Football

12/10/2025 |  Notre Dame AD still upset with ACC and CFP committee, calls for expansion to 16-team playoff field (Associated Press (AP)) Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua thinks there’s a simple solution to politicking for College Football Playoff spots: expansion.
He was still upset Tuesday about the selection committee’s decision to bypass the Fighting Irish from the 12-team playoff field and the public campaigning by the Atlantic Coast Conference to get full-time league member Miami a spot. He then called a 16-team format the perfect number.

12/10/2025 |  Amazon Prime Video averages record 19.39 million viewers for Lions’ victory over Cowboys (Associated Press (AP)) LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Detroit Lions’ 44-30 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Dec. 4 averaged 19.39 million viewers, making it the most-watched “Thursday Night Football” broadcast in Amazon Prime Video’s four seasons streaming those games.
The previous mark for a Thursday game on the streaming service was 17.76 million earlier this season for the Washington Commanders-Green Bay Packers game on Sept. 11.

12/10/2025 |  How Jeremiyah Love's affection for anime shaped his iconic hurdle (CBS Sports) Midway through the third quarter against Northern Illinois in 2024, Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love awakened something in himself. 
Love took a carry from quarterback Riley Leonard and burst through the line at full speed. He saw a Huskies safety careening towards him in the open field. For a moment, Love's mind went blank as his body left the earth. And then, he was running untouched for a touchdown, wondering what he had just done. 

12/10/2025 |  Ranking College Football Playoff paths: Indiana rewarded as top seed, Ohio State faces steep climb to repeat (CBS Sports) The 2025 College Football Playoff is (almost) upon us. With the dust settled on the regular season and the conference championship games, we at least have a bracket to keep us sated until the actual games begin on Dec. 19. 
Even in the relatively limited scope of a 12-team playoff, not all paths are created equally. That is especially true in the straight-seeding era, where the top four teams -- rather than the four highest-ranked conference champions -- earned a first-round bye. 

12/10/2025 |  Ed Orgeron hilariously explains why he'd have no trouble adjusting to the new era of paying players (CBS Sports) Four years after being fired by LSU, Ed Orgeron has not been shy about his desire to get back into coaching.
Plenty has changed in the college football landscape in those years, most notably players being able to get paid via name, image and likeness deals and now through revenue sharing directly from the schools themselves. That's an adjustment every coach has had to make, and some have adapted to the new way of the college football world better than others.