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For four straight plays in the waning minutes, Notre Dame's defense was backed up to its 1 with its perfect season in peril. And on four straight plays, Southern California got nothing.

College football will finally have a playoff. Come 2014, the BCS is dead. A committee of university presidents on Tuesday approved the BCS commissioners’ plan for a four-team playoff to start in two years.

Fans of college football already knew that the Southeastern Conference is the nation's most dominant, even before the SEC claimed its sixth consecutive Bowl Championship Series title as Alabama crushed LSU 21-0.

Jeremy Shelley kicked five field goals and Trent Richardson broke a 34-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter as No. 2 Alabama beat No. 1 LSU 21-0 on Monday night - the first shutout in BCS title game history....

Geno Smith tied a record for any bowl game with six touchdown passes as No. 23 West Virginia set a bowl scoring record by beating No. 14 Clemson in the Orange Bowl.

LSU did its part to make sure both the Tigers and Alabama get into the BCS national title game. Then Oklahoma State gave the voters a reason to rethink the rematch. The top-ranked Tigers locked up a spot in the championship on Jan. 9 in New Orleans with a 42-10 victory against No. 12 Georgia in the Southeastern Conference title game in Atlanta on Saturday.

The Count: With three SEC West teams atop the BCS standings and a division title a possible obstacle to success, this national-championship race calls for an explainer.

No. 6 Oregon ran over No. 3 Stanford and all but ended the Cardinal's hopes for a BCS title spot. LaMichael James ran for 146 yards and three touchdowns as Oregon ran for more than 200 yards in a 53-30 win Saturday night.

No. 1 LSU gained the inside track to the BCS title game, beating No. 2 Alabama 9-6 on Drew Alleman's 25-yard field goal in overtime after a fierce defensive struggle in which neither team reached the end zone Saturday night.

The Bowl Championship Series stripped Southern California of its 2004 title on Monday, leaving that season without a BCS champion....