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Our Guide To The College Football Playoff Semifinals

For just the second time in seven seasons, the College Football Playoff includes three teams that didn’t qualify the previous season. Given that four programs at the Football Bowl Subdivision level account for 66 percent of all-time bids, this year’s playoff offers a palate cleanser for fans desperate for new blood. That half of the […]

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Can Alabama Still Win The Title? Can Tua Still Win The Heisman?

As Alabama marched to another ho-hum blowout of an overmatched SEC team Saturday, perhaps the most unfortunate moment of the college football season was looming. Crimson Tide star quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered a season-ending hip injury in the second quarter, and those on the scene described a postgame mood in solemn shock. Tributes to Tagovailoa’s […]

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Most College Football Dreams Have Yet To Be Crushed

Today, we launched our college football predictions for the 2017 season, and there weren’t too many surprises at the top: Alabama and Clemson are the leading favorites to make the four-team College Football Playoff (so what else is new?), followed by Oklahoma and Washington, three Big Ten teams and Georgia. What’s perhaps most notable at […]

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Most College Football Dreams Have Yet To Be Crushed

Today, we launched our college football predictions for the 2017 season, and there weren’t too many surprises at the top: Alabama and Clemson are the leading favorites to make the four-team College Football Playoff (so what else is new?), followed by Oklahoma and Washington, three Big Ten teams and Georgia. What’s perhaps most notable at […]

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