This year's playoffs will start with a three-day slate of wild-card round games the weekend after Week 18. Two games will ...

The NFL playoff format belongs in "Saturday Night Live's" Washington's Dream sketch because there's no way a league that made ...

As the haggling over CFP access continues, one thing seems clear when it comes to the CFP: Adding more teams will be part of ...

Five Redding-area clubs earned the chance to compete for a section title. See the CIF Northern Section softball postseason matchups here.

The College Football Playoff will go to a more straightforward way of filling the bracket next season, announcing Thursday that it will place teams strictly on where they are ranked instead of moving ...

Many great quarterbacks have graced the NFL, but those who have consistently achieved playoff success are regarded on another level. To overcome an opponent who's had a week or two to ...

After months of meeting to discuss things to discuss at future meetings, the people in charge of the College Football Playoff ...

As the CFP toys with doing away with first-round byes, do future national champions have 17-0 seasons in them? Texas coach Steve Sarkisian says no.

Welcome to The Athletic’s live coverage of NFL Week 18. The playoff bracket is now complete ... San Francisco is back within a field goal after Josh Dobbs found a wide-open Kyle Juszczyk ...

North Carolina public high school football coaches’ salaries trail their counterparts in several southern states.