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Georgia ends national championship drought and more headlines that topped college football in 2022
When you spend your life watching sports, you begin to understand exactly what each sport brings to the table. The NBA brings a connection to the youth of today, of being consistently introduced to the next batch of above-the-rim stars as 19-year-olds take over the league. The Tennessee Volunteers run through the “T” before the Florida Gators game at Neyland Stadium on Sept. 24, 2022, in Knoxville. (Donald Page/Getty Images) Major League Baseball is nostalgic, reminding you of the simpler times – when “baseball was life” and the only thing that mattered was the bat, ball and the glove. The NFL is deeply rooted, with fandom passed on from father…
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Michigan vs. TCU live score, updates, highlights from 2022 College Football Playoff semifinal
College football’s preeminent competition will kick off under the most ideal of conditions. No. 2 Michigan will take on No. 3 TCU in the 2022 Fiesta Bowl inside comfy State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. The game is the first semifinal in this year’s College Football Playoff, and it carries some intrigue. On the line is a berth in the national championship game — a contest neither school has been able to reach since a title game was instituted. MORE: Sporting News Coach of the Year: TCU’s Sonny Dykes spearheads quick turnaround The Wolverines (13-0) have been a buzzsaw this season, going through opponents week by week. That includes their 22-point…
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College football winners, losers of 2022 season: Alabama hits floor under Nick Saban, TCU shatters CFP mold
The regular season is over and the bowl schedule is set, so it’s time to look back at the teams and people that will stick with us from the 2022 college football season. If there’s one thing we learned this year — heck, if there’s one thing we learn every year — it’s that so little of what we expect to happen actually comes to fruition. Take the College Football Playoff race. A new era emerged as Alabama, Clemson and Oklahoma all missed the cut. Ohio State, which didn’t even win the Big Ten East for the second straight year, backed its way in as the No. 4 seed. Conversely,…
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2022 CBS Sports college football awards: Caleb Williams, Sonny Dykes headline honorees
The 2022 college football season has carried a theme of tying together the familiar with the new, binding history with an eye on the future as we move through a period of transition in the sport. The end of 2021 saw a wild coaching carousel reset the clock at several blue-blood programs, conference realignment got crazy again in the summer, and the College Football Playoff saw its expansion efforts stalled, resumed and eventually finished by the time we got to the end of the calendar. And while the Nick Saban vs. Jimbo Fisher spat in May — plus Bryan Harsin’s late-spring hot seat fiasco at Auburn — provided interesting conversation…
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Deion Sanders’ Rocky Mountain high is a low for Black colleges | College football
Say this much for Deion Sanders: He didn’t slink away under cover of darkness, quiet quit on the season or reach for another dog-eared page from the opportunist’s playbook. Instead, the 55-year-old coach gathered up his Jackson State Tigers players one last time over the weekend and told them that, indeed, the breaking news was true – that the University of Colorado had hired him away. “It’s not about a bag,” he told the somber room. “I’ve been making money a long time and ain’t nowhere near broke. It is about an opportunity.” As good ol’ fashion Mississippi scandals go, only the case swirling around Brett Favre tops this. Coach…
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Steelers vs. Colts live score, updates, highlights from NFL ‘Monday Night Football’ game
Does the Jeff Saturday experiment have a possibility of long lasting over and above 2022? Monday night’s video game may possibly present some responses. So considerably, the final results have been good. The Colts (4-6-1) took down the Raiders in Saturday’s initial recreation on the sideline and narrowly shed to the NFC-foremost Eagles the subsequent week, though the coaching employees was criticized for mismanagement down the extend in that video game. Additional: Four issues Jeff Saturday did proper in his successful Colts coaching debut The Colts nonetheless have a pulse, and a powerful exhibiting from the Steelers’ defense would go a very long way toward making trustworthiness for Saturday. The Steelers…