The nine Bowl Subdivision conferences and Notre Dame have reached an agreement on a six-year deal to continue the College Football Playoff through the 2031 season.

College Football Playoff officials are considering a 14-team model that would guarantee multiple automatic bids for each of the four power conferences, starting in 2026.

There are already discussions about possibly expanding the College Football Playoff again.

The field for the 12-team College Football Playoff will comprise five conference champions and seven at-large selections after the university presidents who oversee the CFP voted unanimously to tweak the format.

Two people with knowledge of the agreement say ESPN and the College Football Playoff have agreed to a six-year deal worth $1.3 billion annually that will allow the network to keep exclusive rights to the 12-team playoff through the 2031 season.

That extra year of eligibility granted by the NCAA because of the pandemic-shortened 2020 season is paying off for the teams playing in the College Football Playoff championship game Monday night.

Just like the Michigan Wolverines are getting ready for Houston, so are the fans in Ann Arbor.

The M Den store on State Street in Ann Arbor had a steady stream of visitors Wednesday, looking to buy gear commemorating Monday's win and next Monday's matchup against the Washington Huskies.

If you aren’t flying to Houston to see Michigan play Washington on Monday, Jan. 8, you can watch the game closer to home.

All those 9-on-7 drills paid off for Michigan.

Every time Michigan football scores a touchdown in the Rose Bowl vs. Alabama on Jan. 1, 2024, we’re giving away a TV.

The College Football Playoff semifinal at the Rose Bowl pits the No. 1 Michigan Wolverines against the No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide, the two winningest programs in major college football.

The way Blake Corum sees it, the Michigan Wolverines are unbeaten, top-ranked and two wins away from a national championship because of all the turmoil they’ve overcome this year, not in spite of it.

A software company that manages practice video footage for college football teams says the NCAA is looking into possible unauthorized access to its data.

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Michigan and Texas both expect to have key players who were limited in their conference championship games healthy for the College Football Playoff.

Watching Michigan and Alabama in the Rose Bowl is going to be fun -- but watching it on the big screen is more fun!

Defensive coordinator Jesse Minter did plenty of self reflection on the plane ride back from Arizona after Michigan lost a 51-45 shootout to TCU in last year’s Fiesta Bowl CFP semifinal.

The Alabama Crimson Tide caused a stir at the Rose Bowl when they revealed they’ve restricted their players’ game film viewing on iPads heading into the College Football Playoff semifinal against Michigan because of concerns about hacking.

Top-ranked Michigan has shown during its journey to the College Football Playoffs that whatever obstacles are put in its way, it ends up galvanizing the team.

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Colorado coach Deion Sanders believes the NCAA or the Rose Bowl should step in and reimburse his players for the items that went missing from the Buffaloes' locker room while they played at No. 20 UCLA over the weekend.

The College Football Playoff will include 12 teams, starting with the 2024 season.

The College Football Playoff says it will expand to a 12-team event starting in 2024.

Rose Bowl game organizers have cleared the way for the College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams starting in the 2024 season.

The conference commissioners who manage the College Football Playoff have met for almost seven hours to work on expanding the postseason system from four to 12 teams as soon as the 2024 season.

The College Football Playoff management committee gathered for 4 1/2 hours at a hotel in the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.

The NFL, not surprisingly in the midst of a rise in COVID-19 cases, has looked into other potential sites for next month’s Super Bowl.

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A year after New Year’s Day passed without a Rose Parade due to the coronavirus pandemic, the floral spectacle celebrating the arrival of 2022 marched on despite a new surge of infections.

The Rose Parade and Rose Bowl college football game between Ohio State and Utah are set to go forward on New Year’s Day despite surging cases of COVID-19, which forced the cancellation of the 2021 parade.

If a team is unavailable to play in College Football Playoff semifinals because of COVID-19 issues, the game will be forfeited and the available team will advance to the championship game.

A quiz to test your knowledge of festive sports traditions!

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says expanding the College Football Playoff as soon as the 2024 season is "in some jeopardy" if an agreement on a new format cannot be reached soon.

The latest meeting on expanding the College Football Playoff has wrapped up in Dallas without any announcement.

Here’s a look at every possible bowl destination for Michigan football, which teams it could face in those bowls and what has to happen for each matchup to become reality.

If Michigan football and Michigan State both lose to Ohio State and finish the season 10-2, which one would go to the Rose Bowl?

Huddle up! Here’s a look back at this weekend on the gridiron, with three key takeaways from the state’s football scene.

Members of the Rolling Stones have shared tributes to their unshakeable drummer Charlie Watts, who died Tuesday at the age of 80.

Rolling Stones fans in the United States will finally be getting, yes, some satisfaction: The band announced it was relaunching its “No Filter” tour, derailed by the pandemic, this fall.

