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3 weeks ago | 
sportingnews.com | Bill Trocchi |Peter Gammons |Will McDonough |Bill focuses
ATLANTA – Auburn’s dream season was slipping away. The overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the champions of the toughest conference of all-time, trailed Michigan 48-39 in the second half of a Sweet 16 game. Freshman Tahaad Pettiford waited for Sporting News Player of the Year Johni Broome to set a screen for him. Meanwhile Broome was asking for the ball.
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4 weeks ago | 
sportingnews.com | Bill Trocchi |Peter Gammons |Will McDonough |Bill focuses
ATLANTA – Dylan Caldwell really didn’t want to let go of the South Region championship trophy. The Auburn big man was carrying it around, posing for photos on the makeshift stage and generally taking ownership of the symbol of the Tigers' first four wins in this NCAA Tournament. Miles Kelly was escorting his mom around the State Farm Arena court, the one covered in orange and blue confetti following Auburn’s 70-64 elimination of Michigan State.
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1 month ago | 
sportingnews.com | Bill Trocchi |Peter Gammons |Will McDonough |Bill focuses
ATLANTA – Isn’t this a college football town? In the shadow of Mercedez-Benz Stadium, four schools that had all participated in the Peach Bowl within the last eight years staged an SEC/Big Ten basketball challenge in the Sweet 16. Michigan State overcame Ole Miss, 73-70. Auburn exploded past Michigan, 78-65. And it was every bit as tense and ferocious and wild as we’d hoped.
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1 month ago | 
sportingnews.com | Bill Trocchi |Peter Gammons |Will McDonough |Bill focuses
Johni Broome’s journey from a football-first ninth-grader in Plant City, Fla., to the Sporting News College Basketball Player of the Year at Auburn is a unique one. It took two high schools, two colleges and continuous and relentless improvement in all aspects of his game. His Auburn Tigers will be a No. 1 seed in the upcoming NCAA Tournament after winning the SEC regular season championship. He was the best player on the best team in the best conference in 2024-25.
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2 months ago | 
sportingnews.com | Bill Trocchi |Peter Gammons |Will McDonough |Bill focuses
With the College Football Playoff expanding and a lack of marquee jobs opening up, this year’s coaching carousel certainly lacked the sizzle of last season. Three of the four College Football Playoff teams had to conduct coaching searches after the 2024 postseason. This year brought just one opening in the SEC and Big Ten combined, and just five power conference jobs overall.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
sportingnews.com | Bill Trocchi |Peter Gammons |Will McDonough |Bill focuses
ATLANTA -- The red and white confetti lined both sidelines at Mercedes-Benz Stadium long after the principals had exited the playing field. Ohio State and Notre Dame capped the longest college football season in history with a 34-23 Buckeyes victory. The national title is headed to Columbus for the first time since 2014, and by definition, the shortest offseason in college football history is on the way. What will 2025 look like? Here are 10 stories to watch as we start counting the days.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
sportingnews.com | Bill Trocchi |Peter Gammons |Will McDonough |Bill focuses
ATLANTA — Chip Kelly battled against a tough defense in Notre Dame during Monday’s national championship, but the Ohio State offensive coordinator’s second biggest battle was getting loved ones past security and inside the barriers to celebrate with Buckeyes players and coaches following OSU’s 34-23 win over Notre Dame.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
sportingnews.com | Bill Trocchi |Peter Gammons |Will McDonough |Bill focuses
The first 12-team College Football Playoff is steamrolling toward a dramatic finish in the heart of SEC country Monday night. At Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the unofficial home of college football meaning more, it will be two Midwest teams meeting for the national championship for the first time. Notre Dame and Ohio State will match up for the third straight season, this time with the stakes as high as they can be. Ohio State enters as an 8.5-point favorite at most sportsbooks.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
sportingnews.com | Bill Trocchi |Peter Gammons |Will McDonough |Bill focuses
ATLANTA – Notre Dame’s loss to Northern Illinois stands as an infamous footnote to this college football season, one that sparked a 13-game winning streak and a berth in Monday’s CFP championship game against Ohio State. That game also was the birth of another notable footnote to the 2024 Notre Dame season – the Jeremiyah Love hurdle. The Irish's second touchdown that day came on a 32-yard run by Love that featured him hurdling a Huskies safety and scampering into the end zone.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
sportingnews.com | Bill Trocchi |Peter Gammons |Will McDonough |Bill focuses
ATLANTA – College Football Playoff executive director Rich Clark has loved his job in his first year as the CFP underwent dramatic changes to the 12-team format. But there was one part he did not appreciate. When asked about the public criticism the 15-member selection committee took not only from fans but coaches and commissioners – notably Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin and ACC and Big 12 commissioners Jim Phillips and Brett Yormark – he was atypically undiplomatic.
