The final College Football Playoff of the four-team era is rapidly approaching. The current format will give way to an expanded 12-team field in 2024, bringing an end to one of the most interesting eras in this sport’s history. If there’s one lesson to be learned from the last decade or so, it’s that not all playoff fields are created …

Jim McCormick, Special to ESPN.comDec 11, 2023, 12:00 PM ET CloseJim McCormick is a fantasy football and fantasy basketball analyst for ESPN.com. Working the waiver wire is pivotal to succeeding in fantasy basketball. With so many games, injuries and endless shifts in rotations throughout the marathon campaign, we’ll need to source stats from free agency to maximize imaginary rosters. A …

What to make of Pat McAfee’s awkward exchange with Robert Kraft originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Did Pat McAfee inadvertently reveal a New England Patriots state secret on live TV this weekend? McAfee and ESPN’s “College GameDay” crew welcomed Patriots owner Robert Kraft onto the set Saturday for a brief interview ahead of Army vs. Navy at Gillette Stadium. …

Jabree Coleman has opened up his recruitment and is no longer committed to Georgia. The four-star wide receiver made the announcement on Sunday afternoon. A standout at Imhotep Institute (Philadelphia), Coleman is a four-star according to On3, ESPN and Rivals. He checks in at a physically impressive 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds. Coleman, a class of 2025 recruit, made the announcement …

Patrick Everson FOX Sports Betting Analyst After two weeks of public/recreational bettors having their way, the NFL Week 14 odds market exacted a little payback on behalf of the bookmakers. That’ll happen when underdogs take a bite out of popular favorites. In this weekend’s case, the Chicago Bears knocking off the Detroit Lions set the table for a good-but-not-great day …

The AFC wild-card race is bonkers, and we still have four weeks of regular-season football remaining. I’ve never seen it this competitive this late in the season, have you? Normally by now, the top wild-card team is clearly better and light-years ahead of the four or five teams vying for one or two of the remaining spots.  Not the case …

We’ve almost wrapped up high school sports for 2023, but these athletes are still turning in big performances. We start in basketball where New Hanover guard CJ Kornegay scored 20 points and shot 90% from the field as the Wildcats defeated Coastal Christian 64-38 on Tuesday. In football, Hoggard defensive back Trey Nixon made one of the biggest plays of …

Well, we made it (some of us did), most fantasy football regular seasons are in the books (MNF pending) and now the real fun starts. Hopefully you were able to punch that ticket into the playoffs or even if you were out of it, you made sure someone else didn’t make it to the dance. Did your fantasy teams suffer …

The Week 14 Monday Night Football doubleheader includes the New York Giants (4-8) hosting the Green Bay Packers (6-6). These two historic franchises have been squaring off since 1928 and Green Bay leads the all-time series, 34-27-2. The last matchup took place in 2022, when New York defeated Green Bay, 27-22. The New York Giants have scored last in 10 …

After plenty of speculation, five-star Alabama wide receiver commit and key Auburn target Ryan Williams has reclassified from the 2025 class to the 2024 class. Despite jumping up a cycle, he is still one of the top players in the country. 247Sports ranks him as the No. 14 overall prospect and No. 4 wide receiver. The Saraland product is also …

Coaching Derrick Henry almost seems too easy, so Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel switched Tony Dews to overseeing tight ends this season. Call it a résumé booster for Dews, involving him more in the passing game to help someone the Titans believe in so much they sent him to a second coaching accelerator program at the NFL’s spring owners meetings …

Of all the players and personalities in the 2023 Dallas Cowboys locker room, cornerback Stephon Gilmore — 33 years old — is probably the most even-keeled and chill of them all. That’s just who the five-time Pro Bowler is as a person, and as a football player he has seen it all: winning Super Bowl LIII in 2018 with the …

USC has landed a transfer commitment from former Vanderbilt defensive end Nate Clifton. The defensive lineman was on an official visit to see the Trojans. That visit closed the sale. Clifton will join the program with one year of eligibility remaining after spending five seasons in Nashville with the Commodores. Clifton, standing at 6-5 and weighing 280 pounds, is a …

The Miami Dolphins will host the Tennessee Titans in one of two Week 14 Monday Night Football games. The Dolphins (9-3) entered the week tied with the Ravens for the best record in the AFC and holding the top spot in the AFC playoff bracket. Miami is on a three-game winning streak entering Monday Night Football at Hard Rock Stadium. Meanwhile, …

The Bengals have shown an ability to weather storms on the big and small scales over the last couple of weeks. Joe Burrow’s season-ending wrist injury forced Jake Browning into the lineup at quarterback and a loss to the Steelers in his first NFL start moved them to 5-6 on the year. That put them on the fringes of the …