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The Republican made the announcement during an appearance on Justice With Judge Jeanine on Fox News Saturday night, hours after Trump announced Barrett as his nominee. He told host Jeanine Pirro that the hearings will begin October 12 because “that will be 16 days from nomination and 24 of the 42 Supreme Court justices who have had hearings were done within 16 days.” “So 16 days from now we’ll start the hearings on October 12,” he said....

The couple in Kamakura is not alone in being unintended recipients of stimulus checks in the past year. In the case of Japanese citizens specifically, if they lived in the U.S. before 2005 when the U.S. and Japan made a bilateral Social Security deal called the totalization agreement, they were required to pay into the Social Security system, and the IRS still has their records. The deal was meant to make it easier for the roughly 70,000 people living in Japan who, as of 2019, qualified for Social Security benefits to receive them....

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That is as much as a program of the Sooners’ pedigree can go unnoticed while racking up a nation best figures in yards and points per game—612.9 and 50.4 respectively. Oklahoma started the season as the No. 4 ranked team in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, but since falling to No. 5 in Week 5 it has failed to crack the top four again. That says more about how good Alabama, LSU and Ohio State have been than anything about the Sooners....

The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the U.S. has forced college football decision-makers into a previously unthinkable choice: Whether to play this fall, or postpone the season. Those looming choices have reached a fever pitch in recent days, with the Big Ten and Pac-12 announcing on Tuesday they would cancel their respective fall seasons in favor of a spring campaign. The spotlight now rests on the remainder of college football’s biggest power brokers: the ACC, Big 12 and SEC, though they are hardly the only conferences that have difficult choices to make regarding the 2020 season....

For the fifth consecutive year, the road to the national title is expected to go through Clemson and Alabama. The two have played each other in the championship game in three of the last four seasons, with the only exception being the 2017-18 season when the Crimson Tide beat the Tigers in the semifinals. Clemson got its revenge in January, thrashing Alabama 44-16 in the College Football Playoff National Championship to become the first team in the history of the playoffs era to go 15-0....

If you hold that truth to be self-evident, which team should be top this week’s poll? MORE: Coaches poll | Must-see photos | Best of Week 9 | Top 25 roundup | Five lessons for Ohio State | LSU still have a say in SEC West | Michigan State doesn’t hold back on Michigan | Mississippi State No. 1, but for how long? | VIDEO: Kiffin hears it at Tennessee...

The Yellow Jackets opened -25.5 against perennial FCS power Georgia Southern, with the Eagles dropping to +17 as they continue their first year at Division I-A in the Sun Belt Conference. Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson led Georgia Southern to two of its six national championships at the Division I-AA level when he was there from 1997-2001 and will be facing his old school for the first time....

The Big Noon Kickoff between No. 1 Alabama and Texas is the glamour matchup on the schedule, but a few other matchups will grab your attention. No. 20 Kentucky faces No. 12 Florida in a critical early SEC East matchup, and No. 10 USC gets its first prime-time spotlight game with Lincoln Riley at Stanford. Big Ten powers No. 3 Ohio State and No. 4 Michigan are among the tough bets because of ridiculous spreads against Arkansas State and Hawaii, respectively....

It’s a pretty simple equation at the top of the rankings: Undefeated Alabama, Clemson and Notre Dame need win out to make the Playoff. For other teams, like No. 8 Washington State, it’s a little more complicated. MORE: Biggest Week 10 Playoff-deciding games With that said, Sporting News takes a look at how each top-10 team in the first set of CFP rankings can make the Playoff, as well as who they’ll need to root for — and against — to make the cut....

The College Football Playoff committee made the right call by putting Washington in the No. 4 spot Tuesday. The Huskies joined No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Clemson and No. 3 Michigan. Those are the four remaining unbeaten Power 5 schools heading into the final three weeks of the regular season. That’s it. If it stays that way, that’s it. We don’t need a debate on top of it. You can manufacture one if you want....

The big question is whether anybody other than Clemson or Alabama make their way to the Big Easy for the championship game. Georgia, Ohio State, Texas and Oklahoma are among the teams we believe could be in the hunt for the other two Playoff spots as the sixth College Football Playoff chase begins. Sporting News has projections for all 40 bowl games here, and they will be updated throughout the season as dates for bowls outside the New Year’s Day Six are revealed....

The 2021 college football season is coming, and Sporting News loves to embrace the period between Memorial Day through July 4 where all we want to do is talk about football. SN released our Way Too Early Top 25 in January, and we’ve made some adjustments to account for the NFL Draft and transfer portal. Our top four did not change. Most preseason publications will have some combination of Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Oklahoma at the top....

While top-ranked Alabama cruised past Arkansas in a 65-31 win, then-No. 5 LSU, then-No. 8 Auburn and then-No. 13 Kentucky all lost to SEC foes. As a result, LSU dropped to No. 13, Kentucky dropped to No. 18 and Auburn dropped to No. 21. MORE: SN’s Week 7 Power Rankings Elsewhere, then-No. 7 Oklahoma and then-No. 14 Stanford fell, plummetting the Sooners to No. 11 and the Cardinal out of the rankings....

The first takes place at 3:30 as No. 12 Oregon travels to face No. 25 Washington in a game with immense Pac-12 and College Football Playoff ramifications. The second top-25 game of the day is at 6 p.m. as No. 17 Arizona State faces No. 13 Utah in a pivotal Pac-12 South matchup. The final headliner of the day — the “College GameDay” game of the week — is in University Park as No....

The Tigers thrashed Arkansas 56-20 on Saturday, clinching the SEC East title and a spot in the SEC Championship Game against Georgia. Joe Burrow strengthened his Heisman Trophy credentials as he finished 23-of-28 for 327 passing yards and three touchdowns, while Clyde Edwards-Helaire had a monstrous game, rushing for 188 yards over six carries for three scores. The Tigers take on Texas A&M in their season finale on Saturday and remain in pole position for a spot in the College Football Playoff, as does Ohio State....