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The two-time defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs (12-1) are in excellent position to secure home-field advantage throughout the playoffs after Matthew Wright drilled a 31-yard field goal off the left upright and through the goal posts as time ...

The expanded College Football Playoff brings something new for coaches who are used to planning for one game, maybe two: Rust vs. rest.

A small plane circled MetLife Stadium roughly 90 minutes before New York hosted the New Orleans Saints on Sunday, urging Giants co-owner John Mara to overhaul a team that has made the playoffs twice since winning the Super Bowl in February 2012.

Saquon Barkley rushed for 124 yards to break the Eagles season record, Jalen Hurts threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score, and Philadelphia won its ninth straight game, 22-16 over the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.

The Purdue Boilermakers are giving UNLV coach Barry Odom a second chance to lead a Power Four program.

Georgia moved up to No. 2 behind Oregon in The Associated Press Top 25 on Sunday, Texas and Penn State remained in the top five after losing conference championship games, and Arizona State appeared in the top 10 for the first time in a decade.

SMU captured the last open spot in the College Football Playoff, edging Alabama to land in a first-of-its-kind, 12-team bracket that placed undefeated Oregon at No. 1.

Georgia earned a spot in the College Football Playoff and an almost certain first-round bye despite an ugly win that included an injury to starting quarterback Carson Beck.

A Kentucky man is betting that the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles will beat the Carolina Panthers at home Sunday, $3.1 million to be exact, for an expected net payout of only $442,800.

Bryson Daily was the American Athletic Conference's offensive player of the year, then the MVP of its championship game.