The Alabama Crimson Tide and Clemson Tigers are only hours away from facing off for the second year in a row to determine the College Football Playoff national champion.
Plenty of talent will be on display Monday night in Tampa, Florida; Clemson and Alabama will likely see multiple players selected in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft.
The four stars below will be among the most pivotal in the national title game, and how they ...
The Alabama Crimson Tide return to the College Football Playoff National Championship Game with perfection in mind. The Clemson Tigers hit the big stage with the intent to accomplish two goals in one swipe—avenge last year’s single loss and win their second national title in school history.
The two programs will field a combined 16 players who received first- to fourth-round draft grades, per CBS Sports rankings. Safety Eddie Jackson received a mid-round rank, but he’ll sit ...
TAMPA, Fla. — It goes against everything they believe and preach and fight for, day after day.
At Clemson, football is all about the team, not the individual. It's all about earning it, not deserving it.
Yet there's room for one sweet exception of selfishness and entitlement to those rules when it comes to Deshaun Watson.
"If anyone deserves anything," offensive coordinator Tony Elliott says, "I think Deshaun deserves to win it all."
The irony of that feel-good sentiment ...
College football is back in no-man's land when it comes to the national championship.
Five years ago, Alabama's rematch with LSU in the BCS title game helped spark the change to the four-team College Football Playoff, in part to make it tougher for such a thing to occur. LSU won the regular-season game 9-6 in overtime, but Alabama took the contest that mattered most, 21-0.
This season we're getting a different kind of rematch—one that most prefer, ...
A rematch for the ages will take place at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on Monday night between top-ranked Alabama and No. 2 Clemson—one year after the Tide topped the Tigers for the national title in Glendale, Arizona.
Will history repeat itself, or will Clemson get the revenge it has wanted for a full season?
Analysts Adam Kramer, Barrett Sallee, Christopher Walsh, Greg Couch and Michael Felder break down the College Football Playoff National Championship in ...
If you polled most college basketball writers and fans, the ACC would probably get the nod for best league in America.
But the advanced numbers at KenPom.com say the Big 12 is college basketball's best league for the fourth straight season. This week, for the first time all year, the top two teams in our poll come from the Big 12.
The ACC does have the most teams in this week's poll (six) and is a victim ...
No. 20 Purdue 66, No. 13 Wisconsin 55
There are no more undefeated teams in Big Ten play.
The No. 20 Purdue Boilermakers flexed their muscle in a battle of title contenders with the No. 13 Wisconsin Badgers at Mackey Arena on Sunday night.
Purdue's frontcourt duo of Caleb Swanigan and Isaac Haas dominated in the paint against a Wisconsin team that failed to get anything going on the offensive end of the court.
Swanigan, who is one of ...
For the second time in as many years, the Alabama Crimson Tide and Clemson Tigers will meet to determine a national champion.
Both teams cruised in their College Football Playoff semifinals. Alabama allowed 194 yards in a 24-7 Peach Bowl victory over the Washington Huskies, while Clemson shut out the Ohio State Buckeyes 31-0 in the Fiesta Bowl.
The Tigers will be looking to avenge last season's 45-40 defeat to the Crimson Tide in the title game.
When: ...
There is plenty to say about a rematch—and one with a championship at stake, no less—before the Clemson Tigers collide on Monday with the Alabama Crimson Tide in the College Football Playoff National Championship.
Rest assured that the players and coaches have done most of the talking in the buildup to the game. Given its status as a rematch, much of Clemson's discourse has centered on revenge. For Alabama, it is focused on the lessons learned ...
More than a month after completing his third losing season in four years, Sonny Dykes is out at Cal.
Cal confirmed the move Sunday after Bruce Feldman of Fox Sports first reported the decision. The Bears went 5-7 in 2016 but closed their season with an impressive 36-10 win over UCLA, and Dykes finished his Cal tenure with a 19-30 record.
Cal also announced that offensive coordinator Jake Spavital will serve as interim head coach. Cal athletic ...