Bob Asmussen is a college football reporter and columnist for The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-393-8248 or [email protected].

Year 1 of the 12-team College Football Playoff is almost complete. Notre Dame will face Ohio State on Jan. 20 in the CFP National Championship with the winner earning bragging rights as the first team to run the table in the newly expanded playoff format.

The former Illinois redshirt freshman punter announced Jan. 10 on social media that he has transferred to Central Michigan in order to utilize his final three years of eligibility. Duley, a 6-foot-1, 215-pound El Paso-Gridley graduate, entered the NCAA transfer portal on Dec. 9.

An athletic director has a proposal for taming what many say is a transfer-portal system run amok in college sports.

Five local Massachussets football players head to the college football championship as a part of the Notre Dame unit.

All-Big Ten outside linebacker Jacas announced Monday that he will return to the Illini next season for 'one last ride'

The Mountain West Conference has announced the addition of Northern Illinois in football after the school's board of trustees approved the move on Tuesday. Northern Illinois, which will begin competing in the conference in 2026,

Either Ohio State or Notre Dame will not just be a worthy champion, but one that deserves recognition for surviving a gauntlet of four playoff games.

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No one is going to mistake blue bloods Notre Dame and Ohio State for a Cinderella, but the winner of Monday's College Football Playoff National Championship will complete one of the greatest redemption arcs in modern college football history.