The Big 12 contenders are at the center teams in the right or questionable spots in the College Football Playoff rankings. Here are our letter grades.

Illinois survived an epic performance from Texas Tech star JT Toppin, one of the best returning players in the country, in this game. The standout big man scored 35 points, with 24 of those coming in the second half, and added 11 rebounds in the loss.

The latest round of quarterly results from technology giants makes it clear that the heavy investments into artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure are not going to slow down anytime soon. That's great news for investors in Nvidia ( NVDA 2.96%), the company that has ridden its way to a $5 trillion market cap thanks to the AI boom.

Houston rose into the top spot of a poll that saw only four teams hold their positions from the preseason poll.

There was good and bad news delivered by the second College Football Playoff rankings. A look at the winners and losers among the top 25.

But there was no shortage of debate as the CFP selection committee favored the usual suspects and banished the ACC to the bottom half of the rankings. — If the field were selected today, the top four seeds (with opening round byes) would be Ohio State,

James Madison of the Sun Belt Conference would represent the Group of Five in the College Football Playoff on the mock bracket based on the new Associated Press Top 25.