Boise State won two Fiesta Bowls from 2006-09. More recent examples include 2017 UCF, that year's national champion according ...

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The 2024 season brings unprecedented opportunity for the Group of Five. The new 12-team College Football Playoff format means that a team outside of the Power Four ranks will be guaranteed one of the ...

The second College Football Playoff rankings of the 2025 season, released on Tuesday night, provided the most recent glimpse into which Group of Five squad would make the bracket. As things stood, USF ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Giovanni Malloy, Ph.d, is a data scientist and sports analyst. South Florida’s early-season Cinderella surge came to a halt in ...

The newly expanded College Football Playoff will provide greater opportunity for more teams to play for a national championship. But, inevitably, eligible teams will be left out regardless of how big ...

The College Football Playoff expanded to 12 teams before the 2024 season. The expanded format allows more teams to earn bids, but what makes it especially notable is the automatic inclusion of a Group ...

During the first decade of the College Football Playoff, just one Group of Five team reached the four-team field. That was Cincinnati during the 2021 season, and the Bearcats had to stack consecutive ...

Tulane Green Wave quarterback Michael Pratt throws a pass before a Group of Five college football game. / Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sports In an age of constant change around college football that ...

When the 2025 college football season kicks off for BYU and Utah on Aug. 30, it won’t be a big surprise if both the Cougars and the Utes are led by quarterbacks who transferred from Group of Five ...

At 4-0, the UNLV Rebels still look like a serious contender to win the Mountain West and come out of the Group of Five to make the expanded College Football Playoff. While they would not be the first ...