The Manning legacy in Oxford goes beyond the playing field with the prestigious football family giving back to the Magnolia State time and time again. For Archi

Overton, the Alabama defensive lineman who has missed the Crimson Tide's SEC Championship Game loss to Georgia and Alabama's College Football Playoff first-round win against Oklahoma, is set to return to the Crimson Tide in the CFP quarterfinal against Indiana, per 247Sports.

The second installment of the 12-team College Football Playoff brought more strong TV ratings for ESPN and ABC. All told, the first round averaged 9.9 million viewers across ESPN, ABC, TNT and truTV.

Ahead of the College Football Playoff quarterfinal in the Rose Bowl, Alabama receives an update on LT Overton.

Different ranking models, such as SP+ and FPI, would reshape College Football Playoff payouts and the financial impact for conferences.

Oklahoma finished the 2025 season 10-3. Alabama will face Indiana on Jan. 1 in the CFP’s Rose Bowl quarterfinal.

There are a couple college football-level outcasts coming out of the 2025 season, too. They're not as ugly as their green counterpart, but provided ample reasons to be despised by fans, viewers and others associated with the sport.

www.si.com/fannation/college/cfb-hq College football program forced to pay head coach for previous school's CFP win The maker of the popular Jim Beam bourbon whiskey says it will halt production at its main site in Kentucky for all of next year.

The new two-week NCAA transfer portal window opens Friday, Jan. 2 — one day after the CFP quarterfinal — and lasts through Friday, Jan. 16. Teams that play in the CFP National Championship Game will have a five-day portal period from Jan. 20-24.