Which team will be the surprise team next season? ESPN's Bill Connelly, the creator of the SP+ rankings, a college football rating system that estimates a team's future performance, shared his prediction. He believes Bill Belichick 's North Carolina Tar Heels will be the surprise team.

The 11 programs that tasted the College Football Playoff but came up short in 2024 are already yearning for a return trip. For some -- such as Oregon and Georgia -- merely getting

Quarterback Carson Beck made one of the biggest moves of the offseason in college football when he left the Georgia Bulldogs, where he’d been a two-year starter, to transfer to the Miami Hurricanes. Despite the splash that his transfer made,

One of those teams is the South Carolina Gamecocks. They finished the 2024 season with a record of 9-4, their highest number of wins since 2017. South Carolina was among the first teams left out of the College Football Playoff, finishing ranked No. 15 in the final CFP standings.

Automatic bids to the College Football Playoff in 2024 equated to automatic losses. Following the conclusion of the quarterfinal round of the initial 12-team playoff, all four of the teams that ...

NIL and the transfer portal have changed the game, but there is still a lot that works even if more reinvention is coming.

Week 1 of the 2025 college football season features a loaded slate, including LSU at Clemson, Notre Dame at Miami and Alabama at Florida State, among others. LSU-Clemson could be a top-five matchup, as could the biggest headliner: Manning and Texas visiting Ohio State in a matchup of the 2024 national champion and our early 2025 favorite.

In or out? A verdict on which of the College Football Playoff qualifiers will be back in the bracket next season.

The first 12-team Playoff had a lot of great moments. It could also use some tweaks. In the short term, leaders are unlikely to make major changes to the format for the 2025 season. The bigger stuff is more likely to come in 2026, when the new contracts kick in and the SEC and Big Ten basically get to do whatever they want.

The start time for the Green Bay Packers' wild-card playoff game against the Philadelphia Eagles is set. The seventh-seeded Packers (11-6) will play the second-seeded Eagles (14-3) at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field. It's the second of three ...

The Lady Vols lost a third straight game, falling to No. 2 South Carolina on Monday as coach Kim Caldwell returned one week after having her son.

It will follow the Denver Broncos-Buffalo Bills playoff game that kicks off the day. The Eagles remain a 4.5-point favorite over the Packers, according to BetMGM. That, however, could still change ...