After a weekend full of heavyweight matchups, the latest polls indicate that several teams appeared to work themselves squarely into the College Football Playoff picture, while others are starting to fade into the abyss.  Louisville vaulted into the top five of both the Week 4 Associated Press and the Amway Coaches polls, following a monster 63-20 victory over Florida State, while Michigan State leads a Big Ten surge in the top 11 of both rankings. On the ...

Will your team make the college football playoff? Unlike most media sites, Bleacher Report doesn't give you a yes or no answer. Instead, we use analytics and a proprietary algorithm as a substitute for committee rankings to assign teams probabilities to make the playoff. Each week, we'll highlight the most important talking points from the previous weekend's action and how those results impact our algorithm for playoff probability. The table shows the results, and you can find ...

They don't make basketball big men like they used to. At least that's how it seems when you consider many NBA teams have gone away from playing a traditional center most of the time. Gone are the days of dominant back-to-the-basket players like Patrick Ewing, Shaquille O'Neal and Yao Ming—guys who were in there to protect the rim and flush it away when the ball gets dumped inside. Those players still exist, just not in as ...

It's Week 4 of the college football season, and two high-profile head coaches are coaching for their jobs. Against each other. Les Miles, a two-time SEC champion (2007 and 2011) and one-time national champion (2007), will take his LSU Tigers into Jordan-Hare Stadium on Saturday afternoon to take on 2013 SEC champion and the offensive coordinator of the 2010 national champion Auburn Tigers, Gus Malzahn.  Is it "loser go home," with the head coach who falls immediately hitting ...

Three games into the 2016 season, Louisville Cardinals quarterback Lamar Jackson has earned a practically permanent spot on Bleacher Report's All-Week team. Several big-name talents and previous standout performers join the sophomore on the list following the third Saturday, which featured a few career-best outings. The list highlights some of the top producers at each position or unit around the college football world. Each matchup involving a Football Bowl Subdivision program was considered, and losing a game ...

Statements were made on Saturday, and movements were made on Sunday. But where would the Week 4 college football rankings settle? There was no shortage of directions for Associated Press and USA Today Amway Coaches Poll voters to take their ballots in. After yet another wild week of action, which featured among it a Top Five team allowing the most points in program history, there was sure to be movement and lack of consensus throughout. Where did the polls ...

You can't ask much more from college football than what fans got Saturday. There were countless matchups between the nation's top teams. There was a Heisman Trophy hopeful torching a rival. There was controversy. There were wild comebacks and even wilder finishes. There was more intrigue than one day should contain. And the Associated Press poll looks different because of it. We broke down the latest poll, provided Bleacher Report's rankings and analyzed the week in college football.   ...

Rankings across college football didn't drastically change between Week 2 and Week 3. After Saturday's full slate of excellent matchups and shocking results, however, the Amway coaches poll sure looked a whole lot different heading into Week 4 than it did a day ago.  Below, we'll break down the coaches and Bleacher Report polls and take a look back at a wild Saturday in college football.           Analysis The coaches poll was always likely to undergo a ...

It was a survive-and-advance weekend for several SEC teams on Saturday, as numerous ranked teams found themselves in early-season battles. There were four conference matchups on the Week 3 slate, and each game was pretty tight. No. 1 Alabama pulled out a wild 48-43 win over over No. 19 Mississippi, while No. 16 Georgia won 28-27 at Missouri and No. 20 LSU held on for 23-20 win over Mississippi State. No. 17 Texas A&M had the ...

An exciting 2016 football season rolls into the second half of September as action heats up on fields across America. While the largest national spotlight lands on NFL and FBS competition, we keep a close eye on key high school developments each weekend at Bleacher Report. College football prospects continue to put their skills on display at the prep level, validating established scholarship offers and proving worthy of increased consideration. Our latest update includes record-breaking performances ...