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After playing with the cycle at 35 seconds since the 1993-94 season, the continued bottoming in the amount of scoring at the Division I level has convinced the NCAA men’s basketball rules committee to reduce it to 30 seconds starting in 2015-16 following nearly four days of meetings in Indianapolis. MORE: SN’s 2016 champ is… | Another “Greek Freak” on the rise | Shaq’s son can really ball The committee had debated the shot clock length a year ago but opted to stay at 35....

Once again, we’re going big with quarterbacks and filling in with some under-the-radar plays at other positions. The early slate is interesting as there are some high-volume quarterbacks to choose from. In the late slate, we can’t pass on TCU’s dynamic duo of Trevone Boykin and Josh Doctson. Remember, the full daily fantasy CFB Playbook previewed below is part of Fantasy Alarm’s DFS Playbook PRO package, which includes Playbooks for NFL, NBA and MLB games at all the major DFS sites....

That is as much as a program of the Sooners’ pedigree can go unnoticed while racking up a nation best figures in yards and points per game—612.9 and 50.4 respectively. Oklahoma started the season as the No. 4 ranked team in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, but since falling to No. 5 in Week 5 it has failed to crack the top four again. That says more about how good Alabama, LSU and Ohio State have been than anything about the Sooners....

The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the U.S. has forced college football decision-makers into a previously unthinkable choice: Whether to play this fall, or postpone the season. Those looming choices have reached a fever pitch in recent days, with the Big Ten and Pac-12 announcing on Tuesday they would cancel their respective fall seasons in favor of a spring campaign. The spotlight now rests on the remainder of college football’s biggest power brokers: the ACC, Big 12 and SEC, though they are hardly the only conferences that have difficult choices to make regarding the 2020 season....

For the fifth consecutive year, the road to the national title is expected to go through Clemson and Alabama. The two have played each other in the championship game in three of the last four seasons, with the only exception being the 2017-18 season when the Crimson Tide beat the Tigers in the semifinals. Clemson got its revenge in January, thrashing Alabama 44-16 in the College Football Playoff National Championship to become the first team in the history of the playoffs era to go 15-0....

If you hold that truth to be self-evident, which team should be top this week’s poll? MORE: Coaches poll | Must-see photos | Best of Week 9 | Top 25 roundup | Five lessons for Ohio State | LSU still have a say in SEC West | Michigan State doesn’t hold back on Michigan | Mississippi State No. 1, but for how long? | VIDEO: Kiffin hears it at Tennessee...

Bowden was down the field blocking for his teammate, but officials determined he took it too far. The play was reviewed and officials kept the ruling, ejecting Bowden from the game. The reasoning was “contact to the head of defender.” MORE: Live coverage of Saturday’s college football games Afterwards, the receiver went on his private Twitter account and tweeted, “My guys got this. Watch [them] from the inside #BBN.”...

On the heels of a COVID-shortened season that saw few fans at stadiums, folks flocked to their favorite college arenas to kickoff the 2021 campaign. From Michigan to Florida and Georgia to California, there hardly seemed to be an empty seat in some of America’s biggest stadiums. And there hardly seemed to be a mask as well. Couple that with a slew of great matchups, then it was a great success for college football....

The Yellow Jackets opened -25.5 against perennial FCS power Georgia Southern, with the Eagles dropping to +17 as they continue their first year at Division I-A in the Sun Belt Conference. Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson led Georgia Southern to two of its six national championships at the Division I-AA level when he was there from 1997-2001 and will be facing his old school for the first time....

Oh, and Alabama is a 51.5-point favorite against New Mexico State. Those ranked matchups should be more entertaining. No. 4 Oklahoma travels to No. 18 Baylor after a bye week, and No. 9 Michigan will look to keep its Big Ten East hopes alive at No. 23 Penn State. BENDER: Sorting out the Heisman The primetime window features a SEC West showdown between No. 11 Texas A&M and No. 12 Ole Miss and an ACC Atlantic matchup between No....

No. 2 Penn State once again headlines this week’s slate of games when it take on No. 6 Ohio State at Ohio Stadium. The matchup of Saquon Barkley against the Buckeyes’ front seven will be a fantastic one to watch MORE: Barkley reminds of his devastating skill set In other action, we have No. 14 N.C. State traveling to South Bend for another monster matchup with No. 9 Notre Dame....

It’s a pretty simple equation at the top of the rankings: Undefeated Alabama, Clemson and Notre Dame need win out to make the Playoff. For other teams, like No. 8 Washington State, it’s a little more complicated. MORE: Biggest Week 10 Playoff-deciding games With that said, Sporting News takes a look at how each top-10 team in the first set of CFP rankings can make the Playoff, as well as who they’ll need to root for — and against — to make the cut....

The committee will visit all nine candidate cities this summer. MORE: Top 15 programs since 2000 | Bowl matchups we want | Slimmed down 403 According to the Chronicle, Hancock and several other playoff officials will meet with city leaders, as well as Valero Alamo Bowl chief executive officer Derrick Fox, as San Antonio hopes to attract the championship game in 2019 and 2020. Here are the candidates for the three championship games and the years in which they are bidding....

The College Football Playoff committee made the right call by putting Washington in the No. 4 spot Tuesday. The Huskies joined No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Clemson and No. 3 Michigan. Those are the four remaining unbeaten Power 5 schools heading into the final three weeks of the regular season. That’s it. If it stays that way, that’s it. We don’t need a debate on top of it. You can manufacture one if you want....

The big question is whether anybody other than Clemson or Alabama make their way to the Big Easy for the championship game. Georgia, Ohio State, Texas and Oklahoma are among the teams we believe could be in the hunt for the other two Playoff spots as the sixth College Football Playoff chase begins. Sporting News has projections for all 40 bowl games here, and they will be updated throughout the season as dates for bowls outside the New Year’s Day Six are revealed....