As the NFL celebrated the conclusion of an in-person draft on the shores of Lake Erie that went swimmingly one year after a virtual event caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, one main fact emerged.

Ohio State is back for the first time since winning the inaugural title in the CFP era. After the SEC champion Crimson Tide rolled past Notre Dame 31-14 in a Rose Bowl played deep in the heart of Texas, the No. 3 Buckeyes of the Big Ten beat Clemson 49-28 in the other CFP semifinal at the Sugar Bowl on Friday night. The Tigers were trying, like Alabama, to get to the title game for the fifth time in the seven seasons of the four-team playoff. Alabama was the top seed in the first four-team playoff, but Ohio State beat the Tide 42-35 in the semifinal Sugar Bowl.

Notre Dame quarterback Ian Book (12) is sacked by Alabama defensive lineman Byron Young (47) in the second half of the Rose Bowl NCAA college football game in Arlington, Texas, Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Ainsworth)ARLINGTON, Texas – Ian Book had Notre Dame moving with a chance to get within a touchdown of No. A few plays later, the Irish quarterback was out of the game after 310-pound defensive tackle Christian Barmore fell on top of Book on a 14-yard sack. On the next Irish possession, Book ended up in the medical tent after Barmore's sack, replaced by freshman Drew Pyne. Notre Dame beat the Tigers 47-40 in November while Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence was sidelined because of a positive COVID-19 test.

(AP Photo/Michael Ainsworth)ARLINGTON, Texas – A truly untraditional Rose Bowl setting, a very common result for Alabama in the College Football Playoff. 4 Notre Dame in a CFP semifinal Rose Bowl played inside about 1,400 miles from Pasadena, California. “I don't think there’s anything quite like the Rose Bowl, the tradition, the setting, the mountains. 3 Ohio State, which beat Clemson 49-28 in the other CFP semifinal at the Sugar Bowl on Friday night. PERFECT AT COWS HOMEAlabama is 5-0 at AT&T Stadium, with a pair of convincing CFP semifinal wins there.

4 Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff semifinal originally scheduled to serve as the 107th Rose Bowl, the playoff committee announced Sunday. “Our guys recognize what they’ll need to do relative to the mental preparation of playing a great football team in Alabama. But instead of a week amid the pomp and pageantry of the Rose Bowl, the teams will spend their semifinal week in Arlington, Texas. Oregon State beat Duke in Durham, North Carolina, in that version of the Rose Bowl. The festive week of genteel celebrations around the Rose Bowl game had already been mostly canceled.

FILE - This Jan. 2, 2017, file pool photo, shows an aerial view of the empty Rose Bowl stadium before to the Rose Bowl NCAA college football game between Southern California and Penn State in Pasadena, Calif. The Rose Bowl asked the state for an exception to the restriction, but was denied twice, including earlier this week. Hancock said it had not yet been determined if the semifinal at AT&T Stadium in Arlington would still be called the Rose Bowl. The first Rose Bowl was played Jan. 1, 1902. The last time the Rose Bowl game was played outside Pasadena, California, was 1942.

“Why would we play if you can’t have families at the game?" "If you can’t have families at bowl games, why would you go to a game where your families can’t be part of it? “Why can’t it be the Rose Bowl in Las Vegas or can it be the Rose Bowl in another town?” Kelly said. "They can’t be around their families for Christmas, and you’re going to tell me we’re going to have a playoff and maybe one site can have families and the other can’t? I am so sick and tired of this playoff committee talking about having sites where you can’t have parents at and their families.

Alabama punt returner DeVonta Smith (6) returns a punt for a touchdown against Arkansas during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, in Fayetteville, Ark. (AP Photo/Michael Woods)Alabama, Notre Dame, Clemson and Ohio State will enter championship weekend in position to make the College Football Playoff with very little drama. Ohio State (5-0) is fourth going into the Big Ten title game against Northwestern, and Texas A&M is on deck at No. The unbeaten Bearcats host Tulsa, which is 23rd, in the American Athletic Conference title game. "We continue to work with the College Football Playoff and local health officials to provide the safest possible environment at our game.”___More AP college football: https://apnews.com/Collegefootball and http:www.twitter.com/AP_Top25

This would require the Citrus Bowl to select Michigan over either Penn State or Wisconsin. That means the Citrus Bowl has only hosted three Big Ten schools under the current agreement: Minnesota, Michigan and Penn State. If Michigan has fallen this far, it means Wisconsin is either in the Rose Bowl or Citrus Bowl. If Penn State and Wisconsin take the Rose Bowl and Citrus Bowl, Minnesota takes the Outback Bowl and Iowa takes the Holiday Bowl, Michigan could conceivably fall to this point. A Michigan vs. Alabama battle in the Citrus Bowl would certainly be the most high-profile non-New Year’s Six game.

