James Parks

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Until now, the SEC was pushing the idea of giving itself four automatic qualifiers in any future College Football Playoff, but the sport’s most dominant conference may have changed its mind on that after some backlash. SEC decision makers are now indicating that they do not support a plan to award itself and the Big Ten four auto bids each in the playoff, according to Yahoo Sports.

4 days ago | si.com | James Parks

Veteran sports reporter Gene Wojciechowski bids an official farewell ESPN and College GameDay after more than 27 years on the job. Wojciechowski was let go by the network during its downsizing back in 2023, but the final day of May 2025 was “my official last day on the ESPN books,” he said. “Tremendous reporter,” College GameDay host Rece Davis said in tribute. He added: “Brilliant writer and storyteller. Better man. Unsurpassed as a loyal friend.

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Gene Wojciechowski has been with ESPN for nearly three decades and was one of the faces of the network's flagship "College GameDay" program in recent years. Veteran sports reporter Gene Wojciechowski bids an official farewell ESPN and College GameDay after more than 27 years on the job. Wojciechowski was let go by the network during its downsizing back in 2023, but the final day of May 2025 was “my official last day on the ESPN books,” he said.

4 days ago | si.com | James Parks

Some minor bad blood surfaced between college football’s major conferences in recent days amid the continued debate on how to expand and shape the College Football Playoff. It resulted in something of an indirect exchange between the head of the SEC and his counterparts in the Big 12 and ACC, when commissioner Greg Sankey said he didn’t need “lectures from others about the good of the game.”That certainly sounded like a shot across the bow at Brett Yormark and Jim Phillips.

4 days ago | si.com | James Parks

Any team can beat any other team on any given Saturday in college football, but it’s not often that the No. 1 team in the country goes down. In modern times, the best chance of seeing that happen is in a matchup between the top ranked and the No. 2 team, usually in a playoff or national championship game. But other times, it’s the unranked or lower ranked team that pulls off the upset and shocks the world. Which programs have the most wins against No. 1 opponents? Malcolm Emmons-Imagn ImagesWins vs.