Michigan (7-5) and Alabama (9-3) will battle it out at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa in the ReliaQuest Bowl on New Year's Eve.

USC has some specific advantages in the 2025 schedule which it lacked in 2024. There is no excuse for the Trojans to not win several more games next year.

Four first-round playoff games, which will end with four good teams going home without a bowl game, had the potential to ...