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College football bowls 2025: Storylines to watch for every game

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The “Bowls are dead!” chorus is growing louder. Notre Dame opted out after what had to feel like one of the crueler playoff snubs imaginable (non-2023 Florida State edition, anyway). So did Kansas State and Iowa State (who, to be fair, lost their head coaches and had basically taken a bowl trip to Ireland to start the season already). When the Birmingham Bowl was looking for an opponent for Georgia Southern, it had to search pretty deep into the bin of 5-7 teams before finding one willing and able to make the flight. The vibes have certainly been better.

Once the field is set, however, the vibes don’t matter. With two delightful Saturday matchups — Prairie View A&M vs. South Carolina State in the Cricket Celebration bowl at noon ET, then Boise State vs. Washington in the Bucked Up LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk at 8 p.m. (with Army-Navy in between, of course) — the train leaves the station. Then we’re off on a three-week journey from Atlanta to Boise and Frisco and Hawai’i and Boston and Birmingham and El Paso and all points in between.

Some teams will be more excited to be there than others, and some players will opt out, and the show will go on regardless. We’ll soak in the last college football we can get, we’ll see players dump french fries and mayonnaise (in separate bowl games, though that would be delightful together) on victorious coaches, we’ll murder an anthropomorphized Pop-Tart, and we’ll all have a lovely time.

The deader we pretend bowls are, the more entertaining they turn out to be. To prepare you for the silliness, I’m here to lump each bowl game — not including first-round College Football Playoff games, which technically aren’t bowls, or the Fiesta and Peach Bowl semifinals, which don’t have any teams yet — into 13 categories. (Some show up in multiple categories. It’s fine.)

Here’s something you need to know about each game on the forever-loaded bowl schedule.

The usurpers start their run

CFP Quarterfinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl: James MadisonOregon winner vs. No. 4 Texas Tech (Jan. 1)

CFP Quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl Game Presented by Prudential: AlabamaOklahoma winner vs. No. 1 Indiana (Jan. 1)

Generally speaking, I remain of the belief that the College Football Playoff quarterfinals should be at home stadiums and that the four bowls currently used for the quarterfinals should be used to pair off the top eight non-playoff teams in the most attractive possible matchups. This year, we could have gotten a Texas-USC Rose Bowl, or Vanderbilt in the Sugar Bowl, or maybe a postseason Holy War between BYU and Utah in the Cotton Bowl. (And hey, would Notre Dame have so quickly opted out of bowl participation if the promise of a Notre Dame-Michigan Orange Bowl loomed instead? Perhaps, but go with me here.)

I’m not the biggest fan of these bowls basically being used as neutral-site venues for a playoff game. I remember last year’s incredible Arizona State-Texas quarterfinal, for instance, but I had to think for a moment to remember that it was technically also the Peach Bowl. To me that almost dilutes the value of these major bowls.

The best way around this problem, however, is when teams such as Indiana or Texas Tech — college football’s greatest usurpers at the moment — are involved. Indiana and Ohio State played in a Big Ten championship game last week that had almost no playoff consequences, but you couldn’t tell that to Indiana fans who desperately wanted to see their team both pull one over on the Buckeyes for the first time since 1988 and win a share of their first Big Ten title (and earn their first Rose Bowl berth) since 1967. The Hoosiers will play — and be favored against — a college football blue blood there, too, be it Oklahoma or Alabama. They will obviously hope to play two more games after this one, but this will still feel like an awfully big deal.

Texas Tech, meanwhile, will be playing in its first Orange Bowl. It is an injustice that the Red Raiders weren’t sent to the far closer Cotton Bowl — Ohio State was sent there instead, and there’s a chance it could create a bit of a home-field advantage for the Buckeyes’ opponent if they face Texas A&M there — but it is still a neat rarity for a program that is successfully spending its way into the big time.

For all the problems facing this sport at the moment, we could see Indiana winning the Rose Bowl and Texas Tech winning the Orange Bowl, clinching a semifinal appearance against each other and assuring that one of them will play the national title. That’s pretty cool. (Granted, we also could end up with Alabama-Oregon or something far more familiar.)


Dynasties in the making?

CFP Quarterfinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic: MiamiTexas A&M winner vs. No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes (Dec. 31)

CFP Quarterfinal at the Allstate Sugar Bowl: TulaneOle Miss winner vs. No. 3 Georgia (Jan. 1)

It is a delightful work of symmetry that we have usurpers on one side of the bracket and the heaviest of heavyweights on the other. Of the past four national titles, Ohio State and Georgia have won three. The Buckeyes are the defending champs, and for all of the talk about parity in the SEC, the Bulldogs, national champs in 2021 and 2022, have won three of the last four conference titles and have played for seven of the last eight.

Ohio State is playing in the Cotton Bowl for the third straight season — even if last year’s win over Texas very much falls into the “it was a semifinal in Arlington more than it was the Cotton Bowl” category — and is visiting Jerry World for the fifth time in nine years. No matter how familiar the Buckeyes are with the terrain, however, they won’t be that familiar with their opponent: They’ll either be playing Texas A&M for the first time since the 1999 Sugar Bowl or Miami for the first time since 2011.

Georgia, meanwhile, will be either playing a Cinderella — if Tulane can avenge a blowout loss to Ole Miss early in 2025 — or facing a rematch of one of the SEC’s best games of 2025. The Dawgs went on a 17-0 run over the final 13 minutes to beat Lane Kiffin’s Rebels 43-35 on Oct. 18. Granted, they’re not Kiffin’s Rebels anymore, and a lot will have changed in two months. But either upstarts will pull upsets in the Cotton and Sugar Bowls, or we’ll get our first Ohio State-Georgia game since their incredible 2022 playoff game in Atlanta.


