Eddie Pells

The “eye test” — that decades-old splash of subjectiveness that the 12-team College Football Playoff was built to subvert — will play a meaningful role in setting the bracket.

Ohio State received top billing in the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season, followed by Indiana, Texas A&M and Alabama.

A proposed bill in the U.S. Senate is designed to protect athletes, Olympic sports and smaller conferences that could be getting priced out of the increasingly expensive NIL business.

The new College Sports Commission said it has cleared more than 8,300 name, image and likeness deals, with 332 deals not cleared and 75 resubmitted.

With opening kickoffs approaching in college football, reality hits: The more things change, the more they stay the same.