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The Bowl Championship Series is a five-game bowl series that serves as a showcase for the top 10 teams in college football, including a BCS National Championship Game. The BCS has its own system that determines rankings and matchups that place the to...

KC Joyner examines the Clemson Tigers' national championship chances. A loaded offense and underrated defense should keep them in the title hunt, but two non-conference games against SEC opponents loom large.

Story | Conversation | May 20, 2013

In 1969, President Nixon was the decider of the national championship.

Joe Lunardi compares the Louisville Cardinals to past preseason favorites coming off of national championship seasons and explains what history tells us about their chances of repeating.

Blog | Conversation | May 15, 2013

Among the 64 teams competing in the NCAA softball tournament are 11 from the Southeastern Conference.

Oklahoma enters the NCAA tournament with a chance to win a national championship with four or fewer losses. And the Sooners have the reigning national player of the year in Keilani Ricketts, who's a good bet to win it again.

Manti Te'o practiced for the first time with the San Diego Chargers on Friday determined to push the infamous girlfriend hoax and his lackluster national championship play into the past.

The team I wanted to see face Alabama last season in the BCS National Championship was Oregon. It's the matchup the entire country wanted to see. No offense, Notre Dame fans, but seeing that high-octane Oregon offense go up against Alabama's defen...

There's no denying the SEC's recent national championship dominance in college football. The conference has watched four different teams -- Alabama (three times), Auburn, Florida (twice) and LSU -- win seven BCS titles in the past seven years. Thi...

Lots of playoff fun last night in basketball and hockey. The SEC will discuss permanent league opponents this month. Alabama's trip to Miami for the Discover BCS National Championship was the priciest BCS championship yet. Auburn's defensive ...

1. Alabama: Nick Saban is equipped with yet another national championship contender. Yes, it would be his third straight at Alabama and fourth in five years. An all-star cast returns on offense, led by veteran quarterback AJ McCarron and topflight re...

Remember how last year's USC-Oregon game was supposed to be the greatest thing since someone somewhere put knife to bread? It was to be a showdown for the ages with enormous national championship implications. Yeah, not so much. It was a good game --...

Geno Smith would be wise to heed Joe Montana's advice and realize that he has a lot learn, writes Ashley Fox.

Notre Dame chose to play a "home" game in North Texas long before Cowboys Stadium was picked as the first venue for the national championship in the new playoff system.

Nico Johnson was considered a leader on Alabama's national championship team. That was one of qualities that the Kansas City Chiefs were most interested when they made Johnson a fourth-round pick Saturday. Johnson is expected to immediately compet...

Alabama might have fallen to No. 2 in ESPN colleague Mark Schlabach's Way-Too-Early Preseason Top 25, but I'd like to think that most of the college football world still considers the Crimson Tide to be the favorites to win the national championship ...