In Week 4 of the college football season, the matchups provided the first big glimpse of the premier teams in their new conferences. The USC Trojans began Big Ten play on the road against the Michigan Wolverines while the Oklahoma Sooners began their inaugural season in the SEC with a visit from the Tennessee Volunteers.

The Bulldogs and Crimson Tide played in two CFP championship games in the four-team era, so no matter what happens at Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday, those teams will remain in the playoff picture. It is the other playoff questions about the SEC that will pop up – and some of those come with a hint of "SEC bias."

To take it a step further, most of those teams are elite or at least very good at throwing the ball and running it. Notre Dame is elite at running it and maybe one of the worst in

The expanded College Football Playoff is heavy on SEC and Big Ten teams while a Group of Five threat controls its own destiny

The 2024 season is the first with a 12-team College Football Playoff format. Each week during the 2024 college football season, Vols Wire will release a 12-team College Football Playoff bracketology projection.

Week 3 saw key shifts in the 2024 National Championship odds, with Tennessee, Ohio State and Alabama emerging as top contenders as BetMGM liabilities grow.

One element of a proposal from the state's football coaches association calls for reducing the number of postseason teams per division from 16 to 8, and each side has its reasons for supporting or opposing the idea.

Nebraska helped themselves with a win, and Illinois helped to set up a battle of undefeated and ranked teams for this Friday night.  Georgia looked mortal again

With three full weeks in the books, Texas slides up to the No. 1 seed line, and UNLV enters the bracket for the first time.

Few, if any, WSU fans are glad the Pac-12 came apart, but in the very short term it might have opened a path to the College Football Playoff.