My five favorite non-playoff bowls

Bucked Up LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk: Boise State vs. Washington (Dec. 13)

I ended up with five different reasons to pick these five games. Boise State-Washington is a pretty fun regional semi-rivalry that tends to produce either fun, tight Boise State wins or statement blowouts from UW. Both the Broncos and Huskies, meanwhile, are young enough to be hoping for big things in 2026, and both could use a positive result as a nice springboard.

Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl: California vs. Hawai’i (Dec. 24)

California-Hawai’i might as well be called the JKS Bowl. Cal quarterback Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele, a native of Ewa Beach, Hawai’i, has committed to returning to Berkeley next season — despite the fact that we don’t know what offensive coordinator new head coach Tosh Lupoi is going to hire — and he gets a homecoming game of sorts back on the islands.

Go Bowling Military Bowl: Pittsburgh vs. East Carolina (Dec. 27)

Pitt-ECU is just going to be a mess. A wonderful mess. The Panthers and Pirates played two of last season’s wildest bowls — Pitt lost a six-overtime slugfest to Toledo, ECU won a brawl-plagued (or brawl-blessed?) rivalry game over NC State — and they both tend to live right on the line between aggression and a total lack of control. Hell yeah.

Cheez-It Citrus Bowl: No. 13 Texas vs. No. 18 Michigan (Dec. 31)

Texas-Michigan is, quite simply, a helmet game. I’m a fan of underdogs, and I preach the value of college football socialism as much as anyone, but I’m allowed to enjoy helmet games.

ReliaQuest Bowl: No. 14 Vanderbilt vs. No. 23 Iowa (Dec. 31)

Vandy-Iowa means that the final chapter in the Diego Pavia story will come against a physical and often confusing Iowa defense and a generally underrated Hawkeyes team. This should be a max-effort game from both sides, too.


Disappointment Bowls, Part 1 (crushed CFP dreams)

Isleta New Mexico Bowl: No. 25 North Texas vs. San Diego State (Dec. 27)

Pop-Tarts Bowl: No. 12 BYU vs. No. 22 Georgia Tech (Dec. 27)

Cheez-It Citrus Bowl: No. 13 Texas vs. No. 18 Michigan (Dec. 31)

ReliaQuest Bowl: No. 14 Vanderbilt vs. No. 23 Iowa (Dec. 31)

SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl: No. 15 Utah vs. Nebraska (Dec. 31)

Granted, the First Team Out of the 2025 CFP, Notre Dame, isn’t playing in the postseason at all. But the likes of BYU, Texas, Vandy, Utah and American Conference title game loser North Texas dealt with their share of disappointment too. Who uses the snub and/or letdowns as fuel, and who’s already punted on the season?


Disappointment Bowls, Part 2 (disappointing 2025 campaigns)

Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl: Penn State vs. Clemson (Dec. 27)

Kinder’s Texas Bowl: No. 21 Houston vs. LSU (Dec. 27)

Liberty Mutual Music City Bowl: Tennessee vs. Illinois (Dec. 30)

Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl: Arizona State vs. Duke (Dec. 31)

Penn State, Clemson, LSU, Arizona State, Tennessee and Illinois all began the season in the preseason AP top 15, and they’re all currently unranked. For Penn State and Clemson, the disappointments came early in the season, and they spent the latter portion of the year gathering themselves and trying to make something of the campaign. The Nittany Lions rallied to win their last three games to reach bowl eligibility, and the Tigers won their last four to finish 7-5. The Pinstripe Bowl winner will therefore actually finish the season feeling pretty good about itself, all things considered. Arizona State might, too, considering the Sun Devils could still end up 9-4 despite an injury to quarterback Sam Leavitt derailing their hopes.


The 2026 Heisman race begins

Bucked Up LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk: Washington (Demond Williams Jr.) vs. Boise State (Dec. 13)

Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl: California (Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele) vs. Hawai’i (Dec. 24)

TaxSlayer Gator Bowl: Missouri (Ahmad Hardy) vs. No. 19 Virginia (Dec. 27)

Valero Alamo Bowl: No. 16 USC (Jayden Maiava) vs. TCU (Dec. 30)

Cheez-It Citrus Bowl: No. 13 Texas (Arch Manning) vs. No. 18 Michigan (Bryce Underwood) (Dec. 31)

Ohio State’s Julian Sayin and Jeremiah Smith (and Bo Jackson?), Georgia’s Gunner Stockton, Ole Miss’ Trinidad Chambliss and Kewan Lacy, Miami’s Malachi Toney, Texas A&M’s Marcel Reed and other potential 2026 Heisman candidates will be plying their trade in the CFP. Oregon’s Dante Moore, too, if he doesn’t go pro. But despite being outside of the playoff’s realm, other potential candidates will have a chance to build plenty of 2026 buzz. Can you imagine what will happen if, say, Arch Manning throws for 300-plus on Michigan? You thought this year’s buzz was loud?


Embrace the silliness

Bucked Up LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk: Boise State vs. Washington (Dec. 13)

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Washington State vs. Utah State (Dec. 22)

Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl of Beans: Toledo vs. Louisville (Dec. 23)

Pop-Tarts Bowl: No. 12 BYU vs. No. 22 Georgia Tech (Dec. 27)

Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl: Miami (Ohio) vs. Fresno State (Dec. 27)

Duke’s Mayo Bowl: Wake Forest vs. Mississippi State (Jan. 2)

It’s OK to admit it: For some games, the teams, players and coaches are just pawns for other types of entertainment value. Boise State-Washington could be very entertaining on its own, but it’s going to be awash with Rob Gronkowski appearances, too. The same goes for the Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl.

Either Utah State’s Bronco Mendenhall or Washington State interim coach Jesse Bobbit will get showered with french fries at the end of the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. The winner of the Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl of Beans — a real thing! — allegedly won’t get showered with beans, but there’s still time for important people to change their minds on that one. And at this point, the lore of the Pop-Tarts Bowl and Mayo Bowl are about as well-known as the sport itself.

