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Choosing a national champion in college football hasn't always been easy. Let's look at the definitive list of every title winner since the 1869.
Indiana has mostly known losing for more than a century. Now, improbably, Curt Cignetti has the Hoosiers on top of college football.
The Minnesota Gophers will play 12 regular season games in 2026. Three of them are non-conference tilts, and all of those will be played at Huntington Bank Stadium. The Gophers hosting SEC foe Mississippi State could prove to be an impressive test early.
The Indiana Hoosiers have set a new standard during the College Football Playoff era. In the process, Indiana broke a Georgia record
Quarterback Matthew Stafford, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, won the 2021 Super Bowl after joining the Los Angeles Rams following 12 seasons with the Detroit Lions. Before hearing his name called first in the NFL draft, Stafford played in the SEC, where he started at Georgia for three seasons.
When LSU chose Lane Kiffin to lead its football program, it hired one of the country’s most well-known coaches to take over one of its most storied programs. But not every coach to walk the sideline in Baton Rouge has been nearly so prestigious ...