Notre Dame Less Likely to Join Conference With CFP 12-Team Playoff
The College Football Playoff board of managers recently authorized the CFP management committee to begin the “summer review phase” of playoff expansion exploration…
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College Football Playoff Expansion Proposal Does Not Address Revenue, Distribution
The College Football Playoff Working Group (a four-person subgroup of the CFP management committee) recently proposed increasing the number of College Football Playoff…
Bama’s Buckeyes Blowout Drives College Football Championship Ratings Into the Turf
The record ratings shortfalls that haunted the sports world throughout the back half of 2020 has lingered into the New Year, as ESPN’s coverage of Monday night’s College…
OSU-Alabama Ticket Prices Jump Into the Thousands as Fans Head to Miami
Ahead of tonight’s College Football Playoff Championship Game, fans who are not friends and family of a member of either team will have to have deep pockets in order to…
Saban and Day Contracts Reveal Money on the Line in Championship Game: Data Viz
Coming the same day that the NCAA was supposed to vote on new rules allowing college athletes the chance to earn some money, the CFP National Championship game serves as…
Ohio State and Alabama, With $406 Million in Budget, Square Off in Title Game
The national title game between Ohio State and Alabama is a showdown between college football royalty. Not only are the Buckeyes and Crimson Tide two of the most…
College Football Playoff Ratings Hit New Year’s Day Low
ESPN rang in the New Year with a solid, if unspectacular, College Football Playoff showcase, as the ratings for the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl were consistent with the…
College Football Playoff Features Sport’s Biggest Spenders, Again: Data Viz
In any given season of the College Football Playoff’s brief seven-year history, at least two schools among the quartet of Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Notre Dame…
NFL Retains Its TV Crown as Sports Prevail Over Politics, Entertainment
While the NFL’s seasonal ratings declines have been met with the usual blend of uninformed hooting about backlashes and boycotts and the performative gnashing of teeth…
For ESPN, Notre Dame’s Drawing Power is Key to a Happy New Year
Texas A&M has a legitimate beef about being passed over for a berth in the College Football Playoffs, and at the same time, University of Cincinnati partisans are…
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College Football Playoff Bowl Payouts Avoid Major Cuts
The College Football Playoff has set the payments it will make to conferences for their participation in the sport’s most important postseason games, and despite the…
Big Ten Changes Rules to Help Ohio State and Potentially Secure Playoff Millions
The Big Ten has voted to change its rules to let Ohio State play in next weekend’s title game, a move that will increase the Buckeyes’ chances of making the College…
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