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Flava Flav is revealed as the celebrity in the mayo mascot uniform as Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck gets doused in mayonnaise.

Either Wake Forest’s Jake Dickert or Mississippi State’s Jeff Lebby will be finding mayonnaise in places he never dreamed of come the morning of Jan. 3. College football!


Ending Year 1 with a bang

The transfer portal has redefined what it means to be a first-year coach. Either by choice or by necessity, you can now almost re-craft your entire roster right out of the gate. This goes horribly for some, obviously, but not even including some schools such as Washington State, where the first-year guy has already left, we have a number of first-year success stories looking to keep the positivity going.

Cricket Celebration Bowl: Prairie View A&M (Tremaine Jackson) vs. South Carolina State (Dec. 13)

People of a certain age (read: mine) will forever remember Prairie View A&M as the school that lost an epic 80 straight games in the 1980s and 1990s. The Panthers have seen successful since then — four SWAC West division titles, two SWAC titles — but now they’ll get their first Celebration Bowl spotlight thanks to last week’s upset of Jackson State in the SWAC title game. And they got here with a first-year coach who could become a very big name soon.

Tremaine Jackson is 50-15 in his short time as a head coach, and in the past two years he has brought Valdosta State to the Division II national title game and won the SWAC with Prairie View. PVAMU will face second-year coach Chennis Berry and SC State, and my SP+ ratings have the game as almost a perfect toss-up. A great game to start bowl season.

IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl: Jacksonville State (Charles Kelly) vs. Troy (Dec. 13)

JLAB Birmingham Bowl: Appalachian State (Dowell Loggains) vs. Georgia Southern (Dec. 29)

I wanted to isolate these two because of underrated bitterness: Jacksonville State and Troy are in-state rivals who will be playing each other in Mobile, Alabama, right in between the two schools. That one should be feisty enough that it almost made my favorite bowls list. Meanwhile, App State and Georgia Southern are former FCS powers that don’t like each other much either, and their first game this season, a 25-23 Eagles win, was great.

Myrtle Beach Bowl Presented by Engine: Kennesaw State (Jerry Mack) vs. Western Michigan (Dec. 19)

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Utah State (Bronco Mendenhall) vs. Washington State (Dec. 22)

Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl: UNLV (Dan Mullen) vs. Ohio (Dec. 23)

Rate Bowl: New Mexico (Jason Eck) vs. Minnesota (Dec. 26)

SERVPRO First Responder Bowl: Florida International (Willie Simmons) vs. UTSA (Dec. 26)

Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl: Fresno State (Matt Entz) vs. Miami (Ohio) (Dec. 27)

Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl: Rice (Scott Abell) vs. Texas State (Jan. 2)

Duke’s Mayo Bowl: Wake Forest (Jake Dickert) vs. Mississippi State (Jan. 2)


Finishing strong

One method I enjoy for measuring which teams are particularly hot or cold at a given time is taking a weighted five-game average of how much teams are over- or underachieving against SP+ projections (weighted so that the most recent game takes on five times weight, the second-most recent game four times weight and so on).

At the end of the regular season, there were 15 teams with a weighted average of plus-9 PPG or better. That includes three playoff teams (Texas Tech, Tulane and Miami) and teams such as Wisconsin and Oklahoma State, which finished far short of bowl eligibility. But a few other teams, listed below with their PPG overachievement, could head into the offseason feeling like they have major momentum.

StaffDNA Cure Bowl: South Florida (+10.7) vs. Old Dominion (Dec. 13)

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Washington State (+10.9) vs. Utah State (Dec. 22)

SERVPRO First Responder Bowl: Florida International (+16.2) vs. UTSA (Dec. 26)

Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl: Fresno State (+9.2) vs. Miami (Ohio) vs. (Dec. 27)

Trust & Will Holiday Bowl: No. 17 Arizona (+11.0) vs. SMU (Jan. 2)

USF and Washington State have already lost their head coaches — man oh man, does Wazzu deserve a period of time with some semblance of stability — but at the very least, FIU, Fresno State and Arizona have a chance to build major offseason positivity.


Redemption time

On the flip side, a few teams limped into bowl season at the end of a run of underachievement. Here are five games featuring teams that hope a bowl will turn bad feelings around. (Three of them already have interim coaches.)

Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl: Coastal Carolina (-16.1) vs. Louisiana Tech (Dec. 30)

SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl: Nebraska (-13.8) vs. No. 15 Utah (Dec. 31)

New Orleans Bowl: Southern Miss (-13.2) vs. Western Kentucky (Dec. 23)

AutoZone Liberty Bowl: Cincinnati (-13.0) vs. Navy (Jan. 2)

Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl: Memphis (-12.3) vs. NC State (Dec. 19)


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Wasabi Fenway Bowl: Army vs. UConn (Dec. 27)

AutoZone Liberty Bowl: Navy vs. Cincinnati (Jan. 2)

The Cincinnati staff and UConn interim staff will both try to navigate the distractions of bowl season (and the looming portal season) while studying how to defend very annoying option offenses. Have fun with that.


7-6 sounds much better than 6-7 (and 6-7 sounds better than 5-8)

Quite a few teams had to eke out bowl eligibility and will now try to finish above .500. Meanwhile, recent times have brought us something new: a 5-8 record, obviously earned only by teams that sneak into a bowl at 5-7, then lose. Six teams belong to the 5-8 Club — 2016 North Texas, 2019 Army, 2021 Rutgers, 2022 Rice, 2023 Hawai’i and 2024 Louisiana Tech — and three teams will be attempting to avoid the ignominy. Rice will be looking to avoid becoming the first two-time member.

