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College football’s playoff picture tightened as debate rages over 8-2 Miami and Notre Dame, pitting head to head results against late season form. The columnist argues timing and venue should inform rankings while calling Notre Dame a potential swing team in an at large field that could deliver the SEC six bids, with selection metrics to better reward strength of schedule beginning in 2025. He outlines a fluid Heisman race led by Fernando Mendoza, Julian Sayin and Marcel Reed, and deems James Franklin’s move to Virginia Tech a fit as the ACC remains wide open.

Honda is recalling 256,603 Accord Hybrid vehicles from model years 2023 to 2025 after federal regulators flagged a software flaw that can reset while driving and cut power, raising crash risk. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration posted the notice on Nov. 17. Dealers will reprogram the software at no charge. Honda plans to mail owner letters on Jan. 5, 2026. VINs will be searchable on NHTSA.gov starting Nov. 18; owners can call 1-888-234-2138. Recall number: TN2.

The Energy Department said Tuesday it will provide a $1 billion loan to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 in Pennsylvania, a project intended to supply power for Microsoft’s data centers. Unit 1 shut in 2019; the site’s other reactor partially melted down in 1979, an accident that long defined nuclear risk. Microsoft and Constellation agreed last year to revive the unit. With Google and Amazon also pursuing nuclear deals, attitudes toward the technology have softened, even as U.S. regulation raises costs and China moves ahead.

Warriors assistant coach Chris DeMarco has emerged as a serious contender for the Liberty head coaching job, multiple sources told The Post on Tuesday. He joins a pool of finalists that includes former Nets assistant Will Weaver, Raptors assistant Jama Mahlalela and Mercury associate head coach Kristi Toliver. DeMarco, 40, is a four-time NBA champion assistant with more than a decade of coaching experience at the NBA and international levels. He has spent 14 years with the Warriors, rising from video coordinator to Steve Kerr’s staff.

Curacao clinched a historic 2026 World Cup berth with a gritty 0-0 draw in Jamaica, becoming the smallest nation by population ever to qualify. The Netherlands-linked squad, strengthened by recent FIFA-approved switches and led by 78-year-old coach Dick Advocaat, topped a group with Trinidad and Tobago and Bermuda. Advocaat missed the Kingston stalemate for family reasons as Jamaica hit the woodwork three times and saw a stoppage-time penalty overturned on video review. Players from modest clubs now head to the expanded 48-team tournament. Panama and Haiti also secured qualification on Tuesday.

A government watchdog says most corporations donating to President Trump’s planned $300 million White House ballroom are represented by three lobbying firms, whose partners dined with the president and tech and crypto executives at a donor event in the East Room. Public Citizen and CBS News identify Ballard Partners, Miller Strategies, Michael Best Strategies, and Akin as linked to numerous donor companies, including Comcast, Microsoft and T-Mobile. Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal, Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff have sought details on the fundraising and contacts, citing transparency concerns. No legal wrongdoing is alleged.

Lowe’s reported third quarter results and nudged up full-year sales guidance to $86 billion after closing its Foundation Building Materials deal, while trimming profit expectations amid a tougher economy. Adjusted EPS of $3.06 topped estimates, with revenue at $20.81 billion and comparable sales up 0.4%. Net income fell to $1.62 billion from $1.7 billion. The retailer said the current quarter has begun with positive comps, and shares rose more than 5% premarket. Lowe’s cited macro uncertainty and housing and borrowing headwinds, and is leaning further into professional customers as DIY demand weakens.

President Trump said the U.S. military is attacking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific in response to fentanyl deaths, asserting the vessels come from Venezuela. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described the mission as protecting the homeland from drugs. Since the antidrug campaign began in September, the military has destroyed at least 21 boats, killing more than 80 people. Lawmakers and narcotics experts call the Venezuela link misleading, noting the illicit fentanyl used in the United States does not originate there and has been manufactured by Mexican cartels using precursor chemicals from China.

James B. Comey’s lawyers will ask a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., to dismiss charges that he lied to and obstructed Congress, arguing the Justice Department bowed to President Trump’s push for political revenge. Led by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, they plan to recount how Mr. Trump, in an angry social media post, ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute after ousting the U.S. attorney who refused to indict and installing an inexperienced loyalist who swiftly filed her first criminal case. The motion cites Trump’s years of public attacks on Mr. Comey.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday rejected U.S. military strikes on cartels, a day after President Donald Trump said he would do whatever we have to do to stop drugs. Her remarks followed a flap at Playa Bagdad, where men arrived by boat and posted Defense Department restricted area signs near the Rio Grande's mouth. Mexico's navy removed six signs it said were on its territory. The Pentagon later said contractors erected them and that shifting water and topography blurred the boundary; a binational commission was getting involved. Sheinbaum said cooperation is welcome, but no foreign intervention.