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The name, game sites and logo for the upcoming College Football Playoff are set. Now comes the most important piece of the puzzle: the selection committee. Everyone wants to know who will have the important and unenviable task of choosing the fiel...

Rounding out the work week every Friday around this time. John from Phoenix writes: Hi Adam,I'm a 1971 Purdue Grad and am excited about Coach Hazell heading the Boilermaker program. Now that Gunnar Kiel has decided to transfer from ND, do you thin...

Former Ohio State coach John Cooper was famous for saying, "Put a fence around your border and recruit nationally." If the early 2014 recruiting class is any indication, Urban Meyer has made sure to add the phrase "and invade the surrounding areas...

The recruitment of Desmond Howard came down to Michigan and Georgia Tech. The Cleveland native never considered Ohio State, which was just bringing in John Cooper.

Congrats to Iowa, the only Big Ten team to beat a BCS bowl team in the 2012 nonconference season. Bob Asmussen takes a look at what went wrong for Illinois in 2012, even though a list of what went right would have been a whole lot shorter. Tim Be...

Miami (Ohio) 80, Grambling St. 54

After watching Texas beat a bad Kansas team and celebrating afterward leaves columnist Sean Adams wondering just what do the Longhorns players expect.

Story | Conversation | October 28, 2012

Series: Time and Change -- BuckeyeNation caught up with Bam Childress and asked him about his Ohio roots, his future and how the Buckeyes will do under Urban Meyer.

Series: Time and Change -- BuckeyeNation caught up with LeCharles Bentley and asked him about his NFL career, what went wrong at Ohio State in recent years and teaching future linemen.

Series: Time and Change -- BuckeyeNation caught up with former linebacker Andy Katzenmoyer and asked him about the neck injury that cut short his NFL career, the 1998 Ohio State team that came one upset from glory and his life today.

Happy Friday to all. A good piece by Teddy Greenstein on the evolution of a playoff and the Big Ten's role in it. Bob Flounders weighs in on Penn State's recruiting efforts and Bill O'Brien's sense of urgency in August. Mike Poorman looks at wh...

The Big Ten on Monday expressed its strong desire for a selection committee to choose teams in a potential four-team college football playoff. League commissioner Jim Delany was pointed in his criticism of the polls (biased, statistically flawed) and...

Former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden would like to be on a BCS Committee that selects national championship playoff participants.

The coaching carousel hasn't come to a complete halt yet. But the bulk of the maneuvering has concluded. Some great moves. Some questionable hires. A few "Huh, really?" selections, too. But these rankings are not just about the head coaches. They'...

New Miami University (Ohio) head coach John Cooper received a verbal commitment from in-state guard Geovonie McKnight (Middletown, Ohio/Middletown H.S.) over the weekend, according to WLWT.com. McKnight averaged 19.9 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.6 a...

Tennessee State has promoted assistant Travis Williams to head coach as the Tigers' 16th head coach, replacing John Cooper who left for Miami (Ohio).