College Football Playoff

The 12-team format for the College Football Playoff reportedly will have no limit on the number of participants from a conference.

The celebration was at once familiar and unique. The confetti cannons sent a crimson and white shower into the air and Alabama players ran to the sideline to grab their championship hats and T-shirts.

From small-town Ohio kid to Louisiana Legend, Joe Burrow capped his record-breaking, Heisman-winning season by bringing a national championship to LSU.

Oklahoma is in the College Football Playoff for the fourth time, but has yet to win a game. This time around the Sooners get No. 1 LSU in the semifinal. It marks the third consecutive year the Sooners face an SEC team. Oklahoma and LSU have split two previous meetings: The Sooners won the 1950 Sugar Bowl and the Tigers…

The top-ranked Crimson Tide and No. 2 Tigers both had double-digit victories in their semifinal games Saturday, setting up what has quickly become an annual postseason meeting. They will meet in the College Football Playoff for the fourth consecutive year, the third time in the championship game. And the winner this time will become the first 15-0 FBS champion. Alabama-Clemson...

Three new voices will work ESPN’s Monday night games this NFL season: play-by-play announcer Joe Tessitore, analysts Jason Witten and Booger McFarland.

The Cleveland Browns ended weeks of speculation by selecting Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield with the first pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. The 6-foot-1 senior is the fourth quarterback the Browns have selected in the first round since 2007, and the first quarterback the team has taken first overall since Kentucky’s Tim Couch in 1999.

Baker Mayfield took a unique road to the Heisman Trophy, a long and winding climb from walk-on to one of the most accomplished players to ever play college football. The brash, flag-planting Sooners star became the sixth Oklahoma player to the win Heisman Saturday night in one of the most lopsided votes in the 83-year history of the award.

The road to college football’s next champion is becoming a little clearer as the field is set for the College Football Playoff.

Penn State’s wild comeback win over Wisconsin in the Big Ten championship was not enough.

Penn State got bullied a bit Saturday, but never gave up its lunch money.

No. 2 Alabama won its fourth national title in the last seven seasons, outlasting the dynamic play of Deshaun Watson and No. 1 Clemson in a 45-40 victory Monday night in the College Football Playoff championship game.
The Crimson Tide (14-1) became the second team in college football’s poll era, dating back to 1936, to win four titles in seven seasons.