Matt Hinton

Jan 19, 2025 | saturdaydownsouth.com | Matt Hinton |David Wasson |Neil W. Blackmon

Everything – and we mean everything – you really need to know about Monday night’s College Football Playoff Championship Game between Ohio State (-8.5 per FanDuel Sportsbook) and Notre Dame. Well, folks, we made it. Whew. We were warned at the outset that the 2024 college football season was going to be the longest on record, and you don’t need to look at a calendar to know that it has been exactly that. It has felt long. Hasn’t it? Is it just me? This has been a long-ass season.

Jan 10, 2025 | saturdaydownsouth.com | Matt Hinton |David Wasson |Neil W. Blackmon

Everything — and we mean everything — you really need to know about Friday night’s College Football Playoff Semifinal collision between Ohio State (-5.5 per FanDuel Sportsbook) and Texas in the Cotton Bowl. The expanded, 12-team College Football Playoff is only a few weeks old, but one thing is already apparent: It’s reshaping the parameters of what a championship season looks like in real-time. Take Ohio State.

Jan 9, 2025 | saturdaydownsouth.com | Matt Hinton |David Wasson |Neil W. Blackmon

Everything — and we mean everything — you really need to know about Thursday night’s College Football Playoff semifinal collision between Notre Dame (-1.5 via FanDuel) and Penn State. Rich history. Huge, long-suffering fan bases. Classic, spartan uniforms. Head coaches whose every decision, utterance and facial expression is scrutinized to the nth degree. Three decades and counting on the margins of national relevance. A national championship drought stretching back to the Reagan administration.

Dec 31, 2024 | saturdaytradition.com | Matt Hinton

Everything — and we mean everything— you really need to know about the quarterfinal matchups in the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff. (Betting lines via FanDuel Sportsbook.) It’s been awhile, but I can’t quite get my head around Boise State’s arrival on this stage without thinking about the great Chris Petersen-era Boise teams of the late aughts, outfits that regularly made a mockery of the postseason system at the time.

Dec 9, 2024 | bvmsports.com | Matt Hinton

Takeaways, trends and technicalities from Championship Weekend in the SEC. In keeping with tradition, the final regular-season edition of Monday Down South will honor the best of the season with its annual individual awards and All-SEC team. But first! The committee's job was easy Both ESPN and the CFP committee are constantly accused of being in the tank for the SEC, in general, and for Alabama, specifically, which historically has been hard to refute.