There are 17 remaining undefeated teams in the FBS heading into October. MORE: Alabama-Clemson III looking inevitable Sporting News will break down the College Football Playoff picture each week, with the four teams we think are in and the field behind them. Bowl projections are coming Monday. Who’s in? Here is the playoff picture heading into the last week of September: 1. Alabama That’s 19 straight SEC wins, folks. Alabama followed up a 59-0 victory against Vanderbilt with a 66-3 victory against Ole Miss on Saturday....

No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Clemson, No. 3 Notre Dame and No. 4 Georgia took the top four spots, followed by No. 5 Oklahoma and No. 6 Ohio State. Those are the six teams most likely to make up the four-team Playoff unless unmitigated chaos breaks out. Yes, we’ll talk about No. 8 UCF, too. We have a scenario for that. In fact, we break down the six possible scenarios that will unfold this weekend and who will make the four-team Playoff as a result: MORE: Championship Weekend picks...

Starting Oct. 28, the 13-member panel given the task of picking the schools for the new four-team playoff will release weekly rankings. Voting for the newest college football poll will be done using the same procedure and recusal policy used by the committee that chooses the 68-team field for NCAA men's basketball tournament. The voting will be broken down into tiers, with the panel first grouping teams and then coming to a consensus on how they should be ordered with numerous votes....

No. 5 Clemson survived in a 27-21 victory against No. 14 Syracuse, which knocked the Orange from the unbeatens and opened the path back to the ACC championship for the Tigers. No. 10 Oregon routed No. 9 UCLA 45-30, which gave the Bruins their first loss. The Ducks are now the only school without a loss in Pac-12 play. LSU routed No. 7 Ole Miss 45-20 to give the Rebels their first loss....

The Sooners got revenge on Texas on Saturday, winning 39-27, while Ohio State beat Northwestern 45-24 to make its case for the 4-team Playoff. Georgia, who moved down to No. 6 after getting stunned by Alabama by a touchdown, will have an uphill climb, but its close loss could still be enough in the committee’s eyes. MORE: Oklahoma’s defense could be the difference-maker Here are the final AP and Coaches Poll from Championship Saturday:...

No. 3 Alabama beat No. 1 Georgia 41-24 in the SEC championship game, not only upending the Bulldogs but also the College Football Playoff rankings. With that victory — the second upset of the day — the selection committee faces a slightly more difficult task with its top four teams. MORE: 10 College Football Playoff scenarios, from chalk to complete two-loss chaos One thing that’s certain: Alabama should reclaim its spot as the No....

A total of 76 FBS schools are still participating in the season. That includes six conferences — the ACC, American Athletic Conference, Big 12, Conference-USA, SEC and Sun Belt — along with a few independents. A total of 54 FBS schools have canceled their fall football season. That had an obvious impact on Sporting News Preseason Top 25. A total of 10 teams on that original list are not playing in 2020, so we had to make a revised edition for the upcoming season....

From the Battle in Bristol and the Holy War, to LSU and Notre Dame’s uncertain quarterback situations, this week offers plenty of storylines, to say the least. MORE: Top 25 live updates | Full scoreboard Check back throughout the day for live updates. UPDATE: 4:20 p.m. ET: We are on the Swamp, y’all! Florida scored its second touchdown against Kentucky with a Luke del Rio 78-yard pass to Antonio Callaway....

Last week belonged to quarterbacks and wild passing numbers, while Week 4 proved to be a day for the guys on the ground with numerous running backs eclipsing 200 yards rushing. Here’s a rundown of the top performers from Saturday: Dalvin Cook, Florida State, RB Yet to crack the 100-yard mark in the first three games, the star running back nearly matched his season rushing total in less than three quarters against South Florida....

MORE: Watch NCAA football games live with fuboTV (7-day free trial) Yes, there are games that will impact the College Football Playoff race, such as ranked meetings in The Game, Iron Bowl and Bedlam. But this extends beyond the postseason: Winners of Friday and Saturday’s top-25 games can count the season as a success with just a single victory over their rivals. Highlights from this week’s games include the top-10 showdown between No....

There are a number of factors that make the matchup between LSU and Auburn in Baton Rouge so intriguing. First and foremost, the game will likely shape the teams’ respective postseason chances. No. 2-ranked LSU arrives is 7-0 and leads the SEC West alongside Alabama, with Auburn one game behind at 6-1. A third win against a ranked program—the Tigers have already defeated Texas and Florida—would only strengthen LSU’s credentials ahead of its matchup against No....

Our four esteemed participants will be charged with picking three underdogs each week who will win straight up. Should said underdog pull off the upset, points will be awarded to the correct picker in the amount the team was an underdog. Your 6.5-point dog wins the game (hello, Illinois), you get 6.5 points. Simple, dimple. In an absolutely loaded Week 1, which includes FIVE top 25 matchups, there are plenty of chances to go big (Louisiana Monroe is getting 30....

But with Texas' outfield playing extremely shallow Saturday, his drive to left-center for his nation-leading ninth triple was more than enough to get the Anteaters' offense going in a 3-1 victory over Texas in the opening game of the College World Series. MORE: CWS results, schedule | Aaron Boone interview | Kenny Lofton interview "The wind was really howling, so I knew anything lifted, it wasn't going anywhere," Sparks said....

The NCAA announced just before the planned time for first pitch, 7 p.m. ET, that the second game of the College World Series would begin in a rain delay. The organization didn’t provide an update for when the game will start. Sporting News is tracking the latest updates on the weather delay in Omaha, Neb. MORE: College World Series Game 2 live updates College World Series rain delay updates 9:02 p....

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A generation ago, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act to free black Southerners from poll taxes, literacy tests and other barriers to the ballot. It worked wonderfully-1.5 million new voters registered in just the first two years. But the law’s bar against the “denial or abridgment” of the right to vote has come to mean more than just guaranteed admission to the voting booth. The U.S. Department of Justice has the power to push states to take every possible opportunity to increase minority representation....

During a press conference on Wednesday, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said, “one of the groups that the vaccine newly opened up to are 12-to-17-year-olds, and today we’re proud to announce that we’ll be offering 25 $50,000 scholarships to randomly selected 12-to-17-year-olds who are vaccinated.” Polis also noted that the scholarship money will be placed into a college investment account, for the winners to use when they are ready to attend college....

Jefferson County Public Health’s executive director, Dr. Dawn Comstock, detailed the harassment in an interview the Denver Post on Tuesday. She noted that at one clinic, someone threw unidentified liquid at a nurse. “Additional cars drove by screaming obscenities at vaccine staff and throwing garbage at them,” Comstock said. “I will not put the hard-working public health staff in harm’s way.” In a statement to Newsweek, Comstock said the “hostility and abuse toward public health and medical workers over Labor Day weekend in Jefferson County is not new, and others around the country have unfortunately been dealing with similar traumatic experiences....