This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/olemiss as Adam Schefter Evaluates Lane Kiffin's Decision to Depart Ole Miss Football For LSU. The Ole Miss Rebels are set to begin a new era in Oxford with Lane Kiffin officially out as the head coach after making the move to join the LSU Tigers.

After failing to make the 12-team College Football Playoff, the University of Notre Dame football program has officially withdrawn itself from all other bowl consideration for this season, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Alabama and Miami are in, Notre Dame is out and Indiana is No. 1 in the College Football Playoff’s 12-team bracket.

Here's how the nation is making its picks to win it all for the College Football Playoff in NCAA.com's College Football Bracket Challenge Game.

This year's College Football Playoff field defied expectations in several ways. Here's what you need to know about the 12 teams.

ESPN's Adam Schefter gives confusing Amon-Ra St. Brown injury update before Thursday Night Football originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. There are a lot of fans who have tweet notifications turned on for ESPN's Adam Schefter.

The 11-game college football playoff begins Friday, Dec 19 when No. 9 Alabama takes on No. 8 Oklahoma and end with the national championship game on Monday, Jan 19. Every playoff game is an elimination game: The winner goes to the next round, and the loser goes home.

Will the people in charge of the CFP continue to make reactive tweaks to address smaller issues, or go bigger?