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 Notre Dame at Pittsburgh Game Preview          College GameDay heads to Pittsburgh this Saturday as the Panthers take on Notre Dame at 12:00, on ABC. This match-up has high-stakes implications when it comes to the overall playoff picture. They key match-ups and stakes will be discussed here, along with a prediction.     The Stakes:                Notre Dame is currently in the playoff at No. 9 in the country, though it is questionable whether they deserve to be ranked that high. As it is, though, if they win out, they are in the playoff just a year after making it all the way to the National Championship Game. If they lose a game, though, their season is pretty much over. This game at Pittsburgh is probably their toughest game left on their schedule, so the stakes in this game for the Fighting Irish are simple: win, and you have a clear path to the playoff; lose, and your playoff hopes are dead. For the Pit...

      The second edition of the 2025 College Football Playoff Selection Committee Rankings came out Tuesday. Much of it stayed the same with the first rankings, but there was some movement, as some ranked teams did drop games last Saturday. Let's get into the rankings.      Coming in at the 25th spot was Cincinnati. After losing to Utah two weeks ago, they were off last week, but got into the rankings because some teams fell out. South Florida checks in at No. 24, as, after a heartbreaking loss to Memphis two weeks ago, they got a bounce-back 55-23 win over UTSA. Tennessee is No. 23. Pittsburgh is No. 22, and they host Game Day this week against Notre Dame. Iowa, only dropping one spot after a heartbreaking loss to Oregon, is No. 21. Despite still being in the rankings, that loss effectively ended their playoff chances, as they are now a three-loss team. At No. 20 is a team who just had a loss which was a huge blow to their season, the Louisville Cardinals....

 World Series Recap and Reaction     Entering the 2025 MLB World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the defending champions of baseball, were dominating almost every team they played in the postseason. They had swept the Cincinnati Reds in the Wild Card series, defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in four games in the NLDS, and then swept the top-seeded Milwaukee Brewers in the NLCS. Due to this dominant stretch, along with their past World Series experience, they were the favorites to win the World Series against the top seed in the American League, the Toronto Blue Jays.      The Blue Jays, meanwhile, had been tested slightly more than the Dodgers in their path to the World Series, as, in the ALCS, the Seattle Mariners had given Toronto a run for their money. The Blue Jays had trailed the series 2-0, then 3-2, before winning game six to set up a winner-take-all game seven in Toronto. For a while, it had looked like the Blue Jays were going to lose that game, ...