Indiana University has eliminated 25 athletic department jobs as it prepares for revenue sharing with athletes that is expected to begin this year.

Riley Leonard's improvement in the passing game will be a key part of seventh-seeded Notre Dame's game plan against second-seeded Georgia in the College Football Playoffs.

Jeremiyah Love tied the Notre Dame record with a 98-yard touchdown run, Riley Leonard added two more scores and the Fighting Irish shut down the highest-scoring team in the College Football Playoff, overwhelming Indiana 27-17 on Friday night.

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

Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman and Indiana coach Curt Cignetti are football junkies at heart.

Indiana coach Curt Cignetti pursued Kurtis Rourke in the transfer portal because he wanted a proven winner.

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

Curt Cignetti of Indiana has been named The Associated Press Coach of the Year in college football.

College football’s conference shakeup left concerns about two super conferences dominating the playoff field.

Now Notre Dame waits.

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.

Indiana should be able to breathe easy.

Indiana has made the type of turnaround that had only happened once before at the power-conference level over the last decade.

Indiana Hoosiers coach Curt Cignetti has been rewarded for a historic season with an eight-year contract worth an annual average of $8 million.

The signs of success can be found all around Indiana’s campus these days.

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.

Justice Ellison ran for 105 yards and two first-half touchdowns and No. 16 Indiana continued its best start in 57 years with a 56-7 rout of Nebraska, matching the Hoosiers’ most lopsided Big Ten win in program history.

The Big Ten kicked off its season with four new teams, five new coaches and 13 schools featuring new starting quarterbacks.

- Dana Holgorsen moved on from West Virginia to Houston after a successful eight-year run built around a powerful offense. James Madison, winning at least nine games for the fifth consecutive season, won't be a pushover, as the Dukes were ranked No. ABOUT JAMES MADISON (2018: 9-4)First-year coach Curt Cignetti, who replaces Mike Houston (East Carolina), was 67-26 at Elon and Indiana (Pa.) and will have 19 returning starters. West Virginia has won both games in this series, including a 42-12 victory in 2012 when Geno Smith passed for 411 yards and five TDs. PREDICTION: West Virginia 30, James Madison 21More college football scoresCopyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.