On a weekend featuring several marquee matchups, the home teams reigned supreme as the SEC division races started to take shape after some surprising results. Texas A&M kept it close until midway through the second half, but Alabama pulled away to win 33-14 while establishing itself as the premier team in the conference. The Crimson Tide will not be without some challengers though, as Auburn looks strong after a 56-3 trouncing of Arkansas and LSU may ...

You never know which moment might affect the national championship picture. Maybe, just maybe, it's a blocked field goal on an October night that shifts the balance of power in college football. Or maybe, in the long run, a blocked field goal on an October night is ultimately insignificant.  Time will tell. What we do know, though, is that this week's Amway Coaches Poll and Bleacher Report rankings have seen some major changes after the results of ...

College football prospects across the country continue to command a national spotlight as they spearhead efforts to charge into state playoffs. The final stretch of regular-season games is underway in most regions, placing added pressure on premier players to deliver dominant performances. Our weekly rundown of these elite efforts includes standouts from the 2017, 2018 and 2019 recruiting classes, representing the foundation of future college football competition. From prolific passers to running backs who ran wild, ...

It took until late October, but we finally got the shocking upset we needed to make the College Football Playoff race a little more interesting.  The Penn State Nittany Lions took down the Ohio State Buckeyes 24-21, thanks to an impressive second-half comeback. With the No. 2 team in the country going down to an unranked opponent, the new rankings should see significant shake-up this week.  Here's a look at how far Ohio State could fall, as ...

Leonard Fournette's 2016 season hasn't gone as planned, but LSU's superstar only needed seven carries Saturday to remind the nation why he's college football's best running back. The junior was a single yard shy of setting the school record on those seven attempts, racing for 249 yards and three touchdowns while carrying the 25th-ranked Tigers to a 38-21 victory over the No. 23 Ole Miss Rebels. Fournette finished the SEC tilt with 284 yards on 16 carries, but ...

It's hard to go unbeaten in college football. Just ask Ohio State and Texas A&M, whose losses thinned the list of FBS teams with perfect records to nine and caused a major shift in the Bleacher Report Top 25. The Bleacher Report poll is voted on by 19 members of our college football staff: writers Greg Couch, Tyler Donohue, Ed Feng, Matt Hayes, David Kenyon, Sanjay Kirpalani, Kerry Miller, Brian Pedersen, David Regimbal, Barrett Sallee, Damon ...

Look ahead of you. You see that white jersey running away from you?  It's Leonard Fournette.  In his first game back in nearly a month, the star back racked up 284 yards and three scores on just 16 carries en route to LSU's 38-21 win over the Ole Miss Rebels.  There's no doubt Ed Orgeron has sparked the Tigers' offense, and LSU looks like a team that could, if the stars align, beat Alabama in its next game.  With ...

In college football, Team Chaos is always lurking. Waiting. Patiently baiting that unsuspecting College Football Playoff contender into a fight for the ages in the hopes of unleashing its chaos into the college football world. Penn State was Team Chaos on Saturday night in Happy Valley. The Nittany Lions stunned second-ranked Ohio State 24-21 by hanging around for the majority of the game, pouncing on a blocked field goal with four minutes, 27 seconds to play and returning it ...

Fans of defense are likely sick to their stomachs after watching the No. 16 Oklahoma Sooners edge the Texas Tech Red Raiders in a 66-59 shootout at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas, that featured a slew of NCAA records.  Not only did the two Big 12 programs combine to post an FBS-record 1,708 total yards, according to CBSSports.com's Jon Solomon, but Red Raiders quarterback Patrick Mahomes II set the NCAA single-game record with 819 yards ...

LSU running back Leonard Fournette announced his return with thunder on Saturday night from Tiger Stadium as he rushed for 284 yards and three touchdowns in a 38-21 win over the No. 23 Ole Miss Rebels. After missing the past three games with an injury, Fournette set a school record for yards in a single game and accounted for more than 55 percent of LSU's offense.  Quarterback Danny Etling added 204 yards through the air as the ...