CBR’s ‘Way Too Early’ 2014 Top 10: No. 7 Oklahoma Sooners No. 7 Oklahoma Sooners Bob Stoops’ squad showed us something we weren’t sure the Sooners could do this year when they outplayed and outhustled Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. Did we see a glimpse of what’s to come or just a one-game aberration? Oklahoma […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports The coaching carousel got off to a ho-hum start at the end of the college football regular season, but it is revving up in 2014. First it was Charlie Strong heading to Texas which opened up the Louisville job where Bobby Petrino got re-hired after the Cardinals AD had a brief […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports CBR's "Way Too Early" Top 10 No. 8 LSU Tigers In nine years as head coach at LSU, Les Miles has double-digit wins in seven of those seasons and has led the Tigers to five top ten finishes. LSU will have to overcome the loss of four early entrants into the […]

CBR’s ‘Way Too Early’ 2014 Top 10 No. 9 Michigan State Bulldogs You could make an argument that Michigan State was playing as well as anyone at the end of the season, but a loss to Notre Dame cost the Spartans a shot at a national title. However, coach Mark Dantonio is not going to […]

Florida State was the easy pick at the top of our staff rankings at the end of the year. Photo: USA Today Sports We already shared our final power rankings for the 2013 season following the conference championships had been sorted out, but with the bowl season now in the books we figured it was […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports CBR's "Way Too Early" Top 10 No. 10 Stanford Cardinal David Shaw has only been a head coach for three years but each year he's led Stanford to a BCS bowl game. With an overall record of 34-7 and a Pac-12 record of 23-4, odds are in favor of Shaw and […]

PHOTO: USA Today Sports The Florida State Seminoles knocked off the Auburn Tigers in a thriller on Monday night and now we have a long eight month wait ahead of us until the 2014 season. Recruiting season will kick off the off-season, then it's the NFL Draft and spring practice and then the long summer […]

This may have been the final crystal ball run, but how much is really changing in 2014? Photo: USA Today Sports The 2013 college football season provided plenty of drama from start to finish, so it may be fitting that the season's final minutes delivered some intense moments with the championship on the line. As […]

With the BCS era coming to an end in spectacular fashion, it just seems right to rank the 16 title games from least impressive to most impressive. Let’s be up front about this — the ranking is usually based on the excitement of the game, but there’s a chance the significance of the win plays […]

Auburn may have lost the BCS Championship Game to Florida State, but they still have a chance to win on their way home. 47 of them, to be exact. National dining chain Denny's had one of the best BCS Championship Game tweets of the night, perhaps, reminding Auburn they have 47 chances to be winners […]

Florida State claimed their first national championship since the 1999 season and snapped the SEC's BCS title streak at seven. Photo: USA Today Sports Talk about going out in style. The Bowl Championship Series may have saved its best batch of bowl games for the last year in existence. Before turning things over to the College […]