Bowl Championship Series

Chappin to leave Rose Bowl for job with College Football Playoff

2013-05-20 14:40:00

Gina Chappin, who has run media operations for the Rose Bowl game�since 2007, on Monday was named senior director of communications and brand management for the new College Football�Playoff. Chappin�will remain with the Rose Bowl through next season...

Fox, Twitter team up to promote TV shows, sell ads

2013-05-14 00:00:00

Fox and Twitter have entered into a partnership to promote the broadcaster's programs and help advertisers reach TV audiences as they discuss shows on the social network. Twitter Inc., which has established itself as the water cooler where America...

Manti Te'o puts girlfriend hoax in past at Chargers' rookie camp

2013-05-10 18:05:00

Manti Te’o is moving past the controversy that once seemed to taint his draft stock and is now focusing on stopping the run or getting to the quarterback for the San Diego Chargers. Te’o, who signed a four-year deal with the Chargers on...

BCS leaders hone new college football playoff format

2013-04-22 22:58:00

The last vestiges of the controversial Bowl Championship Series, conceived years ago on a cocktail napkin, will be phased out this week at a swank Pasadena hotel. College football power brokers are meeting in Southern California to tie up loose BCS ends...

New college football playoff system gets a less-than-original name

2013-04-23 19:05:00

The name for college football's new playoff system is … "College Football Playoff." "Brand X" and "Your Name Here" apparently were already taken. College football commissioners meeting in Pasadena this week were looking for simplicity in...

Cowboys Stadium to play host to first championship game in new format

2013-04-25 00:00:00

Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will play host to the first championship game in the new College Football Playoff. "The stadium itself was the biggest determiner," Bowl Championship Series Executive Director Bill Hancock said after the...

Power conferences in college football gain even more strength

2013-04-25 17:45:00

College football commissioners were going to end their three-day unity conference in Pasadena with a round of "Kumbaya" at the hotel's valet carport. That was before the consulting firm that dreamed up "College Football Playoff" suggested something more...

'Cheater' infiltrates new College Football Playoff logo contest

2013-04-24 14:55:00

The new College Football Playoff logo campaign hit a snag Wednesday when�what was termed a "cheater" cast 50,251 votes for logo No. 4. Fans have until Monday to cast votes for the new logo at http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/. The contractor...

New name for college football playoff is: College Football Playoff

2013-04-23 15:35:00

The new name for college football's new playoff was so inspirational and earth-shattering it could not be contained to its originally planned release date of Tuesday afternoon. Um, not exactly. It leaked out through ESPN, which owns the contract...

Oregon proposes probation over violations in football program

2013-04-16 19:06:00

The University of Oregon has acknowledged major NCAA violations in connection with football recruiting and proposed a self-imposed two-year probation with the loss of one scholarship in each of the next three years, according to documents released by...

Sam Farmer's NFL mock draft: Where's USC quarterback Matt Barkley?

2013-04-06 18:13:00

So Manti T'eo goes in the first round, but USC's Matt Barkley doesn't? With less than three weeks to go before the NFL draft, that's a distinct possibility. The Times projects four safeties, two guards and the controversial Notre Dame linebacker to go...

UCLA hires Steve Alford as basketball coach; he has big job ahead

2013-03-30 17:05:00

Steve Alford, who spent the last six seasons at New Mexico, will take over the basketball program at UCLA less than two weeks after saying how happy he was to be signing a contract extension to remain coach of the Lobos. The hiring came at the end of a...

Bill Hancock, executive director of the Bowl Championship Series, introduces the new College Football Playoff name.

2013-04-23 00:00:00

Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany talks to reporters during a break from a meeting of the Bowl Championship Series NCAA college football conference commissioners.

2013-04-23 00:00:00

South Bend Tribune/JAMES BROSHER Notre Dame tight end pours a cup of water on his head in celebration after ESPN's Samantha Ponder, bottom left, hit a trick shot with a ping pong ball off the BCS trophy at media day before the BCS National Championship Game on Saturday, Jan.

2013-02-01 00:00:00