68 Ventures Bowl: Louisiana (6-6) vs. Delaware (6-6) (Dec. 13)

Xbox Bowl: Missouri State vs. Arkansas State (6-6) (Dec. 18)

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl: Washington State (6-6) vs. Utah State (6-6) (Dec. 22)

GameAbove Sports Bowl: Central Michigan vs. Northwestern (6-6) (Dec. 26)

SERVPRO First Responder Bowl: Florida International vs. UTSA (6-6) (Dec. 26)

Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl: Penn State (6-6) vs. Clemson (Dec. 27)

JLAB Birmingham Bowl: Georgia Southern vs. Appalachian State (5-7) (Dec. 29)

Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl: Coastal Carolina (6-6) vs. Louisiana Tech (Dec. 30)

Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl: Rice (5-7) vs. Texas State (6-6) (Jan. 2)

Duke’s Mayo Bowl: Wake Forest vs. Mississippi State (5-7) (Jan. 2)


First year, first bowl

68 Ventures Bowl: Louisiana vs. Delaware (Dec. 13)

Xbox Bowl: Missouri State vs. Arkansas State (Dec. 18)

Delaware and Missouri State both enjoyed solid FBS debut campaigns. Delaware needed tight wins over UConn, Middle Tennessee and Louisiana Tech and a season-ending walloping of UTEP to reach 6-6, and Missouri State began the year 2-3 before ripping off five straight wins and finishing 7-5. Now both the Blue Hens (3-point underdogs to Louisiana) and Bears (2.5-point favorites over potential regional rival Arkansas State) hope to boast a perfect bowl record — well, a perfect record in FBS bowls, anyway: MSU went 0-4 in small-school bowls, most recently falling to Stephen F. Austin in the 1989 Pecan Bowl — a few days from now.

Rodeo is an app for making plans with friends you already have

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There are plenty of dating apps out there and apps that turn your chaos of work obligations into easily actionable lists. There is also a growing number of apps that help you make new friends. The pitch for Rodeo is a bit different in that it uses AI to help you schedule activities with your existing friends.

The company was started by a pair of former Hinge execs who felt it was more difficult than it should be to make plans with friends. Parenting, work, 37 different group chats — all of this can lead to things like maintaining your relationships falling by the wayside.

Rodeo can take social media posts for events or restaurants, or even just screenshots of group chats, and streamline the act of turning them into actual plans with friends. For instance, if you upload a screenshot of an Instagram ad for a movie, it will pull in theaters where it’s playing and showtimes and let you buy tickets. There is also a shortcut to send an invite to a friend you want to “wrangle” into your plans.

Activities can also be sorted into lists for things you might want to save for later, like good date night restaurants, or things to do with your old college buddies, like a local paintball spot. Those lists can be collaborative too, so you can invite all your former frat bros to a specific list to make suggestions.

Somewhat surprisingly, the founders Sam Levy and Tim MacGougan aren’t loudly advertising the AI component of their app. While LLMs and other AI-adjacent tech are all the rage in Silicon Valley, it seems these two got the memo that Americans want AI to stay out of their personal lives. However, it is the AI element that sets Rodeo apart. Sharing collaborative lists, bookmarking restaurants to go to, and sending calendar invites for events to friends is something anyone can do with just a Gmail account. Rodeo is saving you the hassle of manually pulling in all the details for events or venues and turning them into invites and actions.

The company isn’t completely avoiding buzzwords. According to Business Insider, Levy describes the app as “a ‘second brain’ for planning activities with friends and family.” So Rodeo is clearly hoping that the obsession with organization that has driven the success of tools like Notion, Obsidian, and My Mind will work for its fledgling social app.

Rodeo is available as an invite-only beta right now, but you can download the iOS app to get on the waiting list.

Travis Kelce praises Chiefs after possible Arrowhead farewell

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If Thursday night’s game was the last one Travis Kelce played at Arrowhead Stadium, he sure tried to make it memorable.

The Kansas City Chiefs tight end had only five catches for 36 yards against the Denver Broncos playing alongside third-string quarterback Chris Oladokun while starter Patrick Mahomes and backup Gardner Minshew were out with knee injuries. But several of those catches came in the closing minutes, nearly rallying the Chiefs to what would have been a stunning upset of the Broncos.

Kelce & Co. wound up losing 20-13 in a game in which they were nearly two-touchdown underdogs. But it was a gutsy display by Kelce in a career filled with them.

The four-time All-Pro, who is expected to announce soon after the season whether he is retiring, could have hung up the cleats a couple of weeks ago, when the reigning AFC champions were eliminated from playoff contention for the first time in a decade.

After going to five Super Bowls — including the past three — and winning three championship rings, the 36-year-old Kelce instead showed he had too much pride to quit on a lost season. He played in a humiliating loss at the lowly Tennessee Titans last week and was one of the few bright spots on Christmas for an offense that finished with 139 yards.

“A whole lot of emotions,” Kelce said afterward. “You’ve got everybody in the world watching you. You get to go out there with the young guys on prime-time television. Young guys getting an opportunity to taste what this NFL life is like.”

As for retirement?

“I’ll let that be a decision I’ll make with my family, friends, the Chiefs organization when the time comes,” Kelce said.

He was the final player introduced Thursday night, following Oladokun out of the tunnel. As red lights flashed across the field, Kelce emerged from the fog with his signature bow-and-arrow entrance gesture toward a festive holiday crowd, and fans predictably roared in delight — perhaps for the last time — as No. 87 took the field.

“You only get a few of those [occasions] where you get to stand there and appreciate [60,000], 70,000 Chiefs fans cheering for you,” Kelce said. “I always embrace that moment.”

In a suite high above, his fiancée, pop star Taylor Swift, watched him perform. So did Mahomes and Minshew, who took in the game together from a suite. Mahomes sustained torn knee ligaments two weeks ago; Minshew did the same last week.

“You feel the generations of happiness and the love that [the fans] have,” Kelce said. “It’s a beautiful thing, man. It’s something I know I’ll cherish forever, whether it’s coming out of the tunnel or just making a big play for them. That’s why we love Arrowhead.”

