AI-assisted summary Notre Dame has declined to participate in a bowl game after being left out of the College Football Playoff. The team was passed over for the CFP in favor of Miami, a team that defeated the Irish during the season. Let me see if I’ve got this straight. The team that gets more help, more deference from the ...
Two of the best teams in the country met over the weekend and it certainly won’t be the last time we see Michigan and Michigan State clash. Right now, it feels like the road to the Frozen Four in Las Vegas runs through the Great Lakes state and it would be no surprise to see these two bitter rivals battle ...
Every week for the duration of the 2025 regular season, USA TODAY Sports will provide timely updates to the NFL’s ever-evolving playoff picture − typically starting Sunday afternoon and then moving forward for the remainder of the week (through Monday’s and Thursday’s games or Saturday’s, if applicable. And, when the holidays roll around, we’ll be watching then, too). What just happened? What does it ...
The NCAA volleyball tournament field has been narrowed to 16 teams. Fifteen of the top 16 seeds advanced over the first and second rounds and will begin Sweet 16 play on Thursday, Dec. 11 or Friday, Dec. 12. Cal Poly produced the lone upset, taking down No. 4 seed USC in the Lexington regional. The Mustangs will face Kentucky, the ...
She was back at Lambeau Field on Sunday, Dec. 7, but on the other side of the rivalry. And Biles had another fit to show off on the field ahead of Owens’ game for the Bears against the Packers. Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history with 41 medals between world championships and Olympics, sported an all-gray look with a ...
James Madison is in. Notre Dame is out. The College Football Playoff saved the biggest drama for the final rankings, bumping the Sun Belt champions into the tournament over ACC champion Duke and Miami instead of the Fighting Irish for the final at-large spot. In the end, the selection committee leaned on the Hurricanes’ head-to-head win against Notre Dame to ...
Mike Macdonald called on Rashid Shaheed to provide a spark for the Seahawks in Sunday’s game against the Falcons. Shaheed delivered with a 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown that broke open the game. The Seahawks are leaning on complementary football while discovering different ways to win. ATLANTA – With his Seattle Seahawks clearly sputtering for the first half of ...
The football seemingly bounced the Kansas City Chiefs’ way all of last season as they won 11 one-score games. The football is continuously bouncing in the opposite direction this year. Kansas City’s 20-10 loss to the Houston Texans was emblematic of their season. Whether it’s a 43-yard Harrison Butker field goal that doinked off the upright, a football that slipped ...
The CFP committee watched Georgia trample Alabama and then pretended it never happened. CFP committee deploys chicanery to reach the bracket destination it desired. Alabama and Miami in, Notre Dame out. That’s fine, but process so messy. I swear the SEC championship game happened. More than 77,000 fans attended it. I covered it. Millions more watched on TV as Georgia ...
Notre Dame football was controversially left out of the College Football Playoff bracket on Sunday, Dec. 7. In turn, the Fighting Irish’s season is over. Notre Dame, despite finishing with a 10-2 record, four wins above bowl eligibility, announced it is declining a bowl invitation a few hours after Alabama and Miami took the final two at-large bids over the ...