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With Florida State facing flack over a lackluster first half at the Orange Bowl, ESPN’s Booger McFarland appeared to take exception with those bashing the depleted yet unbeaten team’s credibility. 
With 23 players opting out of the game, Florida State (13–0), playing its third-string quarterback under center, hardly resembled its once-imposing lineup entering Saturday, leading to the undefeated Seminoles falling to a 42–3 halftime deficit against Georgia (12–1).
The lopsided contest, to some, justified FSU’s much-debated exclusion from the College Football Playoff.

As a scout team quarterback, Michigan’s Alex Orji gets to be many different people. Sure, he gets to be himself most of the time. But when he steps onto the practice field, he morphs into whoever his team needs him to be. In the run-up to the Rose Bowl, he’s played the part of Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe on Michigan’s scout team so they can get a sense of just what they’ll be dealing with when they face the dual threat maven on New Year’s Day.
“I’ve watched his tape before. I watch it all the time,” Orji says.

Sometimes you have to do whatever it takes to incite some extra motivation for your football team, even if they don’t need it. This was the case for Ole Miss and Lane Kiffin before the matchup with Penn State in the Peach Bowl on Saturday.
As most folks have noticed during his time as a head coach, Lane Kiffin will use social media to either troll or promote his football team. This was on full display Friday night with a twitter account that looked a little too suspicious.

The first half of the Capital One Orange Bowl was not a pretty sight, and unfortunately for anyone hoping the halftime show from a band no one seems to have heard of called Walk The Moon would serve as a palate cleanser… it did not.
While I think a lot of us expected a heavily depleted Florida State Seminoles roster to have trouble with the Georgia Bulldogs, I don’t think a lot of us expect the Red Wedding-like bloodbath in the first half.
The Bulldogs headed to the locker room at the half with a commanding 42-3 lead. Seriously, the only people who enjoyed that were Georgia fans.

New York Giants running back Saquon Barkley will also sacrifice some cash.

If there is one thing college football fans know about Ole Miss Rebels coach Lane Kiffin, it’s that he is not above pregame hijinks by any stretch of the imagination.
This mentality appears to have trickled down to the rest of his program, as Ole Miss had some fun with Penn State Nittany Lions fans on social media before their Peach Bowl matchup Saturday afternoon—as Kiffin revealed after the Rebels’ 38–25 win.
The joke began when Kiffin shared a tweet from what appeared to be a Penn State fan account on social media, making fun of Ole Miss’s offensive line.

When Chris Sale signed an extension with the Boston Red Sox in 2019—five more years under contract with an option for a sixth—he was one of the best pitchers in baseball.
Sale had been an All-Star for seven years running. He’d received Cy Young votes in each of those seasons and had led the league in strikeouts multiple times. His wiry frame had proven surprisingly durable; Sale had crossed the 200-inning threshold four times and had never made fewer than 27 starts in a season.

As bitter Big Ten rivals, one would think that Michigan players would have been beside themselves with joy watching Ohio State‘s 14—3 Cotton Bowl loss to Missouri on Friday night. But that wasn’t necessarily the case for one Wolverines player. 
As Michigan prepares for its own bowl game, a College Football Playoff semifinal matchup against Alabama on Monday, the program attended Rose Bowl Media Day on Saturday. 
Wolverines senior defensive tackle Kris Jenkins dropped an honest statement about how he digested the Buckeyes’ loss to the Tigers on Friday night.

Arch Manning is the most popular backup quarterback in college football. There’s even speculation he makes more money in NIL contracts than San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy makes in the NFL.
Not that he would know. Arch leaves the financials to mom and dad.
 “I’m not involved with my NIL. You would have to ask my dad about that. I have no idea,” he said at Sugar Bowl Media Day. “I don’t think I’m making however much more than Brock Purdy. Someone sent me that the other day.

Two years ago, on Sept. 19, 2021, the Cleveland Browns were in the midst of a 31–21 victory over the Houston Texans when one pass changed the course of team history.
Mayfield, looking for wide receiver Anthony Schwartz, threw an interception to Texans safety Justin Reid in the second quarter—and promptly injured his shoulder tackling him.
Neither Mayfield nor Schwartz were ever the same. The former could never quite shake his injury and was traded to the Carolina Panthers in July 2022; the latter’s playing time diminished until his 2023 release.