Football

7/26/2024 |  Three key numbers to know about every SEC before 2024 college football season (CBS Sports) There are many important team and individual numbers that jump out when looking at the recent history of the SEC Conference. The first number is six. The SEC won six of the 10 College Football Playoff championships before it expanded (Alabama won three, Georgia won two, and LSU won one). 
Another meaningful number is five. Five of the last nine Heisman trophy winners have come from an SEC school. LSU QB Jayden Daniels became the most recent one last year. 

7/26/2024 |  Big Ten commish Tony Petitti addresses potential playoff expansion, ramifications of House v. NCAA settlement (CBS Sports) INDIANAPOLIS -- The man overseeing the largest conference in FBS history doesn't particularly enjoy projecting that strength. Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti is a Harvard Law school graduate who has shepherded the conference through its largest growth spurt in its storied history.
It was different to see new schools fly in from the West Coast to fill their slots during Big Ten Media Days this week. Those schools -- Oregon, Washington, USC and UCLA -- made forever decisions in the nation's richest league.

7/26/2024 |  Jerry Jones Really Compared Himself to Patrick Mahomes (DEADSPIN) Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones talks a lot.
And when you talk a lot, you’re almost always bound to say something that comes across as rather stupid. 
As Michael Scott once famously said, “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.”

7/25/2024 |  Ohio State players received 'around $20 million' in NIL, believed to be largest amount in college football (CNBC Sports) Ohio State football players received "around $20 million" in name, image and likeness (NIL) money from collectives and brand affiliates this past year, a number believed to be the highest in the sport, Ohio State AD Ross Bjork told Yahoo Sports. Ohio State athletes are required by the school to disclose their agreements within 30 days of receiving NIL compensation, which helps shed light on the total amount of money given to the athletes within the program.

7/24/2024 |  Rose Bowl makes another push to be left out of CFP semifinal rotation in favor of historic New Year's Day date (CBS Sports) The Rose Bowl is seeking to get out of the College Football Playoff semifinal rotation starting in 2026, sources tell CBS Sports' Dennis Dodd. If bowl officials are successful, the Granddaddy of Them All will permanently move to its traditional Jan. 1 date.
"Because we're the only bowl that has the date as part of our brand in the New Year's Six bowls, it's really imperative for us and important for us," Rose Bowl management committee chair Laura Farber told ESPN. "We don't know when there will be a longform agreement. We're hopeful it will be sooner than later, but that depends on when the CFP has everything ready to go."