Rivalry Adds Next Chapter After Nick Saban’s Retirement

Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart won only one game against the Crimson Tide, but now takes the mantle as the game’s greatest active coach.

Sports Illustrated · Sep 24, 2024

Forde-Yard Dash: How the Group of 5 Power Struggle Should Play Out

The Pac-12, American Athletic and Mountain West conferences are all making moves in the latest realignment shuffle.

Sports Illustrated · Sep 23, 2024

6 photos of Glen Powell as Oregon’s quarterback in an Eli Manning-inspired Hulu show

Glen Powell looks good in those Oregon colors!

USA Today Sports Media Group · Sep 5, 2024