Bill Bender

1 week ago | sportingnews.com | Bill Bender

What is good? That's a favorite question when it is predetermined that – anything – is deemed good and accepted as truth. What is good to me might not be for you – and that's how every college football argument starts. So, here we are – less than a week after the College Football Playoff announced a good decision to modify seeding for 2025-26.

1 week ago | sportingnews.com | Bill Bender

How does the 12-team College Football Playoff impact Sporting News annual 1-136 Coach Rankings? A total of 11 coaches who reached the first 12-team CFP are ranked in our Top 25 coaches. Three of those coaches – Indiana's Curt Cignetti, No. 17), Arizona State's Kenny Dillingham (No. 22) and SMU's Rhett Lashlee (No. 23) – moved up more than 30 spots in our rankings from 2024. Boise State's Spencer Danielson (No. 33) also saw a huge jump and is our top-ranked Group of 5 coach.

1 week ago | sportingnews.com | Bill Bender

How do you rank a coach who won six Super Bowls as a head coach and two more as an assistant coach? Welcome to the dilemma with Bill Belichick – who will make his college debut at North Carolina this season. Any spot on Sporting News' 2025 Top 25 college football coach rankings could be considered right or wrong. How do you compare Belichick to Georgia's Kirby Smart, who has two national championships and maintains the No. 1 spot in our rankings for the second straight year?

1 week ago | sportingnews.com | Bill Bender

No. 1 Cornell meets No. 2 Maryland in a power-house matchup that will decide the 2025 NCAA men's lacrosse national championship game. Game time is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Monday at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. Cornell (17-1) scored five unanswered goals in the third quarter and held on to beat No. 5 Penn State 11-9 in the national semifinal. Senior attackman CJ Kirst leads the nation with 76 goals.

2 weeks ago | bvmsports.com | Bill Bender

By Bill Bender via @sportingnews, Phase one complete. The College Football Playoff announced plans to modify the seeding for the 2025 season on Thursday - a move that makes sense for the integrity of the postseason moving forward. The top five highest-ranked conference champions will still make the playoff - but they will not be guaranteed byes. The 12 teams will be seeded based directly on their final ranking by the CFP selection committee.