Wild Card Weekend marks the long-awaited start of the playoffs, in which 14 Super Bowl hopefuls will duke it out for a shot at football glory. And yet, with the regular season now in the rear view, we can also reflect on which players and teams produced greatness along the way.

THE NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH It's not the luck of the Irish. It's the skill, the grit, the perseverance, the clutch factor. Notre Dame beat Penn State, 27-24, in the Orange Bowl to advance to the College Football Playoff National Championship.

The Chicago Bears are in the midst of an important offseason, which starts with finding a new head coach to replace Matt Eberflus, who was fired during the season. But they're also primed to make waves in the 2025 NFL draft with another top-10 pick.

Washington and Tampa Bay face off in Florida, and you don't need cable to watch on NBC or stream on Peacock. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops.

The second game of the 2024 NFL season featured a showdown in Brazil between the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles. Now, the teams will face off in a re

With only six openings in this year’s NFL head coaching carousel, the industry will breathe a momentary sigh of relief before realizing that we are very likely in for much more turnover next year. This season reminds me a lot of the 2023 cycle in which only five jobs came open.

The NFL Wild Card Playoff round begins this weekend and there pressure to win is great. Yet, there are some figures who have the greatest pressure. Let’s some at the five people facing the most pressure in the Wild Card round,

In the aftermath of Penn State’s 27-24 loss to Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl, star edge rusher Abdul Carter will forgo his final season of eligibility and enter the 2025 NFL draft, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

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Stroud’s regression on the field and in the hobby has been jarring. In real life, the only QBs with worse EPA per dropback numbers than Stroud in the last six weeks: Drew Lock, Will Levis, Kirk Cousins, Jameis Winston, Anthony Richardson, Dorian Thompson-Robinson.

Top-seeded Kansas City sitting its starters against Denver didn't prevent plenty of skeptics from suggesting the Chiefs surrendered in order to prevent the Bengals from making the playoffs. Travis Kelce scoffed at such a thought.