Jalen Hurts #1 of the Oklahoma Sooners breaks free from the pocket on a run during the first half of a game against the UCLA Bruins at the Rose Bowl on September 14, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Coming off one of the most efficient passing performances in school history, the Alabama transfer attempts to continue what has been a dream season on Saturday when the fifth-ranked Sooners visit Kansas State. Oklahoma boasts the nation's top scoring offense (50.4 points), while Kansas State owns the Big 12's top scoring defense (18.7). The Sooners have won 22 consecutive true road contests and have scored at least 34 points in a school-record 17 straight games. PREDICTION: Oklahoma 45, Kansas State 17More college football scoresCopyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

Redshirt freshman receiver Sam James, who has at least five catches in every game, is tied for third in the Big 12 and tied for 25th in FBS with 37 receptions. Jalen Hurts leads all quarterbacks with 105 yards rushing per game and is averaging 398 yards of total offense - more than 54 FBS teams. Oklahoma and West Virginia have combined for no fewer than 68 points in their last seven meetings, and the Sooners have scored at least 44 points in six of those contests. Mountaineers DL Darius Stills ranks fourth in the Big 12 in tackles-for-loss per game (1.4) and tied for third in sacks per game (0.7). PREDICTION: Oklahoma 52, West Virginia 17More college football scoresCopyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

Jalen Hurts #1 of the Oklahoma Sooners breaks free from the pocket on a run during the first half of a game against the UCLA Bruins at the Rose Bowl on September 14, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)DALLAS, Texas - Oklahoma has suffered only three losses while winning four straight Big 12 championships, although two of those defeats have come courtesy of Texas. Texas is the only Big 12 program with a winning record against Oklahoma (62-47-5), although the Sooners have won seven of the last 10 meetings. The Sooners have held four consecutive opponents to 20 points or fewer in the same season for the first time since 2006. PREDICTION: Oklahoma 45, Texas 41More college football scoresCopyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

(Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)PASADENA, Calif. - The growing pains continued last week for Oregon State, which lost another heartbreaker in the final seconds to Stanford. The Beavers' best remaining chance for a Pac-12 win could come against UCLA, which followed its wild 67-63 win over Washington State with a 20-17 loss to Arizona last week. UCLA has won the last two meetings against Oregon State and holds a 43-16-4 advantage in the all-time series. Oregon State and Iowa are the only two teams nationally who have committed just one turnover this season. PREDICTION: UCLA 27, Oregon State 23More college football scoresCopyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

The fourth-ranked Sooners look to continue adding to their otherworldly offensive production Saturday when they seek a 15th consecutive victory over host Kansas. Enough ain't enough," Hurts said after his offense rolled up over 600 total yards for the fourth time in as many tries. Oklahoma has outscored Kansas 603-186 during its 14-game winning streak in this series, winning each contest by at least 15 points. The Sooners are averaging 10.4 yards per play in 2019, nearly two yards higher than their record-setting offense last year (8.6). PREDICTION: Oklahoma 56, Kansas 21More college football scoresCopyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

Even though the Red Raiders appear to be dramatically improved on defense in 2019, the fourth-ranked Sooners will attempt to continue their offensive onslaught Saturday when they host Texas Tech in the Big 12 opener for both programs. ABOUT TEXAS TECH (2-1)Starting quarterback Alan Bowman - the Big 12's leading passer with 340 yards per game - sustained a left shoulder injury against Arizona that will sideline him several weeks. Texas Tech's last victory over a top-10 opponent on the road came against the Sooners in 2011. Oklahoma has run one fewer play than its opponents this season (195-194) but outgained its foes by 972 yards (2,030-1,058). PREDICTION: Oklahoma 52, Texas Tech 24More college football scoresCopyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

(Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)CINCINNATI, Ohio - Cincinnati and Miami (Ohio) meet for the 124th time Saturday in the annual Victory Bell battle between schools some 45 minutes apart in southwest Ohio. LINE: Cincinnati -17.5Last week, Cincinnati traveled to No. 6 Ohio State hoping to pull off an upset but was unable to generate much offense and was drubbed 42-0. Not only did Cincinnati's offense struggle against Ohio State, but its defense was unable to carry its weight, giving up 31 first downs and 508 total yards. PREDICTION: Cincinnati 31, Miami 20More college football scoresCopyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

Alex Morgan, Ali Krieger and Megan Rapinoe celebrate during a victory ticker-tape parade for the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team on July 10, 2019, in the Manhattan borough of New York City. (CNN) - The US women's soccer team, still World Champions and emerging advocates for women's rights, returned to center stage with flair Saturday night. On the field, the Americans dispatched Ireland 3-0 in a friendly at the Rose Bowl, their first match since winning the World Cup last month in France. Off the pitch this weekend, the US Women's National Team Players Association announced a partnership with Time's Up activists to raise funds to help fight for pay equity in various industries. "I think it's part of what this team is about, what these players are about," coach Jill Ellis said after the game.