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Featured · CFP National Championship

Indiana 27, Miami 21: How the Hoosiers Finished 16-0 and Won It All

Indiana finished the 2025 season 16-0 and won the first national championship in program history, beating Miami 27-21 at Hard Rock Stadium on January 19, 2026. Eight months on, it still reads like a typo. The Hoosiers entered that season as the losingest…

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Latest Recaps
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Recap

Celebration Bowl Retrospective: South Carolina State 40, Prairie View A&M 38 (4OT)

South Carolina State beat Prairie View A&M 40-38 in four overtimes in the 10th Cricket Celebration Bowl on December 13, 2025 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium…

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Recap

Alamo Bowl Retrospective: TCU 30, USC 27 (OT)

TCU trailed USC by 10 points in the fourth quarter of the Valero Alamo Bowl on December 30, 2025, forced overtime with a field goal as time expired,…

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Recap

Citrus Bowl Retrospective: Texas 41, Michigan 27

Arch Manning accounted for 376 total yards and four touchdowns as Texas beat Michigan 41-27 in the 80th Cheez-It Citrus Bowl on December 31, 2025 in…

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Last Season · 2025–26 College Football Playoff

First Round

Alabama34
Oklahoma24
Miami (Fla.)10
Texas A&M3
Ole Miss41
Tulane10
Oregon51
James Madison34

Quarterfinals

Cotton Bowl
Miami (Fla.)24
Ohio State14
Orange Bowl
Oregon23
Texas Tech0
Rose Bowl
Indiana38
Alabama3
Sugar Bowl
Ole Miss39
Georgia34

Semifinals

Fiesta Bowl
Miami (Fla.)31
Ole Miss27
Peach Bowl
Indiana56
Oregon22

National Championship

Indiana27
Miami (Fla.)21

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Bowl Histories
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Rose Bowl

The History of the Rose Bowl: How a Parade Fundraiser Named an Entire Sport's Postseason

College football's postseason begins with a blowout so lopsided that the sport did not return to it for fourteen years. On January 1, 1902, Michigan…

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Sugar Bowl

The History of the Sugar Bowl: The Game One Newspaperman Talked Into Existence

The Sugar Bowl took the better part of a decade to talk into existence. The idea of a New Year's Day football game in New Orleans was first put…

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Orange Bowl

The History of the Orange Bowl: A Broke City, a Borrowed Idea, and 5,134 Fans

The Orange Bowl exists because Miami was broke. By the early 1930s the city had absorbed one blow after another: the Florida land bust, the…

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Sun Bowl

The History of the Sun Bowl: A Charity Game Between High Schools That Became One of College Football's Oldest Traditions

The Sun Bowl is tied for the second-oldest bowl game in college football, and the first one was played by high schoolers. That is not a technicality…

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