Kelce has played 97 games inside the stadium over the course of a 13-year career. He has caught 645 passes at Arrowhead, including the playoffs, which is the third most by any player at a single facility (behind Jerry Rice and Larry Fitzgerald) since the AFL-NFL merger.

Now, the question is whether Kelce will play next week in the Chiefs’ season finale at the Las Vegas Raiders.

He needs just 10 yards receiving to reach 13,000 for his career, and he could extend his franchise record — and the longest active streak in the NFL — by catching a pass in his 191st game next weekend. He also could go out with a win, rather than having lost five straight and seven of his past eight games.

Or maybe Kelce will surprise everyone and come back for one more campaign.

“We’ve been through so much together,” Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones said, making his desire clear. “Just one more [season]. Just one more.”

50% Off All Activewear Today

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Old Navy’s after-Christmas sale has officially begun, and it’s giving major savings for anyone ready to refresh their workout wardrobe ahead of 2026.

Right now, shoppers can score 50% off all activewear, plus an extra 15% off when they spend $80. That means it’s the perfect time to jumpstart your 2026 health goals with comfortable, stylish pieces that actually make you excited to get moving. 

The sale includes standout deals like $11 leggings, $8 sports bras, $25 fleece half-zip sweatshirts, $10 workout tees, and plenty of other fitness and athleisure essentials designed for everything from Pilates to daily errands.

We’ve rounded up our favorite finds from the sale so you can shop the styles below. Don’t wait, though. This 50% off athleisure event is happening today only, and colors and sizes are selling out fast.

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CHRISTMAS DAY GAME memories are a blur for Doc Rivers.

Since 1984, Rivers has played or coached on Christmas a total of 17 times. As he recounted two stories about his favorite Christmas moments, the Milwaukee Bucks head coach naturally turned to the Boston CelticsLos Angeles Lakers rivalry — but he wasn’t completely sure whether one of the memories was actually on Christmas.

Rivers, the former Boston head coach, told one of his favorite tales: He famously collected $100 from every member of the Celtics’ traveling party on a road trip and stashed the money in the ceiling of the visitors locker room at the Lakers’ home arena. (Rivers’ legendary motivational tactic actually took place after a February regular-season game against the Lakers in 2010, and the Celtics returned to collect that money in the NBA Finals).

He also thought it was possible that the time Kobe Bryant and Phil Jackson’s Lakers came out in retro short shorts against Rivers’ Celtics could’ve happened on Christmas. (It was on Dec. 30, 2007, close enough to blend into Christmas). The Celtics and Lakers did play each other on the holiday in 2008.

What Rivers does remember in exact detail is the “love-hate” nature of playing on the holiday.

“I’ve had a lot of Christmas games,” Rivers explained to ESPN. “It’s different. I love it and hate it at the same time because having time with your family, it’s so important.

“But also, there’s nothing better. It’s the most favorite game to win. On a Christmas afternoon, when you finish that game and you win — you come home with your family. It’s just an amazing day. I’ve had some great ones.”

The 10 teams that play on the marquee holiday stage must fit their Christmas Day family traditions around their game-day routine at home or sacrifice opening gifts with loved ones on Christmas if they are on the road.

That is why when the Golden State Warriors — who will be playing for a 13th consecutive time on Christmas against the Dallas Mavericks at Chase Center — are on the road Dec. 25, they will have family members fly and join them on the trip. While LeBron and Bronny James have the opportunity to play together on Christmas again, the Lakers’ father-son duo still has to schedule the James family’s festivities around their matchup.

The NBA tries to make working on the holiday feel as celebratory as possible by giving the coaches and players a present, like a nice leather wallet, a bag or an electronic gift.

“You wake up in Room 736 and you forget that it’s Christmas,” Warriors head coach Steve Kerr told ESPN of what it’s like to play a road game on Christmas. “And you look at your text from Eric Hausen [Warriors vice president of team operations] saying, ‘Merry Christmas.’ And you’re like, ‘Oh yeah, it’s Christmas.’ You go down for your meeting in the third-floor ballroom, and everybody says ‘Merry Christmas’ and you do the scouting report and it’s just bizarre.

“You go to the arena, there’s always a gift from [NBA commissioner] Adam Silver, which is nice. And then you play and everybody in the arena is festive because they’re coming from their Christmas morning and you’re thinking about your own family and wishing you were at home. But that’s the deal. That’s what we sign up for.”

Players and coaches who have games on Christmas agree with Kerr and Rivers that it’s an honor. But playing on the holiday, especially on the road, can also leave some feeling like the Grinch.

“We do a huge dinner if it’s an afternoon game,” Rivers said. “If it’s the last game of the day, it’s just a s—ty day. As far as you spend time waiting around during the day at home and then you go to the game.”

As this Christmas approaches, stars and coaches share with ESPN their Christmas tales, yuletide feelings and even gripes about playing on Santa’s day.

Jump to a tale:
A James Family Christmas
The Kerr Nightmare (on) Christmas
A Green Christmas Miracle
All I want for Christmas is a PJ
Mitchell’s Holiday Special

BRONNY JAMES, 21, doesn’t remember a time when he didn’t watch his father play on Christmas. Like Bronny, an entire generation has grown up watching LeBron James play a record 19 times on Dec. 25 since his 2003 debut season, including the past 18 Christmas Days.

That also means the James family has shared their patriarch with the world every holiday.

“You just tried to hope that game was home so we could have him home for Christmas,” Bronny told ESPN. “But we always go home to our house and open presents in the morning. If he’s not there, then we’ll wait or do it the day before. So, it’s always been kind of like a coin flip. But we try to make it happen [on Christmas Day] as much as possible.”

Last Christmas was historic: The father-son duo became the first to be teammates for a game on the holiday. While Bronny did not play, he watched Dad outshine Stephen Curry at Golden State with 31 points, 10 assists, 4 rebounds, 2 steals and 1 block.

