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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The 11 College Football Playoff games averaged 15.6 million viewers according to Nielsen, as audiences increased during each round.

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

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

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 ...

The Eagles and Chiefs will meet in Super Bowl LIX, and this is how the path to the 2025 Super Bowl unfolded: 1. Kansas City Chiefs beat Texans 23-14 in divisional round, beat Bills 32-29 in AFC Championship Game. 2. Buffalo Bills beat Broncos 31-7 in wild ...

That led to what will be a noticeable change in the Tennessee high school football playoffs. The TSSAA Board of Control on Thursday approved a proposal that will alter first-round playoff pods and ...

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.