Arlington, Tex.—Here in the first paragraph is everything you need to know about Ohio State’s 42-20 win over Oregon in Monday night’s championship game in the first College Football Playoff: It wasn’t that close. No sir. Not even remotely that close. Thanks to the one-two punch of quarterback Cardale Jones and running back Ezekial Elliott, […]

Dallas–It was the day before the 2009 SEC Championship game and Florida’s team was at the Georgia Dome for an afternoon walk through. Tim Brando and I were at the Dome for a rehearsal of our CBS pre-game show when we ran into Urban Meyer, the Gators’ head coach. He was cordial but obviously distracted […]

Put some new batteries in the remote control. Make an extra run to the grocery store for snacks. Go ahead and ask your wife for forgiveness because she is not going to understand. Bowl season starts Saturday with five games. Can you name them? (New Orleans, New Mexico, Las Vegas, Famous Idaho Potato, Camelia). It […]

Tonight the 12-person selection committee for the new College Football Playoff will release its first Top 25 rankings. Those rankings will begin what promises to be a very intense debate over which four teams make the playoffs. Before those rankings are released and this debate begins please let me offer this piece of advice: Relax. […]

Jameis Winston, the reigning Heisman Trophy winner, is an embarrassment to himself, his family, his teammates, his coaches, his university and everybody who cares about college football. And yes, that includes the media who cover it. When Winston, who had already been part of an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct, was caught shoplifting and then […]

The NCAA Division I Board of Directors voted Thursday to allow the 65 schools in the top five conferences to have more autonomy when it comes to making rules. So now what? Let’s start here. The world as we know it in college athletics is not coming to an end. But it is going to […]

I don’t know Devonte Fields, other than the fact that he is a great football player for Texas Christian University. He has already been chosen as the preseason Big 12 defensive player of the year. He was the conference’s defensive player of the year as a freshman in 2012. Fields missed most of the 2013 […]

I remember the first time more than 500 members of the press showed up for the circus (and I mean that affectionately) that is SEC Football Media Days. I don’t remember the year but I do remember thinking: “This is ridiculous. It can’t possibly get bigger than this.” Again, as usual, I was very, very wrong. Here’s how […]