“I’d much rather be at home with my family,” LeBron said Saturday. “But it’s the game. It’s the game I love. It’s the game I watched when I was a kid on Christmas Day, watching a lot of the greatest to play the game. It’s always been an honor to play it. Obviously, I’m going to be completely honest, I would like to be home on the couch with my family all throughout the day. But my number is called, our numbers are called, so we have to go out and perform. And I look forward to it.”

No matter what day the James family celebrates Christmas every year, Zhuri, the youngest daughter, always gets the festivities started.

“Zhuri will be up at 6 in the morning and already downstairs waiting for us,” Bronny said. “We’ll come down like an hour later, and she’ll be mad that we’re so late. Just sitting there staring at the presents.”

LeBron has the most points (507), second-most assists (137) and sixth-most rebounds (143) on Christmas Day, but it has come at the price of having to fit the family’s Christmas celebration around the games.

“I never really was bummed out [too much],” Bronny said. “I mean, I was, kind of, but I knew why. So it wasn’t really a problem for me, and we always found a way to celebrate it somehow when he was back. But of course, every family wants to be together on Christmas. It was difficult sometimes. Especially for my mom [Savannah], just having to plan something else.

“… My siblings and my mom are always together on Christmas. But just having to plan something else to where we can all be together at the same time. It’s just something extra that a lot of people don’t got to deal with that. So it was definitely a little stressful on the whole family, but we made it happen.”

Whenever LeBron, 40, decides to retire and end his Christmas streak, perhaps Bronny will have to go through what his father has had to do almost every Christmas of his playing career.

“Time is about to come where I might be the one away and these guys are going to be home [without me],” Bronny said. “So, it’s something that we got to figure out.”


OVER THREE DECADES later, one of the best finishes to a New York KnicksChicago Bulls game is still a Christmas nightmare for Kerr.

With 3.3 seconds left on the clock and the Bulls clinging to a 100-97 lead in Chicago on Dec. 25, 1994, Anthony Mason sent his full-court inbounds heave sailing straight to Kerr, who was to the right of the basket. The then-Bulls shooter jumped to catch the basketball but was worried he was going to fall and be called for a travel.

So he tried tapping the ball to a teammate.

“I threw it right to [Knicks guard] Hubert Davis,” Kerr told ESPN, still disgusted with himself all these decades later. “And he made a 3 to send it to overtime. It was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made. It was a huge gaffe. It was just dumb.

“One of the biggest nightmares of my career.”

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Flashback: Steve Kerr slaps ball to Knicks’ Hubert Davis for tying 3

On Dec. 25, 1994, Bulls guard Steve Kerr tapped a long inbounds pass away, but it went to Knicks guard Hubert Davis for a tying triple.

Fortunately for Kerr, Scottie Pippen saved him with one of the best Christmas performances. Pippen scored all seven of Chicago’s points in overtime and had two game-clinching blocks at the end to hold off the Knicks 107-104. Pippen, who had 36 points, 16 rebounds and 5 steals while playing all 53 minutes, hugged an almost apologetic Kerr after the game.

Michael Jordan, who would come out of retirement later that season, might not have been as forgiving.

“I would’ve been the goat,” said Kerr, who played in five Christmas games. “Not the good GOAT. The bad goat. It worked out, but it was humiliating. It was just the dumbest play. I still don’t quite know why I did it.

“The problem is now every Christmas Day when they start playing [vintage] games on NBA TV, they still show that. I’m like, f—, would you guys leave me alone?”


LIKE SO MANY, Curry’s Christmas tradition growing up was to spend the day watching basketball.

So when it was his turn to play on the Christmas stage, Curry understood the moment.

“It’s a blessing because you understand being one of the 10 teams that play means you’re marketable,” Curry told ESPN. “The experience of playing in the game is fun. … Before the in-season tournament, that was the NBA’s biggest moment before the turn of the calendar year. Definitely felt like a different energy around it.”

This Christmas will mark the Warriors’ 13th consecutive year playing on the holiday, with Curry playing in all but three of them over that span. But until recently, Curry couldn’t find his shot on Christmas. In his first eight Christmas games, Curry shot a combined 35-for-116 (30.2%), including just 10-for-49 (20.4%) from 3. His first two Christmas outings saw him miss 23 of 27 shots.

“I don’t have a favorite,” Curry said when asked about his favorite memory of playing on the holiday. “I have traditionally not played great on Christmas Day, so bringing up great memories.”

One of Draymond Green’s favorite Christmas memories came during his indefinite suspension for striking Jusuf Nurkic in 2023. Green was frustrated, contemplated retirement and had to rediscover his drive for basketball.

But during that 12-game suspension, Green got to spend a truly merry Christmas at home with his kids and family — something he said was good for his soul at the time.

“That was great. It was actually f—ing amazing,” Green told ESPN. “Usually it’s weird because Christmas Day is not like what you remember as a kid, where you spend with your family. We’ve been on the road [five times, once when Green was suspended]. I know my 5-year-old’s first Christmas, I was gone.”

Instead of being with his team in Denver that Christmas in 2023, Green got to open gifts with his kids at home. The only other time he did not suit up when the Warriors played on Christmas came in 2020 when a foot injury kept him on the bench in street clothes in Milwaukee.

Green said that when he has to play on Christmas, he sometimes will “scratch the itch” and let his kids unwrap a gift before fully celebrating once he is home after the game. But even though Green is just one of 10 players to record a Christmas Day triple-double, playing on the holiday can often make him feel as miserable as Scrooge.

“As an NBA player, you want to be on that stage — marquee games and everybody’s watching,” Green said. “But as a human, it f—ing sucks, if I’m honest.

“… I absolutely loved as a kid watching NBA games on Christmas Day. Kobe Bryant and the white [Lakers] jerseys. I loved [Shaquille O’Neal]. … But the NFL has started having games on Christmas Day, so maybe they take Christmas over and we go home.”


