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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yahoo Top 10: It was a Survival Saturday for some CFP contenders, smooth sailing for others  Yahoo Sports Source link

The two most common reasons to walk away from a proposed business deal are that a) you no longer want to be in that business/deal or b) when negotiations inevitably resume, you believe you can get more favorable terms. Last week, the ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 — or “The Alliance” as they call themselves — bailed on a proposed expansion of the College Football Playoff from four teams to 12. Seven conferences — most notably the SEC — and Notre Dame were in favor of the proposal. Since… Source link

Subscribe to The College Football Enquirer We love coach fights here at College Football Enquirer. Dan Wetzel and SI’s Pat Forde react to Michigan suspending Juwan Howard after the fracas with Wisconsin coaches and players. Is a five-game suspension long enough? The College Football Playoff announced expansion will not happen until at least 2026. How did we arrive at this disappointing decision and will the SEC begin to flex back at The Alliance? Pat and Dan also break down a rather large… Source link

INDIANAPOLIS – Bob Bowlsby, the longtime Big 12 commissioner, turned 70 on Monday. He has been involved in college athletics in some way since wrestling at Minnesota State in the mid-70s. With time served in six different decades of college athletics, the twilight of Bowlsby’s career has come with a refreshing bluntness.  In a business where talking doesn’t always equate with saying anything, Bowlsby has entered the Jim Boeheim phase of his front-facing career — he’s not afraid to… Source link

The chants that have become the soundtrack of college football will be heard on repeat in the upcoming weeks. In Indianapolis, the inexplicable site of the College Football Playoff title game on Jan. 10, the vocal flex of Southern football superiority will reverberate in the heart of Big Ten country. With No. 3 Georgia and No. 1 Alabama set to square off in an SEC title game rematch, we’re left wondering if there’s a way for the sport to provide a surprise ending — both in result and,… Source link

The Telegraph Karen Carney deletes her Twitter account after receiving barrage of sexist abuse Former England international Karen Carney has deleted her Twitter account having received a barrage of sexist abuse from social media users following Leeds United’s criticism of her punditry via their official account. The Premier League club “completely condemned” the abuse on Wednesday, although they have not deleted their post, which was aimed in response to comments Carney made while… Source link

For the fifth time in the seven-year era of the College Football Playoff, Alabama will compete for the national championship. The undefeated Crimson Tide, the CFP’s No. 1 seed, made relatively easy work of No. 4 seed Notre Dame in the Arlington, Texas, edition of the Rose Bowl. Alabama stormed out to a quick 14-0 lead on its first two drives and never looked back in a 31-14 victory. Like most Alabama victories this season, Friday night’s game featured a heavy dose of DeVonta Smith. The… Source link

MMA Weekly Video: YouTuber Jake Paul attacks Conor McGregor teammate Dillon Danis on the street YouTube sensation Jake Paul continued to escalate his feud with Conor McGregor and his teammates on Tuesday with a drive-by attack on Dillon Danis. Danis is a teammate of McGregor’s, who fights for Bellator MMA. He was famously attacked by Khabib Nurmagomedov after the UFC lightweight champion submitted McGregor at UFC 229. Paul has two professional boxing victories to his credit, a win over a… Source link

Texas A&M’s College Football Playoff hopes are alive and well. The Aggies, ranked No. 5 in the country, overcame a slew of self-inflicted mistakes and staged a fourth-quarter comeback to beat Auburn 31-20 on the road on Saturday. A&M dominated the first half but led just 14-10 at the break and later fell behind 20-14 entering the fourth quarter. That’s when a mistake by Auburn flipped A&M’s fortunes. After converting on a third-and-long play, the Aggies had a first down at the 20-yard… Source link