With six new playoff teams this year and half of the divisions decided on the final day of the regular season, the NFL would seem to be in flux heading into the postseason.  But the top teams have held steady. The Ravens and 49ers had already locked up the No. 1 seeds and home-field advantage heading into Week 18. The …

The College Football Playoff national championship game Monday will feature a Washington cornerback who transferred from Oklahoma State against a Michigan team in which OSU’s quarterback transferred in from, and a Michigan team that also lost a receiver to OU. Welcome to college football in 2024, where you don’t have to look hard to find a web of connections. Those …

The 2023 regular season is now in the books and just 14 teams have kept their hopes of hoisting the Lombardi Trophy alive. After a wild Week 18, the playoff picture is set and a jam-packed Super Wild-Card Weekend is on deck, starting Saturday and rolling all the way into Monday night. Of course, two teams you won’t see are …

Josh Harris spent his first season as Commanders owner patiently. On the first day of his first full offseason, he wasted no time in writing a new chapter — perhaps his most important one as owner. Harris fired Ron Rivera on Monday after an abysmal 4-13 campaign. Rivera finished 26-40-1 with zero winning seasons and zero playoff wins in Washington. This …

So far, the College Football Playoff bracket has unfolded how as it was designed to, with the Nos. 1 and 2 seeds in the four-team field winning their semifinal contests against lower-rated opponents. Given those results, Monday night’s national championship game between Michigan and Washington is a matchup of the top two teams in the final playoff rankings of the …

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The college football season finale pits two undefeateds against each other on Monday night: Michigan and Washington. It is the first appearance in the College Football Playoff final for both teams and their first appearances in a national championship game period. USA TODAY Sports will have the latest updates, highlights, analysis and news all day long and throughout the game. …

Schrock’s Bears Report Card: Grading Justin Fields, Matt Eberflus for 2023 season originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago GREEN BAY Wis. — The 2023 season came to an end for the Bears on Sunday much in the same way it began. Same opponent, same helpless feeling. Only the location was different. Final score: Packers 17, Bears 9 The Bears opened …

After discussions over one-loss teams making the College Football Playoff dominated the conversation over recent weeks, there will be an undefeated national champion after No. 1 Michigan plays No. 2 Washington in the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship game. Both teams enter at 14-0 after knocking off previous one-loss teams in the CFP semifinals in dramatic finishes. Michigan defeated …

Chargers linebacker Khalil Mack, who increased his career-high sack total for a season to 17 with one against the Chiefs, tries to strip the ball away from quarterback Blaine Gabbert. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Where it all went wrong for the Chargers this season was the logical topic to discuss after players exited the field at SoFi Stadium …

Kalen DeBoer was a high school football player in Milbank, South Dakota when he received his first recruiting letter. It has accompanied him on each of his seven coaching stops, including to Seattle about two years ago when he took over as head coach at the University of Washington. “This letter … sits behind my desk in a drawer usually …

Rams coach and quarterback Jared Goff reached a Super Bowl together. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Matthew Stafford will return to Detroit, but that story already is written. Stafford has won. He became a Super Bowl champion with the Rams and remains beloved in his previous hometown. That won’t change, regardless of whether he leads his current …

Michigan vs. Washington will have a strange aura to it during Monday’s College Football Playoff championship. It’s a Big Ten-vs.-Pac-12 game for a championship, but it won’t take place in Pasadena, home of the traditional Rose Bowl meeting between the two conferences. It’s a sign that the times, they are a-changing. And they’ll be even more drastically different after this …

Quarterback Dak Prescott and the rest of the Cowboys made an emphatic final statement in the regular season on Sunday. Prescott threw four touchdown passes and the Cowboys scored the final 31 points of a 38-10 road win over the Commanders that ensured they would be the NFC East champs and the No. 2 seed in the conference for the …

The No. 24 Auburn Tigers are one of the hottest teams in college basketball. Auburn smacked around Arkansas last Saturday, 83-51, for its seventh-straight win to open the SEC slate. During the stretch, Auburn has won each game by a margin of 28 points. The stretch can be credited to Auburn’s road loss to Appalachian State on Dec. 3, which …