What we learned from the first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff
Did it hurt the sport's regular season? Do rivalries still matter? Here's what Nicole Auerbach took away from the first year of the expanded CFP.
Year 1 of the 12-team College Football Playoff is coming to a close. Was the expansion a success?
The CFP will never likely surpass the NFL in the attention economy, but the march through the first 12-team Playoff has been a positive one.
4 takeaways from the first year of the expanded College Football Playoff
Ohio State came out on top in the national championship on Monday, outlasting a late Notre Dame comeback push to win 34-23. The game brought an end to the first edition of the expanded College Football Playoff, which features 12 teams vying for the title instead of four.
Teams with most No. 1 appearances in College Football Playoff rankings
Making it to No. 1 in the College Football Playoff rankings means everything. What teams have made it to the top of the polls up to now?
Who will win the College Football Playoff title game? Ohio State favored over Notre Dame
Jesse Temple: Ohio State has been a juggernaut during a three-game winning streak in the Playoff, embarrassing Tennessee and Oregon. Notre Dame has won 13 straight games and put together a fantastic season. But Ohio State’s balance and overall talent should emerge. … Ohio State 24, Notre Dame 14.
2025 College Football odds: Best futures bets to win Playoff
Geoff Schwartz is looking ahead to the 2025 College Football Playoff, and he's got his money on the two teams that he thinks could win it all next season.
College football championship ratings fall by 12 percent
Can there be too much football on TV? That's one potential explanation for the downward trend in NFL playoffs and the dip in the audience of the college football national championship. Via Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal,
Ken Schreiber's 5 takeaways from the College Football Playoff championship
If someone tells you that games don't come down to one play, just show them this one, and Ohio State did what it needed to seal the win.
College Football Playoff championship averages 22.1 million viewers, third-lowest since 2014
Monday night’s College Football Playoff national championship drew an average of 22.1 million viewers, ESPN announced Wednesday. The Ohio State-Notre Dame matchup was down from last year’s Michigan-Washington showdown,
Where Penn State Lands in the 2025 Way-Too-Early College Football Rankings
The Athletic's Stewart Mandel is a preseason Penn State believer, placing the Nittany Lions atop his too-early top 25 for ...
Why expanding the College Football Playoff worked – and what still needs to be fixed
Now that it’s all over and the Ohio State Buckeyes are the college football national champions, it can be definitively said: ...
Tuesdays with Gorney: Prediction for next season’s College Football Playoff
With Ohio State winning the national championship over Notre Dame on Monday night, it’s now time to focus on the 12-team ...
Two Texas Longhorns Named Top-15 Players in College Football
In ESPN's recent top-100 players in college football rankings, the Texas Longhorns had two players rank inside the top-15.
How to make the College Football Playoff better | Don Williams
We grew up on a college football season that climaxed on New Year's Day. Is there a way back to that while keeping the ...
Ohio State provided blueprint for success in 12-team College Football Playoff era: Will others follow suit?
Monday night in Atlanta, Ohio State won the first national championship of the 12-team College Football Playoff era. In the ...
Ranking the best champions of the College Football Playoff era, starting with Alabama, LSU
Since the start of the College Football Playoff in 2014, there have been 11 national champions. Which were the best? We ...
Sports Illustrated’s 2025 Way-Too-Early College Football Top 25
The Ohio State Buckeyes bounced back from what seemed like a catastrophic loss to the Michigan Wolverines to go on a ...