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WAKING UP EARLY for a noon tipoff on a regular-season weekend game can be the worst for many NBA players. For Josh Hart, the Knicks’ traditional early start is the perfect time to play on Christmas, especially now that he has two boys who are 2½ years old.

“Now Christmas is magical,” Hart told ESPN. “The best Christmas game is the 12 o’clock because you get the morning obviously consumed about the game, basketball and stuff like that. I love it. You wake up, get some breakfast, head to the Garden, get your work, hopefully get a win, and then you get to celebrate Christmas.”

This will be Hart’s seventh Christmas game. He has played in the holiday game as a Laker, Pelican and now Knickerbocker.

His most memorable Christmas game was with the Lakers when they knocked off the Warriors 127-101 in 2018. It was James’ first Christmas game with L.A., but the star sustained a groin injury in the win. Rajon Rondo stepped in with 15 points, 10 assists and 5 rebounds off the bench.

“We beat that Warriors team with Steph, Klay [Thompson], [Kevin Durant], Draymond,” Hart said. “LeBron got hurt. Rondo turned into Playoff Rondo and kind of led us to that win. He unfortunately broke his [finger]. I gave him an ’09 bottle of Harlan [Estate wine] that he opened on the plane. That kind of really got me into wine.”

The following year had Hart saying “Bah humbug.” After being traded from the Lakers to New Orleans, Hart, Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram had the Pelicans on the Christmas stage, but they were the final game of the night against the Denver Nuggets. While the Pelicans won 112-100, they remained in Denver after the game. The Pelicans, like many road teams, opted not to fly until the next day to get some rest rather than arrive home at 3 in the morning.

While the team did fly family members to Denver and had a Christmas party at the hotel the night before the game, Hart said all he and some Pelicans players wanted for Christmas was a private jet to fly them back home to New Orleans after the game.

“The 8:30 [p.m.] game in Denver, it was the worst game,” said Hart, who is 4-2 on Christmas. “We were thinking, how could we get back? We were going to ‘PJ’ after the game to get back home. But the team stayed the night. So yeah, it was by far the worst game of the season.”


IT HAS BEEN four years since Donovan Mitchell last played on Christmas Day.

He scored 33 points and outdueled Jalen Brunson, who had 27 points, in the Utah Jazz‘s 120-116 Christmas win over the Mavericks in 2021.

This Christmas, they will go at it again when Mitchell’s Cleveland Cavaliers visit Brunson’s New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.

“Man, I love playing on Christmas,” Mitchell told ESPN, barely able to contain his enthusiasm. “It means you are doing something right as a team, right?

“I remember being at my grandmother’s, getting up at 12 and being up until 12, watching basketball all day. So to be a part of that is truly special.”

Mitchell’s routine during his first two Christmas Day games with the Jazz was to keep everything as normal as possible. He prepared like it was a typical game day, and that meant celebrating Christmas either the day before or the day after, which he said is his mother’s birthday.

But with the Cavs-Knicks game tipping off as the first game of the day, Mitchell will get to celebrate and open gifts with his family afterward at his New York area home.

Mitchell, who grew up in the New York and Connecticut area, will be living out a Christmas dream playing at the Garden.

“Just something that I never take for granted,” Mitchell said. “Because not everybody can say they played on Christmas Day, let alone playing Madison Square Garden like we are.

“It’s going to be special.”

ESPN’s Jamal Collier and Dave McMenamin contributed to this story.



Google’s cute Gemini ad is mostly honest about lying to your kid

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When your kid starts showing a preference for one of their stuffed animals, you’re supposed to buy a backup in case it goes missing.

I’ve heard this advice again and again, but never got around to buying a second plush deer once “Buddy” became my son’s obvious favorite. Neither, apparently, did the parents in Google’s newest ad for Gemini.

It’s the fictional but relatable story of two parents discovering their child’s favorite stuffed toy, a lamb named Mr. Fuzzy, was left behind on an airplane. They use Gemini to track down a replacement, but the new toy is on backorder. In the meantime, they stall by using Gemini to create images and videos showing Mr. Fuzzy on a worldwide solo adventure — wearing a beret in front of the Eiffel tower, running from a bull in Pamplona, that kind of thing — plus a clip where he explains to “Emma” that he can’t wait to rejoin her in five to eight business days. Adorable, or kinda weird, depending on how you look at it! But can Gemini actually do all of that? Only one way to find out.

I fed Gemini three pictures of Buddy, our real life Mr. Fuzzy, from different angles, and gave it the same prompt that’s in the ad: “find this stuffed animal to buy ASAP.” It returned a couple of likely candidates. But when I expanded its response to show its thinking I found the full eighteen hundred word essay detailing the twists and turns of its search as it considered and reconsidered whether Buddy is a dog, a bunny, or something else. It is bananas, including real phrases like “I am considering the puppy hypothesis,” “The tag is a loop on the butt,” and “I’m now back in the rabbit hole!” By the end, Gemini kind of threw its hands up and suggested that the toy might be from Target and was likely discontinued, and that I should check eBay.

‘I am considering the puppy hypothesis’

In fairness, Buddy is a little bit hard to read. His features lean generic cute woodland creature, his care tag has long since been discarded, and we’re not even 100 percent sure who gave him to us. He is, however, definitely made by Mary Meyer, per the loop on his butt. He does seem to be from the “Putty” collection, which is a path Gemini went down a couple of times, and is probably a fawn that was discontinued sometime around 2021. That’s the conclusion I came to on my own, after about 20 minutes of Googling and no help from AI. The AI blurb when I do a reverse image search on one of my photos confidently declares him to be a puppy.

Gemini did a better job with the second half of the assignment, but it wasn’t quite as easy as the ad makes it look. I started with a different photo of Buddy — one where he’s actually on a plane in my son’s arms — and gave it the next prompt: “make a photo of the deer on his next flight.” The result is pretty good, but his lower half is obscured in the source image so the feet aren’t quite right. Close enough, though.

