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Our Updated College Football Playoff Odds For Week 11

Clemson is sitting pretty at the top spot. Alabama leapfrogged Ohio State to be No. 2. While LSU and TCU slipped, Iowa and Stanford made big leaps. So go the latest College Football Playoff rankings. Were the selection committee to form a playoff this week, its top four would be Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State and […]

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Our Updated College Football Playoff Odds For Week 11

Clemson is sitting pretty at the top spot. Alabama leapfrogged Ohio State to be No. 2. While LSU and TCU slipped, Iowa and Stanford made big leaps. So go the latest College Football Playoff rankings. Were the selection committee to form a playoff this week, its top four would be Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State and […]

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FiveThirtyEight’s Final College Football Playoff Forecast

We ran the FiveThirtyEight college football playoff model in the early hours of Sunday, after Ohio State and Florida State won their conference championship games. It found there is some actual drama in how the teams might be ranked by the selection committee later Sunday. Ohio State’s 59-0 win over Wisconsin in the Big Ten […]

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FiveThirtyEight’s Final College Football Playoff Forecast

We ran the FiveThirtyEight college football playoff model in the early hours of Sunday, after Ohio State and Florida State won their conference championship games. It found there is some actual drama in how the teams might be ranked by the selection committee later Sunday. Ohio State’s 59-0 win over Wisconsin in the Big Ten […]

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Why UAB’s Football Team Couldn’t Even Last 20 Years

The University of Alabama at Birmingham knew its football team was going to have to battle for survival from the start. In 1996, its first year of Division I-A ball, the team’s slogan was unusually defensive: “We’re here to stay,” the omnipresent banners and billboards around Birmingham read. Less than 20 years later, the team […]

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