The No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament along with the last spots in the 68-team field will be riding on the outcome of a plethora of conference tournaments this week.

College football’s annual rite of spring seems to be withering.

A proposed rule change intended to discourage players from faking injuries that prompt unwarranted timeouts will be considered when the NCAA Football Rules Committee meets this month.

Lauren Betts had 19 points and 14 rebounds, Gabriela Jaquez scored 17 and top-ranked UCLA pulled away from No. 8 Ohio State in the fourth quarter for a 65-52 victory on Wednesday night.

Vanderbilt is back in The Associated Press women’s basketball Top 25 for the first time since 2014, ranked No. 23 this week.

Ohio State’s run to its first national championship in a decade enabled the Buckeyes to dominate the Associated Press’ all-College Football Playoff team.

The early betting favorite to win next year’s national championship is Ohio State.

Ryan Day deserved to feel vindication when he won a national championship less than two months after it seemed his Ohio State job was on the line.

Ohio State is No. 1 in the final Associated Press Top 25 football poll of the season after beating Notre Dame for its first national championship since 2014.

Jayden Fielding’s 33-yard field goal with 26 seconds remaining did more than secure Ohio State’s 34-23 victory over Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff title game on Monday night.

Riley Leonard opened the national championship game with a do-it-all drive that made it appear the Notre Dame quarterback could win the title by himself.

Will Howard transferred to Ohio State to win a national championship, and he reached that goal by playing the best football of his career throughout the Buckeyes’ four games in the College Football Playoff.

Ohio State can celebrate another title after holding off a Notre Dame comeback bid to walk away with a nailbiter of a 34-23 victory over the Fighting Irish.

Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith was able to keep a team-first approach after having extra defensive attention make him almost invisible in the Buckeyes’ Cotton Bowl win over Texas in the College Football Playoff semifinals.

When former Florida and Ohio State coach Urban Meyer reflects on his career, he remembers the losses as much as the wins.

Ohio State and Notre Dame arrived in Atlanta on their charter flights on Friday as the teams moved closer to Monday night’s College Football Playoff national championship game.

The Big Ten could puff out its chest over having two of its teams in the College Football Playoff semifinals.

Notre Dame and Ohio State fans have had to endure unprecedented travel demands throughout college football’s first 12-team playoff to reach Monday night’s national championship game.

Ohio State freshman Jeremiah Smith piled up 290 yards receiving in two postseason wins and was looking like the star to stop for the rest of the College Football Playoff field.

Texas junior quarterback Quinn Ewers has declared for the NFL draft, ending a Longhorns career in which he led the program to a Big 12 championship and twice to the College Football Playoff but was not always embraced by a fan base eagerly waiting for Arch Manning to take over.

Ohio State has been purposely pacing itself on offense all season.

When Mike Vrabel began his post-NFL playing career as an assistant coach at Ohio State in 2011, he had thoughts of one day returning to the New England Patriots.

The year was 1894.

The first 12-team version of the College Football Playoff has reached the national championship game and it will be Ohio State against Notre Dame.

Ohio State is favored by 9 1/2 points over Notre Dame in the College Football Championship national title game.

Ohio State this time gets the chance to play for the national title after another bitter loss to its biggest rival.

Quinshon Judkins ran for two touchdowns before Jack Sawyer forced a fumble by his former roommate and Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers that he returned 83 yards for a touchdown with 2:13 left as Ohio State beat Texas 28-14 in the Cotton Bowl.

Two upset losses stood out among the rest in college football this season.

Texas and Ohio State arrived for the College Football Playoff semifinal game at the Cotton Bowl before the snow expected to hit the North Texas area.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed legislation that boosts the rights of parents to know when schools are changing their child’s health care or preparing to present lessons involving sexuality or gender.

One victory over Texas in the College Football Playoff semifinals would more than make up for years of frustration for Ohio State quarterback Will Howard.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed part of a bill cast by state lawmakers as protecting the medical free speech of doctors and other health professionals.

