Notre Dame has been an independent in college football for decades, earning $14 million for reaching the semifinals of the College Football Playoff and $12 million starting in 2026, despite the increasing trend of mega-conferences.

Urban Meyer, the third-winningest coach in Division I history who led Ohio State to a national championship, three Big Ten Conference titles and seven wins over Michigan during a seven-year tenure as head coach,

A GRIP ON SPORTS • A winter’s day. In a deep and dark January. The walls built against the freshly fallen shroud of snow will break down a little tonight. Thanks to the joyful melody of a college football playoff game feature two programs that have sunk like rocks in big games the past decade or so.

For the first time in 17 years, Notre Dame and Penn State are set to face off on a football field. This time, there's a lot on the line, as the 7-seed Fighting Irish will play the 6-seed Nittany Lions in the Orange Bowl,

Ex-Ohio State coach Urban Meyer, who won three national titles, including one for the Buckeyes, has been voted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

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The path to Monday’s college football championship game has not been an easy one for either Notre Dame or Ohio State. For the Fighting Irish, troubles began on Sept. 7, when they suffered a 16-14 loss to Northern Illinois.

(AP) — It was some combination of religion, a grudge involving Knute Rockne and maybe the ... by reaching the semifinals of the College Football Playoff — the way Thursday’s opponent Penn ...

Florida officials had discussed inducting Meyer to open the 2022 season, with the Gators hosting Utah and Meyer expected to be coaching nearby with the Jacksonville Jaguars. But Meyer’s NFL tenure ended in scandal after 13 games in 2021, so the timing would have been somewhat awkward.

If college football could have scripted a Big Game finish to its season, and it has been trying mightily to do so forever, it would have the Big Game it has, Notre Dame against Ohio State, the

A couple of years ago, colleague Andy Nesbitt, writing for For The Win, authored an article arguing that college football’s national championship game being on Monday night is one of the dumbest things in sports.

Two of the smartest people in college basketball offered solutions for the highly flawed, deeply subjective College Football Playoff selection process.