He still considers the Bowl Championship Series to be “a brilliant mathematical system,” even though it’s remembered today as another lukewarm attempt at improving college football’s ...

Does the College Football Playoff appropriately ... ignored schedule strength. If the playoff featured 14 teams instead of 12 – it might by 2026 – then Alabama would have become the first ...

Who needs committees, automatic qualifiers and debates over whether college ... (2) Alabama 35, (7) Indiana 21: There was ...

There was nothing near that in place for the CFP selection committee when the college football’s playoff expanded to 12 teams last season and chose SMU over Alabama for the final at-large spot ...

Big Ten, SEC will seize control of College Football ... toppling Alabama. The regular season mattered greatly. However, I suspect a tipping point exists where the playoff would get so big it ...

Who needs committees, automatic qualifiers and debates over whether college football's ... in and around the Alabama program last year when Indiana made it into the playoff and the Crimson Tide ...

Well, some within the conference believe the College Football Playoff ... If the playoff featured 14 teams instead of 12 – it might by 2026 – then Alabama would have become the first three ...

Last year, DeBoer led Alabama to its worst record since Saban’s inaugural season in 2007, finishing with a 9-4 record and missing the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff. On "The Paul ...

This time beating out two College Football Playoff teams for the latest four ... Winfield is turning down previous offers from Alabama, Auburn, and another CFP qualifier in Arizona State for ...

Not the death of the Pac-12 (as we knew it), not an expanding College Football Playoff postseason minimizing ... It wasn’t long ago that former Alabama coach Nick Saban was the only coach ...