Before I wrapped up a recent phone conversation with TCU head coach Sonny Dykes, we visited the one of many topics reshaping the sport: Which College Football Playoff format does he actually prefer? Twelve teams? Sixteen? The Big Ten’s floated 24-team model? What I got is one of the rarest commodities in sports journalism: a straight answer. "I like the FCS model," Dykes told me, referring to the Football Championship Subdivision, the NCAA's second tier of Division I football. "Why in the world are we having conference championship games if they tell us conference championship games don’t matt...

1 hour ago

On HALO