If both teams are unable to play a semifinal, the game will be declared no contest and the winner of the other semifinal will be national champion.
Author: Dan Wolken, USA TODAY
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For college football fans, the plot will feel less like fiction and more like an inevitability.
Oklahoma confirms Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables as next head coach
Oklahoma has hired Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables as its next coach. Venables replaces Lincoln Riley, who left for USC.
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After watching Georgia’s no-show against Alabama in the SEC title game, does the playoff committee have the guts to tell the Bulldogs they blew it?
SEC championship: No. 2 Alabama thumps No. 1 Georgia 41-24, eliminates any question about playoff qualification
The same team that needed a near-miracle just a week ago to come from behind against Auburn blew the doors off the nation’s best defense.
Opinion: New Arthur Ashe documentary reveals how tennis icon transformed activism in America
“Citizen Ashe” establishes a through line from Ashe to the ways in which Black athletes are using their prominence to advocate for social justice.
College Football Playoff rankings winners and losers: Six teams still in contention
Georgia is in, regardless of the SEC championship game result. After that, Michigan, Alabama and Cincinnati still have work to do to earn a berth.
Opinion: Brian Kelly’s move from Notre Dame to LSU shows college football has a real problem on its hands
LSU pulling Brian Kelly out of Notre Dame one-upped USC’s hiring of Lincoln Riley in a manner that should be shocking for college football.
Brian Kelly leaving Notre Dame to be next head football coach at LSU
LSU made a big splash with its coaching hire, luring Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly to Baton Rouge as the replacement for Ed Orgeron.