Saturday’s college hoops action saw one of the Naismith College Player of the Year favorites sidelined due to an injury, multiple buzzer-beaters and top-10 teams Duke, Tennessee, Virginia, Kansas and Texas Tech win on the road in conference play. Here are some of our observations and takeaways from the afternoon. Duke escapes Tallahassee with Zion […]
It’s January 10 and the first Heisman Trophy odds for 2019 have already been released by Bovada. While I highly recommend avoiding betting this early on something that will be decided in 11 months, seeing real odds can give college football fans an idea of some of next year’s top contenders. Here are the nine […]
Clemson won the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship, its second national title in three years, but the ACC only had one other team ranked in the final AP Top 25 Poll, so the conference offers an interesting profile for how it stacked up with the rest of the conferences nationally last season. The Big […]
There are only 235 days until the first Saturday of the 2019 college football season, but who’s counting? It’s the first day of the offseason, which means it’s time to look ahead to next season, starting with the biggest games of the opening weekend. Two teams that finished the 2018 season ranked in the top […]
Clemson is the 2018 College Football Playoff national champion for the second time in the last three years and the Tigers are our No. 1 team as we looked ahead to next fall. As we enter the first day of the offseason, here’s our way-too-early preseason top 25 for the 2019 college football season, which […]
Alabama has been synonymous with college football in the last decade and the Crimson Tide’s five national championships since 2009 puts it on the short list of the most dominant dynasties in recent memory across all sports. But on Monday night, No. 2 Clemson handed No. 1 Alabama the school’s most lopsided loss, 44-16, since […]
The 2018 college football season ended how many believed it would when it started in August and that’s with Clemson and Alabama sharing the field in the national championship game. The top two teams in the preseason AP Top 25 poll – No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Clemson – earned the same seeds, respectively, […]
Hours before the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship between No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Clemson, Chairman of the College Football Playoff Board of Managers Mark Keenum released a statement announcing that “it’s way too soon” to expand the College Football Playoff. The College Football Playoff Board of Managers concluded its annual meeting with […]
For the fourth consecutive year and the third time in the national championship game, Alabama and Clemson will meet in the College Football Playoff. Like the 2015 and 2016 seasons, the No. 1-ranked Crimson Tide and No. 2-ranked Tigers will face off as the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in the playoff in some […]
If an eight-team College Football Playoff was in place for the 2018 season, three of the four teams that would have earned the No. 5 through No. 8 seeds in such a hypothetical playoff lost their bowl game this season. On the heels of the College Football Playoff Semifinals that saw two of the biggest […]
Clemson advanced to the College Football Playoff National Championship game for the third time in four seasons after defeating No. 3 Notre Dame 30-3 in the Cotton Bowl on Saturday. The Tigers scored first and they never trailed in the game as freshman quarterback Trevor Lawrence threw for 327 yards and three touchdowns, while Clemson’s […]
Who: No. 2 Clemson (13-0) vs. No. 3 Notre Dame (12-0) What: Cotton Bowl | College Football Playoff Semifinal When: 4 p.m. ET, Saturday, December 29 Where: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas Spread: Clemson -12.5 How to watch: ESPN The first of this season’s College Football Playoff Semifinal games features a pair of undefeated teams that […]
Almost all of the bowl games were officially announced on Sunday, Dec. 2. The College Football Playoff selections took center stage early in the day and the rest of the games were filled out in the late afternoon. Point spreads for almost all of the games were released on that day as well. The College […]
Former Clemson quarterback Kelly Bryant, who led the Tigers to the 2017 College Football Playoff as their starter, announced his commitment to Missouri on Tuesday night after also considering Auburn, Arkansas, Mississippi State and North Carolina. Stadium writers Andy Wittry and Chinmay Vaidya discussed what this means for Bryant, Missouri and Head Coach Barry Odom […]
After Sunday’s announcement of the 2018 College Football Playoff field, Alabama and Clemson opened as double-digit favorites over Oklahoma and Notre Dame, respectively, according to Westgate. The Crimson Tide is a 14-point favorite and the Tigers are 11.5-point favorites, meaning this year’s College Football Playoff Semifinals feature two of the three biggest favorites in the […]
