Four of the eight teams remaining in the College Football Playoff certainly proved they belong after dominating their respective opponents in the first round, and now the race for the 2024 national championship embarks on the quarterfinal round in the coming days.

The SEC has been viewed as college football's best conference for more than a decade. Behind teams such as Ohio State, Michigan and Oregon, is the Big Ten building an argument for itself?

It took more than 100 years, a few billion dollars and the cold, hard realization that you can’t fight progress forever.