Instead of simply pushing for a limited number of automatic qualifiers in the next version of the College Football Playoff, leaders in the Southeastern Conference are now suggesting they don’t want any at all.
A rematch of last season’s Southeastern Conference championship game finds No. 5 Georgia and No. 10 Texas peaking for a game that could impact this season’s conference race and will be crucial to each team’s College Football Playoff hopes.
Texas returned to the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday, the Atlantic Coast Conference has five teams ranked for the first time this season and two Group of Five conferences are now represented in the Top 25 a month before the playoff bracekt is set. The top five was unchanged.
James Madison of the Sun Belt Conference would represent the Group of Five in the College Football Playoff on a bracket based on The Associated Press Top 25 released Sunday, and Georgia Tech and Texas would be among the 12 teams again.
Alabama wasted little time in finding Nick Saban’s successor, hiring Kalen DeBoer away from national runner-up Washington.
Nick Saban’s coaching reign has come to an end. His dominance over college football, however, will forever linger in lore.
Pete Carroll’s mantra was “always compete,” — it was the title of a book, after all.
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