In the first round of the College Football Playoff, the teams seeded 5-8 all won.

The College Football Playoff expanded to 12 teams to get some new blood.

Texas will be a whole lot closer to home than Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl.

Oregon withstood many challenges en route to being the only unbeaten team and the top seed in the College Football Playoff.

No. 6 Ohio State roared into the College Football Playoff semifinals with a 41-21 victory over No. 1 Oregon in the 111th Rose Bowl.

Texas avoided the first big upset of the College Football Playoff, hitting a fourth-and-long touchdown pass to keep the game going and beating Arizona State 39-31 in double overtime when an interception by Andrew Mukuba finally ended a Peach Bowl quarterfinal classic.

Michigan’s defense sacked Jalen Milroe five times and forced three turnovers by the Alabama quarterback to lead the Wolverines to a 19-13 victory over the 11th-ranked Crimson Tide in the ReliaQuest Bowl.

Oregon Ducks quarterback Dillon Gabriel is in his sixth season with his third top program.

Oregon and Ohio State have already produced one heck of a game this season.

Ohio State players had been thinking about a rematch with Oregon long before the Buckeyes crushed Tennessee in a first-round playoff game.

The average final score over the first week of the College Football Playoffs: Winners 36, Losers 17.

Will Howard threw two touchdown passes to freshman Jeremiah Smith and Ohio State routed Tennessee 42-17 on Saturday night in a first-round College Football Playoff game, setting up a New Year’s Day rematch with No. 1 Oregon at the Rose Bowl.

SMU's Kevin Jennings is the only quarterback starting for his hometown team in the 12-team College Football Playoff.

The College Football Playoff gets started this week with four games on college campuses.

An Ohio politician has seen enough flag planting.

The college football transfer portal has opened a day after the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff field was released.

SMU captured the last open spot in the 12-team College Football Playoff, bumping Alabama to land in a bracket that placed undefeated Oregon at No. 1.

Undefeated Oregon pulled off the expected and grabbed the top spot in the College Football Playoff.

Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Oregon and Ohio State are bringing in the nation's top recruiting class as high school prospects across the country finalize their college plans.

Miami’s playoff hopes took a nosedive while Alabama’s got a boost in the last rankings before the College Football Playoff bracket is set next weekend.

Now Notre Dame waits.

Baker Mayfield is hoping the NCAA doesn’t outlaw flag planting.

The Big Ten Conference has announced it fined Michigan and Ohio State $100,000 each for violating the conference’s sportsmanship policy for the on-field melee at the end of the Wolverines’ win in Columbus.

Ohio State, Miami and Clemson plunged in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll following losses over the weekend.

It was flag day in college football.

A fight broke out at midfield after Michigan stunned No. 2 Ohio State 13-10 on Saturday when Wolverines players attempted to plant their flag on the OSU logo and were confronted by the Buckeyes.

Dominic Zvada kicked a 21-yard field goal with 45 seconds left and Michigan stunned No. 2 Ohio State 13-10, ending the Buckeyes’ hopes of returning to the Big Ten title game.

A ban on transgender students from kindergarten through college using multiperson bathrooms that fit their gender identities has become law in Ohio.

The Southeastern Conference’s losses were almost everyone else’s gain in the College Football Playoff rankings, with SMU nudging its way into the top 12 and Indiana staying in the mix at No. 10 despite a lopsided loss of its own.

The expanded Big Ten is poised to be a major player in this season’s College Football Playoff.

The Big 12 will command a lot of attention in the final week of the regular season.

Alabama and Mississippi tumbled out of the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll and Miami and SMU moved in following a chaotic weekend in the SEC.

Will Howard passed for two touchdowns and rushed for another, TreVeyon Henderson ran for a score and No. 2 Ohio State beat previously undefeated No. 5 Indiana 38-15.

Boise State received the fourth and final bye in this week's College Football Playoff rankings, leaving BYU out of that mix and the Big 12 on the list of power conferences with a gripe.