The ad doesn’t show the full prompt for the next two photos, so I went with: “Now make a photo of the same deer in front of the Grand Canyon.” And it did just that — with the airplane seatbelt and headphones, too. I was more specific with my next prompt, added a camera in his hands, and got something more convincing.

Looks plausible enough.
Image: Gemini / The Verge

Safety first, Buddy.
Image: Gemini / The Verge

I can see how Gemini misinterpreted my prompt. I was trying to keep it simple, and requested a photo of the same deer “at a family reunion.” I did not specify his family reunion. So that’s how he ended up crashing the Johnson family reunion — a gathering of humans. I can only assume that Gemini took my last name as a starting point here because it sure wasn’t in my prompt, and when I requested that Gemini created a new family reunion scene of his family, it just swapped the people for stuffed deer. There are even little placards on the table that say “deer reunion.” Reader, I screamed.

<em>I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this family in a pharmaceutical commercial before.</em>
<em>Oh deer.</em>

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I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this family in a pharmaceutical commercial before.
Image: Gemini / The Verge

For the last portion of the ad, the couple use Gemini to create cute little videos of Mr. Fuzzy getting increasingly adventurous: snowboarding, white water rafting, skydiving, before finally appearing in a spacesuit on the moon addressing “Emma” directly. The commercial whips through all these clips quickly, which feels like a little sleight of hand given that Gemini takes at least a couple of minutes to create a video. And even on my Gemini Pro account, I’m limited to three generated videos per day. It would take a few days to get all of those clips right.

Gemini wouldn’t make a video based on any image of my kid holding the stuffed deer, probably thanks to some welcome guardrails preventing it from generating deepfakes of babies. I started with the only photo I had on hand of Buddy on his own: hanging upside down, air-drying after a trip through the washer. And that’s how he appears in the first clip it generated from this prompt: Temu Buddy hanging upside down in space before dropping into place, morphing into a right-side-up astronaut, and delivering the dialogue I requested.

A second prompt with a clear photo of Buddy right-side-up seemed to mash up elements of the previous video with the new one, so I started a brand new chat to see if I could get it working from scratch. Honestly? Nailed it. Aside from the antlers, which Gemini keeps sneaking in. But this clip also brought one nagging question to the forefront: should you do any of this when your kid loses a beloved toy?

I gave Buddy the same dialogue as in the commercial, using my son’s name rather than Emma. Hearing that same manufactured voice say my kid’s name out loud set alarm bells off in my head. An AI generated Buddy in front of the Eiffel Tower? Sorta weird, sorta cute. AI Buddy addressing my son by name? Nope, absolutely not, no thank you.

How much, and when, to lie to your kids is a philosophical debate you have with yourself over and over as a parent. Do you swap in the identical stuffie you had in a closet when the original goes missing and pretend it’s all the same? Do you tell them the truth and take it as an opportunity to learn about grief? Do you just need to buy yourself a little extra time before you have that conversation, and enlist AI to help you make a believable case? I wouldn’t blame any parent choosing any of the above. But personally, I draw the line at an AI character talking directly to my kid. I never showed him these AI-generated versions of Buddy, and I plan to keep it that way.

Nope, absolutely not, no thank you.

But back to the less morally complex question: can Gemini actually do all of the things that it does in the commercial? More or less. But there’s an awful lot of careful prompting and re-prompting you’d have to do to get those results. It’s telling that throughout most of the ad you don’t see the full prompt that’s supposedly generating the results on screen. A lot depends on your source material, too. Gemini wouldn’t produce any kind of video based on an image in which my kid was holding Buddy — for good reason! But this does mean that if you don’t have the right kind of photo on hand, you’re going to have a very hard time generating believable videos of Mr. Sniffles or whoever hitting the ski slopes.

Like many other elder millennials, I think about Calvin and Hobbes a lot. Bill Watterson famously refused to commercialize his characters, because he wanted to keep them alive in our imaginations rather than on a screen. He insisted that having an actor give Hobbes a voice would change the relationship between the reader and the character, and I think he’s right. The bond between a kid and a stuffed animal is real and kinda magical; whoever Buddy is in my kid’s imagination, I don’t want AI overwriting that.

The great cruelty of it all is knowing that there’s an expiration date on that relationship. When I became a parent, I wasn’t at all prepared for the way my toddler nuzzling his stuffed deer would crack my heart right open. It’s so pure and sweet, but it always makes me a little sad at the same time, knowing that the days where he looks for comfort from a stuffed animal like Buddy are numbered. He’s going to outgrow it all, and I’m not prepared for that reality. Maybe as much as we’re trying to save our kids some heartbreak over their lost companion, we’re really trying to delay ours, too.

All images and videos in this story were generated by Google Gemini.

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Kendall Jenner, who hosted the party this year—which Khloe and Kris revealed on the Good American founder’s Dec. 17 podcast—wore a cream vintage Mugler jacket and mini skirt set with fur accents, accessorized with gold heels and a diamond necklace. Kylie Jenner also opted for an archival look, wearing a strapless black Fashion Week 1995 John Galliano gown with vertical white stripes. The Khy founder shared a snap of her and Kendall’s photobooth strips in classic Kardashian black-and-white glam fashion.

As for who foots the bill? Khloe recently revealed that they all chip in.

“We all equally split the cost of the party,” the 41-year-old said in the Dec. 17 episode of her Khloe in Wonder Land podcast, “because it’s a family [thing].” 

But although family always goes all out with spreading yuletide cheer on Christmas Eve, they prefer a homey experience with their children on the morning of Dec. 25.

“I want a really cozy, intimate moment with us and the kids,” Kourtney explained on Keeping Up With the Kardashians in 2020. “I don’t want servers there, I don’t want housekeepers there. I don’t want chefs there… I really want it to be just really special, like how we grew up.”

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