Eddie Pells

Ohio State received top billing in the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season, followed by Indiana, Texas A&M and Alabama.

The new College Sports Commission said it has cleared more than 8,300 name, image and likeness deals, with 332 deals not cleared and 75 resubmitted.

College football’s future wore a baby blue suit, a gold pin that said “UCLA” and a pair of diamond-encrusted hoop earrings.

All the reshuffling of schedules, conferences and playoff formats has placed one of college football’s best traditions in peril: the USC-Notre Dame game.

Commissioner Tony Petitti said any change that adds at-large bids and increases the role of a selection committee “will have a difficult time getting support of the Big Ten.”

Thousands of former athletes due to receive damages could have to wait more than a year to get paid while appeals in the $2.8 billion NCAA settlement play out.