The College Football Playoff championship game is taking shape. See the upcoming schedule and results from earlier playoff games.

Elite depth, the staple of so many recent national champions, is harder to maintain in the NIL/portal era of player transience.

Here’s hoping he’s prepared for the heft — both literally and figuratively. None of the four coaches left in the College Football Playoff have won a national title. But one of them will join an elite fraternity in less than three weeks,