#college-football-playoff

#college-football-playoff

Social media erupted Thursday night in response to what many considered to be a missed call at the end of the Ole Miss-Miami College Football Playoff game. Late in the fourth quarter, the Hurricanes held a 31-27 lead over the Rebels and were just seconds away from earning a spot in the national championship. On the final play of the game, Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss threw the ball in the end zone for a last-resort hail mary.

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For ages, certainly as long as we have been in the College Football Playoff age, people have politely asked and desperately pleaded, when were some new bloods finally going to replace the blue bloods on college football's biggest postseason stage? Well, folks, the age of new is officially the age of now. The promise of the four-team CFP versus the two-team Bowl Championship Series title game was to create more room

In Chambliss' first season at Ole Miss, the former Division II star has led the No. 6 Rebels to a 13-1 record, the best season in school history. The Rebels play No. 10 Miami in Thursday's College Football Playoff semifinal at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN). After taking over for injured starter Austin Simmons in the second game, Chambliss never relinquished the starting job. He completed 66.4% of his passes for 3,660 yards with 21 touchdowns and 3 interceptions this season.

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Adversity brings opportunity and this was an opportunity to make things right. I know that not only was I getting scrutinized, but our head coach was as well. As much respect as I have for him, I had to scratch and claw and find some way to get better. With more time, more reps, more games in general, I got better.

We both worked for months to try to find a solution. Notre Dame was very vocal about the fact that they would play us anytime, anywhere. Jen Cohen, our AD, went back to Notre Dame roughly a couple of weeks ago with a scenario and a proposal that would extend the series for the next two years. We took Notre Dame at their word that they would play us anytime, anywhere.

OXFORD, Miss. -- Trinidad Chambliss ran for two touchdowns and passed for another, and No. 6 Ole Miss looked unfazed by the defection of coach Lane Kiffin, beating No. 17 Tulane 41-10 on Saturday in the first round of the College Football Playoff. Scoring runs of 20 yards by Kewan Lacy and 4 yards by Chambliss gave Ole Miss (12-1) a 14-0 lead before eight minutes had elapsed in the coaching debut of Pete Golding, who was promoted from defensive coordinator after Kiffin left for LSU on Nov. 30.

"God gave us more time with my dad than we thought we would get," Sumrall said in a message posted on social media. "Dad was a fighter. I learned so much from him ... being a man of faith, grit, hard work, attitude, service and more."

NORMAN, Okla. -- Oklahoma coach Brent Venables carried a somber tone. Disappointed. Embarrassed. An unsmiling Venables had plenty of words to describe a disastrous 2024 football season in the minutes after last December's Armed Forces Bowl. It had ended, mercifully, in a 21-20 defeat to Navy that afternoon. The Sooners had dropped six of the final eight games in their eagerly anticipated debut SEC campaign.

We're identifying each player in the playoff who could be selected in the upcoming draft and which round they'd fit best right now, giving brief breakdowns on prospects graded in the first three rounds. These players' draft stocks aren't etched in stone; they can all rise or fall during playoff action and the predraft process. But this is where things stand right now and a good picture of which teams could be sending a bunch of top talent to the early rounds of the draft.

Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer reaffirmed his commitment to the program ahead of the College Football Playoff, saying Sunday that he has "no interest" in discussing other job opportunities. "I have not spoken and have no interest in speaking with anyone else about any other job," DeBoer said in a statement on X released through Yea Alabama, the school's NIL collective. "I am fully committed to this program and look forward to continuing as the head football coach at the University of Alabama."

Bevacqua said the ACC, in the process of promoting football member Miami for College Football Playoff inclusion, also damaged Notre Dame, which lost the season opener to the Hurricanes. Miami made the CFP field as the No. 10 seed, while Notre Dame dropped from No. 9 to No. 11 in the final standings and was left out. The Irish on Sunday declined an invitation to play in the Pop-Tarts Bowl, through an ACC tie-in, and ended their season at 10-2.