Alabama football has faced Georgia five times since Kirby Smart left the Crimson Tide to become coach of the Bulldogs. The first four games, Smart couldn’t figure out a way to beat his former boss in Nick Saban. Then Georgia broke through with a 33-18 win over Alabama in the national championship game during the 2021 season. All but one …

Ralph Vacchiano NFC East Reporter Joe Schoen has always known it would take more than a couple of years to completely fix the mess he inherited. And he was never fooled by the New York Giants’ surprise run to the playoffs last season. He knew he would have to be patient. He believes the Giants owners know they have to …

PHILADELPHIA — Jack Driscoll didn’t find out until 11:30 he may be starting at right tackle in place of Lane Johnson. Philadelphia Eagles offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland gave him a call and told him to be ready to go.  That wasn’t a problem for Driscoll, who has been called for emergency duty for Johnson before. This time it was …

Top-ranked Georgia will try to finalize its spot in the College Football Playoff when it faces No. 8 Alabama in the SEC Championship game on Saturday afternoon (4 p.m. ET, CBS). The Bulldogs capped off their third straight undefeated regular season with a 31-23 win over Georgia Tech last week, despite missing three of their top five receivers and a …

The New England Patriots are off to a historically bad start, and at 2-9 have their worst record through 11 games in three decades. On Sunday, New England’s struggles were once again on display for all to see when they lost 10-7 to the New York Giants. There are rumors that head coach Bill Belichick, who is having a season …

A day after playing 20 snaps and being benched in the second quarter, Marcus Peters is no longer with the Las Vegas Raiders. The team cut him on Monday afternoon, The Athletic‘s Vic Tafur reported on X, formerly Twitter. After the game, interim head coach Antonio Pierce said it was a “coaching decision.” He didn’t elaborate much the decision to …

Just like that. The regular season is over. 13 weeks, 800+ games with just championship weekend and bowl season remaining until 2024. A remarkable college football season, from the Pac-12’s swan song to the logjam in the College Football playoff race, is reaching its end. In what will be a lot of players’ final games in college, the top names …

When the NFL realigned into eight four-team divisions to accommodate the arrival of the Houston Texans in 2002, the league adopted new tiebreaking rules for determining playoff teams. The seven postseason participants from each conference are to be seeded as follows: No. 1 seed: Best record in the NFC or AFCNo. 2 seed: Second-best record for a division winnerNo. 3 …

The Week 12 NFL schedule included games on Thursday, Friday and Sunday, and now it will wrap up with a rivalry matchup on Monday Night Football as the Chicago Bears visit the Minnesota Vikings at 8:15 p.m. ET. Chicago is 3-8, but looked dominant for about 55 minutes before a late-game collapse against the Lions last week. Minnesota, meanwhile, is …

PHILADELPHIA — Jalen Hurts is in the middle of a stretch no quarterback in the entire history of the NFL has accomplished. Hurts has eight consecutive wins in which his team trails by double digits, the most by any quarterback in NFL history — a mark so unprecedented that no other quarterback has more than four. As Hurts lead the …

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football’s leading receiver Donaven McCulley is entering his name into the transfer portal. McCulley is one of a dozen players to announce they were leaving the program in the wake of coach Tom Allen’s departure. The list includes starting quarterback Brendan Sorsby and leading rusher Trent Howland. The fall window for FBS football players to enter their …

Getty Images The wildest game of Week 12 happened in Philadelphia where the Eagles stunned the Bills 37-34 in overtime. It was a quarterback duel for the ages that saw Josh Allen total 420 yards and four touchdowns, only to be outdone by Jalen Hurts, who totaled five touchdowns for the Eagles.  There was a lot of history made in …

Tempest Tepper has once again blown through Charlotte without warning, carving yet another path of chaos and instability through one of the professional teams he owns. On Monday, the Carolina Panthers announced they’d fired head coach Frank Reich only 11 games into a fully guaranteed four-year contract, a tenure so short it has Josh McDaniels wondering how he can get …

Kim O’Reilly, CBS Sports His name is Bond. Isaiah Bond. Tell me you won’t hear that line about 1,000 times before Saturday’s SEC Championship Game. A 5-foot-11 wide receiver from Buford, Georgia, kept Alabama’s hopes alive of going to the College Football Playoff with a miracle catch to beat Auburn in the Iron Bowl. That’s right. A wideout from Georgia …

The New York Giants extended themselves last offseason and handed Daniel Jones a four-year contract worth $160 million. To this point, the organization hasn’t exactly received the caliber of play from the quarterback position that costs an average of $40 million per season. To make matters worse, Jones suffered a season-ending ACL tear in early November that puts his availability …