Kansas strengthened its grip on No. 1 in the AP Top 25.

Oregon remains the unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll after its close call at Wisconsin.

Ohio State wide receiver Carnell Tate celebrated his Chicago homecoming with two touchdown receptions against Northwestern at Wrigley Field.

Oregon’s dominance in its first year in the Big Ten and Indiana’s monumental turnaround have helped the conference stack four of its teams in the top five of The Associated Press college football poll for the first time.

Undefeated Oregon got top billing in the first set of rankings on the road to college football's new, 12-team playoff.

Oregon is a unanimous choice for No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll.

Will Howard threw for 182 yards and two touchdowns and No. 4 Ohio State’s defense made a late defensive stand to lift the Buckeyes over No. 3 Penn State 20-13.

Miami has climbed to No. 5 in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll, its highest ranking since 2017.

Will Howard tossed three touchdown passes, but No. 4 Ohio State needed an interception by cornerback Jordan Hancock’s with 1:16 left to seal its 21-17 win over Nebraska.

This college football season is delivering when it comes to unpredictability and entertainment value.

Oregon has become the fourth team this season to hold the No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press college football poll.

The Oregon football team's decision to exploit a loophole in the rules late in a win over Ohio State is hardly new.

Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty is a unanimous selection and Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter occupies two first-team positions on The Associated Press midseason All-America team.

The NCAA football rules committee has issued guidance to close a loophole that allowed second-ranked Oregon to exploit an illegal substitution penalty late in its victory over Ohio State to take time off the clock.

No. 2 Oregon had 12 men on the field late in its 32-31 win over No. 4 Ohio State, with the resulting penalty causing precious seconds to wind off the clock.

Oregon and Penn State each moved up a spot in The Associated Press college football poll following thrilling wins in high-profile games.

Dillon Gabriel threw two touchdown passes and ran for another late score to help third-ranked Oregon hand No. 2 Ohio State its first loss of the season, 32-31 on Saturday night.

Oregon receiver Traeshon Holden was ejected from the third-ranked Ducks' game against Ohio State for unsportsmanlike conduct after he spit on a Buckeyes player.

The Big Ten has become a landing zone for quarterbacks on the move.

It was a week of upheaval in The Associated Press college football poll.

JD Vance once criticized a bipartisan 2021 law that invested billions in America’s crumbling infrastructure.

There's nothing but Big Ten games ahead for No. 3 Ohio State.

Florida State has fallen out of The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll after starting the season 0-2.

Freshman Jeremiah Smith caught two touchdown passes and No. 2 Ohio State overcame a sluggish start to bury Akron 52-6 in the opener for both teams Saturday.

Missouri and Tennessee typically aren’t confused for Georgia and Ohio State when it comes to college football’s powers.

Ohio State safety Caleb Downs is one of the second-ranked Buckeyes’ high-profile transfers.

A new study says Pennsylvania drivers get pulled over and are cited by state police at roughly comparable rates no matter their race or ethnicity.

Tradition-rich college football programs Nebraska, Ohio State and Alabama are capitalizing on the passion of their fans to generate funds for their NIL collectives.

Ohio State coach Ryan Day sounds confident and comfortable discussing this year’s football team.

Big Ten quarterback competitions that started in the spring will carry over to the fall.

Pat Chun has been introduced as the new athletic director at the University of Washington, leaving behind six years in the same role at Washington State to take the reins of the rival program that will begin life in the Big Ten Conference this fall.

Reigan Richardson scored 28 points and added seven rebounds as No. 7 Duke rallied from a 16-point first-half deficit to beat No. 2 Ohio State 75-63 on Sunday and earn a spot in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2018.

Jacy Sheldon had 19 points and three other Ohio State players scored in double figures as the Buckeyes ran away from Maine 80-57 in an opening game of the women's NCAA Tournament Friday.

Perfect brackets on the ESPN Tournament Challenge site fell hard after second-seeded Ohio State’s exit Sunday in the second round action of the women’s NCAA Tournament.